Due to the Night of Museums, the library services of the ELTE University Library and Archives will be inaccessible on Saturday, on the 22th of June 2024. Everyone is welcome to join our programmes starting at 15.00.
More details about our event are available on our website, on the official Night of Museums website and here. All visitors are welcome!
On 12 June 2024 - The Petőfi Literary Museum's exhibition entitled "Halcyon Days - Fashion and Culture in Reform-Age Pest" opened, featuring an engraving depicting George Sand which was loaned from the ELTE University Library and Archives. The exhibition explores the relationship between dress, social life, press and literary publicity in the 1840s. Petra Török, the acting director, welcomed the audience at the opening. The exhibition was inaugurated by Anna Fábri, followed by a costume performance. The exhibition is open until 31 March 2025.
The National Széchényi Library (NSZL) and Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) have agreed that NSZL will digitize almost 200,000 ELTE paper-based doctoral dissertations and theses by 2027. The documents were signed by Dávid Rózsa, Director General of NSZL, László Borhy, Rector of ELTE, and Ernő Kulcsár Szabó Annamária Gombos, Director General of ELTE University Library and Archives at the Rector's Office of the University.
The aim of the cooperation is to make documents accessible to university citizens in a modern, digital format, thus supporting future AI-based innovations and analyses.
ELTE, Hungary largest university, preserves outstanding intellectual and data assets, including the approximately 186,000 paper-based doctoral dissertations and theses that NSZL submits into digital form after a health check.
This is the largest digitisation agreement in NSZL's history, as a result of which more than ten million pages of documents will be searchable by 2027, Dávid Rózsa said after the signing. According to László Borhy, Eötvös Loránd University has an enormous intellectual product output, and thanks to the agreement, this knowledge will finally become accessible and researchable in a worthy way.
One of the pillars of NSZL's online content service is Central Europe's largest and most significant digitization centre, which enables operational, mass and full-scale digitisation. The capacity of the equipment fleet of the thousand-square-meter center exceeded 13 million exposed pages per year last year. It is extremely important for the national library to put its digitizing capacities at the service of public benefit projects. Through the cooperation, ELTE students and researchers have access to the institution's rich knowledge base in a modern form, thus supporting scientific research and innovative technological developments.
Source: NSZL
The Repository Certification Committee of the MTMT (Magyar Tudományos Művek Tára = Hungarian Science Bibliography - the database of Hungarian scientific publications) issued certificates to the Elpis Journal of Philosophical Sciences based on the submitted certification requests.
The journal Elpis was founded in 2007, it operates from 2017 as Elpis Journal of Philosophical Sciences, the open-access, peer-reviewed, periodical journal of the Doctoral School of Philosophical Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest). It is acknowledged by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: it is listed on the "accepted journals" of the Philosophical Comittee of the II. Department.
The primary mission of the journal is talent management, providing a forum for young colleagues in the field of philosophy. It deem it particularly important to ensure an appreciative reception for Hungarian philosophical books and encourage philosophical debates regarding actual problems.
The qualification protocol is used on journals’ publishing practices that either publish in online database-based software, are open access or delayed open access. During the procedure, the journal's quality control process (peer review) and the practice of informing potential authors and readers are examined. The purpose of the certification is to support the work of the editorial offices, to promote the uniform operation of domestic web journals, which also ensures the automatic data uploading of the bibliographic data of the articles into MTMT.
Currently, 21 journals have this qualification, and 6 of them are affiliated with the ELTE Faculty of Humanities.
We heartily congratulate the editorial board of the certified journals, as well as the authors published in the journals, and wish them further success in their scientific work.
Sources:
Qualified journals
Repository Certification Committee
MTMT classification of scientific online journals
Object of the month – Commemorative medal issued for the 350th anniversary of the ELTE’s founding
Our university was founded by Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat (today Trnava, Slovakia) in 1635. In 1985, for the 350th anniversary of the founding, for example, in addition to the Hungarian coins, the Slovak Numismatic Society also produced a commemorative medal.
On the front of the commemorative medal is a bird's-eye view of Nagyszombat, with the Jesuit church in Nagyszombat and the adjacent university buildings in the center. Inscription on the upper part: "UNIVERSITAS TYRNAVIENSIS 1635-1985" On the back, bands divide the image of the medal into three rings, in the middle is the head of Christ. In the innermost ring, in fields separated by columns, alpha and omega signs, sun and moon, and the letters "R" and "T". In the next lane: inscription "POBOČKA TRNAVA SNS". Inscription beginning "350 VÝROČIE ZALOŽENIA UNIVERZITY" at the far end. Commemorative medal issued for the 350th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Nagyszombat.
The purpose of our professional network called University Heritage Coordination, which was established in 2020, is to develop the method of managing and protecting the valuable cultural heritage of the university, as well as to make it visible to both the citizens of the university and the general public. Almost every organizational unit of the university has delegated a representative to the professional network, so in addition to working together, we also try to get to know each other's collections in the framework of professional trips.
On the 3rd of June 2024, our members traveled to Tata, where they participated in meaningful professional programs. During the morning, Dóra Kürthy, geologist and deputy director of the Kuny Domokos Museum, welcomed the group. After introducing each other, e.g. the operation of the two institutions, we had the opportunity to see the colorful exhibition The wonderful (living) world of the ancient sea of Tata, as well as the traveling exhibition Life and death in the Turkish age.
In the afternoon, we walked around the more than 3-hectare nature reserve with István Szente, the manager of the Tata Geological Garden. The foundation of the garden at the foot of the Kálvária hill can be linked to the name of József Fülöp, the former rector of our university, for example, his research house and commemorative plaque can still be seen today. During the guided tour, we were introduced to unique geological and paleontological curiosities, but there was also time to explore the botanical diversity of the garden.
You can read more about our professional network, unique among Hungarian higher education institutions, here.
Organized by the EISZ, the Springer Nature welcomes all interested parties to the Springer Nature's AI Revolution webinar, which presents with the help of several speakers how artificial intelligence is transforming the quality of research and the publisher's services.
Date of the webinar: June 18, 2024 (Tuesday) 12:30–14:00
Detailed program of the webinar
Nowadays, it seems inconceivable that serious scientists of past centuries could have attached so much importance to the current positions of stars and planets.
Diseases, wars, famines or perhaps good harvests, royal weddings and great discoveries await mankind? All this was thought to be read from the signs in the heavens. Join us in our search for the heavens and visit our Copernicus Memorial Exhibition entitled „The man who moved the Earth out of its place”, opening on the 22nd of June 2024 during the Night of Museums!
With the support of the National Cultural Fund, between the 28th and the 29th of May 2024, a management training course was held for the library managers of the University Library Service and the managers and staff of the ELTE University Library and Archives.
The two-day, develop effective management collaboration training provided participants with useful information on situational leadership and emotional intelligence. The training aimed to develop the leadership skills and competencies of leaders and to present tools, which are useful and work in practice. By applying the knowledge gained, their teams and the library as a whole will be able to improve their performance and effectiveness.
Ambassador Frank R. Cimafranca visited the ELTE University Library on the 15th of May 2024.
In the newly opened community space, the delegation also had an opportunity to discover the photo exhibition „Liminal Quarters” by PhD student James Clifford Viloria, which depicts the dormitory life of foreign students studying at the university. The area designed as part of the Book of Your Life project also provided an opportunity for consultation with students from the Philippines studying at ELTE. The delegation concluded the programme with a guided tour of the library.
The community space and our library welcomes national and international students with extended opening hours until 22:00 during the examination period until the 15th of June 2024. We wish you all a successful and enjoyable end of semester!