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The registration dates for the exhibition „Under the Enchantment of Accuracy – The Life and Work of Loránd Eötvös” are now available.

The online training on research data, research data management and data repositories was a great success organized by the colleagues of ELTE University Library and Archives in early February 2022.

The historian, Dániel Cornides (1732–1787) was appointed to the University of Pest in 1784 as a teacher of historical auxiliary sciences and guardian of the university library.

The Accessible library team of the K21 Quality Management Coordination Comittee has compiled a guide for librarians.

In 2021, the Archives was expanded with the legacy of two prominent university professors.

The Foundation for the University Library purchased workchairs and tables by utilizing the National Cooperation Fund grant for the Restoration and Bookbinding Workshop in the Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives.

Our first special educators studied and practiced in the field of teaching deaf children in Vienna, the institute for deaf-mute people operating there since 1799. The first special education institutions in Hungary were established in the 1800s, called „philanthropic” institutions.

István Ádám, Annie Fischer scholarship student of the Ministry of Human Resources, gives a guitar concert in the University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University at 6.00 p.m. on the 18th of February 2022.

Wiley will be running a training session on the 15th of February.

Object of the month – The flag of the ELTE Trefort Ágoston Practice High School

Exclusive guided tours, library tours, recollections and many other interesting events await all former ELTE students who join our group.

Frigyes Dési, the meteorologist and university professor was born 110 years ago, on the 11th of January 1912.

The Education and Research Support Department of ELTE University Library and Archives announces an online training on managing research data and preparing a research data management plan.

On the occasion of the Hungarian Culture Day (the 22nd of January 2022), the ELTE University Library and Archives invites you to a virtual library tour. This year we remember the poet, writer and journalist János Garay, who was born 210 years ago and worked in the University Library.

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 ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 24th of January 2022 due to technical reasons. From Tuesday (the 25th of January 2022) we are waiting for our readers according to the usual opening hours.

We have collected the most frequently loaned books in the University Library over the past year.

We would like to inform our visitors that due to the failure of the electronic storage cabinets we are temporarily unable to provide a part of the journal collection (shelfmark: between P841 and P1299). Thank you for your patience and understanding.

ProQuest has launched its Open Access Complete e-book package, with around 2 300 books from 12 publishers freely available.

School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can catalogue their documents in various databases. While maintaining these systems, the ELTE University Library and Archives developed a common search interface in 2011 within the framework of the TÁMOP-3.2.4/09/1/KMR-2010-0021 project, which can be accessed directly at http://gimikatalogus.elte.hu.