The Library will be closed between the 23rd of December 2024 and the 1st of January 2025. Our library's services will be available from the 2nd of January 2025.
Due to the relocation of our external warehouse the books and doctoral dissertations stored there, as well as the entire stock of the library's periodicals, will be unavailable until the beginning of January 2025. Many of our books are still available for loan and current literature can be found on the open shelves.
News archive
2023. October 2., Monday – 13:49
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our volume presented in October contains the works of three 17th-century Protestant thinkers, which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. September 29., Friday – 16:28
ULA University Library
On the 28th and the 29th of September 2023, the ELTE University Library and Archives, in cooperation with the National Széchényi Library, the Institute of History of the Humanities Research Centre and the Archives of the Hungarian Order of the Society of Jesus, organised a series of scientific lectures to mark the 250th anniversary of the dissolution of the Society of Jesus and the 300th anniversary of the birth of George Pray.
2023. September 28., Thursday – 16:52
ULA University Library
In the framework of the Autumn Festival of Museums, between 13 October 2023 and 10 November 2023, we invite science and book lovers to a guided tour of the Eötvös exhibition, a book and restoration workshop, guided tours of the library and an exhibition of documents related to the Hungarian Jesuit missions in South America.
2023. September 26., Tuesday – 08:34
ULA University Library
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Budapest University Athletic Club, the ELTE University Library and Archives joined the initiative as a sponsor and donor.
2023. September 25., Monday – 13:19
ULA University Library
The ELTE University Library and Archives will be temporarily closed on the 28th of September 2023 for conference.
2023. September 20., Wednesday – 15:28
ULA 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 September our feature is on the father of Hungarian critical historiography, the former director of our library, György Pray.
2023. September 20., Wednesday – 12:10
ULA University Library
The ELTE University Library and Archives invites all visitors to the conference „Jesuit – Pray – Codex” on the 28th and the 29th of September 2023.
2023. September 18., Monday – 15:18
ULA University Library
The library intended to draw attention to the protection of our cultural values and the preservation of our built heritage with our event organized in the University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University within the framework of this year's Cultural Heritage Days.
2023. September 18., Monday – 11:20
ULA University Library
On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the birth of György Pray, the father of Hungarian critical historiography and former director of our library, and the 250th anniversary of the abolition of the Jesuit order, we invite you to an exhibition of documents related to the missions of the Hungarian Jesuits in South America.
2023. September 16., Saturday – 10:38
ULA University Library
Due to the Cultural Heritage Days, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 16th of September 2023.
2023. September 16., Saturday – 10:32
ULA University Library
On Saturday, the 16th of September 2023, as part of the Cultural Heritage Days, we will open our library doors to the public again. All visitors are welcome!
2023. September 15., Friday – 17:59
University Library and Arcives (ULA)
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 a textbook in Latin.
2023. September 1., Friday – 16:02
ULA Archives
The minutes of Eötvös Loránd University and its predecessor institutions are now available not only on the hungaricana.hu portal, but also in the database of the Hungarian National Archives, on the adatbazisokonline.mnl.gov.hu portal.
2023. September 1., Friday – 09:51
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! Our book Ferenc Menyői Tolvaj: The Mastery of Arithmetic, presented in September, is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. August 30., Wednesday – 15:01
University Library Service (ULS)
The network of libraries maintained by Eötvös Loránd University, the University Library Service (eltekonyvtarak.elte.hu/en), with more than 4.3 million documents, wishes you a successful autumn semester.
2023. August 28., Monday – 11:59
University Library Service (ULS)
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) offered trial access to EISZ member institutions. The database can be tested by connected to the university's internet network until 17. 09. 2023. Remote access to the database is possible using a VPN service.
2023. August 24., Thursday – 14:05
University Library and Arcives (ULA)
Between July 17 and 20, 2023, three staff members of the ELTE University Library and Archives participated in a study trip at Humboldt University in Berlin as part of the Erasmus+ scholarship program. The program was implemented at the invitation of the organization that coordinates scientific university collections in Germany.
2023. August 23., Wednesday – 08:59
ULA 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 August our feature is on the first chronicler of the university’s history, Ferenc Kazy.
2023. August 1., Tuesday – 14:49
ULA University Library
Save a book, adopt it! One of the most important works of Pavao Ritter Vitezović in our volume presented in August is "Stemmatography", which is one of the highlights of the book adoption program of the University Library Foundation.
2023. July 28., Friday – 10:39
ULA University Library
The architectural history exhibition entitled "The Window to Rodostó" can be seen in Hungary this July in the area of the Gül Baba Cultural Center and Exhibition Hall. The exhibition also includes copies of the drawings of painter and draftsman Kálmán Beszédes made in Rodosto in 1891-92, which were included in our library as part of his legacy.