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Foreign legal yearbooks in the library 3 – Recueil des cours

The content of courses and seminars held by The Hague Academy of International Law has been published annually – in either English or French – under the title "Recueil des cours: collected courses of the Hague Academy of International Law" since the founding of this prestigious legal education institution. More than 370 volumes of the publication has already been issued since the beginning, though its publication was suspended between 1939-47.

Published on - 2019-12-11 02:28:00
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A selection of our freshly acquired foreign titles – Political science

The Library of Parliament places strong emphasis on the acquisition of timely and relevant foreign resources related to its main scope of collection, that is law, political science, history, international organizations and foreign parliaments. Below you may find a few summaries of books selected from this year's new arrivals in the field of political science.

Published on - 2019-12-02 03:29:00
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Recently bought 17th-century rare book revived

István Werbőczi's „Decretum Latino-Hungaricum. Sive Tripartitum opus juris consuetudinarii... Regni Hungariae et Transilvaniae, ac Partium Eidem Subjectarum... published in 1698 has recently been purchased by the Library of the Hungarian Parliament at an auction. The book was in extremely poor state, therefore underwent a 120-day complex restoration process.

Published on - 2019-11-27 01:29:00
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Reinforced cooperation with National University of Public Service

On 18 Novemeber 2019 András Koltay, Rector of the National University of Public Service and György Such, Director General of the Office of the Hungarian National Assembly formally signed a renewed, reinforced and unified agreement on the two institutions' long-standing professional cooperation that includes joint internship and scholarship programmes and an extensive use of bespoke library services.

Published on - 2019-11-20 01:01:00
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Free trial access to PQ Historical Documents open until 18 December

We warmly invite all our visitors with a regular library card to browse three invaluable document archives from ProQuest's historical primary source collections available for trial on the territory of the library until 18 December.

Published on - 2019-11-19 10:57:00
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This year's Nagy Miklos Prize awarded

On 6 November, the Directorate for Cultural Affairs at the Office of the National Assembly held a formal naming and a joint award ceremony in honour of Miklós Nagy, the renowned librarian and former director of the Library of the Hungarian Parliament. At the event, one of the Parliament's rooms historically belonging to the library was officially named Nagy Miklós Room and simultaneously, the annual Nagy Miklós Prize – founded by the Speaker of the House – was also awarded to Éva Varga, President of the Sub-Carpathian Hungarian Librarians' Association.

Published on - 2019-11-14 03:36:00
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