Exclusive guided tours, library tours, recollections and many other interesting events await all former ELTE students who join our group.
After a quick registration on the ELTE Alumni website, you can join our group in the directory menu.
Frigyes Dési, the meteorologist and university professor was born 110 years ago, on the 11th of January 1912.
Frigyes Dési completed his doctoral studies in mathematics and physics at our university in 1944. During the Second World War he served as a member of the professional staff of the Hungarian Royal Air Force. From 1950 he was appointed as the commander of the National Meteorological Institute, and from 1953 he became its director. In 1970 under his leadership, the Institute was transformed into the National Meteorological Service as known today. The meteorological news and data service was modernized and the Marczell György Observatory was built in Pestlőrinc on his initiative. Thanks to his outstanding work, the National Meteorological Service has been admitted to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). On the 1st of September 1953 he was appointed as university professor, and became head of the Department of Meteorology until 1970. Frigyes Dési’s name is associated with the development of modern meteorological training. Furthermore, he has organized research in the field of meteorology. In addition to his scientific career, he also served as a member of the Parliament. Frigyes Dési died in 1978.
The picture shows the certificate of Frigyes Dési’s doctoral degree obtained in 1944.
The ELTE University Library and Archives announces an online training on managing research data and preparing a research data management plan.
The presentation will also cover the proper management of research data and the preparation of the research data management plan required by NKFIH as part of the application to OTKA grant. The aim of the presentation is to acquaint the participants with the concept, type and possible methods of creating research data. Another topic of the presentation is introducing tools for research data management and research data storage: data repositories.
Available sessions of the training:
1st February 2022, 10.00 am
2nd February 2022, 10.00 am
The language of the training is Hungarian.
The platform of the training: Microsoft Teams
A video recording of the training will be made, so if you are unable to attend the training session, we will provide access to the recording of the lecture.
A link to join the event will be sent to the provided e-mail address prior to the presentation. If you have any further questions about the program, please contact us at oa@lib.elte.hu.
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 purpose of the anniversary events is to draw attention to the importance of commemorating our common values and preserving our significant cultural heritage in Europe.
With the help of our short film, you can gain an insight into the history of the library palace, its architectural curiosities and its imposing halls. In addition you can get to know the history of our library and some of the famous people associated with our institution. The virtual tour also presents how the post office has helped the efficiency of library services and how long the Mátra lift has been operating, which is considered an industrial monument. From the roof, a spectacular panorama unfolds before your eyes, the best way to admire the Ferenciek Square and the Statue of Liberty on Gellért Hill from a bird's eye view.
Join us for our virtual time travel and visit our Eötvös exhibition as well as our digital exhibition!
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!
The Foundation for the University Library was established in 2005 to provide the technical modernization for the ELTE University Library and Archives and help expansing its services and protecting its holdings. The library's old book collection of more than one and a half million documents is part of the national cultural heritage and is also significant in Europe, so it is our shared responsibility to preserve these values for the rising generation.
The non-profit organization, led by Dr. Péter Kiszl, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, significantly supports the library's value-saving activities. In order to restore the volumes of the collection, which requires special attention and constant preservation, the foundation has launched a book adoption program. In addition, it contributes to the organization of events promoting the values and the professional work of the University Library and Archives, the publication of a wall calendar presenting the rarities of the library and the university’s cultural heritage, as well as the publication of the University Library Yearbooks and acquiring new technical equipment.
More information about the support possibilities of the Foundation for the University Library is available here.
Foundation for the University Library
H-1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.
Phone: +36 1 411 6738
Email: alapitvany@lib.elte.hu
Tax number: 18121362-1-41
Account number: 12010532-00120645-00100003
Scientific and scholarly works
Literature
We would like to inform our visitors that due to the failure of the electronic storage cabinets we are temporarily unable to provide a part of the journal collection (shelfmark: between P841 and P1299). Thank you for your patience and understanding.
ProQuest has launched its Open Access Complete e-book package, with around 2 300 books from 12 publishers freely accessible. The works are available for free download and online reading for ELTE citizens. The e-books are published on the university's Ebook Central platform: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eltehu/home.action.
School libraries belonging to the ELTE library network can catalogue their documents in various databases. While maintaining these systems, the ELTE University Library and Archives developed a common search interface in 2011 within the framework of the TÁMOP-3.2.4/09/1/KMR-2010-0021 project, which can be accessed directly at http://gimikatalogus.elte.hu. It is also possible to access it from the common catalogue of ELTE libraries by clicking on the menu item marked in red.
Joined libraries and the number of their records in the database:
The conversions of school libraries’ databases take place at regular intervals. Once a year, usually in November, the data are updated according to the changes (additions and deletions) of the previous year.
Ferenc Molnár was born on the 12th of January, 1878. His popular novel, The Paul Street Boys is laid in the Botanical Garden of the university. The plot takes place in 1889, although the novel itself was published in 1907. This year proved to be a turning point in the history of the Botanical Garden, as the Minister of Religion and Public Education ordered to hand over much of its territory to the buildings of the new clinics at the university. Pursuant to Article 48 of the 1908 Act the Margaret Island was designated as the new location for the Botanical Garden, and after the move, the former area of the Botanical Garden would have been given in its entirety to the Medical Faculty. Although plans were made to relocate the botanical garden to Margaret Island, the garden eventually continued to operate in its former location with a mutilated area. On the map made in 1901, the new border of the Botanical Garden was marked with a blue line and the location of the new buildings under construction was marked in red.
