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Until the end of the spring exam period, the pop-up reading rooms and group work rooms are open on J. Liivi Street. In August, the temporary reading rooms will be opened in a new location – 32 Veski Street.

The second episode of the vlog is ready: the journalist visits the library to find answer to the question "Do you really work there as well?". Link to the vlog: https://youtu.be/4QwQMMTtLtA

Dear readers! On Monday, 1 May UT Library is closed.

Upon the request of the Office of Research and Development of UT the database Elsevier SciVal Funding is open for trial until 2 May 2017. The database contains information about the research funding programmes and grants. Until the end of June 2017 De Gruyter e-magazines are available for trial. The database contains more than 900 magazines practically from all research fields.

UT Library starts vlogging The first episode of the UT Library vlog was launched today. New entries will appear every two weeks, aiming to provide information about everything that is going on in the library – its daily life, services, and also renovation news.

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Opening hours of the UT Library and pop-up reading rooms (J.Liivi Str.) during the Easter Holidays: 14 April – closed 15 April – 12-16 16 April – closed.

UT Library will hold the public reading of Homer’s Odyssey on Friday, 24 March at 11.00. The epic will simultaneously be read in 26 countries in relation to the European Festival of Latin and Greek in Lyon. “We will read out the 5th book of Odyssey, and we will do it in Estonian as well as in old Greek,” said one of the organisers of the event, the UT Library senior research fellow Janika Päll. “This book tells us about the beginning of the last decisive stage of Odysseus’s journey home.”

Live stream On 20 April, the University of Tartu Library and DataCite Estonia will hold an international seminar Open Research Data - the FAIRest Data is the Future of Science at Tallinn Technical University, welcoming all scientists, researchers, postgraduates and other interested people. The seminar focuses on research data, approaching the topic from technical, political and practical aspects.

The University of Tartu Library launched the Estonian-language MOOC titled “Information Literacy”. This is the first open online course fully developed and managed by the library staff. The main aim of the course is to introduce different information sources available on the Internet and provide knowledge and practical information search skills.