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On the occasion of the Night of Museums, we are waiting for children and adults alike with special surprises.

On the 2nd of June 2022, the ELTE University Library and Archives hosted an Israeli delegation from the Libraries and Information System of Bar-Ilan University, in cooperation with the Head of the Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

On the Night of Museums we open our restoration workshop to get an insight into the work of restorers.

On the Nigth of Museums our guided tours focus on the history of the University Library and Archives, Eötvös Loránd University. The library palace was designed by Antal Szkalnitzky. Up-to-date technology of the time was used for ventilation, heating and illumination.

On the Night of Museums the concert will present works written from the Renaissance to the present day. Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th century and contemporary classical music works will be performed.

The University Library and Archives offers guided tours of our exhibition „Under the spell of accuracy – The Life and work of Loránd Eötvös”.

EISZ and Taylor & Francis will host an online webinar for researchers working in the field of social sciences and humanities on June 13th. The aim of the 60-minute lecture is to demonstrate the benefits of open research and publishing in the field of humanities and social sciences.

Jessica Benton presents the Primary Sources package for the GALE Reference Complete database. The webinar will be held in English on June 10, 2022, starting at 2 p.m.

Due to technical reasons, the ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 3rd of June 2022, but our services will be available in our other reading rooms. The library will be temporarily closed between the 4th and the 9th of June 2022. On the 10th of June 2022, from 10.00 a.m., we are waiting for our readers according to the usual opening hours.

According to our tradition, we will join the Night of Museums on the 25th of June 2022. From 3 p.m. in the afternoon until midnight, our library welcomes all visitors with craft activities, concerts, guided tours, restoration workshops and an exhibition of medicine books. Tickets will be available at the entrance from the 10th of June 2022.

The Library Café on the 26th of May 2022 was a success. In the Boardroom of the ELTE University Library and Archives, staff members from Romania, Italy and Croatia visiting our library during the Erasmus+ Programme gave a presentation in English about their library and their work to the librarians of the Eötvös Loránd University Library Service.

In our training room, which was opened in 2016, we replaced the desktops with modern laptops and increased the number of workstations, with ten students and one teaching notebook available.

On the 13th of May 2022, two new publications of the University History Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Primate Archives were presented in the Reading Hall of the University Library. The first book, which deals with the lists of students of the early period of our university, was presented by István Fazekas, head of the University History Research Group. The authors of the volume, Adrienn Kmety, Júlia Varga and László Szögi, as well as the director of the Primate Archives, András Hegedűs, also gave a short presentation at the event.

The ELTE University Library Service (ULS) is committed to increasing library user satisfaction, international exchange and continuous service improvement.

Elsevier has made 287 textbooks available in trial access via ScienceDirect platform.

Euromonitor International is the world's leading provider of global business intelligence, market analysis and consumer insights. The trial access presents the opportunity for ELTE citizens to test Euromonitor International's services.

SciFlow is a collaborative web application developed to save researchers and students time and effort.

Scite is a Brooklyn-based startup that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations – citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. Webinar and consultation on Scite is organised to get familiar with the service.

The Reading Hall will be closed on the 13th of May 2022 due to an event. The other reading rooms of the library will remain open for our readers with the usual opening hours and services.

EISZ and Springer Nature are organizing an online webinar in English for researchers from the institutions participating in the Hungarian consortium. The presentations are designed to help Open Access publishing.