The University History Collection currently holds around fifteen thousand frames, some of which are in the form of negatives and some of which are on paper. The earliest images in the collection are of Loránd Eötvös and his family in the 1880s, but most of the images date from between 1950 and 2000. 

The majority of the photographs depict events related to university life, such as the opening of the academic year, doctoral inaugurations, conferences, sporting events and artistic performances. We also keep portraits, group photos and building photographs. Digitised items from the collection are available in the ELTE Digital Institutional Repository. A detailed report on the composition and management of our photo collection can be found in the Archives Review (Levéltári Szemle) 2024, issue 3, by Georgina Schlay.

Deputy State Secretary for Public Collections and Cultural Development Máté Vincze and Head of Department László Szende, PhD visited our library on 13 February 2025.

Our guests, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation, were invited to discover the building's representative spaces and storage rooms. During the visit, Dr. Kulcsár Szabó Ernőné Gombos Annamária, Director General of the ELTE University Library and Archives, also provided information on the mission, future plans and current goals of the institution. The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss the possibilities for development of the collection preservation and storage.

According to an agreement with the ELTE University Library and Archives, we will also host the popular ELTE–NFI University Film Club screening and discussion series beside the University Square campus. The film club, organised in cooperation between Eötvös Loránd University and the National Film Institute, will be hosted in two locations, with the cooperation of our library, and is expected to be held weekly from next semester. All ELTE citizens are welcome to attend these events.

The next screening will be Dániel Hevér’s first feature film, the dramedy Some Birds, which tells the story of a special friendship that spans generations. The story follows Béla (László Szacsvay), a stubborn old man living alone, who finds change difficult to bear. When his son places him in a nursing home after a minor accident, he feels the whole world is conspiring against him. From that moment on, his only goal is to get out of the institution as soon as possible. Another outsider, 17-year-old Zoe (Lilla Kizlinger), a wild child who works at the home as a punishment, joins him in his plan. Despite the almost 60-year age gap between them, their similar characters, loneliness and the feeling that they are just in everyone’s way, quickly turn them into an alliance.

„Drama comma comedy”

„The uplifting story of an unusual friendship between an elderly man trying to get out of a nursing home and an impulsive teenage girl on social work who decides to help him.”

Venue: University Square campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. fszt., corridor next to the cloakroom)

Date: 19 February 2025, 18:00

Some Birds

dramedy, 2023, 90 min

Our guests in the post-screening discussion are Dániel Hevér, debuting feature film director, and Andrea Csengei, social worker and elderly care provider. László Szacsvay, Jászai Mari Award-winning actor and one of the main characters in the film, will also join us. Registration form and film trailer are available here. 

In the framework of our book adoption programme, our conservator and reference librarian gave our adopters a detailed presentation of the supported volumes.

Évi Dénes, emotional intelligence trainer, communication specialist and writer, has adopted the work of Czech educator Jan Amos Komenský (Latin: Johannes Comenius, 1592-1670), often referred to as Orbis pictus.

The book was originally made to help pupils to learn Latin the easiest way. However, it also contains materials from almost every scientific field, hence becoming a simplified encyclopaedia of the 17-th century knowledge. The work was printed first in 1658, and until 1917 it was published for almost 300 times. The first four-language edition was issued in 1666 in Latin, German, French and Italian – this particular book was also written in these languages. In the beginning, the work was illustrated with woodcuts, but later on the pictures were printed with copperplates. The coursebook contains 150 topics, each illustrated with a picture and complemented with word-lists as tools to help the pupils in the process of studying. Among the topics one can find nature, flora and fauna, religion and the aspects of human life, e. g. the human body, craftsmanship and children’s games.

This book once belonged to historian János Mircse of Barátos, who left his book collection to the University Library. (This catalogue can be find under the call number J 147/d I-II.)

The book is part of the book adoption program of the Foundation for the University Library. Save a book, adopt a book! For more information visit our website: https://konyvtar.elte.hu/en/support-us/adopt-a-book

Adopted book: RMK III 623a Komenský, Jan Amos (1592–1670): Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis sensualium pictus quadrilinvis emendatus, hoc est: omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum et vita actionum pictura et nomenclatura Germanica, Latina, Italica et Gallica. Cum titulorum indicibus atque vocabulorum dictionariolis accurante Matthia Cramero, lingv. exotic. professore. Cum gratia et privil. sac. caes. majestatis. regis Poloniae et sereniss. electoris Saxonici. Noribergae : sumptibus Martini Endteri, MDCCVII.

World Scientific Publishing has offered trial access to the entire journal portfolio. The trial period lasts for two months, from 3 February 2025 to 3 April 2025.

During the trial period, institutional users can access and use articles published in World Scientific Publishing journals over the past 5 years.

The platform is available at the following link: https://www.worldscientific.com/ connected to the ELTE internet network directly on campus or remotely via VPN service.

World Scientific releases approximately 600 new titles per annum and publishes more than 180 journals across multiple fields. With a publication history of over 12,000 titles, a significant proportion of World Scientific's books are prescribed as reading material by prestigious institutions like Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Princeton University. At present, WSPC's digital content is accessible to more than 45,000 universities, libraries and organizations worldwide, with usage boosted by collaborating with diverse search and discovery partners.

During the trial access, the following journals in the scientific fields are available:

• Asian Studies
• Business & Management
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Economics & Finance
• Engineering / Acoustics
• Environmental Science
• Life Sciences / Biology
• Materials Science
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Nanotechnology & Nanoscience
• Nonlinear Science, Chaos & Dynamical Systems
• Physics and Astronomy
• Social Sciences

Information about the site can be downloaded here.

Scientific and scholarly works

• Gaston Bachelard: A tér poétikája
• Immanuel Kant: A tiszta ész kritikája
• Michel Foucault: Felügyelet és büntetés
• Arisztotelész: Nikomakhoszi etika
• Massimo Montanari: Éhség és bőség
• David Ross: Kant etikája
• Jan Assmann: A kulturális emlékezet
• Max Horkheimer – Theodor W. Adorno: A felvilágosodás dialektikája
• Friedrich Nietzsche: A hatalom akarásáról és az örök visszatérésről
• Jacques Derrida: A hang és a fenomén
• Platón: Állam
• René Descartes: Elmélkedések az első filozófiáról
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty: A látható és a láthatatlan
• Roland Barthes: Mitológiák
• Paul De Man: Az olvasás allegóriái
• Michel Foucault: Elmebetegség és pszichológia – A klinikai orvoslás születése
• A. J. Gurevics: A középkori ember világképe
• Sue Hadfield: Asszertivitás
• G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield: A preszókratikus filozófusok
• Platón: Gorgiasz

Textbooks

• Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Bradford D. Jordan: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
• Aswath Damodaran: A befektetések értékelése
• Ferenczi Attila – Monostori Martina: Latin nyelvkönyv
• Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, Marc J. Melitz: International Economics
• Magyar irodalom (szerk. Gintli Tibor)
• N. Gregory Mankiw: A közgazdaságtan alapjai
• Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller: Marketingmenedzsment
• Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld: Nemzetközi gazdaságtan
• Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong, Sridhar Balasubramanian: Principles of Marketing
• Jeffrey M. Wooldridge: Introductory Econometrics
• A magyar nyelvtörténet kézikönyve (szerk. Kiss Jenő és Pusztai Ferenc)
• Earl Babbie: A társadalomtudományi kutatás gyakorlata
• Romsics Ignác: Magyarország története a XX. században
• Középkori egyetemes történeti szöveggyűjtemény (szerk. Sz. Jónás Ilona)
• Gósy Mária: Pszicholingvisztika
• Európa ezer éve: a középkor I-II. (szerk. Klaniczay Gábor)
• Gyáni Gábor – Kövér György: Magyarország társadalomtörténete a reformkortól a második világháborúig
• Kálmán László – Trón Viktor: Bevezetés a nyelvtudományba
• Laáb Ágnes: Számviteli ismeretek
• Alan Sangster, Lewis Gordon: Frank Wood's Business Accounting

Literature

• Lao-ce: Tao te king – az Út és Erény könyve (ford. Weöres Sándor)
• Bernáth István: Skandináv mitológia
• Italo Calvino: Ha egy téli éjszakán egy utazó
• Illyés Gyula: Puszták népe
• Kaffka Margit: Színek és évek – Hangyaboly
• Kosztolányi Dezső: Esti Kornél
• George Orwell: 1984
• Homérosz: Íliász
• George Orwell: Állatfarm
• Szerb Antal: Utas és holdvilág
• Dante Alighieri: Isteni színjáték
• Dosztojevszkij: Bűn és bűnhődés
• Esterházy Péter: Egyszerű történet vessző száz oldal – a Márk változat
• Háy János: A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia
• E. T. A. Hoffmann: Az arany virágcserép – A homokember – Scuderi kisasszony
• Franz Kafka: Az átváltozás
• Kemény Lili: Nem
• Krasznahorkai László: Sátántangó
• Thomas Mann: Tonio Kröger – Halál Velencében – Mario és a varázsló
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway

In the framework of the Sustainability Week, we welcome elementary and secondary school groups to visit the ELTE University Library and Archives for green library presentations.

Restoration workshop on sustainability

Our conservator will give you a taste of paper-casting and bookbinding techniques. Learn about the process of book disinfection and old bookbinding techniques. The aim of the restoration work is to preserve the historical and aesthetic value of our museum collection, using natural materials, and to extend its life by means of various restoration procedures and preventive conservation techniques.

Dates:

8 April 2025, 10.00–11.00

8 April 2025, 14.00–15.00

9 April 2025, 10.00–11.00

9 April 2025, 14.00–15.00

10 April 2025, 10.00–11.00

10 April 2025, 14.00–15.00

16 April 2025, 10.00–11.00

Library history guided tours

Library tours provide information about the history of the ELTE University Library and Archives. The library palace, designed by Antal Szkalnitzky, was built using state-of-the-art ventilation, heating and lighting solutions of the 19th century. The library tour includes sgraffiti in the colonnade of the lobby, female figures of science and art in the main hall, and a portrait of Mór Than by the middle-aged Franz Joseph. Visitors can tour the rooms of the former Director General's residence, admire the reconstruction of the László Perczel globe and visit our Historical Warehouse, which is open to the public on special occasions. The tour will also highlight the library's AI-enabled services and good practices in the field of sustainability.

Dates:

8 April 2025, 11.00–11.45

8 April 2025, 15.00–15.45

9 April 2025, 11.00–11.45

9 April 2025, 15.00–15.45

10 April 2025, 11.00–11.45

10 April 2025, 15.00–15.45

16 April 2025, 11.00–11.45

Sustainable development and libraries

Our Green Library Quiz reveals what a library can do to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Dates:

8 April 2025, 11.45–12.00

8 April 2025,15.45–16.00

9 April 2025, 11.45–12.00

9 April 2025,15.45–16.00

10 April 2025,11.45–12.00

10 April 2025, 15.45–16.00

16 April 2025,11.45–12.00

More details are available on the Sustainability Week website.

All visitors are welcome!

The Web of Science Core Collection is a reliable and comprehensive resource for scientific research, including the most significant journals, books, and conference proceedings in the fields of social sciences, arts, and humanities.

What participants will learn during the webinar:

• The process of selecting sources in social sciences, arts, and humanities.
• Effective methods for searching the database.
• Opportunities to analyze citation networks for uncovering relevant literature.

Date: January 29, 2025, 10:00-11:00 AM

Language: Hungarian

Participation is free, but prior registration is required.

More information and registration: Registration