This year, ELTE Trefort Ágoston Teacher Training High School celebrated the 150th anniversary of its foundation and adopted eight prints of great significance to the history of the school, which are preserved in the ELTE University Library and Archives.

When it was founded, the Trefort High School was called the „High School of the Royal Hungarian Teacher Training Institute”. Established in 1872, it was the first institution in Hungary to offer practical training to teacher candidates, and the first in Europe. One of the venues for the conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of secondary school teacher training was the Reading Hall of our library, which once housed the gymnasium for a few academic years.

In her welcome speech, Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives, expressed her gratitude to Director Zoltán Csapodi for his generous support of the book adoption programme. This symbolic gesture also served as a kind of atonement for the inconveniences suffered by the library during the forced co-tenancy of almost 150 years ago, such as the autopsies performed for the teaching of natural history or the fire that once broke out in one of the classrooms. More fascinating details about the history of the library are available at Curiosities, rarities on our website.

The speakers of the session, Jr. Iván Bertényi (Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna) on the educational policy environment of Ágoston Trefort and the founding of the Teacher Training High School during the Dualism era, Dr. Imre Garai (ELTE Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology) on the changes in the institutional system between the two world wars that shaped the secondary school teaching profession, and Dr. János Gombocz (Hungarian University of Physical Education and Sport Sciences) on the decades of teacher training after 1945.

During the conference, guests had the opportunity to visit the Director-General's Room and the Historical Old Bookstore, which is thought to have once served as some of the rooms of the teacher training college. In addition to the adopted volumes, our chamber exhibition included some special publications from the school's library and former school memorabilia preserved in the archives, such as the decree of the Minister of Education and Religious Affairs, Ágoston Trefort, on the establishment of the unified secondary school teachers' college, the first register of the school from 1874/1875, and the first school register from 1874/1875. The school's first register book from the 1874/1874 school year, a visitors' book from the 1877/1878 school year and the timetable for the 1882/1883 school year.

The two institutions remain committed to working together and to maintaining their partnership in the future.

Gábor Hevenesi was born in 1656 and entered the Jesuit order in 1671 in Sopron. He taught rhetoric and theology in Nagyszombat and later became rector of the Pazmaneum in Vienna.

Hevenesi was a colleague and advisor of the archbishop of Esztergom, Lipót Kollonich, and in 1686 he began collecting sources of Hungarian history on the archbishop’s behalf. He collected ninety-one volumes from copies of documents and certificates in archives and in private ownership. Most of the original documents have since been destroyed, so the value of the manuscript collection is inestimable. In the course of his literary activity, he published more than thirty books, one of the most significant of which is a collection of biographies written about Hungarian saints. In addition to his ecclesiastical works, he also contributed to the first atlas of Hungary. His manuscript collection is preserved in our library.

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 grants. The aim of the presentation is to introduce participants to the concept, type and possible methods of creating research data. Further topics of discussion will include: tools for research data management and research data storage: data repositories.

Available sessions of the training:

28th April 2023, 1:00 PM (CEST)

2nd May 2023, 10.00 AM (CEST)

The language of the training is Hungarian.

The platform of the training: Microsoft Teams.

Register

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.

Wolters Kluwer Publishing has offered trial access to the Lippincott Williams and Wilkins medical journal database. The database  is available for testing between the 17th of April 2023 and the 17th of May 2023, connected to the university's internet network at the following link: connection to LWW. Remote access to the database is possible using a VPN service.

Trial access applies to the following products:

• ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal from 2015
• American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation from 2015
• Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine from 2015
• Current Sports Medicine Reports from 2015
• Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
• Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, The from 2015
• Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise from 2015
• Nutrition Today from 2015
• Ovid MEDLINE Advantage
• Ovid User License (Online)
• Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (LWW) is Wolters Kluwer's medical journal database. Through the EISZ, the publisher's 200 medical journals and 1,000 full-text e-books are available for universities and 48 journals for hospitals. The collections cover all areas of medicine and include access to the MEDLINE database.

Due to an event, the ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on Friday, on the 21st of April 2023. From Saturday, from the 22nd of April 2023, we will be open again.

Thank you in advance for your understanding and supporting cooperation.

The publisher SAGE has offered trial access to EISZ member institutions. The database will be available for testing between the 14th of April 2023 and the 2nd of June 2023, connected to the university's internet network. Remote access to the database is possible using a VPN service.

The editions of more than 1,100 journals of SAGE, one of the world's largest scientific publishers, are available after 1999 in the database. The publications cover all scientific disciplines, with a particular focus on natural sciences journals.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) offered trial access to EISZ member institutions. The database can be tested connected to the university's internet network between 14.04.2023 and 14.05.2023. Remote access to the database is possible using a VPN service.

The Central and Eastern European Online Library (www.ceeol.com) is the leading repository offering highly specialized and comprehensive collection of full text indexed documents in the fields of Humanities and Social Science publications from and about Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

As of March 2023, CEEOL covered 2,662+ SSH journal titles with 875.000+ indexed full-text articles. The coverage is growing monthly by 5,000 newly included journal articles. Significant number of the included journals are represented with complete archival collection.

On the occasion of the International Librarian’s Day, we wish all librarians much joy and success in their work with the following lines.

„Every library has two essential components, one material: the books... and one spiritual: the librarian.” (Ferenc Toldy)