The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on the 25th of November 2022 due to a university event. From Saturday (from the 26th of November 2022) we are waiting for our visitors according to the usual opening hours.
In the frame of the Autumn Festival of Museums, between the 3rd of October and the 13th of November 2022, we invite all science and book lovers to visit our exhibition entitled Janus Pannonius from Humanism to the Baroque – A Selection from the Collection of the University Library and Archives.
Our guests can take part in interactive guided tours of the Eötvös exhibition, guitar concerts by Ádám Kovács, guided tours of the restoration workshop and library history. Our book presentations will give you an insight into the special treasures of our library. All visitors are welcome!
3 October 2022 – 13 November 2022
Secrets of pages – Book presentation from our museum collection
Fridays 16.30–17.00 (except the 14th and the 28th of October 2022)
Restorer's workshop presentation
Fridays 10.00–11.00 and 17.00–18.00 (except the 28th of October 2022)
Library tour
Mondays and Thursdays 17.00–18.00
Guided tour at the Eötvös exhibition
Mondays 18.00–18.45, Thursdays 16.00–16.45
Janus Pannonius from Humanism to the Baroque – A selection from the collection of the University Library and Archives
Monday–Friday, 10.00–15.00
Concerts:
István Ádám – Guitar Concert I. – 7 October 2022, 18.00
István Ádám – Guitar Concert II. – 11 November 2022, 18.00
Programme available online:
Virtual Autumn Walks in the ELTE University Library and Archives (continuously available online programme).
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.
In order to increase the efficiency of library services, according to Article 137/A of the Student Requirements Regulation, effective from the 1 st of October 2022, the condition for taking endof-semester examinations and registering for the next semester is the payment of the library overdue fee in the libraries of the University Library Service. Final examinations may only be taken after the return of borrowed books by the deadline and the payment of library debts.
We hope that the modification of the Student Requirements System will contribute to a more efficient service of our libraries and of the required and recommended literature.
You can check your borrowings and outstanding debt by using the access link here.
Borrowed library documents can also be returned to the libraries by personal delivery or by post. For information on the opening hours and addresses of ELTE libraries, please visit the websites at eltekonyvtarak.elte.hu/en. For more information on settling overdue fees by bank transfer, please, click here.
Several convenience services are available for monitoring loan periods and overdue fees:
All of our member libraries offer multiple options (in person, email, phone, web, app) to indicate a renewal request and pay an overdue fee, helping to avoid overdue loans and increased late fees.
Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.
For technical reasons, the smaller reading rooms of the library will be closed until 16.00 on the 26th of September 2022.
On-site use will be offered in the Reading Hall and the services of the lending desk (borrowing, book return, registration, purchase of printer and photocopier cards) will be available at the information desk on the ground floor.
After 16.00, our readers will be able to enjoy the full range of services as usual.
Due to the Cultural Heritage Days, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 17th of September 2022.
More details about our event are available on our website. All visitors are welcome!
Due to maintenance work on the integrated library system, the ELTE University Library and Archives and the Eötvös Exhibition will be closed on Saturday, on the 10th of September 2022. From Monday, from the 12th of September 2022, we will be open again with the usual opening hours and services.
At the start of the autumn semester, we are opening our doors with a new community space. The round room in the Journal Reading Room welcomes you with armchairs and sofas, bean bags, laptop tables and cushions.
The community space is suitable for studying, relaxing, resting, learning together and playing board games. We are constantly expanding our amenities and wish our visitors a pleasant and useful stay!
On Saturday, the 17th of September 2022, as part of the Cultural Heritage Days, we will open our library doors to the public again.
We would like to draw attention to the protection of our cultural heritage, with a wide range of activities for all ages, including library tours, calligraphic and bookbinding craft programs, presentation of our restorer workshop and old books, interactive Eötvös exhibition, university history display, violin and Coquette duo concerts.
As part of this year's programme, the Gospel Book of Janus Pannonius and our chamber exhibition will also be presented. For a detailed programme, please, visit our homepage or the official website of the Cultural Heritage Days. All visitors are welcome!
The event is supported by the Belváros-Lipótváros Municipality of the 5th district of Budapest and the University Library Foundation.
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.
The Hungarian feature film Cold Days will be screened in the framework of the ELTE Hungarian Summer University in the Carpathian Basin. In addition to the participants of the Summer University, the event is open to all ELTE citizens.
Cold Days focuses the plot on a hitherto silenced historical event, and is a feat of writing, acting and directing that transcends the subject to explore universal questions of responsibility. In 1942, Hungarian army officers ordered a raid in the Bácska region, resulting in the murder of two thousand five hundred Serbs and eight hundred Jews. Three thousand three hundred people disappeared „without a trace” in a hole blown up on the ice of the Danube where the victims were shot. The four participants in the massacre, awaiting their sentences in a common cell, recall the terrible „cold days” of five years ago... The former soldiers recount what happened during those three freezing days. The conversations, approached from different perspectives, reveal terrible secrets.
The Cold Days is an inescapable classic. András Kovács’s work has gone down in film history as one of the greatest feats of Hungarian modernism. Tibor Cseres has brought to the screen a historical fact-finding novel summing up twenty years of research.
Date: 9 July 2025; 18:30
Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6, Community space from the lobby, ground floor)
Director: András Kovács
Screenwriter: András Kovács, Tibor Cseres
Cinematographer: Ferenc Szécsényi
Main actors: Zoltán Latinovits, Iván Darvas, Tibor Szilágyi, Ádám Szirtes, Margit Bara, Éva Vass
Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZEy0rnW4j4
Our guests in the post-screening discussion are Tamás Stark, historian (HUN-REN Research Centre for Humanities, Institute of History) and Gábor Gelencsér, film historian (ELTE BTK Institute for Art Theory and Media Research, Department of Film Studies).
According to our tradition, this year we joined the Night of Museums series of events, which included craft activities, concerts, film screenings, guided tours, restoration, fire enamel and calligraphy workshops, as well as a Mór Jókai Memorial Exhibition.
The bookbinding and fire enamelling workshop, the calligraphy workshop and the guided tours of the Mór Jókai Memorial Exhibition, with quizzes, puzzles and bookmark colouring, were waiting for the kids and adults from 15.00. The evening programme opened with a concert by the ELTE Béla Bartók Choir and the University Concert Orchestra, conducted by László Kovács, Liszt Ferenc Prize-winning artist, and accompanied by Dr. Ferenc Rákosi on piano.
Through our building tours, visitors were given an insight into the history of the library and the rooms of the historic building. They were also able to learn about the restoration process, our museum collection, the life and work of Mór Jókai, as well as enjoy a film screening of the cartoon Saffi, the Treasure of Swamp Castle and the silent film The Man with the Golden Touch and create unique hardcover books. During our event, our guests were able to attend the Fuvalom Singing Ensemble concert.
Our commemorative exhibition „Jókai 200 – The soul of a century, the writer of a nation”, inaugurated at this year’s event series, will be open until 10 September 2025, on weekdays between 10.00 and 15.00. Registration is possible by e-mail at titkarsag@lib.elte.hu. All visitors are welcome!
