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.
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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

On the 24th of March 2022, the ELTE Alumni Centre organised a successful event entitled "The University Opens its Doors" in the ELTE University Library.

The ELTE alumni were given guided tours of the library. In the frame of our programmes the visitors could learn about the pneumatic mail, get an insight into our Reading Room, our Historical Storeroom and the Director General's Room, where they could admire a copy of the Perczel globe.

During the library tour, our guests were able to learn new information about the sgraffito in the lobby, the ceiling frescoes in the Reading Room with muses representing the sciences and arts, and the painting by Mór Than. Our book launch from the material of our museum collection revealed the pages of our book collections, while the guided tour in our restoration workshop gave visitors a taste of paper-casting and bookbinding techniques.

For more details about our library and our programmes, please visit our website. You can see our virtual library tour here. All visitors are welcome!

245 years ago, Queen Maria Theresa moved the university from Nagyszombat to Buda and changed the organization of the university. The Faculty of Humanities was expanded with six new departments, three of which dealt with the natural sciencies and three with the auxiliary sciences. At that time the Department of Diplomacy, Heraldry and Sealing was established. In 1788, king Joseph II. appointed Márton Schwartner to the Department of Diplomacy, who taught diplomacy and coats of arms and seals until his death in 1823. In 1788, the king also made him the guard of the University Library. Schwartner studied history, statistics and diplomacy in Göttingen. He was an excellent scientist, and through his work the teaching of auxiliary sciences at the University of Pest became of European standard. In 1801 he also made a foundation for talented students of the faculty of law and the humanities.

The Elsevier’s customer service consultants organised a free webinar to help you use Scopus.

The training consists of two parts on the folowing dates:

1. First steps with Scopus

Discover how to get started with Scopus. Learn more about setting up your account and preferences, as well as about remote access options to make sure you can work comfortably from any place in the world.

Date: 23rd March 2022, 11:30 

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2. Searching for relevant literature on Scopus 

Literature search is crucial at all research stages – from planning to writing up. Therefore it is important to know how to do it efficiently and to stay on top of what is going on in your field and beyond. Learn tips and tricks for doing literature search and discover how to do it efficiently in Scopus.

Date: 30th March 2022, 11:30 

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MTMT training sessions are organized by ELTE University Library and Archives (ULA) and Library of Faculty of Humanities (FOH) for the international lecturers, students, PhD candidates of the FOH. MTMT trainings are offered free of charge, but registration is required. The language of the trainings is English.

Training sessions:

MTMT 101: Introduction

Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 1–3 p.m.

Speaker: Nóra Deák

Location: Reading Room of Central Library (Múzeum körút 6–8., Room 13.)

Use of your own laptop is suggested.

Registration

MTMT 101: Introduction

Monday, April 25, 2022. 10–12 a.m.

Speaker: Nóra Deák

Location: Reading Room of Central Library (Múzeum körút 6–8., Room 13.)

Use of your own laptop is suggested.

Registration

Please let us know,

1. if the time-slot does not work for you, or if you cannot register this time.
2. what topic(s) regarding MTMT you are interested in.
3. if a particular group or class prefers a special training session/topic.

Contact us via email mtmt@btk.elte.hu

Registration

University curricula are available until 1995 at the Arcanum Digital Library.

https://adt.arcanum.com/hu/collection/ELTE_EgyetemiTanrendek/

Object of the month – Pallasite meteorite

Pallasite meteorite, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia. Eötvös Museum of Natural History (BE24389, specimen width 10 cm, cut and polished surface).

This pallasite is a unique and rare meteorite type representing the transition between iron and stony meteorites, at the same time one of the most spectacular meteorite types, too. The space between the yellowish or olive green olivine crystals is filled with an iron-nickel metal alloy. Such olivine crystals are commonly used as gemstones called peridot, too.

The artefact is one of the oldest pieces in our collection, from the collection of Maria Theresa's eldest daughter, Archduchess Maria Anna. This collection was bought for the university in 1781, and it is the foundation and beginning of our current mineral and rock collection.

The specimen is a piece of the Krasnojarsk meteorite that was first studied in 1772 by Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), the Prussian botanist-zoologist, during his stay in Russia. Ernst F. F. Chladni (German physicist and astronomer) was the first to recognise that due to its exotic look ‒ not known from the Earth ‒ this rock is extraterrestrial matter from space. The German physicist introduced the name pallasite in honor of the work of its first researcher.

Pieces of the Krasnojarsk meteorite are presumed to be the pieces of an asteroid, a small planet differentiated like the Earth. Differentiation means that the building materials of the asteroid got segregated and organized into layers throughout its evolution. The innermost part was the core (largely of metallic iron), followed by the mantle (predominantly of olivine), and the outermost layer was the crust. According to some theories, pallasites probably originate from the boundary between the core and the mantle. However, recent experimental research suggests that this texture formed in two stages. The asteroid differentiated first. Then part of the olivine-rich, but also metal-bearing mantle of the asteroid partially melted due to a collision with another celestial body, resulting in the exciting interwoven appearance of metallic iron and olivine.