News archive

2024. January 17., Wednesday – 13:36
University Library Service (ULS)
In 2024, ELTE will subscribe to the following databases within the framework of the Electronic Information Service National Program (EISZ).
2024. January 16., Tuesday – 09:23
ULA University Library
We have collected the most frequently loaned books in the University Library over the past year.
2024. January 12., Friday – 14:44
University Library Service (ULS)
ELTE has been granted a 3-month trial access to the Books of Modern China (1840–1949) database on Shanghai Library's CNBKSY (Quan Guo Bao Kan Suo Yin) platform. The database contains over 120,000 books, which can be searched in full text.
2024. January 12., Friday – 09:27
University Library and Arcives (ULA)
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 Sándor Szilágyi commemorative medal.
2024. January 11., Thursday – 16:32
ULA University Library
The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) is supporting the ELTE University Library and Archives' Book of Your Life (BoYL) project with 10,000 euros, the highest amount available in the Libraries, Communities and Democracy call for 2024. The primary aim of the project is to support the integration of international students coming to ELTE by creating community spaces and organising multilingual thematic activities.
2024. January 8., Monday – 14:32
ULA 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.
2024. January 8., Monday – 14:13
ULA University Library
On the 31st of August 2023, the ELTE University Library and Archives organised the eleventh conference entitled Traditions and Challenges. This year's programme included presentations on the themes of Artificial Intelligence and Library Automation and Public Collections in Network.
2024. January 4., Thursday – 16:33
University Library Service (ULS)
At the fourth quarterly report of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee 2023, the leaders of the working groups reported on the results of the past quarter, ongoing work and changes.
2024. January 2., Tuesday – 11:58
ULA University Library
On the occasion of the Hungarian–Turkish Cultural Year, the 2024 calendar of the ELTE University Library and Archives presents a selection of medieval codices, which arrived the library from Constantinople at the end of April 1877.
2023. December 22., Friday – 13:43
ULA University Library
School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can consult their documents in various databases.
2023. December 18., Monday – 14:58
University Library and Arcives (ULA)
The Faculty of Social Sciences is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
2023. December 15., Friday – 14:45
ULA University Library
Under the professional guidance of the ELTE University Library and Archives, the libraries of the University supported the Hungarian language education and the studies of the students at the Georgian sister institution with a donation of books, which provided the basis of the Hungarian Library Department of the Tbilisi State University, officially opened on the 12th of December 2023.
2023. December 15., Friday – 09:35
ULA University Library
The Library will be closed between the 23rd of December 2023 and the 1st of January 2024. Our library's services will be available from the 2nd of January 2024. We wish all our dear readers a very merry Christmas and a successful New Year!
2023. December 13., Wednesday – 10:17
University Library and Arcives (ULA)
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 Coin cabinet.
2023. December 8., Friday – 16:19
ULA University Library
In Christmas time 2023, Ildikó Balogh, the Public Services Department's Information Librarian, and Katalin Herendi, the Head of the General Secretariat, were awarded the Pro Bibliotheca Universitatis Certificate of Merit by the ELTE University Library and Archives, thanking them for their high quality and prestigious professional work.
2023. December 5., Tuesday – 09:26
ULA University Library
The ELTE University Library and Archives officially opened its new book vending machine to students on the 4th of December 2023 in the lobby of the Library Palace.
2023. December 4., Monday – 12:30
ULA University Library
The ELTE University Library and Archives offers extended opening hours for readers and students on weekdays and Saturdays between the 4th of December and the 20th of January 2023 until 22.00 hours. Our training room will also be available, providing free computer access and learning opportunities.
2023. December 1., Friday – 09:43
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in December is the work of the Jesuit theologian Gábor Szerdahelyi (1660–1726), which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. December 1., Friday – 08:53
University Library Service (ULS)
On October 16, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences published the document entitled „Proposals for the Handling of Articles for Journals that Engage in Objectionable Practices” containing numerous recommendations. In the case of articles published in 2024, the MTMT will use the the journal classification of the Norwegian Register. For publications and journals published in Hungarian and in Hungarian journals, the Committee of MTA did not support the use of the Norwegian list. More information can be found on the website of the MTA and in the document.
2023. November 28., Tuesday – 12:34
ULA University Library
The most famous publication of the first printing house in Hungary is the Chronica Hungarorum (Buda Chronicle), produced by András Hess for the eve of Pentecost on the 5th of June 1473, the original version preserved in our library is also notable for the fact that the edition never left the territory of historic Hungary. For the 550th anniversary of the Buda Chronicle in 2023, we have created a virtual exhibition based on our chamber exposition, on display between June and September 2023.