In cooperation with the ELTE Botanical Garden, a large-scale gardening project took place in the inner courtyard of the University Library. Trees and bushes were pruned, fallen leaves and twigs were removed. The beautiful garden is waiting for the spring and readers, who would like to read outdoors. Explore this charming place!

The registration dates for the exhibition „Under the Enchantment of Accuracy – The Life and Work of Loránd Eötvös” are now available.

In honor of Loránd Eötvös, a former professor of our university, we opened our interactive exhibition in 2019. Throughout his life, the world-famous physicist and university professor admired nature, researching the nature of the world. At our exhibition, visitors can get a glimpse into the scientific methods of Loránd Eötvös, try out his experimental tools, view the landscapes he saws during his travels and the exciting world of the turn of the century.

For more information and registration, please, visit our website at https://orokseg.elte.hu/en/heritage/exhibitions?redirect=.

All visitors are welcome!

The online training on research data, research data management and data repositories was a great success organized by the colleagues of ELTE University Library and Archives in early February 2022.

There were four online sessions complied with the requests of the ELTE Bárczi Gusztáv Faculty of Special Needs Education and the Faculty of Humanities and 70 participants attended all together.  Although completing a data management plan was in the focus of the training, the possibilities and advantages of  data sharing were emphasised as well.

The presentation is available in the Institutional Repository (EDIT).

If you have any questions about this topic, please feel free to contact the staff of the Education and Research Support Department of ELTE University Library and Archives at oa@lib.elte.hu.

The historian, Dániel Cornides (1732–1787) was appointed to the University of Pest in 1784 as a teacher of historical auxiliary sciences and guardian of the university library. Although he took courses at the University of Göttingen the following year, from 1785 until his death he worked in the University Library and taught at the university. From 1767 he was in the service of József Teleki as secretary, and a close relationship developed between them. In view of their friendship, after the death of Cornides, Teleki bought his legacy of valuable manuscripts and books, which was later transferred to the manuscript archive of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences together with the Teleki library. However, the valuable correspondence between Cornides and Pray can still be found in the manuscript archives of the University Library, as well as the 16th-century Hungarian-language codex named after him, which was copied by the Dominican nun, Lea Ráskay.

Cornides codex: https://edit.elte.hu/xmlui/handle/10831/10540

The Accessible library team of the K21 Quality Management Coordination Comittee has compiled a guide for librarians.

With the help of this guide our staff can support the use of libraries and the acquisition of information by readers with special needs. The document is available to the University Library Service’s librarians in the EDIT repository.

In 2021, the Archives was expanded with the legacy of two prominent university professors.

Ottó Süpek (1928-1995) was a literary historian, former lecturer and head of the Romanesque Institute , at the heart of his work was the oevre of François Villon. István Szerdahelyi (1924-1987) gained a reputation as an Esperantist and linguist. In 1966 he was commissioned to organize the teaching of Esperanto at the university. The legacies of both eminent scholars are already available in the Archives. A description of the legacies can be found in our repository guide: Ottó Süpek and István Szerdahelyi.

The Foundation for the University Library purchased workchairs and tables by utilizing the National Cooperation Fund grant for the Restoration and Bookbinding Workshop in the Eötvös Loránd University Library and Archives.

We replaced some outmoded and outdated worktables and chairs (on the right of the photo). The newly acquired special workchairs with adjustable seat height and support for foot comfort (on the left of the photo) ensure a proper and healthy posture for everyday activities. The height of the worktables can be changed to perform binding and restoration tasks according to the needs of the staff. By utilizing the grant of the National Cooperation Fund and the Bethlen Gábor Fund Management Ltd. under the management of the Prime Minister's Office, we could highly improve the working conditions of our colleagues.

Our first special educators studied and practiced in the field of teaching deaf children in Vienna, the institute for deaf-mute people operating since 1799. The first special education institutions in Hungary were established in the 1800s, called „philanthropic” institutions.

Facilities were set up in 1825 for the blind, in 1875 for the mentally and multiply disabled, in 1891 for the stutterer and others with speech impairments. Special teacher training has become increasingly urgent, so special training courses were organized in the 1890s for the helper of deaf, stuttering, blind, and low-minded. Later, in 1900 the trainings were merged and included in a decree. This is how the two-year Special Education Teacher Training Course started in Vác (from 1904 in Budapest) as the legal predecessor of the Gusztáv Bárczi Faculty of Special Education. We keep in our archives the minutes of the school’s first teachers’ meeting.