Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 21st of June 2025. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.
The ELTE University Library and Archives, as a member of the international Coimbra Group (CG) Heritage Working Group, is pleased to invite all interested parties to the Coimbra Group webinar “AI Ethics and Governance” on Thursday 13 March 2025 from 15:00 to 16:30 CET, with keynote speaker Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
The public webinar of the Coimbra Group, which includes Eötvös Loránd University among its members, is open to students, academics and members of staff from all universities belonging to the group, as well as to all interested members of the wider higher education community. The event aims to explore the implications, opportunities and challenges of AI for higher education. Registration and more information is available here.
Emerald Publishing has offered trial access to their largest database (premier package) until March 31, 2025. The database content can be accessed by connecting to the ELTE internet network (either directly on campus or remotely using a VPN service) and, subject to the terms of use, can be used without restrictions until the end of the trial period.
The database and modules are part of the EISZ offering and can be subscribed to through EISZ.
The database consists of 13 modules, 9 of which are related to economic science, but there are also modules related to healthcare, education, engineering and information and knowledge management.
On Monday, 24 February 2025, the ELTE Savaria Library and Archives will be open from 12.00 for the national written round of the National Peter Bod Library User Study Competition.
The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.
In a highly exciting, free adaptation of Stefan Zweig's The Chessnovella, the filmmakers have created a psychological thriller with unexpected twists and turns. Elements of the story are interspersed with events in Hungary in 1956. Márta and István try to leave the country on the last refugee train. Alongside the young couple, the relics of the Church are also on their way to the border, the path of which is being tortured out of a Catholic priest, B, by the men of power. The characters' stories intersect on the train in an all-consuming game of chess in which not only the fate of the treasures but also the lives of the lovers are at stake. Set to be released in 2023, the film is one of the most exciting and visually unique in recent years, mixing literary adaptation, fantasy and history. Barnabás Tóth, a director who has been in the running for the Academy Award several times, has once again made a film that will not let go.
Venue: University Square campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. fszt., corridor next to the cloakroom)
Starring Sára Varga-Járó, Gergely Váradi, Károly Hajduk, Pál Mácsai, Bori Péterfy. The film was Hungary's Oscar nominee in 2023.
In the post-screening discussion, our guests are Barnabás Tóth, director, co-screenwriter, master teacher at ELTE, Linda Lisztes, actor, co-writer and András Másik Szőke, cinematographer.
Due to limited seating, please register in advance here:
The University History Collection currently holds around fifteen thousand frames, some of which are in the form of negatives and some of which are on paper. The earliest images in the collection are of Loránd Eötvös and his family in the 1880s, but most of the images date from between 1950 and 2000.
The majority of the photographs depict events related to university life, such as the opening of the academic year, doctoral inaugurations, conferences, sporting events and artistic performances. We also keep portraits, group photos and building photographs. Digitised items from the collection are available in the ELTE Digital Institutional Repository. A detailed report on the composition and management of our photo collection can be found in the Archives Review (Levéltári Szemle) 2024, issue 3, by Georgina Schlay.
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Cover of the Archives Review (Levéltári Szemle) 2023, issue 4
Deputy State Secretary for Public Collections and Cultural Development Máté Vincze and Head of Department László Szende, PhD visited our library on 13 February 2025.
Our guests, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, were invited to discover the building's representative spaces and storage rooms. During the visit, Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives, also provided information on the mission, future plans and current goals of the institution. The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss the possibilities for development of the collection preservation and storage.
According to an agreement with the ELTE University Library and Archives, we will also host the popular ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series beside the University Square campus. The film club, organised in cooperation between Eötvös Loránd University and the National Film Institute, will be hosted in two locations, with the cooperation of our library, and is expected to be held weekly from next semester. All ELTE citizens are welcome to attend these events.
The next screening will be Dániel Hevér’s first feature film, the dramedy Some Birds, which tells the story of a special friendship that spans generations. The story follows Béla (László Szacsvay), a stubborn old man living alone, who finds change difficult to bear. When his son places him in a nursing home after a minor accident, he feels the whole world is conspiring against him. From that moment on, his only goal is to get out of the institution as soon as possible. Another outsider, 17-year-old Zoe (Lilla Kizlinger), a wild child who works at the home as a punishment, joins him in his plan. Despite the almost 60-year age gap between them, their similar characters, loneliness and the feeling that they are just in everyone’s way, quickly turn them into an alliance.
„Drama comma comedy”
„The uplifting story of an unusual friendship between an elderly man trying to get out of a nursing home and an impulsive teenage girl on social work who decides to help him.”
Venue: University Square campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. fszt., corridor next to the cloakroom)
Our guests in the post-screening discussion are Dániel Hevér, debuting feature film director, and Andrea Csengei, social worker and elderly care provider. László Szacsvay, Jászai Mari Award-winning actor and one of the main characters in the film, will also join us. Registration form and film trailer are available here.
In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and reference librarian gave our adopters a detailed presentation of the supported volumes.
Évi Dénes, emotional intelligence trainer, communication specialist and writer, has adopted the work of Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (Latin: Johannes Comenius, 1592-1670), often referred to as Orbis pictus.
The book was originally made to help pupils to learn Latin the easiest way. However, it also contains materials from almost every scientific field, hence becoming a simplified encyclopaedia of the 17-th century knowledge. The work was printed first in 1658, and until 1917 it was published for almost 300 times. The first four-language edition was issued in 1666 in Latin, German, French and Italian – this particular book was also written in these languages. In the beginning, the work was illustrated with woodcuts, but later on the pictures were printed with copperplates. The coursebook contains 150 topics, each illustrated with a picture and complemented with word-lists as tools to help the pupils in the process of studying. Among the topics one can find nature, flora and fauna, religion and the aspects of human life, e. g. the human body, craftsmanship and children’s games.
This book once belonged to historian János Mircse of Barátos, who left his book collection to the University Library. (This catalogue can be find under the call number J 147/d I-II.)
The book is part of the book adoption program of the Foundation for the University Library. Save a book, adopt a book! For more information visit our website: https://konyvtar.elte.hu/en/support-us/adopt-a-book
Adopted book: RMK III 623a Komenský, Jan Amos (1592–1670): Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus quadrilinvis emendatus, hoc est: omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum et vita actionum pictura et nomenclatura Germanica, Latina, Italica et Gallica. Cum titulorum indicibus atque vocabulorum dictionariolis accurante Matthia Cramero, lingv. exotic. professore. Cum gratia et privil. sac. caes. majestatis. regis Poloniae et sereniss. electoris Saxonici. Noribergae : sumptibus Martini Endteri, MDCCVII.
The database includes Emerging Market Case Studies (EEMCS) and The Case Journal. Emerging Markets Case Studies (EMCS) enables faculty to adopt the right case for them, from regions and companies that are relevant for students and tested teaching notes to let the educator focus on student experience, expectation and capability.
World Scientific Publishing has offered trial access to the entire journal portfolio. The trial period lasts for two months, from 3 February 2025 to 3 April 2025.
During the trial period, institutional users can access and use articles published in World Scientific Publishing journals over the past 5 years.
The platform is available at the following link: https://www.worldscientific.com/ connected to the ELTE internet network directly on campus or remotely via VPN service.
World Scientific releases approximately 600 new titles per annum and publishes more than 180 journals across multiple fields. With a publication history of over 12,000 titles, a significant proportion of World Scientific's books are prescribed as reading material by prestigious institutions like Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Princeton University. At present, WSPC's digital content is accessible to more than 45,000 universities, libraries and organizations worldwide, with usage boosted by collaborating with diverse search and discovery partners.
During the trial access, the following journals in the scientific fields are available:
Asian Studies
Business & Management
Chemistry
Computer Science
Economics & Finance
Engineering / Acoustics
Environmental Science
Life Sciences / Biology
Materials Science
Mathematics
Medicine
Nanotechnology & Nanoscience
Nonlinear Science, Chaos & Dynamical Systems
Physics and Astronomy
Social Sciences
Information about the site can be downloaded here.
