The Reading Room of the Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives was filled on the concert of the Festival Academy Budapest on July 23, 2021. The audience had the pleasure to listen to Xenakis Dhipli's Zyia Bach Duo for Violin and Cello with Jonian Ilias Kadesha (violin) and Vashti Mimosa Hunter (cello) in the imposing reading room, followed by Machaut's Three Ballads, performed by Barnabás Hegyi (vocals), Ágnes Polónyi (harp), Júlia Regős (viola da gamba) and János Bali (flute). The program was implemented in the framework of the event series entitled Walking Concerts.

The lovers of musical experiences are also welcome at the concerts organized on the Cultural Heritage Days (September 18, 2021), performed by the Korossy Quartet and the Duo-Perpetual. For more information regarding our autumn programs, please, visit our website regularly.

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The University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University will host the concert of the Festival Academy Budapest on 23rd of July 2021 from 3.30 pm.

The concert will feature Machaut’s Three Ballads and Xenakis’s Dhipli Zyia, as well as duos for violin and cello.

The organizers of the musical program are Katalin Kokas and Barnabás Kelemen, the artistic directors of the Festival Academy Budapest, within the framework of the event series entitled Walking Concerts.

More details can be found here. For more information about the concerts of the Festival Academy Budapest, please, visit their website.

In view of the epidemiological situation, the second quarterly report of the K21 Quality Management Coordination Committee was held in the framework of a Teams meeting. Working group leaders reported on the results and changes of the last quarter.

The K21 Quality Management Coordination Committee thanked Katalin Kálóczi, the founder of K21, for more than a decade of her successful work and wished her every success in achieving her goals on her retirement.

The website of the University Library Service (ULS) has been renewed, which presents the services of the library network in a clear and user-friendly way that fits the image of ELTE. The ULS communication strategy has also been reviewed, and the updated document, together with the situation analysis and action plan, was adopted by the Library Council at its meeting on 18th June 2021. The documents are available in the EDIT repository. In order to develop the communication culture, with a greater emphasis on internal communication, we also provide information to our employees on the Kolibri mailing list in the framework of a short-animated film.

The evaluation of the results regarding the teacher needs and satisfaction survey compiled by Eötvös Loránd University in November 2020 has been completed. According to the survey, both educators and researchers, as well as the supporter of the education and research, are satisfied with the book lending and our information service. Due to the epidemic situation and the transition to distance learning, there has been a significant increase in the use of online services by libraries. Respondents expressed their satisfaction with the expansion of the range of electronically available journals and the provision of journal lending for library services, but would also request access to some additional specialized databases.

The student satisfaction survey results from 2021 are in progress, the evaluation is expected to become public from the autumn. The outcome of the ULS organizational culture survey is also being summarized.

The review of process descriptions, process inventory and key processes is performed continuously by the process management working group. The members of the green library working group are working on the creation of a green virtual collection, in which they collected printed resources related to the topic. The barrier-free library group is compiling a complex, constantly updated barrier-free library use guide. Their long-term plans include a sensitization training, which is expected to be organized for librarians next summer in cooperation with the ELTE Disability Center. Based on the call of the Library Institute for the Marrakesh Treaty – Registration of Authorized Organizations, a comprehensive recommendation was prepared. As a result, the libraries of Eötvös Loránd University upload their records in accessible formats to the database of the Hungarian National Common Catalog.

We will announce the latest developments and results on our portal soon.

Based on feedback from our users, we have renewed our INeedABook service, which allows you to suggest books for purchase if they are not available in our library.

The simplified interface is now available on our website. After authentication with the reader card, it is possible to send a purchase proposal by filling in a few fields.

We do our best to fullfil your request as soon as possible considering the collection circuit of the library, and depending on the availability of the publication. However, you have to count with a waiting time of at least two weeks in the case of Hungarian, and four weeks for foreign books.

On Friday, July 2, 2021, between 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm, the Hungarian National Archives (Budapest IX., Vágóhíd u. 7.) will hold the VII. Medieval Book Fair with the participation of nearly twenty book publishers. The latest publications of our archive’s series „Hungarian Students at Medieval Universities” will also be available at the event. 

An exhibition on the history of the Pauline order was opened at the Hungarian National Museum between 15th June 2021 and 12th September 2021, where several Pauline manuscripts and prints keep from our library are also presented, including the following manuscripts: A 115, Cod. Lat. 115, Cod. Lat. 131.

The exhibition organized on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the death of Boldog Özséb, the founder of the order, gives a comprehensive picture of the only Hungarian monastic order founded and still operating in Hungary. The order, established around 1250, today has a presence of nearly half a thousand members, on four continents, in sixteen countries.

Considering that the Hungarian origin of the order and the history of the Hungarian order range are little known, the exhibition mainly presents the Pauline and modern life of the Paulines, highlighting the historical role of the Polish center (Częstochowa).

The exhibited objects (archeological finds, medieval manuscripts, modern prints, liturgical objects, numerous sculptures, paintings and engravings) testify to the rich heritage of the order.

The Library Council unanimously approved the new communication strategy of the ELTE University Library Service.

As the first library in Hungary, the ELTE University Library Service (EKSZ) was awarded the EFQM “Commitment to Excellence” certificate in 2020. Within the framework of the tender, as part of the EKSZ communication development project, an action plan was prepared on the basis of questionnaire surveys in order to continuously improve the communication culture of the institutional network, use the available opportunities and resources more effectively, update the communication strategy and restructure information transmission.

In order to achieve the set goals, the Communication Coordination Committee of the Library Council was established. The mission of the committee is to support the continuous quality improvement and target group-oriented communication of the EKSZ with the available resources.

The first task of the Communication Coordination Committee, following a comprehensive situation analysis, was to prepare the EKSZ communication strategy and related action plan, which was adopted unanimously by the Library Council at its meeting on 18 June 2021. The documents are available in the EDIT repository.

We continually provide information about our further results on our website and in our newsletters.

EISZ (Electronic Information Service National Programme) Secretariat and Clarivate Analytics are organizing a webinar on June 21, 2021.

The webinar provides an introduction to the various capabilities of MetaCore application. During this online lecture more information about research on diseases and drug’s impact on a disease at the molecular level will be shared.

The lecture is in English.

Date and title:

Monday, 21 June 2021, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. MetaCore – Your web-based bioinformatics suite for ingesting and analyzing OMICS data and exploiting manually curated pathways

More information and registration is available here.

On Sunday, June 20, 2021 the historical memorial sites of Eötvös Loránd University will also open their doors at the Memorial Day event.

The Trefort Garden, established in the second half of the 1800s, served as the center of scientific and technical education in Hungary. It was named after Ágoston Trefort, the Minister of Religion and Public Education, who supported the establishment of the campus. András Kristó Kósa-Grimm historian and Georgina Schlay, the museologist of the University Library and Archives, will present the history of the buildings and monuments, these separate human destinies, and the exceptional life of Loránd Eötvös.

More information and registration: https://btk.elte.hu/emlekhelyek-napja-2021

A virtual version of our popular periodical exhibition entitled Under the spell of Accuracy. The Life and Work of Loránd Eötvös is now available.

Through the family heritage, life path, physical and geophysical experimental tools of Loránd Eötvös, the exhibition provides an insight into the life, scientific achievements and way of thinking of the scientist teacher, as well as the everyday life behind him.

Wandering around our virtual exhibition spaces – in addition to viewing contemporary documents and instruments – you can immerse yourself in the world of physics and one of the greatest figures in the history of Hungarian science with exciting video and audio materials, interactive and quiz games.

The five virtual spaces – An Exceptional Life Path, Physics Archive, Sensational Science, In the Footsteps of Eötvös, Eötvös’ Stereo Images – can be accessed separately from the main page, but you are also able to navigate with the help of the forward and backward arrows. Moreover, with the modern Immersive Reader function, we provide support for our visitors with special needs by reading the texts.

Discover the exhibition now! Let the adventure begin!