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The most important legal insurance documents of the University were kept in the office of the current rector, locked in a metal box. Finally the documents were transferred to the University Library as a deposit in 1952, and after the Archives was established, the certificates were taken into its custody.

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 Pallasite meteorite.

The Citizens of ELTE have the opportunity to try out the following two databases that can be accessed from ELTE IP range or in case of remote access using Stunnel or VPN service.

There is a unique opportunity for the ELTE Faculty of Economics' students to participate on a training that intend to share good practice of writing and editing thesis.

In cooperation with the ELTE Botanical Garden, a large-scale gardening project took place in the inner courtyard of the University Library.

The registration dates for the exhibition „Under the Enchantment of Accuracy – The Life and Work of Loránd Eötvös” are now available.

The online training on research data, research data management and data repositories was a great success organized by the colleagues of ELTE University Library and Archives in early February 2022.

The historian, Dániel Cornides (1732–1787) was appointed to the University of Pest in 1784 as a teacher of historical auxiliary sciences and guardian of the university library.

The Accessible library team of the K21 Quality Management Coordination Comittee has compiled a guide for librarians.

In 2021, the Archives was expanded with the legacy of two prominent university professors.

The Foundation for the University Library purchased workchairs and tables by utilizing the National Cooperation Fund grant for the Restoration and Bookbinding Workshop in the Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives.

Our first special educators studied and practiced in the field of teaching deaf children in Vienna, the institute for deaf-mute people operating there since 1799. The first special education institutions in Hungary were established in the 1800s, called „philanthropic” institutions.

István Ádám, Annie Fischer scholarship student of the Ministry of Human Resources, gives a guitar concert in the University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University at 6.00 p.m. on the 18th of February 2022.

Wiley will be running a training session on the 15th of February.

Object of the month – The flag of the ELTE Trefort Ágoston Practice High School

Exclusive guided tours, library tours, recollections and many other interesting events await all former ELTE students who join our group.

Frigyes Dési, the meteorologist and university professor was born 110 years ago, on the 11th of January 1912.

The Education and Research Support Department of ELTE University Library and Archives announces an online training on managing research data and preparing a research data management plan.

On the occasion of the Hungarian Culture Day (the 22nd of January 2022), the ELTE University Library and Archives invites you to a virtual library tour. This year we remember the poet, writer and journalist János Garay, who was born 210 years ago and worked in the 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!