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On the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the „Buda Chronicle”, our temporary exhibition offers an insight into the original version of the „Chronica Hungarorum” and the most unique publications in the history of printing.

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 Pável Memorial Room.

The National Programme for Electronic Information Services and the Eötvös Loránd University of Applied Sciences have contracted to support Open Access publishing for ELTE affiliated authors and several publishers.

Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in July is the „Rex admirabilis […]” (Admirable king…) is the versified life of St. Ladislaus of Hungary (r. 1077–1095) in 50 eulogies by István Tarnóczy, which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.

At the second 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.

On the 12th of June 2023, the ELTE University Library Service's K21 Quality Management Coordination Committee's Accessible Library Working Group organized a successful awareness-raising and sensitization training on autism for ELTE librarians at the Ecseri Road building of the Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Education.

We are happy to announce that the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has accepted the application of the journal Dissertationes Archaeologicae ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös nominatae to the Scopus database and will start indexing it. The journal is archived in ELTE EDIT repository, and it is an „MTMT Qualified Journal” from 2023.

We are happy to announce that the Scopus Content Selection & Advisory Board (CSAB) has accepted the application of the journal RussianStudiesHu to the Scopus database and will start indexing it. The journal is archived in ELTE EDIT repository, and it is an „MTMT Qualified Journal” from 2023.

According to our tradition, this year we joined the Night of Museums series of events, which included craft activities, concerts, guided tours, restoration and calligraphy workshops, as well as an exhibition entitled „Buda Chronicle 550”.

Our series entitled „Mosaics from the heritage of ELTE” presents some of the key material cultural heritage of the Eötvös Loránd University. The objects of the month are Gothard's transit instruments.

On the 19th and 20 June 2023, the staff of the ELTE University Library Service (ULS) participated in a workshop on quality development led by Dr. Attila Szoboszlai, trainer.

Jean-Noël Jeanneney, former director general of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, former minister, historian, producer of France Culture and Jacqueline Plessis, language attaché of the French Institute in Budapest, accompanied by Dr. Vilmos Bárdosi, rector in charge of Francophone relations at ELTE, visited our library.

Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 24th of June 2023. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.

The ELTE University Library and Archives is launching an online information session for editors of ELTE journals on how to increase the international visibility of their journals. The following topics are included in the planned programme: strategies for meeting journal indexing criteria, recommendation for the order of database registrations, presentation of an online self-checking spreadsheet summarising the criteria for selecting journals for inclusion in databases, ethical publishing, authorship issues.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, in 1773, Pope Clement XIII dissolved the Jesuit order, accelerating the process of the university's transfer to the state. Between 1635 and 1773, many distinguished Jesuits of great knowledge taught at our university, leaving a lasting mark on the history of the institution. In April our feature is on the editor of the first Hungarian Law Library (Corpus Iuris Hungarici), Márton Szentiványi.

On the occasion of the meeting of the University Heritage Coordination on the 9th of June 2023, we hosted the employees of the licensed Hungarian university museums.

In a concert entitled „La storia d'un amore - fortuna, sfortuna e guarigione” (History of Love – Happiness, Misery and Healing), the talented artists of the Festival Academy Budapest Ensemble will perform on the 24th of June 2023 from 20.30 at the ELTE University Library and Archives. All visitors are welcome!

On the Night of Museums we open our restoration workshop to get an insight into the work of restorers. All visitors are welcome!

Our guided tours focus on the history of the University Library and Archives, Eötvös Loránd University. All visitors are welcome!

Within the framework of the Night of Museums program series, calligrapher Dezső Buzogány will hold a workshop on the 24th of June 2023 between 15:00 and 24:00 in the hall of the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.). Our guests are able to gain an insight into the art of calligraphy. All visitors are welcome!