During the Easter holidays, between the 18th of April and the 21st of April 2025, the ELTE University Library and Archives is closed.
From the 22nd of April 2025, we are open with our full range of services.
We wish you a happy and blessed Easter!
The presentation of the recently published volumes of the Mátyás Bél Neolatin Workshop of the Research Centre for the Humanities will take place on 15 April 2025 at 16.00 at the ELTE University Library and Archives.
Sára Sánta’s monograph on the former director of our library, István Schönvisner, the father of Hungarian ancient studies, will be presented by Pál Ács, literary historian. The publication of Mátyás Bél’s surviving manuscripts has benn going on for a decade and a half. The newly published eighth volume, which contains descriptions of Temes, Csanád, Arád, Zaránd and Békés counties, will be presented by Krisztina Tóth, head of the archives. The volumes are available for purchase on the spot. The invitation and the detailed programme are accessible here. All visitors are welcome!
The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 25 March 2025 (Tuesday) due to technical reasons.
From 26 March 2025, we will be open as usual.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed from 15.00 on Wednesday 12 March 2025 until 14.00 on Thursday 13 March 2025 for technical reasons.
On 13 March 2025 from 14.00 we will be open according to our usual opening hours.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
We are pleased to inform our dear readers that the relocation of the library's external warehouse has been completed, and the books and doctoral dissertations stored there are now available again. At the same time, the organization of the journals has been finalized, and they are now also accessible to our readers. Thank you for your patience and understanding during the relocation process!
The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed from January 25, 2025 (Saturday) to February 8, 2025 (Saturday) due to storage organisation.
Starting from February 10, 2025 (Monday), we will be open according to our usual opening hours.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
The mission of the ELTE University Library and Archives, which won the Hungarian Heritage Award and – as part of the University Library Service – the title of Qualified Library in 2018, as well as the EFQM “Committed to Excellence” certificate in 2020, is to provide Hungarian and foreign academic teachers, researchers and students with domestic and foreign literature, intending to integrate them into the international circulation of scientific life. Now, you can also help to ensure free access to information, to preserve and digitize our cultural values, and to acquire modern technological equipment and implement continuous service development. Please, support the Foundation for the University Library by offering 1% of your tax.
The Foundation for the University Library was established in 2005 to provide the technical modernization for the ELTE University Library and Archives and help expansing its services and protecting its holdings. The library's old book collection of more than one and a half million documents is part of the national cultural heritage and is also significant in Europe, so it is our shared responsibility to preserve these values for the rising generation.
The non-profit organization, led by Dr. Péter Kiszl, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, significantly supports the library's value-saving activities. In order to restore the volumes of the collection, which requires special attention and constant preservation, the foundation has launched a book adoption program. In addition, it contributes to the organization of events promoting the values and the professional work of the University Library and Archives, the publication of a wall calendar presenting the rarities of the library and the university’s cultural heritage, as well as the publication of the University Library Yearbooks and acquiring new technical equipment.
More information about the support possibilities of the Foundation for the University Library is available here.
Foundation for the University Library
H-1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6.
Phone: +36 1 411 6738
Email: alapitvany@lib.elte.hu
Tax number: 18121362-1-41
Account number: 12010532-00120645-00100003
The Library will be closed between the 23rd of December 2024 and the 1st of January 2025. Our library's services will be available from the 2nd of January 2025.
We wish all our dear readers a very merry Christmas and a successful New Year!
The ELTE University Library and Archives will be closed on 5 December 2024 (Thursday) due to technical reasons.
From Friday (6 December 2024), we will be open as usual.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
The ELTE University Library and Archives offers extended opening hours for readers and students on weekdays and Saturdays between the 2nd of December 2024 and the 18th of January 2025 until 22.00 hours. Our new community space offers the opportunity to learn, relax, use kitchen facilities and free computer access.
Through our constantly expanding services, we aim to provide ELTE students with an efficient and effective learning opportunity, with the support of the Students' Union and in cooperation with the students.
The following services are available between 20.00 and 22.00 on weekdays and between 18.00 and 22.00 on Saturdays:
During the extended opening hours, reception and general information is provided. The lobby, the Reading Hall and the community space are open to the public only with a pre-purchased library card.
Everyone is welcome and we wish all our students a successful semester and exam period!