The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed between the 27th and the 30th of April 2024 due to technical reasons.
The Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives’ exhibition won first place with the title Under the spell of Accuracy. The Life and Work of Loránd Eötvös in the category of archival exhibitions announced by the Association of Hungarian Archivists.
The website of the exhibition is available here.
DOI (Digital Object Identifire) is a unique identifier of the International DOI Foundation for the identification of documents available online. Its use is widespread internationally, in addition, today more and more publishers in Hungary are affixing DOIs to publications and manuscripts.
The Library of Hungarian Scientific Works (MTMT) is an authentic bibliographic database of scientific publications of Hungarian authors and publications citing them.
The obligations of ELTE employees in relation to MTMT are set out in Decree 6/2012. (II. 23.) and in the Information Guide.
The professional management of the operation of the MTMT is provided by the University Library.
The University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University will provide the technical background for the publication of two national library journals with a long history, the Book, Library, Librarian (Könyv, Könyvtár, Könyvtáros) and the Library Monitor (Könyvtári Figyelő).
The journal management system of the University Library contains a number of ELTE-related journals, the range of which will be expanded by an agreement concluded with the National Széchényi Library in 2020, the first current issues of which have become openly accessible on the new interface. The Book, Library, Librarian journal is available at http://ojs.elte.hu/3k, and the first issue of the Library Monitor is available at http://ojs.elte.hu/kf.
In view of the epidemiological situation, the first 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 University Library Service’s Quality Improvement Report has been completed and the report on non-quality services closed in the previous year has been evaluated and summarized. Based on the results of the lecturer and student satisfaction surveys from 2019 and 2020, the reports have been finalized and are available at the Eötvös Loránd University's Institutional Repository (EDIT). All four documents were passed unanimously by the committee.
The Minister of Human Resources and the leadership and maintainer of the university were also sent the annual report of the University Library Service (ULS) of Eötvös Loránd University in accordance with the current 30/2014. (IV. 10.) Ministry of Human Resources’ Decree. The web interface of our partner database, the archiving of media appearances, the publication of portal news and the ULS newsletter are constantly being updated. In cooperation with the Communication Coordination Committee, the communication working group was involved in organizing trainings, which were planned for writing a detailed situation analysis, setting communication goals, and creating a communication strategy. More efficient communication will be also supported by our user-friendly new portal, which is currently under development.
The barrier-free library group plans to compile a complex, constantly updated barrier-free library user’s guide. As a first step a comprehensive survey was conducted regarding the wide range of our library services for students with special needs. However, the green library group is working to create a green virtual collection that is planned to be facilitated by short content referrals and search aids.
The library leaders prepared the work plans and reports of the libraries, as well as the register of dissemination activities, agreed on the review and standardization of statistical data collection. The uploading of dissertations to EDIT, the acquisition of RFID, and the establishment of plagiarism detection services are in process. We will announce the latest developments and results on our portal soon with the latest news!
The research room has a wifi connection from 1st March, 2021, so the researchers can be reached quickly and conveniently our digitized materials and our online repository.
In 2020, the archival records increased with 55 linear meters of records. The new records are the documents of Directorate of Education and the Faculty of Science, and György Poszler literary historian’s legacy and the records of Takács Etel Pedagogical Foundation.
A new volume of the series „Felsőoktatási kiadványok” (Higher education publications) has been published, entitled Durovics Alex: Evangélikus líceumok felsőfokú hallgatói 1771-1850 (Alex, Durovics: Graduate students of Lutheran high schools). The volume includes more than eight thousand students’ data from several Hungarian high scools.
In the quality improvement project accepted by ELTE in 2007, it undertakes to extend the quality improvement processes to the whole organization. The library system as an important service of the institution is part of that too. The K21 Library quality improvement project works with the support of the Quality Management Comittee of the university.
The purpose of ELTE University Library Service (EKSZ) is to improve the satisfaction of the library users like instructors, researchers, students, and other visitors.