In the framework of the Sustainability Week and the Green Bridge Volunteer Expert Program, we welcome elementary and secondary school groups to visit the ELTE University Library and Archives for green library presentations.

Restoration workshop on sustainability

Our conservator will give you a taste of paper-casting and bookbinding techniques. Learn about the process of book disinfection and old bookbinding techniques. The aim of the restoration work is to preserve the historical and aesthetic value of our museum collection, using natural materials, and to extend its life by means of various restoration procedures and preventive conservation techniques.

Dates:

14 April 2026, 10.00–11.00

14 April 2026, 14.00–15.00

15 April 2026, 10.00–11.00

15 April 2026, 14.00–15.00

16 April 2026, 10.00–11.00

16 April 2026, 14.00–15.00

21 April 2026, 10.00–11.00

21 April 2026, 14.00–15.00

22 April 2026, 10.00–11.00

22 April 2026, 14.00–15.00

23 April 2026, 10.00–11.00

23 April 2026, 14.00–15.00

 

Library history guided tours

Library tours provide information about the history of the ELTE University Library and Archives. The library palace, designed by Antal Szkalnitzky, was built using state-of-the-art ventilation, heating and lighting solutions of the 19th century. The library tour includes sgraffiti in the colonnade of the lobby, female figures of science and art in the main hall, and a portrait of Mór Than by the middle-aged Franz Joseph. Visitors can tour the rooms of the former Director General's residence, admire the reconstruction of the László Perczel globe and visit our Historical Warehouse, which is open to the public on special occasions. The tour will also highlight the library's AI-enabled services and good practices in the field of sustainability.

Dates:

14 April 2026, 11.00–11.45

14 April 2026, 15.00–15.45

15 April 2026, 11.00–11.45

15 April 2026, 15.00–15.45 

16 April 2026, 11.00–11.45

16 April 2026, 15.00–15.45 

21 April 2026, 11.00–11.45

21 April 2026, 15.00–15.45

22 April 2026, 11.00–11.45

22 April 2026, 15.00–15.45 

23 April 2026, 11.00–11.45

23 April 2026, 15.00–15.45 

 

Sustainable development and libraries

Our Green Library Quiz reveals what a library can do to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Dates:

14 April 2026, 11.45–12.00

14 April 2026, 15.45–16.00

15 April 2026, 11.45–12.00

15 April 2026, 15.45–16.00

16 April 2026, 11.45–12.00

16 April 2026, 15.45–16.00

21 April 2026, 11.45–12.00

21 April 2026, 15.45–16.00

22 April 2026, 11.45–12.00

22 April 2026, 15.45–16.00

23 April 2026, 11.45–12.00

23 April 2026, 15.45–16.00

 

More details are available on the Sustainability Week website.

All visitors are welcome!

The ELTE– NFI FILMIO University Film Club screening and discussion series continues. We welcome university members from all ELTE faculties.

KIX is a multifaceted journey through the 12 years of a young boy growing up in Budapest, during which the rowdy kid, Sanyi, becomes a public enemy in adulthood. The film shows the everyday life of the boy and his family from a rarely witnessed perspective. Dávid Mikulán and Bálint Révész's documentary is a contemporary Hungarian report on urban poverty and marginalisation. The creators of the documentary KIX followed Sanyi with a camera from the age of eight. The boy grew up in a 28-square-meter apartment in Ferencváros with five other family members, and while his mother worked multiple shifts and his father often didn't work at all, Sanyi explored the urban jungle with his friends. When he was fifteen, Sanyi and two friends doused a mattress on Ráday Street with nail polish remover and set it on fire. The fire spread to the building, with fatal consequences.

 

Date: 24 February 2026, 6 p.m.

Venue: University Square Campus, Weiss Emilia Hall (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1–3., ground floor, in the corridor next to the cloakroom)

 

Director: Dávid Mikulán, Bálint Révész

Cinematographer: Dávid Mikulán

Editor: Yaël Bitton, Károly Szalai

Music: Csaba Kalotás

 

Our guests in the post-screening discussion will be: Dávid Mikulán, director of the film, intermedia artist and filmmaker, Bálint Révész, director of the film, documentary filmmaker and film creator, and Andrea Rácz, PhD, sociologist (ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences).

 

 

 

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nimpjHM4_7M     

Due to limited seating, advance registration is required.

Registration is available at https://ajk.elte.hu/kix-mikulan-david-es-revesz-balint-filmje-2024.

The organisers welcome any correspondence regarding the film club at eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

ELTE–NFI Film Club Facebook page

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 organisation 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

The ELTE University Library and Archives offers extended opening hours for readers and students on weekdays and Saturdays between the 1st of December 2025 and the 17th of January 2026 until 22.00 hours. Our community space offers the opportunity to learn, relax, use kitchen facilities and free computer access. The self-service facilities in the lobby and the community space on the ground floor will continue to be available with a valid library card on weekdays from 7:00 a.m. and on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m.

Through our constantly expanding services, we aim to provide ELTE students with an efficient and effective learning opportunity, with the support of the Students' Union and in cooperation with the students.

The following services are available between 20.00 and 22.00 on weekdays and between 18.00 and 22.00 on Saturdays:

• study and reading in the Reading Hall, use of computers in the ground floor community room, access to kitchen equipment (fridge, microwave, hot and cold water and soda dispenser) in the community room kitchen,
• picking up books requested online during the day from the pickup locker and borrowing them through the self-lending terminal
• returning books using the smart shelf,
• self-service printing and photocopying using a pre-purchased card,
• free self-service scanning.

During the extended opening hours, reception and general information is provided. The lobby, the Reading Hall and the community space are open to the public only with a pre-purchased library card.

Everyone is welcome and we wish all our students a successful semester and exam period!

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on Friday, 28 November 2025 due to a university event.

From Saturday (29 November 2025), we will welcome our readers according to the usual opening hours.

Due to scheduled server maintenance, the University Library Service’s central online platforms will be unavailable from 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 9, 2025, until early morning the following day.

The downtime will affect the following services:

• EDIT – ELTE Digital Institutional Repository

• ELTEfind online catalogue (the old catalogue will remain available for searching)

• GIMIfind online catalogue

• ELTE Library WebApp

Please note that due to the WebApp outage, online credit card payments will also be temporarily unavailable during the maintenance period.

Thank you for your understanding and patience.

We are pleased to inform our esteemed researchers that, as of 13 October 2025, our special collections will once again be accessible, with the exception of the manuscript collections and 18th-century documents.

The Reading Room, along with the available library and archival services, is open on weekdays between 9:00 AM and 7:30 PM.

For further information, please follow the updates on our website.

Our historic storeroom is temporarily closed to visitors.

Thank you for your understanding!

As part of the Autumn Festival of Museums, between 13 October and 7 November 2025, we invite lovers of science and books to our varied programmes.

Our guests can take part in guided tours of the restoration workshop, library and university history, during which visitors can discover some old books. All visitors are welcome to attend the event series!

Detailed programme plan:

Restoration workshop

Guided by our restorer, guests can get a taste of paper-casting and bookbinding techniques. They will learn about the process of book disinfection and old bookbinding techniques.

Programme dates:

• 15 October 2025 (Wednesday) 10:00–11:00
• 15 October 2025 (Wednesday) 17:00–18:00
• 17 October 2025 (Friday) 10:00–11:00
• 17 October 2025 (Friday) 17:00–18:00
• 22 October 2025 (Wednesday) 10:00–11:00
• 22 October 2025 (Wednesday) 17:00–18:00
• 5 November 2025 (Wednesday) 10:00–11:00
• 5 November 2025 (Wednesday) 17:00–18:00
• 7 November 2025 (Friday) 10:00–11:00
• 7 November 2025 (Friday) 17:00–18:00

 

Library tour

On our library tours you can learn about the history of the ELTE University Library and Archives.

Programme dates:

• 13 October 2025 (Monday) 17:00–18:00
• 20 October 2025 (Monday) 17:00–18:00
• 27 October 2025 (Monday) 17:00–18:00
• 3 November 2025 (Monday) 17:00–18:00

 

Books, robes, science – University history exhibition

Our mini exhibition „Book, Robe, Science – Symbols from the history of Eötvös Loránd University” presents the major turning points in the history of Eötvös Loránd University, with the help of memorabilia from the University Library and Archives.

Through symbols, our guests can follow the development of the Jesuit-founded institution serving Catholic education, from its transformation into a state and royal university to the 300th anniversary of its foundation. After the university reform in 1949, many traditions were ceased to be practised and the related representative objects were transferred to museums. The fate of these objects in the 20th and 21st centuries is explored in the virtual space of the exhibition. The exhibition is open on weekdays between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Registration is available at titkarsag@lib.elte.hu or by calling +36 30 202 3382 or +36 1 411 6738. All visitors are welcome!

 

Programme available online:

Virtual Autumn Walks in the ELTE University Library and Archives (continuously available online programme).

Photo, audio and video recordings will be made of the events. The recordings will be published on the websites, publications, forums and social media of the participating institutions.

Due to the Cultural Heritage Day, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 20th of September 2025. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 10.00.

For more information, please, visit our homepage or the official website of Cultural Heritage Days. All visitors are welcome!