The Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives, the MTA – ELTE University History Research Group and the Primate Archives invite you to a book launch on the 13th of May 2022 from 3 pm at the Main Reading Room of the University Library (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.).

The event will present recent publications about the students of the University of Nagyszombat and the Lyceum and Seminaries of the University of Nagyszombat.

Kmety Adrien – Szögi László – Varga Júlia: A Nagyszombati Egyetem bölcsész és teológus növendékei 1635–1711. Esztergom, 2021. I. – II. 1137 p.

The publication is presented by: Dr. István Fazekas, Associate Professor, Head of Research Group.

Szögi László: A nagyszombati érseki líceum és a papnevelő intézetek növendékei 1802–1850. Esztergom, 2021. 467 p.

The publication is presented by: Dr. Krisztina Tóth, habilitated Associate Professor, Head of Archives.

All visitors are welcome!

Yolland Arthur (1874–1956) was a literary historian, Hungarian national champion tennis player, footballer, coach and football referee. He completed his university studies in Cambridge, then moved to Hungary in 1896 on behalf of the Ferenc József Educational Institute and became a teacher at the institute. From 1898 he was an English language lecturer at Pázmány Péter University. In 1904 he obtained a doctorate in humanities, and from 1908 he taught in the department of English language and literature at the university. He compiled several dictionaries and translated several Hungarian literary and scientific works into English. In 1925 he was elected dean of the Faculty of Arts.  

In addition to his scientific teaching activities, he also took an active part in sports. His favorite sports included golf, football, tennis, athletics, rowing and cricket. He played sports and taught at BEAC and other associations. He played for the Hungarian Athletics Club (MAC) as a tennis player, winning national championships in the men’s singles in 1899 and 1900.  

He was a historical participant, founder, distributor and referee of Hungarian football. Since 1897, he has been one of the first Hungarian football referees. Between 1902 and 1910, he followed the matches of the Hungarian–Austrian national team, which were the first official international matches of the Hungarian national football team. He is commemorated by BEAC Yolland Arthur’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which is awarded for many years of outstanding performance for the club.  

NI4OS invites applications for access to computing resources (HPC, cloud services), storage and data services, software and scientific manuscripts. NI4OS-Europe offers a broad set of generic, thematic services as well as repositories in the European region, with the special focus on the scientific communities of Life Sciences, Climatology, Digital Cultural Heritage and Computational Physics. Generic services are in the areas of Compute resource provisioning (HPC and Cloud), Storage, and Data services provisioning. Repositories provide access to datasets, Software, as well as scientific manuscripts.

More information on this call: NI4OS-Europe Open Call

Deadline for submission is Wednesday, the 11th of May 2022.

We are pleased to inform you that from the 30th of April 2022, we will offer reading and study opportunities in the Main Reading Room on Saturdays from 10 am to 6 pm.

The following services will be available at the Information Desk on the ground floor:

• registration and membership renewal
• book return
• loan extension
• borrowing and on-site use of prepared books (for requests made till 7.30 pm on Fridays).

For more information, please contact us at the following contact details:

• email: info@lib.elte.hu
• Ask the librarian!
• phone: +36 1 411-6500/4432 ext.

On Saturdays, you can also visit our Eötvös Exhibition, for more information, please visit the exhibition registration page.

All visitors are welcome!

György Pálos, an award-winning film director, cinematographer and screenwriter, released an almost complete selection of his works related to education to those interested in the subject.

György Pálos graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1986 with a degree in French history. He has been working as a director-cinematographer since 1989. He has been working at the Department of Film Studies at Eötvös Loránd University since 2000. He is a member of the Association of Hungarian Filmmakers, the Guild of Hungarian Directors, and the Hungarian Independent Film Association.

"The success of documentary filmmaking and teaching is decided on the field. It is the question how can I – both as a filmmaker and teacher - make sense of a situation, understand it and make it work in favour of my plan."

He enjoys making feature films, documentaries, but his attention and interest has been more focused on the documentary genre lately. He holds a course on documentary filmmaking at Eötvös Loránd University and shares his decades of experience with students. His DLA’s dissertation was also written on documentary filmmaking.

The documentaries dealing with the educational situation in Hungary are available in the reading room of Kazinczy Street, ELTE PPK Library, on dedicated machines.

Source: ELTE ,doctoral dissertation , interview , interview
Pálos György's webpage

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

„Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treasure of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.” (Umberto Eco)

Loránd Eötvös, the namesake of the university died on April 8, 1919. His ancestor, Miklós Eötvös (1716–1783) was promoted to baronhood in 1768 by Mária Terézia for his military merits. The promotion was also accompanied by a title donation. In the family’s new coat of arms, the golden, standing griffin is a prominent element of the heart shield, which is a symbol of courage and speed. The quartered shield shows the charges and an undulating white ribbon representing the river Tisza near Vásárosnamény. There is a baron’s crown on top of the shield as a helmet decoration. The landscape in the background was made upon the idea of the designer, its description, unlike that of the coat of arms, is not included in the letter. The first page of the noble letter contains the painted coat of arms, which is depicted in our picture. The diploma is on display at our exhibition „Under the spell of accuracy – The life and work of Loránd Eötvös”.

The Library of the ELTE Faculty of Humanities is organizing a series of lectures this spring as well.

Our goal is to provide our faculty members, researchers, and students with a comprehensive overview of the three topics, and we hope to help them with their research, increase their publication and science metric performance, and build their indicators consciously.

The lectures are primarily recommended for lecturers, researchers and doctoral students, but, as a matter of fact, all lectures are open to anyone interested.

The lectures will be given by Tibor Faragó-Szilvási, an employee of the Education and Research Support Department of the University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University and Edit Markó-Markechné Zelei, Faculty Coordinator of the Eötvös Loránd University.

The presentations are held online via Microsoft Teams. Participation in the lectures is free, but registration is required. Please, register separately for each occasion, so that we can notify you of any changes.

The connection links will be sent out two hours before the event, so the registration deadline is 15:00 on the day of each performance. The registration links can be found under the titles of the events!

The lectures will be held only in Hungarian.

1. Open Access publishing (only in Hungarian)
Speaker: Tibor Faragó-Szilvási (ELTE ULA)
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022. 5 pm
Location: Microsoft Teams

The presentation covers all aspects of Open Access publishing: clarifies the concept and types of OA; how to choose a journal for publication; how to check which journal is predator. The lecture covers the Open Access agreements and its exact course at ELTE.
Registration

2. How do I make myself visible? (only in Hungarian)
Speaker: Edit Markó-Markechné Zelei (ELTE FoH)
Date: Wednesday, the 13th of April 2022, 5 p.m.
Location: Microsoft Teams

The presentation will talk about how authors can make themselves more visible at the international level, which researcher IDs should be used at ELTE, how to upload them, and what are the benefits (ORCID, Scholar, Publons, Scopus). In addition to the visibility of authors, the lecture also covers increasing the visibility of publications, such as author archiving in the institutional repository; what is the way to do this, what can be archived and what are the benefits for authors.
Registration

3. Citation search for humanities (only in Hungarian)
Speaker: Edit Markó-Markechné Zelei (ELTE FoH)
Date: Wednesday, the 20th of April 2022, 5 p.m.
Location: Microsoft Teams

During the lecture will be clarified what constitutes a citation, what special requirements the departments of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences have (e.g. the use of multiple citations). The presentation will also offer practical tips on where and how to search for citations.
Registration

Contact us via email mtmt@btk.elte.hu

Object of the month – Saint Jerome: The life of Saint Hilarion, 1666.

The biography of Saint Hilarion of Gaza was written in Latin by Saint Jerome in the 4th century. The manuscript (A 15) of the University Library contains (in addition to a few poems) a Hungarian translation of this legend. According to the colophon, it was recorded by the mysterious frater L. N. in 1666, but the translation may even be earlier. This manuscript is one of the few documents we know for sure it was transferred from the Poor Clare monastery of Bratislava to the University Library after the abolition decree (1782) of Joseph II.

Written by: Márk Vrabély