In order to support the use of its new AI-powered research tools, CNKI will provide online training for ELTE users. The training will demonstrate how the tools work and how they can be used in research. The training will be in English and will last approximately one hour.

Topic: CNKI AI-Powered Research Tools Training Session-Scite and CNKI Smart
Time: 2024 Oct 9th 13.30 (CET)
Meeting code: 811 9677 4366
Password: 20241009

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Trial access - CNKI Smart and CNKI Scite until November 9, 2024

At the third quarterly report of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee 2024, the leaders of the working groups reported on the results of the past quarter, ongoing work and changes.

The committee members adopted the University Library Service's vision and mission statements, as well as the new strategic objectives resulting from last year's and this year's strategy workshops. The tasks of the Accessible Library Task Force in relation to the Marrakesh Treaty will be implemented in the future.

The Primary Research Working Group has completed the evaluation of the data from the 2024 Student Needs and Satisfaction Survey provided by the ELTE Quality Office and the revision of the text on surveys in the Quality Handbook. The Process Management Working Group also made suggestions for the chapter on the regulation of library processes in the Quality Handbook, revised the process management and process audit forms and amended the necessary text and instructions for completion.

The Communication Working Group provided information on the tasks and achievements of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee through our website, newsletter and short film entitled 3 months – 3 minutes, and contributed to the success of the preparation and administration of the K21 reporting days meetings. They published news about the University Library Service award winners, information about the ELTE library network for first-year students on both the website and the Neptun system, and contributed to the publication of further ELTE news on the ELTE Libraries platform. The Green Library Working Group has continued a review of the environmental awareness survey.

The library leaders held three meetings in the third quarter to discuss, among other things, the current tasks of the digitisation of theses project, the steps of the process, the problems encountered, the 2025 EISZ order and the future ELTE regulation on the future service of theses, and to set the strategic goals of the University Library Service.

An update on the achievements of the K21 Quality Coordination Committee and our new developments will be posted on our website soon.

The ELTE EKL Savaria Library and Archives took part in the professional day of the 2024 National Library Days, held at the Móra Ferenc Municipal Library and Museum in Szentgotthárd. This event was particularly special as we celebrated both the 30th Vas County Library Day and the 70th anniversary of the Móra Ferenc Library.

The event was opened by Tiborné Horváth, the director of the host institution, followed by greetings from Gábor Huszár, the mayor of Szentgotthárd, and Dr. Mónika Baráthné Molnár, director of the Berzsenyi Dániel Library.

An interesting and topical presentation was given by Csaba Csuk, the head of the ELTE EKL Savaria Library and Archives, entitled „Artificial Intelligence from the User's Perspective: the impact of AI on our work and life”. His presentation offered both theoretical and practical insights into how artificial intelligence is affecting the library sector and our daily lives.

Dr. Mónika Baráthné Molnár followed with her thought-provoking presentation on the challenges and opportunities in library strategy formulation, which provided inspiration and ideas for many attending librarians.

The theme of the National Library Days this year was „Play”, and fittingly, Judit Hochrein and Endre Kardos, members of the Kis-Hétrét ensemble, delighted participants with a unique musical performance.

The afternoon program included a tour of the Cistercian Monastery building and the Church of the Assumption in Szentgotthárd. We extend our thanks to Renáta Szép, the municipal officer for external relations and coordination, for the informative and engaging tour.

We would also like to express our gratitude to the organizers, particularly the staff of the Móra Ferenc Municipal Library and Museum and the Berzsenyi Dániel Library, for their warm hospitality and the exceptionally well-organized professional program.

Students from the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Bavaria (HföD) visited our library on 26 September 2024 to exchange professional experiences.

Members of the delegation, who visited the library palace at Ferenciek Square, took part in a guided tour of the library and an old book presentation of German culture in order to strengthen international scientific-professional and cultural cooperation. They were also given an insight into the conservation work in the restorer's workshop and a guided tour of our special documents in the Nine Universities, One Project – CHARM-EU exhibition. Both institutions are open to sharing good practices and future cooperation opportunities.

Dr. Andreas Brandtner, the recently appointed Head of Library at the Vienna University, visited our library on 30 September 2024.

During the official ground-breaking meeting, Dr. Andreas Brandtner, Head of the Vienna Library, and Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Head of the ELTE University Library and Archives, discussed the mission, future plans, current goals and challenges of their institutions. In addition to building international relations, both historic libraries have a strategic interest in the continuous development of research and teaching support, and in promoting user satisfaction and the implementation of the universities' policies through the use of modern technology. The meeting also offered Dr. Andreas Brandtner an insight into the history of our library, which is closely interwoven with Austrian culture, as well as into our modern services, architectural attractions and some of our old books.

As challenge- and user-oriented cultural institutions, the parties are committed to fostering inter-institutional relations, sharing good practices and cooperating around shared values, and look forward to future opportunities for collaboration in pursuit of common goals.

Between 23 and 24 September 2024, the library managers of CHARM-EU universities met at the ELTE University Library.

The aim of the design thinking workshop was to find innovative ways and opportunities for cooperation between the member institutions, beyond the educational and research interfaces, in the library field. The joint reflection and exchange of ideas provided an opportunity to learn about the strengths, good practices, latest developments and current challenges of the institutions represented, with a view to developing new levels of cooperation and common services for CHARM-EU students in the near future. During the workshop, the libraries' representatives explored possible areas of common ground for the development of research support and library services, as well as library support for the quality, international competitiveness and attractiveness of European higher education. The guests, representing nine institutions, visited our libraries and took part in a guided tour of the library history exhibition and the chamber exhibition, which was put together for the CHARM-EU Library Meeting, and had the opportunity to taste the richness of Hungarian culture in gastronomy and folk dance.

The CHARM-EU (Challenge-driven, Accessible, Research-based, Mobile European University) was launched in 2019 under the coordination of the University of Barcelona, in partnership with Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Montpellier, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Utrecht, and joined three years later by the University of Åbo Akademi, the University of Würzburg and Hochschule Ruhr West, and in 2023 by the University of Bergen. The alliance follows the vision of creating an inclusive, value-oriented, sustainable and research- and mobility-driven network that meets the challenges of the 21st century. The library leaders are committed to deepening the cultural ties between nations and institutions and to continuing the joint project.

For more details on the CHARM-EU project, please visit the University's website.

The Book of Your Life project was carried out between January and September 2024 in cooperation with the ELTE University Library and Archives, the ELTE, the International Strategy Office and the University Strategy Office.

The Europe Challenge is an annual programme to bring together libraries and their communities across Europe in a local challenge. This year, 55 institutions from 24 European countries took part, Hungary being the first country to do so. The programmes involved both a project responding to a local community problem, strengthening the community-building and community-organising power of libraries, and a learning programme, in which both the library and a representative of the community participated in online and face-to-face skills and knowledge development workshops, as well as mentoring sessions.

The ELTE University Library and Archives and the Student Union's Book of Your Life project has created a new, flexible and comfortable community space with a community kitchen, a learning space for individual, pair and group work, and a learning space for students, through the joint work of librarians and students. The new community space also offers the opportunity for student exhibitions: the opening event included the opening of James Clifford Viloria's PhD student photography exhibition Liminal Quarters, which presents the dormitory life of foreign students studying at ELTE, and the current exhibition Traditions Transcended – An Artistic Voyage by Kamila de Oliveira Sousa. The library will continue to welcome applications from students wishing to exhibit at kabinet@lib.elte.hu.

In our new community space, inaugurated at the beginning of the year, we organised a number of activities: a special event was the UNICYCLE upcycling workshop, where we raised awareness about sustainability by refurbishing furniture intended for the space. Our community space also hosted a series of intercultural training sessions for staff and fellow students who come into contact with international students and help them in their daily lives, aimed at developing understanding and cooperation between participants from different cultures. In addition, the Cultural Connection Day, organised by the Student Council, and the Liminal Quarters student club nights provided an excellent opportunity to contribute to the mental well-being of international students by building personal connections and a sense of belonging.

The aim of the Book of Your Life (BoYL) project, to support the cultural integration of international students coming to ELTE, to encourage contacts and to continuously improve the library's services based on the needs of the student community, remains of strategic importance for ELTE University Library and Archives and the community space will continue to host exhibitions, book launches, international events and workshops.

The Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives, Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, in her speech at the closing event, emphasized that the closing of the project is in fact the beginning of new challenges in the life of the library in its efforts to promote the inclusion of international students. The University Library and Archives, as a user-centred cultural institution, remains committed to building community, supporting education and research, and promoting cultural empowerment of students, and is open to future opportunities for collaboration with students in line with the University's strategy to achieve common goals.

More information about the Book of Your Life project

Zoltán Magyary (1888–1945) was an outstanding figure in Hungarian law and public administration, who put his outstanding scientific achievements into practice. After obtaining his doctorate in law, he worked as a civil servant, and from 1930 he was head of the Department of Public Law and Public Administration Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of our University.

Magyary is credited with the foundation of the Hungarian Institute of Public Administration. He published his scientific results in four languages and was an internationally renowned scholar of public administration. His legacy was kept at the Department of Administrative Law of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, and in 2022 it was handed over to our archives. The other part of the documents is kept in the Magyary Zoltán Knowledge Centre and Library in Tata, his birthplace. The complete series of Hungarian Public Administration, the journal founded by Zoltán Magyary, and a collection of his published works can be found in the Library of Parliament. All three collections have been digitised in cooperation between ELTE and the National University of Public Service, and now the entire archive is available in the ELTE Digital Institutional Knowledge Repository.

Index of the legacy in our archives: http://univa.mflsz.hu/index.php/magyary-zolt-n-iratai

The digitised documents are available: https://edit.elte.hu/xmlui/handle/10831/85911

A delegation from the University of Jakarta International Indonesia (UNIJI) visited our library on 24 September 2024.

The delegation was able to gain an insight into the reading areas of our library, the history and architectural interest of the University Library, and our library services, which combine modern technological developments. They also took part in a guided tour of the exhibition Nine Universities, One Project – CHARM-EU and in our museum book presentation to foster international cultural relations. The institutions remain committed to deepening international and inter-institutional cultural relations and cooperation.

The library intended to draw attention to the protection of our cultural values ​​and the preservation of our built heritage with our event organized in the University Library and Archives of Eötvös Loránd University within the framework of this year's Cultural Heritage Days.

As the opening of our program series, from 11.00 a.m. the audience could attend the harp concert by Klára Bábel entitled Sounds of Silence. A chamber exhibition of our museum documents related to the cities and culture of the CHARM-EU (Challenge-driven, Accessible, Research-based, Mobile European University) European University Association was opened, which can be visited on weekdays from 10.00 to 15.00 until 10 June 2024.  Lovers of books, science and the arts can take a tour of the library's architectural and historical wonders and the rooms of its historic building, learn about the process of book restoration, some of the special items in our museum collection and the life and work of Loránd Eötvös. The major events in the history of our University were also explored in our exhibition entitled Book, Robe, Science – Symbols from the History of Eötvös Loránd University. During our events, our guests were able to make unique, hardcover handicraft books, and calligrapher Dezső Buzogány introduced the art of calligraphy.

We will close our series of events with a concert entitled „In a Hundred Versions” - Tamás Cseh’s songs performed by János Bárth. All visitors are also welcome to our Autumn Festival of Museums.