Due to IT maintenance works, all departments of the library will close at 1 PM on Friday, November 14th.
Thank you for your understanding.
Information | 2025. 11. 11.
Opening on 18th of October
We would like to inform our patrons, on Saturday October 18, the Library's central reading room, the Oriental Collection and the Archives of
the Academy will be closed.
Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection will be open according to the Friday schedule, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Information | 2025. 10. 14.
We are reopening
We are pleased to inform our readers that we will be reopening on September 1. We look forward to welcoming our readers with a revamped system in the familiar surroundings!
MTA Library and Information Center
Information | 2025. 08. 31.
Opening on 1st of July
We would like to inform our readers that on 1 July (Tuesday), due to maintenance work by the Electricity Works, there will be no electricity in the library building, until 17:00.
This means that we will only be able to provide reading on site, but our other services will not be available.
The Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books Collection will be open, but the Oriental Collection and Archives of the Academy will be closed.
Thank you for your understanding!
MTA KIK
Reference and Reader Service
Information | 2025. 06. 26.
Library closing information
We would like to inform our readers that the main reading room of the Library, and the Oriental Collection, will be closed on Saturday 17 May. The Manuscript and Old Books Collection and the Archives will be open (9:00-13:30).
Information | 2025. 05. 13.
Library closing information
We would like to inform our readers that all library collections will be closed from 1-2 May.
Information | 2025. 04. 30.
Hours of operation for the upcoming Easter holidays
Our Library will be closed during the Easter holidays, from April 18 to April 21, 2025.
Opening: Tuesday April 22, 9 am.
Books and periodicals requested online from the outer stacks before 7 pm on April 17 can be picked up on Tuesday, April 22. Documents requested later will only be delivered on Wednesday, April 23.
Thank you for your understanding!
We wish all our dear readers a Happy Easter!
Information | 2025. 04. 16.
“This treasury of magnificent objects has arrived to my house” - The varied historical and geographical origins of the manuscripts of the David Kaufmann Collection
The Oriental Collection of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was awarded a three-year international research grant in January 2025.
The project has three main pillars: cataloguing, a new Kaufmann-website, mapping and digitalisation of watermarks of the manuscripts. In addition, the conservation of the volumes is an important task.
The project covers more than six hundred manuscripts from David Kaufmann's Collection, which was donated to the Library in 1905 by the scholar-collector's late mother-in-law, Róza Gomperz.
Despite its relatively small size, the Kaufmann Collection is considered to be one of the most significant collections of Hebrew books in the world. With the ongoing project the Library aims to raise awareness of this outstanding heritage among scholars and the general public through a new website that will make all three units (manuscripts, printed books and the genizah fragments) of the collection more easily accessable and searchable.
The participants in the project are the staff of the Oriental Collection and Fabrizio Quaglia, an expert in the field, who is making the detailed descriptions.
Information | 2025. 04. 07.
Library closing information
Dear Readers,
We would like to inform our readers that the main reading room of the library will be closed on Tuesday, 1st of April for electrical installation works.
Special collections will be open as usual.
Thank you for your understanding!
Information | 2025. 03. 28.
Maintenance
Dear Readers,
Due to maintenance work, our library's online services - apart from the search function of our public catalogue (Primo) - will not be available on Sunday, February 9, 2025.
