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 purpose of the anniversary events is to draw attention to the importance of commemorating our common values ​​and preserving our significant cultural heritage in Europe.

With the help of our short film, you can gain an insight into the history of the library palace, its architectural curiosities and its imposing halls. In addition you can get to know the history of our library and some of the famous people associated with our institution. The virtual tour also presents how the post office has helped the efficiency of library services and how long the Mátra lift has been operating, which is considered an industrial monument. From the roof, a spectacular panorama unfolds before your eyes, the best way to admire the Ferenciek Square and the Statue of Liberty on Gellért Hill from a bird's eye view.

Join us for our virtual time travel and visit our Eötvös exhibition as well as our digital exhibition!

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 Foundation for the University Library was established in 2005 to provide the technical modernization for the ELTE University Library and Archives and help expansing its services and protecting its holdings. The library's old book collection of more than one and a half million documents is part of the national cultural heritage and is also significant in Europe, so it is our shared responsibility to preserve these values ​​for the rising generation.

The non-profit organization, led by Dr. Péter Kiszl, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, significantly supports the library's value-saving activities. In order to restore the volumes of the collection, which requires special attention and constant preservation, the foundation has launched a book adoption program. In addition, it contributes to the organization of events promoting the values ​​and the professional work of the University Library and Archives, the publication of a wall calendar presenting the rarities of the library and the university’s cultural heritage, as well as the publication of the University Library Yearbooks and acquiring new technical equipment.

More information about the support possibilities of the Foundation for the University Library is available here.

Foundation for the University Library

H-1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.

Phone: +36 1 411 6738

Email: alapitvany@lib.elte.hu

Tax number: 18121362-1-41

Account number: 12010532-00120645-00100003

Scientific and scholarly works

1. Principles of Marketing / Kotler, Philip
2. Introduction to Management / Combe, Colin
3. Introduction to Psychology / Atkinson, Rita L. et al.
4. International Economics / Krugman, Paul R
5. Early Modern History / Poór János ed.
6. Hungarian Literature / Gintli Tibor ed.
7. Számviteli ismeretek – érthetően, szórakoztatóan / Laáb Ágnes
8. Nichomachean Ethics / Aristotle
9. Social Psychology / Smith, Eliot R.
10. Discipline and Punish / Foucault, Michel
    Euthyphro / Plato
    Republic / Plato

Literature

1. Heart of Darkness / Conrad, Joseph
   A szakállas Neptun / Nádasdy, Ádám
2. Hungarian Copperfield / Bereményi, Géza
3. The Brothers Karamazov / Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich
4. Normal People / Rooney, Sally
5. The Crying of Lot 49 / Pynchon, Thomas
6. The Hunger Angel / Müller, Herta
7. If on a winter's night a traveler / Calvino, Italo
8. Halotti pompa / Borbély, Szilárd
9. The Stranger / Camus, Albert
   Neighbourhood / Zoltán, Gábor
10. Nothing / Teller, Janne

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 accessible. The works are available for free download and online reading for ELTE citizens. The e-books are published on the university's Ebook Central platform: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eltehu/home.action. 

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. It is also possible to access it from the common catalogue of ELTE libraries by clicking on the menu item marked in red.

Joined libraries and the number of their records in the database:

• Library of ELTE Apáczai Csere János High School and Dormitory (11 031 records),
• Library of ELTE Gyertyánffy István Training Primary School (26 078 records), 
• Library of ELTE Radnóti Miklós Primary School and Training High School (32 202 records),
• Library of ELTE Trefort Ágoston Teacher Training School (24 233 records).

The conversions of school libraries’ databases take place at regular intervals. Once a year, usually in November, the data are updated according to the changes (additions and deletions) of the previous year.

Ferenc Molnár was born on the 12th of January, 1878. His popular novel, The Paul Street Boys is laid in the Botanical Garden of the university. The plot takes place in 1889, although the novel itself was published in 1907. This year proved to be a turning point in the history of the Botanical Garden, as the Minister of Religion and Public Education ordered to hand over much of its territory to the buildings of the new clinics at the university. Pursuant to Article 48 of the 1908 Act the Margaret Island was designated as the new location for the Botanical Garden, and after the move, the former area of the Botanical Garden would have been given in its entirety to the Medical Faculty. Although plans were made to relocate the botanical garden to Margaret Island, the garden eventually continued to operate in its former location with a mutilated area. On the map made in 1901, the new border of the Botanical Garden was marked with a blue line and the location of the new buildings under construction was marked in red.  

EBSCO Information Service has opened access to two databases for testing:

1. MLA International Bibliography with Full Text,
2. MLA Directory of Periodicals.

The databases can be used without restriction from ELTE IP addresses. In case of remote access databases may accessed after Shibboleth authentication, or for students by using Stunnel, for instructors and for ELTE employees by using a VPN service.

Access will last until the 10th of March 2022. The databases can be accessed through the EBSCO Host platform.

The MLA International Bibliography with Full Text combines the definitive index for the study of language, literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, folklore and film with full text for more than 1 000 journals, including many of the leading publications in these fields. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and international in scope, the bibliography covers scholarly publications from the early 20th century to the present, including journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites and dissertations. The database also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals and the MLA Thesaurus, a proprietary, searchable collection of thousands of subject terms and personal names used in indexing the bibliography.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), provides detailed information on thousands of journals and book series in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, film, rhetoric and composition, as well as folklore. Entries cover publication details, contact information, submission requirements and editorial policies, subscription terms, electronic availability and advertising, useful statistics such as circulation, average number of articles submitted and published, time from submission to decision, and time from decision to publication. All periodicals and book series indexed in the MLA International Bibliography are listed in the directory.

The ELTE University Library and Archives' new calendar 2022 presents some outstanding cultural heritage of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), which deserve the attention not only of the university but also of the public. A long-term programme has been elaborated for the mapping of the cultural assets posessed by the university and making them visible, which will be implemented under the professional supervision of the University Library and Archives in collaboration with the custodians of the collections. The pages of the calendar offer an insight into the diversity of the university’s museum collections and cultural relics. The online version of our calendar is available here.

Contributors: Krisztina Bergmann, Attila Bodó, Klára Kóthay Felkerné, Lajos Juhász, József Kovács, Péter Mohay, Bianka Molnár, László Papp, Georgina Schlay, István Szente, Júlia Katalin Török, Márk Vrabély Panna Szabó, Csaba Gedai, Eszter Hegyesi, Bence Képessy, Ádám Kuttner, Éva Orbán and János Acsai. The representative wall calendar was published under the management of the Prime Minister's Office with the support of the National Cooperation Fund, the Bethlen Gábor Fund Management Ltd. and the Foundation for the University Library. Responsible editor: Dr. Péter Kiszl.

For information about the support options of the Foundation for the University Library, please, visit our website. More details about our book adoption program can be found here!

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At the end of the 19th century, a new collection of Library manuscripts was created, which included the original legal diplomas. A total of 60 diplomas belong to the collection, most of which were written before 1526. Medieval diplomas were available in EDIT, and now the full series, i.e. pulbications from 1527 to 1808, can also be viewed.

The compete collection in EDIT