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The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) is supporting the ELTE University Library and Archives' Book of Your Life (BoYL) project with 10,000 euros, the highest amount available in the Libraries, Communities and Democracy call for 2024. The primary aim of the project is to support the integration of international students coming to ELTE by creating community spaces and organising multilingual thematic activities.

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.

On the 31st of August 2023, the ELTE University Library and Archives organised the eleventh conference entitled Traditions and Challenges. This year's programme included presentations on the themes of Artificial Intelligence and Library Automation and Public Collections in Network.

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.

School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can consult their documents in various databases.

Under the professional guidance of the ELTE University Library and Archives, the libraries of the University supported the Hungarian language education and the studies of the students at the Georgian sister institution with a donation of books, which provided the basis of the Hungarian Library Department of the Tbilisi State University, officially opened on the 12th of December 2023.

The Library will be closed between the 23rd of December 2023 and the 1st of January 2024. Our library's services will be available from the 2nd of January 2024. We wish all our dear readers a very merry Christmas and a successful New Year!

In Christmas time 2023, Ildikó Balogh, the Public Services Department's Information Librarian, and Katalin Herendi, the Head of the General Secretariat, were awarded the Pro Bibliotheca Universitatis Certificate of Merit by the ELTE University Library and Archives, thanking them for their high quality and prestigious professional work.

The ELTE University Library and Archives officially opened its new book vending machine to students on the 4th of December 2023 in the lobby of the Library Palace.

The ELTE University Library and Archives offers extended opening hours for readers and students on weekdays and Saturdays between the 4th of December and the 20th of January 2023 until 22.00 hours. Our training room will also be available, providing free computer access and learning opportunities.

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.

The most famous publication of the first printing house in Hungary is the Chronica Hungarorum (Buda Chronicle), produced by András Hess for the eve of Pentecost on the 5th of June 1473, the original version preserved in our library is also notable for the fact that the edition never left the territory of historic Hungary. For the 550th anniversary of the Buda Chronicle in 2023, we have created a virtual exhibition based on our chamber exposition, on display between June and September 2023.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed due to technical reasons between the 30th of November and the 2nd of December 2023. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 24th of November 2023 due to a university event. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

As part of the Autumn Festival of Museums, our library offered guided tours, as well as book and restoration workshops presentations.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be temporarily closed on the 16th of November 2023 (Thursday) from 14.00 due to technical reasons. On Friday (17 November 2023) our library will be open as usual. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

„Diversity and Variety – Selection of Taiwanese literary treasures” poster exhibition opened on the 7th of November 2023 at the ELTE University Library and Archives.

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.

On the 19th of October 2023, the ELTE Alumni Centre organised a successful event entitled "The University Opens its Doors" in the ELTE University Library.

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 October our feature is on the three times rector of our university, the former director of our library, László Sennyey.