News, events

2015/11/26

Due to technical reasons, the operation of the Catalogues of Electronic Old Hungarian Library and the Manuscript Collection (E-RMK database) is suspended. We apologize and ask for your patience until our service is back in full operation.

Zotero and article ID in EPA

2015/11/24

Electronic Periodicals Archive & Database has been made accessible for Zotero bibliography management application which can be installed as an add-on of Firefox browser.

Exceptional opening hours on Saturday

2015/11/23

On Saturday November 28, 2015 the Library will be closed one hour earlier, at 6 p.m. because the Choir of NSZL will hold a jubilee concert.

Double book launch

2015/11/16

On November 19, 2015, NSZL and the Institute of History of FHSS at Pázmány Péter Catholic University will hold a joint book launch. A volume by Eszter Kovács on Czech-Hungarian Jesuit relationships and a conference volume on Eastern Christian culture edited by Anita Bojtos will be presented at 4.30 p.m.

Representations of power, power discourses – Scientific Session

2015/11/06

Lectures to be delivered on November 25-26, 2015, in four sections will be related to topics such as self-representation, oppression and resistance fights of the 19th century, social and power discourses of the second half of the 20th century and the imprints of power, embracing several disciplines and highlighting a lot of artistic presentation modes.

László Bíró memorial exhibition

The inventor of the ballpoint pen and the automatic gear confessed about himself as follows: “Painting and invention are not opposite poles of my personality, to the contrary. They originate from the same source. I feel like the same process makes me paint and invent either. The same excitement, the same challenge: to create something…”

Károly Escher exhibition in Szekszárd

2015/11/04

Our Library keeps a major part of Károly Escher’s bequest including some 38,000 shots. The cameraman and photo artist was born in Szekszárd, Southern Hungary. The exhibition is a selection made from this material, which presents Károly Escher, one of the most significant Hungarian cameramen of the 20th century.

László Bíró memorial exhibition – opening ceremony

2015/11/05

László Bíró memorial exhibition, which has been open for weeks in the Hungarian pavilion of Expo Milano 2015, can now been visited in National Széchényi Library. The show presenting the oeuvre of László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen, automatic gear and lots of other innovations, will be opened on November 12, 2015.

Ambassador of the State of Israel paid a visit to our Library

2015/11/04

Ilan Mor, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the State of Israel paid a visit to National Széchényi Library on November 4, 2015.

Flóris Rómer Memorial Conference in Oradea

2015/10/21

On October 17, 2015 the Oradea Roman Catholic Bishop Palace organized a conference in the ceremonial hall of the episcopate to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Flóris Rómer, Canon of Nagyvárad. The event was accompanied by the opening of an exhibition and a book presentation.