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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025. Among its members are many distinguished students and teachers who have left their mark not only on the Academy but also on the history of our institution. Ferenc Toldy (1805–1875), literary historian, university professor and former director of our library, was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1830.

The ELTE University Library and Archives, as a member of the international Coimbra Group (CG) Heritage Working Group, is pleased to invite all interested parties to the Coimbra Group webinar “AI Ethics and Governance” on Thursday 13 March 2025 from 15:00 to 16:30 CET, with keynote speaker Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow and IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.

The Emerald publisher is offering trial access to its largest database (premier package) until March 31, 2025. The database, accessible via ELTE's local network or remotely through VPN, includes 13 modules, with 9 related to economics and others to healthcare, education, engineering, and information and knowledge management. This trial access is part of the EISZ offerings and can be subscribed to through EISZ.

On Monday, 24 February 2025, the ELTE Savaria Library and Archives will be open from 12.00 for the national written round of the National Peter Bod Library User Study Competition.

We are pleased to inform our dear readers that the relocation of the library's external warehouse has been completed, and the books and doctoral dissertations stored there are now available again.

The ELTE-NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

The University History Collection holds around fifteen thousand frames, including negatives and paper photographs. The earliest images are from the 1880s, but most date from 1950 to 2000, depicting various university events and life. Digitised items are available in the ELTE Digital Institutional Knowledge Library, with a detailed report on the collection in the 2023 issue 4 of Archives Review by Georgina Schlay.

Deputy State Secretary for Public Collections and Cultural Development Máté Vincze and Head of Department László Szende, PhD visited our library on 13 February 2025.

According to an agreement with the ELTE University Library and Archives, we will also host the popular ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series beside the University Square campus. The film club, organised in cooperation between Eötvös Loránd University and the National Film Institute, will be hosted in two locations, with the cooperation of our library, and is expected to be held weekly from next semester. All ELTE citizens are welcome to attend these events.

In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and reference librarian gave our adopters a detailed presentation of the supported volumes.

World Scientific Publishing has offered trial access to the entire journal portfolio. The trial period lasts for two months, from 3 February 2025 to 3 April 2025.

We have collected the most frequently loaned books in the University Library over the past year.

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

The Web of Science Core Collection is a comprehensive scientific database that contains the most significant sources in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. In the webinar on January 29, participants will learn about effective methods of using the database and the possibilities of analyzing citation relationships. Participation is free, but prior registration is required.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed from January 25, 2025 (Saturday) to February 8, 2025 (Saturday) due to storage organisation.

An exhibition on the life and work of Gusztáv Bárczi has opened in the library of the Gusztáv Bárczi Faculty of Special Education. Bárczi was a key figure in curative education, serving as director of the College of Curative Education from 1942 to 1963. The exhibition showcases unique documents from his legacy, highlighting the most important stages of his life.

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 2025 calendar of the ELTE University Library and Archives features a selection of images from the atlas „Theatrum orbis terrarum” (The Theatre of the World's Lands).

At the fourth quarterly report of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee 2024, the leaders of the working groups reported on the results of the past quarter, ongoing work and changes.

On 6 December 2024, the exhibition „Fruits of Discord. Portraying the Ottoman Presence” opened at the Slovak National Gallery. The exhibition presents the interesting and dramatic history of Hungarian-Ottoman relations in the 16th and 17th centuries through the example of the cultural relations, including the Tamás Pálffy volume on loan from the ELTE University Library and Archives. The exhibition explores the period of Ottoman expansion in Hungary and the intercultural exchanges, with a special focus on Ottoman material culture in Central European art.