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The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed from January 25, 2025 (Saturday) to February 8, 2025 (Saturday) due to storage organisation.

The mission of the ELTE University Library and Archives, which won the Hungarian Heritage Award and – as part of the University Library Service – the title of Qualified Library in 2018, as well as the EFQM “Committed to Excellence” certificate in 2020, is to provide Hungarian and foreign academic teachers, researchers and students with domestic and foreign literature, intending to integrate them into the international circulation of scientific life. Now, you can also help to ensure free access to information, to preserve and digitize our cultural values, and to acquire modern technological equipment and implement continuous service development. Please, support the Foundation for the University Library by offering 1% of your tax.

The 2025 calendar of the ELTE University Library and Archives features a selection of images from the atlas „Theatrum orbis terrarum” (The Theatre of the World's Lands).

On 6 December 2024, the exhibition „Fruits of Discord. Portraying the Ottoman Presence” opened at the Slovak National Gallery. The exhibition presents the interesting and dramatic history of Hungarian-Ottoman relations in the 16th and 17th centuries through the example of the cultural relations, including the Tamás Pálffy volume on loan from the ELTE University Library and Archives. The exhibition explores the period of Ottoman expansion in Hungary and the intercultural exchanges, with a special focus on Ottoman material culture in Central European art.

In Christmas time 2024, Schmidt Tamásné, bibliographer and processing librarian of the Collection Development Department, was awarded the Pro Bibliotheca Universitatis Certificate of Merit by the ELTE University Library and Archives, thanking her for the high quality and prestigious professional work.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 5 December 2024 (Thursday) due to technical reasons. From Friday (6 December 2024), we will be open as usual. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

EBSCO has revamped its service platform, the EBSCOhost site. By January 7, 2025, only this new site will be available, which will include all old features and will be expanded with many new modern research options.

The ELTE University Library and Archives offers extended opening hours for readers and students on weekdays and Saturdays between the 2nd of December 2024 and the 18th of January 2025 until 22.00 hours. Our new community space offers the opportunity to learn, relax, use kitchen facilities and free computer access.

School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can consult their documents in various databases. While maintaining these systems, the ELTE University Library and Archives developed a common search interface in 2011. The conversion of school library databases is done at regular intervals. Once a year, usually in November.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 29th November 2024 due to a university event.

Due to the relocation of our external warehouse, we would like to inform our readers that the books and doctoral dissertations stored there, as well as the entire stock of the library's periodicals, will be unavailable until the beginning of January 2025. Many of our books are still available for loan and current literature can be found on the open shelves. The exact date for the resumption of services will be announced on the library's website and social media platforms. We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding.

Our chamber exhibition on the Hungarian Jesuits' missions in South America, which opened in 2023 as part of the Cultural Heritage Days series, moved to the virtual space. Visitors to our exhibition are able to gain insight into a unique selection of manuscripts and printed material. The South American continent was one of the main scenes of the Jesuit Order's flourishing in the 18th century. It was here that the most enthusiastic and adventurous members of the Jesuit Order, including Jesuits of Hungarian origin, carried out their conversion work. If you want to know what adventures the Fathers had in the depths of the jungle, how they canoed down the Amazon or what experiences they had among the Indians, visit our virtual exhibition!

Our series entitled „Mosaics from the heritage of ELTE” presents some of the key material cultural heritage of the Eötvös Loránd University. The object of the month is the tuning fork of Dr. Gusztáv Bárczi, physician and teacher.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 1 and 2 November 2024 (Friday and Saturday) in observance of the holiday. From Monday (4 November 2024), we will be open as usual.

The presentations from the professional day „Traditions and Challenges XII”, organized by the ELTE University Library and Archives at the end of August, are now accessible online.

Nearly half of the numismatic material kept in the University Library and Archives - University History Collection are commemorative medals and plaques that our institution received as gifts from partner universities. The plaque made for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Comenius University in Bratislava, chosen as the artifact of the month, was presented to ELTE for the 375th anniversary of the founding of the Eötvös Loránd University.

The Museum of Fine Arts opened the Kingdom of Gods and Demons. Mesopotamia 1000–500 BC on 5 October 2024, an exhibition that explores the ancient Mesopotamian heritage and culture that was the cradle of civilisation. More than 150 artefacts, including volumes from the ELTE University Library and Archives, will give visitors a glimpse into the lost world of the Bible and, indirectly, the origins of European culture.

Students from the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Bavaria (HföD) visited our library on 26 September 2024 to exchange professional experiences.

Dr. Andreas Brandtner, the recently appointed Head of Library at the Vienna University, visited our library on 30 September 2024.

Between 23 and 24 September 2024, the library managers of CHARM-EU universities met at the ELTE University Library.