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The ELTE–NFI FILMIO University Film Club awaits you even in the summertime! We welcome university citizens from all ELTE faculties. A film presenting the football successes of the Dunaszerdahely Athletic Club (DAC 1904 FC) and its role in bringing together the Hungarian community in Upper Hungary will be screened as part of the ELTE Carpathian Basin Summer University.

Our series, titled “Mosaics from the Heritage of ELTE”, presents some of the outstanding cultural heritage of Eötvös Loránd University. The artwork of the month is the Bogen–Lipmann Cage.

Our library will be closed from 1 August 2026 to 5 September 2026. We wish everyone a pleasant summer and a restful holiday!

The ELTE University Library and Archives’ series of therapy dog programs during exam season concluded amid great interest. As part of the initiative, more than a thousand students participated in 21 sessions featuring five therapy dogs. The program’s goal was to contribute to students’ mental well-being and provide support amid the increased stress of exam season.

Within the framework of the Cultural Heritage Days program series, calligrapher Dezső Buzogány will hold a workshop on the 19th of September, 2026 from 11:00 to 18:00 in the hall of the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.).

We adumbrate in our restoration workshop, in which you can get a taste of bookrestoration. Behind the scenes you can learn about preserving our valuable documents and experience how a sewing frame can be used in bookbinding.

During the Cultural Heritage Day, visitors are invited to create individual bookmarks in our second floor Boardroom.

On Cultural Heritage Day, our visitors can use our library jigsaw puzzle to build the library palace, assemble our codex pages from their fragments, and display images related to gastronomy and the works of Mór Jókai.

On Saturday, the 19th of September 2026, as part of the Cultural Heritage Days, we will open our library doors to the public again.

The Reading Hall will be closed on Thursday, 25 June 2026, between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. due to technical reasons.

According to our tradition, this year we joined the Night of Museums series of events, which featured the exhibition MTA 200 – Academicians at the university along with craft workshops, concerts, guided tours of the building, exhibitions, animated film screenings, calligraphy workshop, recipe collection, adventure game and restoration workshop presentations.

The OpenAIRE Train-the-Trainer Bootcamp aims to prepare professionals working in the field of research support for delivering training on current issues in Open Science, Open Access publishing, and research data management. Staff members from the ELTE University Library and Archives also participated in the program, held 25–29 May, 2026, further expanding and deepening their professional knowledge.

Led by Associate Dean Agnes Pearcy, students from the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University visited the University Library on 10 June 2026 as part of a benchlearning initiative.

Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 20th of June 2026. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.

With the help of the interactive "audio guide" tour of the ELTE University Library, visitors can discover the secrets and values ​​of the historic library building. The tour is now available in Hungarian, English and Chinese as well as Spanish, and further information can be found on the library's website.

On the occasion of the Night of Museums series, guitarist Béla Rák will give a concert on 20 June 2026 at 8:30 p.m. at the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.).

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 25 May 2026. We wish you a pleasant Pentecost weekend!

On the occasion of Museum Night, we cordially invite everyone to a screening of Ferenc Rofusz’s short films, with the animator himself providing commentary.

Where anything is possible… A frog turned into a prince, secret recipes brought to life… and countless surprises! Step onto the explorers’ secret, adventure-filled trail! During Museum Night, culinary delights will guide you along a hidden path into the realm of flavors and books, and along the way, you can explore areas of the University Library and Archives that are not accessible to the public at other times.

Do you have a tried-and-true holiday dish that everyone always raves about? A quick weeknight favorite that’s a must for family dinners? Or a special cake you learned to make from your grandmother? Now is your chance to pass on these treasured recipes!