Dead Library – Opening Event

OSA Archivum has already organized several exhibitions on preservation, classification, collection, and sharing. It also ran projects involving unread books. The Dead Library is the latest event in the series.

The Dead Library exhibition is an experiment in modeling holdings of Hungarian libraries that have not been read since 1989. For the purposes of the exhibition we have selected five thousand books that were published between 1945 and 1989, in Hungary, in Hungarian, on topics of general interest, which have not been checked out since 1989. Visitors taking one book or another off the shelves will become their first readers in decades. We hope that the Dead Library will inspire public thinking on libraries and archives, the preservation and re-use of information, and, by making the thousands of books available for browsing and reading, it will give visitors and readers the exceptional experience of re-discovering books otherwise destined for oblivion.

Opening remarks by Miklós Tamási, co-curator of the exhibition (OSA) and
György Cséka, University Library, Head of Department, Public Services

The exhibition will be opened by Imre Barna, Director of Europa Publishing House, President of the Association of Hungarian Publishers and Book Distributors

The program is in Hungarian.