Ritmennt - 01.01.1996, Page 166

ABSTRACTS
RITMENNT
An account of the legislation pertaining to
the new National and University Library. The
statutes as approved by Parliament (Alþingi) in
1994 as well as the committee report which
accompanied the bill are printed on pp. 113-24.
Kristín Bragadóttir: Orðin og víðáttan. Ritmennt
1(1996), pp. 125-38.
Interview with the Norwegian artist and
designer Synnove Anker Aurdal. Ms Aurdal cre-
ated the tapestry given by the people of Norway
to the Icelandic nation on the occasion of the
llOOth anniversary of the ^ettlement of Iceland
and preserved in the new National and Univer-
sity Library building.
Einar Sigurðsson: Friðriksmót. Ritmennt 1
(1996), pp. 139-45.
An account of an international chess tourna-
ment held on September 2-16, 1995, in the new
National and University Library building on the
occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Grand
Master Friðrik Ólafsson and to commemorate
the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the
Icelandic Chess Federation.
Sópuður. Ritmennt 1(1996), pp. 146-57.
A miscellany containing an address given by
Mr Martin Næs, the National Librarian of the
Faroe Islands, at the opening of the National and
University Library of Iceland in 1994 (pp. 146-
48); remarks by Dr Finnbogi Guðmundsson to
his article published in Landsbókasafn íslands,
Árbók 1989 (pp. 148-50); an account of a nation-
al fund-raising campaign organised by students
in 1994-95 in support of library acquisitions (pp.
151-53, by Mr Einar Sigurðsson); an account of
Finland 500 Years on the Map of Europe, an
exhibition held in the National and University
Library in 1995 (pp. 153-56, by Mr Einar Sigurðs-
son); photographs taken at the opening of the
National and University Library on December 1,
1994 (pp. 156-57).
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