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An ever-changing digital environment asked for IT development, so on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the website of 1956 Institute – Oral History Archive has been redesigned. We expect that the new design and new structure will make content services and information on the site more transparent, and also make our service safer and more stable.

The Exhibition of Young Writers was opened on March 8, 2016, at 4 p.m. in National Széchényi Library. At the exhibition, where talented young writers and poets are presented through their works, portraits, CVs, publication lists, visitors also have an opportunity to look at the original manuscripts of young authors. The exhibition will be open until April 12, 2016 when the exhibited lyric and prose works will be offered for sale at an on-the-spot auction.

In the first quarter of 2016, National Széchényi Library organized a free series of screenings of films which were presented at the Hungarian Pavilion of Expo Milano 2015. Katalin Pethényi and Barna Kabay made a series of documentaries, consisting of ten episodes, in order to present some of the milestones of Italian-Hungarian cultural relations.

The presentation of a book written by Farkas Gábor Farkas, entitled Régi könyvek, új kalandok. 12 történet a könyvtárak mélyéről (Old books, new adventures. 12 stories from the depth of libraries), will start at 4 p.m. on Thursday March 10, 2016 in National Széchényi Library.

The Exhibition of Young Writers will be opened on March 8, 2016, at 4 p.m. in National Széchényi Library where talented young writers and poets will be presented, through their works, portraits, CVs, publication lists and also via the original manuscripts of authors.

Dear Readers! For the year 2016, National Széchényi Library subscribed to the following external databases, which you can access via the computers of the Library:

Journals of Akadémiai Kiadó (Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Books published by the Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences offer scholars the possibility to publish their latest results in more than 40 disciplines, from nuclear chemistry via microbiology to linguistics. More than 60 journals can be accessed by users, back to the year 1998.

National Széchényi Library will join BudapestArtWeek cultural festival beginning on April 19, 2016 and lasting for six days.

Due to a collaborative effort between National Széchényi Library/EPA, the Hungarian Office for Mining and Geology and the Hungarian Geological Society, scientific journal entitled Földtani kutatás (Geological Research) has been archived. The material of all the volumes of the periodical can be accessed in full text and with tables of content on the site of EPA.