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30.11.2009
THE MINISTER AND THE MASSACRES BY BRITISH HISTORIAN NIKOLAI TOLSTOY ALSO IN NUK
The Slovenian Diaspora Publications Collection, a descendant of the so-called D-Collection, keeps the famous work of British historian Nikolai Tolstoy, who recently visited Ljubljana. He is a relative of the Russian writer Lev N. Tolstoy. Nikolai Tolstoy was the first who publically spoke about the role of the British forces at repatriation of Slovenian and other refugees who had fled to Austria after the World War II, back to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. He published his findings in the book The Minister and Massacres, published in 1986.
20.11.2009
PRESENTATION OF THE WINNERS OF THE YOUNG TRANSLATORS FOR SPANISH-LANGUAGE TRANSLATION CONTEST
In a Plečnik‛s glass display case in front of the NUK Main Reading Room, there is an exhibition of the results of the translation contest. The young translators for Spanish-language translation contest was organized by the Embassy of Spain and the ESASI Prizes were presented in the beginning of November in NUK.
The participants translated the work »Un buitre ha hecho su nido en el café« by Ignacio Aldecoa. The translation contest winner was Tina Šilc, Sabina Adanič won the second place, and Kristina Kotnik was third. Congratulations!
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1.10.2009
IT Managers‛ Club Meeting at NUK
On Thursday 1 October 2009, we hosted the Slovenian IT managers. Those present were welcomed by Zoran Krstulović, MA, Deputy Director for Library Programs and Head of the Digital Library of Slovenia Project. First, the guests were shown around the Plečnik‛s Library, and they were acquainted with library activities and services. Then, an overview of the development of the Digital Library of Slovenia followed, and at the end, the dLib.si portal was demonstrated. The Digital Library of Slovenia was presented by Karmen Štular Sotošek, Head of the Digital Library Office.
17.9. 2009
HER EXCELLENCY, THE AMBASSADOR OF THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN IN SLOVENIA, ANUNCIADA FERNÁNDEZ DE CÓRDOVA, VISITED THE NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
After the library tour, talks during the visit have been focused on the possibilities of a closer cultural cooperation in future. Mateja Komel Snoj, the Library Director, and Anunciada Fernández de Córdova, the Ambassador, have confirmed that »The Prize for the Best Literary Translation from Spanish into Slovenian - ESASI« will be awarded by the Embassy of Spain in the Library‛s Main Reading Room in the first half of November 2009.
2.9.2009
NUK WITH A NEW LIBRARY DIRECTOR
From 1 September 2009, Mrs Mateja Komel Snoj, a graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Department, has assumed the role of the NUK Library Director. She started her work as a journalist and editor in the area of culture. For thirteen years, she also served as the Director of the Slavic Library in Ljubljana, and for a shorter time, she was the Head of the User Services and Special Collections Office at the Ljubljana Metropolitan Library. At the end of 2008, her »reader‛s talk« with the literature of Lojze Kovačič entitled Fragmenti o prišleku (Fragments on the Newcomer) has been published.
27.8.2009
THE OPENING OF A NEW LIBRARY COMPUTER MANAGEMENT CENTRE
Yesterday, Minister of Culture Majda Širca Ravnikar opened the new Library Computer Management Centre at Leskoškova 12, where NUK has temporary off-site office and storage facilities.
The new communication node is quite an acquisition for the national library. The volume and significance of the digital library archive is rapidly growing, and, thus, also the risk of its destruction. The new Computer Management Centre facilities ensure protection against electromagnetic disturbance, e-emissions, and strokes of lightning. It provides active fire protection, anti-burglary and technical protection, appropriate climate and autonomy of operation in case of electricity power failure. Thus, a suitably equipped centre for safe and long-term preservation of digital material has been acquired. The new informatics centre is an important condition for the successful development of the Digital Library of Slovenia - the most important project of the Slovenian national library today and in future years.
On this occasion, we also showed the Minister around the physical material storage facilities.
More in pictures
17.8.2009
ART LIBRARY – A NEW COLLECTION OF FINE ARTS ON THE DLIB.SI PORTAL
The first cooperation between The Digital Library of Slovenia and Dr. Franc Sušnik Central Carinthian Library offers a fascinating insight into a diverse collection of fine arts. The authors of 122 drawings, watercolours, graphics and sculptures are mostly well-known artists, including Mirsad Begić, Nikolaj Omersa, Robert Hlavaty, Aco Mavec, Marjan Manček, Marjanca Jemec-Božič and many others.
Art library na spletu je rezultat projekta online is a result of the Europeana Local project and will also be available through the European Digital Library. There is a detailed presentation on the website of Dr. Franc Sušnik Central Carinthian Library as well.
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24.8.2009
A COLLECTION OF PROGRAMME AND PROJECT REPORTS PUBLISHED BY THE SLOVENIAN RESEARCH AGENCY ALREADY AVAILABLE
The digital library has been enhanced by an extensive collection of programme and project reports. All reports for 2008, which were financed by the Slovenian Research Agency, have been published on the dLib.si portal. The collection will certainly be an invaluable source for researchers and others with an interest in research.
23.2.2009
‘MORE TRANSLATIONS, UNIQUE HISTORICAL CONTENT AND RICH MEDIA - THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY LAUNCHES RENEWED WEBSITE’
Press Release, pdf document
May ’68 in Paris and the Student Movement in Ljubljana, 1968–1972
Posters, Film, and Photographs, 29 January – 22 March 2009
The protests and strikes by students and workers in Paris and other French cities in May and June of 1968, which challenged the traditional values of society and destabilized the regime of Charles de Gaulle, left an indelible mark on the history of the second half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition presents around eighty posters, loaned by the Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée in La Louvière, Belgium. They were created for the events in Paris, and their image has become synonymous with the urban struggle. The student movement in Ljubljana, from 1968 to 1972, is documented by a film by Majda Širca, as well as the student newspapers Tribuna and SP (standing for slovensko podzemlje – “the Slovene underground”), leaflets and announcements, and photographs by Tone Stojko, Edi Šelhaus, and Žare Veselič, from the Museum and Galleries of the City of Ljubljana and Slovenia’s National Museum of Contemporary History.
Co-organizers: Centre de la Gravure et de l‛Image imprimée, The National and University Library
The most comprehensive corpus of digitized material – more than 45.000 issues of
Laibacher Zeitung with supplements.
This was the most read and influential newspaper with a long tradition of publishing (1778-1918), which was of great significance for the Slovenian territory before the appearance of the first newspapers in the Slovenian language. Its numerous supplements brought to the Slovenian readers‛ attention the ideas of Enlightenment, resolved topical issues and encouraged the creativity of the Slovenian authors.
Newspapers and magazines from around the globe on your desktop - Library PressDisplay
Every morning, the database PressDisplay offers you more than 450 titles of new editions of newspapers and magazines from all over the world. You can browse and read the central Austrian newspapers Der Standard and Die Presse, the French Le Figaro, the Croatian Vjesnik and Večernji list, the Italian Corriere dela Serra... They all provide a 60 day back issue access, and the printed copy and the online copy look exactly alike – with the same pagination and colours. The complete database supports keyword searching. The members of NUK are allowed remote access via a password, and without a password access from the NUK premises is available. You are kindly invited to browse and read the motley palette of newspapers, and we believe that everybody will find something interesting!
Army in pictures,
postcards from the First World War,1914-1918
This year marks 90 years since the end of World War I. To celebrate this anniversary, Milan Štupar has prepared an exhibition featuring 46 postcards from this period.
20.11. Now Online: "Europeana", Europe‛s Digital Library
20.11. Europeana - Frequently Asked Questions
20. 11. Examples of ‛high-profile material‛ in Europeana
Europeana for journalists in the House of the European Union in Slovenia on Wednesday 19 November at 2.00pm
WEDNESDAY 19 November
LJUBLJANA – Ms Mihela Zupančič, Head of the European Commission Representation in Slovenia, and Mr Zoran Krstulović, Deputy Director of the National and University Library in Ljubljana, will present to the journalists the European Digital Library project called EUROPEANA. This is a single multilingual and multimedia portal encompassing Europe‛s entire cultural heritage. EUROPEANA will provide easy and direct access to two million European works; thus, it will be possible to review and search books, paintings, photographs and films, and listen to audio recordings with only one click.
EUROPEANA will be launched on Thursday 20 November 2008.
(The Conference Hall in the House of the European Union, Breg 14, at 2.00 pm)
For further information and press enquiries please contact Tina Vončina at the European Commission Representation in the Republic of Slovenia (tel: +386 (0)1 252 88 13, mobile phone: +386 (0)41 750 255, email: tina.voncina@ec.europa.eu ).
The concert of Šivic‛s works
Location: NUK, the Exhibition Room
Event time: 6 March 2008 at 18.00
On the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pavel Šivic, we invite you to join us at a public performance of the Music School and the Secondary Music and Ballet School. The programme will include 15 Šivic‛s works performed by young pianists, clarinettists, flautists, saxophonists and trumpeters and their teachers. Pianists will play on the original piano of Pavel Šivic, which his heirs kindly lent to the National and University Library.
Simona Moličnik, MA, the author of the exhibition, will join the event on behalf of the National and University Library, and professor Nataša Hladnik, the Deputy Director, will join the event on behalf of the Secondary Music and Ballet School.
Cordially invited.
On Wednesday, 19 November 2008,
The Dianetics Center Ljubljana donated 18 German language books
by Ron L. Hubbard to the National and University Library. The Library already holds the English collection, and those titles that have been translated into Slovenian by now.
The opening of the exhibition »LIFE IS NOT A HOLIDAY, IT IS A WORKING DAY«
Pavel Šivic (2 February 1908 – 31 May 1995): on the 100th anniversary of his birth
Location: NUK, the Exhibition Room
Event time: 19 February 2008 at 19.00
We invite you to join us at the opening of the exhibition to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer, pianist and music teacher Pavel Šivic. His characteristics, like talent, hard work, curiosity and openness to the novelties have permanently marked the development of the Slovenian music.
The official speaker will be the musicologist Tomaž Faganel, MA. On Šivic‛s piano, the pianist Klemen Golner will reproduce two compositions from the composer‛s cycle: 6 pièces pour piano: Hommage à Debussy, Sérénade impétueuse and Hommage à Musorgski, Koreografska studija Klepetulja.
Cordially invited.
The unveiling of the Primož Trubar Statue and opening of the exhibition of the publications preserved in the Adopt a Book scheme, NUK, 7 February, 2008
7.2.2008
The statue, which was created by the sculptor Tine Kos, was unveiled by the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Danilo Türk. Thus, we have joined the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding father of the Slovenian literature in the home of the Slovenian book as the Library director Mr Lenart Šetinc called NUK on this occasion. The donors, who supported the restoration, conservation and preservation of the books in the Adopt a Book scheme, were awarded the honorary titles.
NETKO 2007: the Bronze Award for the dLib.si portal
12 December
The dLib.si portal received the Bronze Award in the Media and information portals category of the NETKO 2007 Awards. The exquisite company of winners can be seen at: http://netko.gzs.si/slo/nagrajenci/_2007.
NETKO 2007 Awards for the best business and management web sites in Slovenia are presented by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia - The Association of Informatics and Telecommunications in cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology – Directorate for the Information Society. They are awarded to companies, institutions, offices, communities and individuals for their outstanding web sites recognized for their excellence in terms of quality.
Codex Suprasliensis listed in UNESCO‛s Memory of the World Register
During its last meeting, the UNESCO‛s Committee for the Memory of the World Programme included Codex Suprasliensis in the Memory of the World Register as the first document owned by a Slovenian institution. This has been the result of a joint nomination submitted by the three owners of the manuscript, i.e. the National Library in Warsaw, Poland (151 folios), the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg (16 folios) and the National and University Library in Ljubljana, Slovenia (118 folios). The manuscript which originates from the first half of the 11th century in eastern Bulgaria is the largest among just a few surviving manuscripts in Old Church Slavonic and the main source for studying this language, writing and culture. It is also one of the earliest testimonials to the reception of Orthodox Christianity among the Slavs. The selection reflects the uniqueness of the manuscript, and at the same time increases awareness of the significance of preserving the collective memory and providing access to valuable documents.
2nd December – NUK DOORS OPEN DAY
This year NUK will again be taking part in the Slovenian Culture Doors Open Days.
- Library guided tours
- at 10.30 including a visit to the Manuscript Collection
- at 15.00 including a visit to the Map and Pictorial Collections
- Opening of the exhibition: at 12.00
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Simon Gregorčič the exhibition »ETERNAL LIFE OF GREGORČIČ‛S POETRY« will be opened. Poetry editions and original manuscript, printed and pictorial material will be presented at the documentary exhibition. The tour will be guided by the authour of the exhibition dr. Mihael Glavan.
The opening hours will be extended to 18.00. The following departments and collections will be open:
Lending and Storage Department, Information and Reference Centre, Library Reproduction Services, Main Reading Room, Newspaper Reading Room, Information and Enquiry Centre, Map and Pictorial Collections, EU, Government and Non-Government Publications Collection, Library and Information Science Collection, AV Collection, Music Collection, Manuscript Collection, NUK Shop.
- Amnesty for overdue library items
All overdue and notice fines for items due before December 2, 2006 will be forgiven during the amnesty day.
19. October
CENL / FEP Working Group on Electronic Publications
The members of CENL / FEP Working Group on Electronic Publications participated in a meeting hosted by the National and University Library (NUK) on 19 October, 2006. The Working Group monitors deposit practices and legislation, gives advice on deposit practices, functions as a platform for discussion and as an exchange of information on matters of common interest to national libraries and publishers. Representatives of the Slovenian publishers and NUK were invited as observers. More information about the Working Group is available at:
http://www.nlib.ee/cenl/working_groups.php
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