Mercurius 2013

Mercurius is the official yearbook of National Széchényi Library that, following the tradition of the previous OSZK Híradó (NSZL News), and the OSZK-NSZL Yearbooks, provides information on the yearly activity of the Hungarian National Library, its performance, tasks assumed, main events and most important academic achievements.

Contents

• Faces of Tamás Cseh – a cross-section of a life. Summary of a successful NSZL event
• This is Radio Free Europe, the voice of free Hungary. A one-day event and a roundtable discussion
• Another successful season of our LibrRIview literary and cultural historical program series
• An unusual exhibition of mini books at the 7th floor document delivery room
• Film Factory Capriccio, a grand photo exhibition
• Arise Magyar, your country calls – cult and memory. An exhibition to commemorate 15 March
• A podium discussion and exhibition of facsimiles and reprints of books and manuscripts before 1850
• Far Away from Mount Ararat – exhibition, conference and scientific cooperation
• Borderless Cooperation – the 7th world congress of Hungarian librarians
• The 100th birthday – a Hilda Gobbi exhibition
• La Divina Commedia – a spiritual walk at night from Dante’s Inferno to Paradise
• Mysterious watermarks – a new exhibition of paper and watermarks in the NSZL Relic Space
• The Steam Ant’s Homecoming… – a series of events in NSZL to commemorate József Szinnyei
• In Praise of Creation. Sándor Weöres and Árpád Illés. A series of events
• Interfaces – Sándor Weöres’s poetry set to music. An exhibition at the Music Collection
• I long belong to the bells already – Jékely 100. An exhibition and podium discussion
• India in Hungarian eyes: Hungarian travelers in India – an exhibition in the catalogue space
• Greeting the 90-year old Gedeon Borsa, bibliothecarius emeritus of NSZL
• International scientific symposium on the 500th anniversary of the death of Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis
• Ave Tyrnavia! – gap-filling bibliography and book launch
• Events on the Day of Hungarian Culture, the Night of Museums and the Széchényi Memorial Day. A summary of Zirc Historical Library events
• Brief news about the Krleža chamber-exhibition in the lobby of the Petőfi Theatre in Veszprém and the Csokonai-rare book display in the framework of the Autumn Festival of Museums