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At the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.) on 21 June 2025 between 15.00 and 24.00, Zsuzsanna Illés, artist and founder of the Fabula fire enamel atelier will hold a workshop in our community space as part of the Night of Museums programme. Visitors will be able to gain an insight into the art of fire enamelling.

During the Night of the Museums, visitors are invited to create individual bookmarks in our second floor Boardroom. We wish you a pleasant evening!

During the Night of Museums, visitors can build a library palace, assemble fragmented pieces of our codex pages with our library puzzles and on the occasion of the Jókai Memorial Year, put together pictures related to the writer's life and works.

ELTE organizes Third CHARM-EU Open Science Training on 20th May 2025.

On the Night of Museums we open our restoration workshop to get an insight into the work of restorers.

Our guided tours focus on the history of the University Library and Archives, Eötvös Loránd University.

On the occasion of the Night of Museums, we are waiting for young and old, children and adults alike with special surprises. All visitors are welcome!

Within the framework of the Night of Museums program series, calligrapher Dezső Buzogány will hold a workshop on the 21st of June 2025 between 15:00 and 24:00 in the hall of the ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.). Our guests are able to gain an insight into the art of calligraphy. 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.

Two extremely valuable and rare documents have been loaned by the ELTE University Library and Archives to the temporary exhibition entitled Magic Power – Knowledge. Community. Academy, organised jointly by the Hungarian National Museum and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The exhibition was opened on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with the aim of providing an insight into the history of the formation and development of Hungarian scientific thought.

The LIBER leadership training program, which was announced for middle managers, ended in April 2025. The program aims to support middle managers of research libraries in expanding their leadership knowledge and developing their skills. Participants were able to acquire the knowledge and competencies necessary for performing middle management tasks in the framework of five thematic modules.

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.

A new digital infrastructure has been established under the name ELTE Thesis Repository to support the archiving and lawful dissemination of theses, as well as student research papers submitted for the Scientific Students' Associations Conference (TDK) and the National Scientific Students' Associations Conference (OTDK).

If you want to discover the secrets of the history of the ELTE University Library 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 ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

The documents of the Hungarian Institute of Public Administration, founded by professor Zoltán Magyary (1888–1945), an internationally renowned scholar of public administration, and Magyary's personal legacy were preserved by the Department of Public Administration Law of the Faculty of Political Science and Law of ELTE. In 2015 and 2017, ELTE and NKE concluded an agreement on the digitization and public publication of the legacy, as a result of which NKE handed over the digitized documents to the University Library and Archives in December 2023. 1 404 items can already be searched and researched in the ELTE Digital Institutional Knowledge Base, and the documents and maps will be managed by the University Archives from 2022.

The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed between the 1st and the 3rd of May 2025. We wish you a happy holiday weekend!

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

The ELTE University Library and Archives offers extended opening hours for readers and students on weekdays and Saturdays between the 5th of May 2025 and the 14th of June 2025 until 22.00 hours. Our new community space offers the opportunity to learn, relax, use kitchen facilities and free computer access.

Qulto held its annual professional day on February 26, 2025 at the Szabó Ervin Library in Budapest, where ELTE representatives, László Nemes PhD and Tibor Móring, gave presentations on the digital curriculum repository subproject. The presentations focused on the archiving and reusability of open access digital curriculum. In addition, they presented the concept of the development of the ELTE curriculum repository and the most important results of the survey conducted in 2024.