Extraordinary measure: NSZL is temporarily closed
International Cataloging Principles (ICP) represent the essentials of library profession, with special regard to bibliographic description. The latest edition of the IFLA Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (ICP) was published in 2016.
A short film, made for our exhibition entitled The Corvina Library and the Buda Workshop, about making a precious copy of a corvina page has recently been made available to the general public.
The corvina website, launched by NSZL in the fall of 2018, has been enhanced and expanded in recent months. During the summer, several content items were added to the service.
National Széchényi Library takes part in a European educational, research and cultural project entitled Kaleidoscope, the Fifties in Europe, featuring the photographic heritage of the 1950s in Europe.
In the audio supplement of a recently published book entitled Halálos körhinta – Rácz Vali, a dizőz (Deadly Carousel –Vali Rácz, the Chanteuse), audio materials of a private collection can be accessed, in addition to dozens of soundtracks kept by the Music Collection of National Széchényi Library.
IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) has been translated into Hungarian. IFLA LRM is a high-level conceptual reference model developed within an entity-relationship modelling framework. It is a basic document serving the renewal of library cataloging.
Annual European RDA Interest Group (EURIG) Members Meeting 2019 took place in National Széchényi Library. 36 participants from 23 countries arrived at the event. Pre-meeting international conference featured presentations on the past and present of RDA, and experience gained so far with implementation.
Research putting the history of Ottoman occupation following the Battle of Mohács into a new light will be presented by the May lecture of Season 4 of the lecture series entitled “Orientalists in NSZL”. Next presenter of the cultural historical series featuring internationally renowned Hungarian researchers into the East will be Géza Dávid, historian-Turcologist, Professor of Eötvös Loránd University.