Due to the relocation of our external warehouse the books and doctoral dissertations stored there, as well as the entire stock of the library's periodicals, will be unavailable until the beginning of January 2025. Many of our books are still available for loan and current literature can be found on the open shelves.

For Readers

LOANING AND RELATED SERVICES

Who can borrow?

All Hungarian and foreign citizens over the age of 14 can borrow.

In case you want to borrow a book or read it locally and it has already been borrowed by another reader, you can make a reservation for the…

With the electronic request form, you can request documents from the library stock from anywhere and anytime.

You can extend your borrowings twice, by 3-3 weeks in the following ways:

Publications missing from the library’s stock can be obtained from domestic (rural) or foreign libraries on request, in original or copy, as…

CAN BE USED REMOTELY

The ELTE Library WebApp, developed by the University Library and Archives, is a mobile web application for mobile devices and it is also available…

Self-service scanning

You can digitalize documents in a self-service manner, due to the special book scanners.

If you do not find the book you are looking for in our catalog, you can make a suggestion…

To use the documents in the collection of the ELTE University Library and Archives, you can request a communication permit at the following…

CAN BE USED LOCALLY

In the reading rooms with a visitor’s card you can use for free all our printed and electronic documents of the basic collection (published after…

Self-service printing and photocopying

Self-service scanning

You can digitalize documents in a self-service manner, due to the special book scanners.

There are several WiFi networks available in the University Library building, which are provided by the Informatics Directorate of ELTE:

Use of library computers is free. The computers located in the training room on the ground floor can be used freely, without restrictions, if…

NAVA is the National Audiovisual Archive providing an archive for audiovisual documents collected from  Hungarian national broadcasts.

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