Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 21st of June 2025. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.
For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage.
All visitors are welcome!
The Research Room and its library and archive services will offer reduced opening hours from 2 June 2025 until the end of October 2025. During this period, services are available between 9:00 and 16:00 on weekdays.
Thank you for your understanding.
As of May 23, 2025, online bank card payment is available through the ELTE Library WebApp on both desktop computers and mobile devices.
Thanks to this development, outstanding debts to ELTE Libraries can be settled instantly from anywhere. For students, the education system is immediately notified of the payment, ensuring that any restrictions due to library debts are promptly lifted in the Neptun System.
The service has become available for the following ELTE libraries:
Following the 2021 survey, the University Library and Archives is once again conducting a needs assessment to map the quantity and types of research data managed by the university’s researchers.
The results of the 2021 survey are available here. The aim of the current survey is to collect up-to-date information and valuable feedback on researchers’ experiences with research data management, their motivations and the challenges they face. In addition, we seek to assess the university community’s needs for library services that support the proper management and storage of research data, particularly the data steward service.
In recent years, research data management has become an increasingly important area. This is demonstrated not only by the data management plans required for NKKP project applications, but also by the “National Position Paper on Open Science” document, initiated by the NKFIH and endorsed by numerous supporting organizations. We believe it is essential for the survey to reflect actual needs, which is why we aim to reach as many researchers as possible.
The questionnaire is available in the Neptun system for instructors and PhD students until 30 June 2025. Participation is voluntary and anonymous, and completing the survey takes no more than 15 minutes.
On the occasion of the Night of the Museums on 21 June 2025 at 8.30 pm the Windward (Fuvalom) vocal ensemble will perform in the Lobby at the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.).
The Fuvalom is an a capella ensemble based on folk songs, which is sometimes supplemented with an instrument or a sound instrument. They sing about what inspires them: love, joy and sorrow, and their themes include both secular and sacred material. They believe that true singing from the heart can renew us, deepen our feelings. To be able to experience all this within oneself is a miracle. If more of us can experience it, it is an even greater miracle. And that is just enough for a lifetime of beautiful vocations. Inspired by the tradition of Hungarian folk music, they express the original and exciting character of our folk music.
The band's debut album, Soaring Winds, was released in 2023, and you can hear a selection of these songs on the shortest night of the year, along with some fresh new material. The album was an important milestone in the life of the ensemble, as it solidified their musical credo, their sound and their instrumentation. They are currently working on their second album, and will also be playing some of the finished tracks.
More details about our programmes are available here and on the Night of Museums’ homepage. All visitors are welcome!
Komárom, March Youths, Laborfalvi, The Man with the Golden Touch, Balatonfüred, Svábhegy – so many words calling to the writer-prince. On the occasion of Jókai's 200th birth anniversary, our library joins the Night of Museums with an exhibition that recalls the novelistic world of Jókai, the defining moments of his life and the spirit of his times.
The exhibition offers an insight into Mór Jókai's work as a writer, his contacts, his travels, the world of illustrations and publications of the time, and exciting stories that still influence our culture today.
Join us as we step into a world built of words in the 19th century – when stories were written by candlelight, but still light up today.
Date: 21 June 2025, 15.30–24.00 (continuous programme)
Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives, II. floor, Historical book storage
For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage.
All visitors are welcome!
According to our tradition, we will join the Night of Museums on the 21st of June 2025. From 3 p.m. until midnight, our library welcomes all visitors with craft activities, fire enamelling and calligraphy workshops, film screenings, concerts, building tours, guided tours at the restoration workshop and our Jókai memorial exhibition. Tickets will be available at the entrance from the 2nd of June 2025.
Our calligraphy and bookbinding workshop is open for children and adults from 15.00 this year.
Our evening programmes open at 18.00 with a midsummer night concert by the ELTE Art Ensemble. The concert will feature performances by the ELTE Béla Bartók Choir and the University Concert Orchestra, conducted by Franz Liszt Prize-winning artist László Kovács, with Ferenc Rákosi, PhD on piano. Families, adults and children are also invited to the screening of the Hungarian cartoon Saffi, the Treasure of Swamp Castle based on the 1885 novel The Gypsy Baron by Mór Jókai, also from 18.00 on the occasion of the Jókai Memorial Year.
On our Hungarian and English library tours, visitors can learn about the history of the library palace and the Perczel Globe, and take a look behind the scenes at our historic library. Guided by our restorer, you can gain an insight into paper-casting and bookbinding techniques, along with the process of book disinfection.
We invite you to visit the memorial exhibition Jókai 200 – The writer of a nation, the soul of a century from 15.30 in our storeroom.
The night will be enriched by a concert of the Fuvalom (Windward) singing group starting at 20.30 and a screening of the film The Man with the Golden Touch from 21.00.
Guests will be able to colour in their own bookmarks, take part in our Jókai quiz for small prizes and build our library palace, reassemble fragments of our codex pages and „life pictures” of Mór Jókai related to his fate and works with our library puzzle.
The doors to the enamel workshop will also be open, where visitors will be able to create unique souvenirs.
For more information, please visit our website or the Night of Museums’ homepage.
All visitors are welcome!
The screenings are organised by the ELTE–NFI University Film Club. The film screenings are organised with the support and cooperation of the ELTE–NFI University Film Club. Photo, audio and video recordings will be made of the events. The recordings will be published on the websites, publications, forums and social media of the participating institutions.
Due to technical reasons, the Reading Hall and the Community Room from the Lobby will be open to readers on 8 May 2025 (Thursday) between 9.00 and 11.00 at the ELTE University Library and Archives.
The other reading rooms are temporarily closed during the mentioned morning hours. From 11.00, all reading areas will be available again according to the current opening hours.
Thank you in advance for your kind understanding!
If you want to discover the secrets of the ELTE University Library's history and the treasures hidden within its walls, explore the library palace with an audioguide. The doors of the country's first state-owned public library will be revealed as you have never seen before.
The audioguide tour, available in English and Hungarian, takes you on a guided tour of the library's imposing rooms, guided by the first named librarian of the Library, Florentius Morus, or Heléne Platz, the first female employee of the Library, and gives you interesting insights into the events of the past, the architectural features of the institution, the motifs of the sgraffito in the lobby and the frescoes in the Reading Hall, as well as the highlights of our collection. The guided tour of the library offers the possibility to customise the tour to your wishes, and the QR codes on the guides will help you to find out even the smallest details. More information on how to use the service is available on our website.
The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed between the 1st and the 3rd of May 2025.
From Monday (5 May 2025) readers are welcome to visit us for extended opening hours.
We wish you a happy holiday weekend!
