ELTE University Library

Address:	Ferenciek tere 6. 1053 Budapest
Website:	http://www.konyvtar.elte.hu/
Opening hours:	Mon. - Fri.: 10:00 - 8.00
Telephone:	+36.1.411.65.00

The University Library of Eötvös Loránd University is one of the oldest public libraries in Hungary. From the beginning the University Library is the national scientific library for philosophy, history of the Middle Ages and partly that of the Modern Age, and history of religion and church history. Nowadays we have more than 16 000 registered visitors: mostly professors, lecturers, researchers and students and – it is a great pleasure for us – the number of virtual users are increasing from day to day.
Over and above the traditional library services, such as lending, interlibrary loan, copying and verification of bibliographical data, during the last few years we have developed our reference and information services, based on modern technical tools. The Electronical Information Service would like to be a gateway to the world of virtual information, including multi-level linking to databases, e-text archives, online copies of printed documents, electronic-only materials, CD-ROMs. The University Library is a member of the “Hungarian Online Librarian” virtual service, wich was launched in September 1999. This is an online reference service of Hungarian librarians, its purpose is to enable reference librarians to help information seekers through the internet. All the Hungarian university libraries provide access to hundreds of scientific periodicals, both in printed and electronic form which you can find only in these institutions in Hungary.

Rare Books Department (RBD)

RBD collects all documents printed in non-Hungarian language outside the country between 1501-1800, whose author is not a Hungarian person. This collection consists of three parts: the Antiqua (16. century), the Baroque (17. century) and the Enlightenment (18. century) collections. These approximately 65000 volumes constitute significant part of the museum stock. Most of these volumes were acquisited before the secularization of the University Library (1777).