Topic: university

The University of Tartu Commemorates the Anniversary of the full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine and invites everyone to visit the Memorial Exhibition of Unissued Diplomas. The University of Tartu is hosting a memorial exhibition to commemorate the anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine. The exhibition titled "The Diplomas That Never Be Issued" will showcase the unissued diplomas of the students who were killed by Russia in the ongoing war.

The Elsevier database ClinicalKey Student contains medical students' textbooks, images and videos and is open for trial in the University of Tartu network. ClinicalKey Student is an interactive platform. To register and get access, please visit www.clinicalkey.com/student. More information can be found here. The trial period runs from the 20th of February to the 31st of March.

Dear readers! On Thursday, 23 February the library is open 9-12. On Friday, 24 February the library is closed. Happy Independence Day!

On the third floor of the library, an exhibition of the books by Estonian authors, published in the year 2022, is open. More than 200 books are exhibited, first printings as well as revised ones. “The number of literary works, written by the Estonian authors within one year, is quite remarkable,” said the compiler of the exhibition Marianne Tiik. “It is difficult to have an overview of all new books, but here it is a good opportunity to have them just in front of you."

On Thursday, 09 February, starting from 7 p.m., UT Library will host the first indoor orienteering competition. The starting point of the competition will be set up in the lobby of the main entrance and the checkpoints are located all over the three floors of the library’s public area – in reading rooms, open stacks and other public spaces and lobbies. The preparation will start at 5 p.m., the start will be given at 7 p.m. The competition will last 1-1,5 hours.

Doctoral students can register to the e-course “Introduction to Information Research” OIAO.06.051 until the 5th of February. The online course gives knowledge and practical skills in searching for and managing research information and research data. The course is supervised by the UT Library subject librarians.

After a couple of years, the traditional winter seminar of memory institutions, organised by the University of Tartu Library, will again be held at the Kääriku Sports Centre. The seminar, focusing on sustainable development and ecological footprints of memory institutions, will take place on 7-8 March.

UT Library invites its readers to visit the digital archive DSpace and find materials for studying and research, as well as the collections of general interest. DSpace is a repository for all electronic materials, including e-theses and e-publications, and digitised theses, books, manuscripts and images, etc. At present, it contains more than 80 000 objects.

Therapy dogs from the Estonian Association of Assistance and Therapy Dogs traditionally visit the night library. The readers can meet the first dogs already today.