The Library will be closed between the 23rd of December 2024 and the 1st of January 2025. Our library's services will be available from the 2nd of January 2025.

Due to the relocation of our external warehouse the books and doctoral dissertations stored there, as well as the entire stock of the library's periodicals, will be unavailable until the beginning of January 2025. Many of our books are still available for loan and current literature can be found on the open shelves.

News archive

2024. May 15., Wednesday – 14:19
ULA University Library
In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and reference librarian gave our adopters a detailed presentation of the supported volumes.
2024. May 8., Wednesday – 16:11
ULA University Library
The Foundation for the University Library held this year's meeting of the Board of Trustees, where Dr. Péter Kiszl, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives (ELTE ULA), Márta Csikós, Head of Cabinet of ELTE ULA, Dr. Edit Madas, academician, professor, and Judit Osskó, certified architect, monument protection engineer, television editor-director, participated in the meeting.
2024. March 20., Wednesday – 16:16
ULA University Library
In the framework of our book adoption programme, our restorer and old book librarian offered our adopter a detailed presentation of the supported book.
2024. February 19., Monday – 12:37
ULA University Library
In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and reference librarian gave our adopters a detailed presentation of the supported volumes.
2024. January 8., Monday – 14:32
ULA University Library
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.
2024. January 2., Tuesday – 11:58
ULA University Library
On the occasion of the Hungarian–Turkish Cultural Year, the 2024 calendar of the ELTE University Library and Archives presents a selection of medieval codices, which arrived the library from Constantinople at the end of April 1877.
2023. December 1., Friday – 09:43
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in December is the work of the Jesuit theologian Gábor Szerdahelyi (1660–1726), which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. November 2., Thursday – 13:51
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! The title of our volume presented in November is "Készület a jól meghaláshoz", which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. October 2., Monday – 13:49
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in October contains the works of three 17th-century Protestant thinkers, which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. September 1., Friday – 09:51
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our book Ferenc Menyői Tolvaj: The Mastery of Arithmetic, presented in September, is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. August 1., Tuesday – 14:49
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! One of the most important works of Pavao Ritter Vitezović in our volume presented in August is "Stemmatography", which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. July 3., Monday – 14:23
ULA University Library
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.
2023. June 5., Monday – 14:03
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in June is the Articles of law of Transylvanian prince Gábor Bethlen dated 1627, which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. June 2., Friday – 13:03
ULA University Library
The Foundation for the University Library held this year's meeting of the Board of Trustees, where Dr. Péter Kiszl, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives (ELTE ULA), Dr. László Szögi, retired Director General of ELTE ULA, Krisztián Szalay, Rector's Commissioner for Sports Affairs of ELTE, Márta Csikós, Head of Cabinet of ELTE ULA, and as new members Dr. Edit Madas, academician, professor, and Judit Osskó, certified architect, monument protection engineer, television editor-director, participated in the meeting.
2023. May 25., Thursday – 03:32
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in May is the coursebook of the Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (in Latin: Johannes Comenius, 1592-1670), the so called „Orbis pictus”, which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. April 25., Tuesday – 16:21
ULA University Library
This year, ELTE Trefort Ágoston Teacher Training High School celebrated the 150th anniversary of its foundation and adopted eight prints of great significance to the history of the school, which are preserved in the ELTE University Library and Archives.
2023. April 4., Tuesday – 08:28
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in April is a missal printed in 1704 in Nagyszombat, which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. March 1., Wednesday – 15:35
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in March is the book of the Jesuit theologian and historian Gábor Hevenesi (1656–1715), which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. February 20., Monday – 13:13
ULA University Library
Support the restoration of old Hungarian books of the ELTE University Library and Archives! In 2023, we recommend the pieces of one of the most valuable collections of the University Library, the ‘Old Hungarian Prints Collection’ to adopt.
2023. January 30., Monday – 14:45
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in February is the emblem book of the court historian János Zsámboky (1572), which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.