Due to the Cultural Heritage Days, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 17th of September 2022.
More details about our event are available on our website. All visitors are welcome!
Due to maintenance work on the integrated library system, the ELTE University Library and Archives and the Eötvös Exhibition will be closed on Saturday, on the 10th of September 2022. From Monday, from the 12th of September 2022, we will be open again with the usual opening hours and services.
At the start of the autumn semester, we are opening our doors with a new community space. The round room in the Journal Reading Room welcomes you with armchairs and sofas, bean bags, laptop tables and cushions.
The community space is suitable for studying, relaxing, resting, learning together and playing board games. We are constantly expanding our amenities and wish our visitors a pleasant and useful stay!
On Saturday, the 17th of September 2022, as part of the Cultural Heritage Days, we will open our library doors to the public again.
We would like to draw attention to the protection of our cultural heritage, with a wide range of activities for all ages, including library tours, calligraphic and bookbinding craft programs, presentation of our restorer workshop and old books, interactive Eötvös exhibition, university history display, violin and Coquette duo concerts.
As part of this year's programme, the Gospel Book of Janus Pannonius and our chamber exhibition will also be presented. For a detailed programme, please, visit our homepage or the official website of the Cultural Heritage Days. All visitors are welcome!
The event is supported by the Belváros-Lipótváros Municipality of the 5th district of Budapest and the University Library Foundation.
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.
Nowadays, it seems inconceivable that serious scientists of past centuries could have attached so much importance to the current positions of stars and planets.
Diseases, wars, famines or perhaps good harvests, royal weddings and great discoveries await mankind? All this was thought to be read from the signs in the heavens. Join us in our search for the heavens and visit our Copernicus Memorial Exhibition entitled „The man who moved the Earth out of its place”, opening on the 22nd of June 2024 during the Night of Museums!
With the support of the National Cultural Fund, between the 28th and the 29th of May 2024, a management training course was held for the library managers of the University Library Service and the managers and staff of the ELTE University Library and Archives.
The two-day, develop effective management collaboration training provided participants with useful information on situational leadership and emotional intelligence. The training aimed to develop the leadership skills and competencies of leaders and to present tools, which are useful and work in practice. By applying the knowledge gained, their teams and the library as a whole will be able to improve their performance and effectiveness.
Ambassador Frank R. Cimafranca visited the ELTE University Library on the 15th of May 2024.
In the newly opened community space, the delegation also had an opportunity to discover the photo exhibition „Liminal Quarters” by PhD student James Clifford Viloria, which depicts the dormitory life of foreign students studying at the university. The area designed as part of the Book of Your Life project also provided an opportunity for consultation with students from the Philippines studying at ELTE. The delegation concluded the programme with a guided tour of the library.
The community space and our library welcomes national and international students with extended opening hours until 22:00 during the examination period until the 15th of June 2024. We wish you all a successful and enjoyable end of semester!
The Sabbathsong Klezmer Band soloists and the world famous cimbalom player Jenő Lisztes will perform Monti's Charda and other popular works alongside klezmer melodies at the concert „More than Klezmer on the Night of Museums” on the 22nd of June 2024 at 8.30 pm. In the footsteps of astronomical and geographical discoveries, the performers will recall a private song by Gyula Kabos from 1919, and show how Columbus discovered America.
The poem „Football” by Hanna Szenes will also be heard in connection with the „Goal Pass” theme. For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage. All visitors are welcome!
Nowadays, it seems inconceivable that serious scientists of past centuries could have attached so much importance to the current positions of stars and planets.
Diseases, wars, famines or perhaps good harvests, royal weddings and great discoveries await mankind? All this was thought to be read from the signs in the heavens. Join us in our search for the heavens and visit our Copernicus Memorial Exhibition entitled „The man who moved the Earth out of its place”, opening on the 22nd of June 2024 during the Night of Museums!
For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage.
Oxford University Press offered Trial Access to Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online. To access these databases, please connect to ELTE internet network directly on campus or by using VPN for remote access. The trial ends at the 15th of June 2024.
„The foremost scholarly art encyclopaedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources.”
„The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe. Based on a work first published in 1879 and updated frequently, Grove has been in continuous publication for over a century and now publishes hundreds of new articles and article revisions each year.”