Reykjavík City Library

Please note, login now requires your kennitala and password, and not your PIN. Apply for a new password here and get directions via email.

Mon Jun 27th - Fri Jul 1st

Summer Workshops | Printmaking & Bookbinding - Ages 13-16

We are going to do our own artistic prints and bind them into a book.

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Gerðuberg City Library

Makerspace

The E-Library

New library system | How to create a new password for My Account and a new PIN

Whats new? A new password for My Account and a new PIN for self-service machines.

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Hringrásarsafnið opens in Grófin | Borrow useful items

Do you need a projector, staple gun, a pressure washer, a drill, gardening tools or camping gear?

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Mon Jun 27th - Fri Jul 1st

Summer Workshops | Printmaking & Bookbinding - Ages 13-16

We are going to do our own artistic prints and bind them into a book.

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Gerðuberg City Library
Thu Jun 30th

Toddler Time | Playgroup

We warmly welcome carers with preschool children to Toddler Time.

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Grófin City Library
Sat Jul 2nd

Communications | Art workshop for young adults

Let's learn new ways of communication with art.

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Grófin City Library
Sat Jul 2nd

Writing on the edge | Writing workshop for young adults

Let's learn to write about our emotions and experiences.

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Grófin City Library
Sun Jul 3rd

Drawing our own demons | Art workshop for young adults

Let's draw and write how we feel.

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Grófin City Library
Mon Jul 4th - Fri Jul 8th

Summer Workshop | We learn TikTok - Ages 13-16

Use online and Your own footage to create a new world on TikTok.

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Gerðuberg City Library
Wed Jul 6th

Yoga classes offered by the Indian Embassy

Morning yoga in Spöngin, hosted by the Indian Embassy In Iceland.

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Borgarbókasafnið Spönginni
Mon Jul 11th - Thu Jul 14th

Summer Workshop | Analog Photography - Ages 13-16

We will discover the library through the lens of an old school photo camera.

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Gerðuberg City Library
Mon Jul 18th - Fri Jul 22nd

Summer Workshop | We Sketch Our Neighbourhood - Ages 13-16

Do You want to paint in the open air?

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Gerðuberg City Library
Thu Aug 4th

Evening Walk | Scenes from Queer Literature in Reykjavik

Ásta Kristín Benediktsdóttir, literary scholar, leads a walk through the queer streets of Reykjavík

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Grófin City Library

Mon Jun 27th - Fri Jul 1st

Summer Workshops | Printmaking & Bookbinding - Ages 13-16

We are going to do our own artistic prints and bind them into a book.

Learn More
Gerðuberg City Library
Thu Jun 30th

Toddler Time | Playgroup

We warmly welcome carers with preschool children to Toddler Time.

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Grófin City Library
Sat Jul 2nd

Communications | Art workshop for young adults

Let's learn new ways of communication with art.

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Grófin City Library
Sat Jul 2nd

Writing on the edge | Writing workshop for young adults

Let's learn to write about our emotions and experiences.

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Grófin City Library
Sun Jul 3rd

Drawing our own demons | Art workshop for young adults

Let's draw and write how we feel.

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Grófin City Library
Mon Jul 4th - Fri Jul 8th

Summer Workshop | We learn TikTok - Ages 13-16

Use online and Your own footage to create a new world on TikTok.

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Gerðuberg City Library
Mon Jul 11th - Thu Jul 14th

Summer Workshop | Analog Photography - Ages 13-16

We will discover the library through the lens of an old school photo camera.

Learn More
Gerðuberg City Library
Mon Jul 18th - Fri Jul 22nd

Summer Workshop | We Sketch Our Neighbourhood - Ages 13-16

Do You want to paint in the open air?

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Gerðuberg City Library
Mon Aug 15th - Fri Aug 19th

Summer Workshop | Stories that come to life - Ages 9-12

Write and illustrate your own story with Linda Ólafsdóttir.

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Sólheimar City Library
Mon Aug 15th - Fri Aug 19th

Summer Workshop | Stories that come to life - Ages 9-12

Write and illustrate your own story with Linda Ólafsdóttir.

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Grófin City Library

Fri May 6th - Thu Jun 30th

Artótek | The Nail: Háteigskúpa

Painting by Aron Leví Beck will be exhibited on the Nail in May and June.

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Sólheimar City Library
Thu May 12th - Fri Jul 1st

Exhibiton | Beauty in the weeds

Kristin uses watercolour and pastels in her work.

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Árbær City Library
Sat May 28th - Sun Aug 28th

How are you? | Prins Póló's Solo Exhibition

Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson exhibits photographs, prints, video art and sculptures.

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Gerðuberg City Library
Thu Jun 2nd - Fri Aug 26th

Exhibition | Mothers and Daughters

Photographer Gunnlöð Jón Rúnarsdóttir's exhibiton, Mothers and Daughters.

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Spöngin City Library
Thu Jul 7th - Sun Oct 2nd

Colour sample | Exhibition

Each work has it's own color palette

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Árbær City Library
Thu Sep 8th - Sun Oct 23rd

Exhibition | Utopia - Alda Ægisdóttir

The exhibition Utopia offers a window into the adventurous world of microorganisms.

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Borgarbókasafnið Grófinni
Sat Sep 17th

Workshop |The little fly Ages 5-10

Participants make their own insects.

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Borgarbókasafnið Grófinni

At the Library

Competition | Christmas Calendar 2022

Apply to write and/or illustrate the next Christmas Calendar Story - by August 5th!

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FEMALE - NON-BINARY - MALE

Reykjavík City Library has received Rainbow Certification

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Renovations at Grófarhús | Reduced Access

See map. Parking for disabled.

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70 free e-books for kids in Ukrainian

Beautifully illustrated children's books. Download for free!

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Visual vernacular storytelling

Sign language literature at the library

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New library system | How to create a new password for My Account and a new PIN

Whats new? A new password for My Account and a new PIN for self-service machines.

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Grófin Makerspace

Free access to major editing programs. The Gadget Paradise of Multimedia!

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Yoga at the library

Indverska sendiráðið á Íslandi býður gestum Borgarbókasafnsins upp á tíma í jóga í tilefni af Alþjóðlegum degi jóga

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Summer opening hours at the library

The opening hours change on the 1st of june.

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Accessibility to grants | Opið samtal

How can the library help making grants accessible?

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