Topic: university

Due to the increasing risk of coronavirus and nationwide restrictions, the library can have up to one hundred visitors at a time from Monday, 1 March. The number of visitors in the building can be seen in real time on the library’s website. “We are doing everything we can right now to avoid closing the library completely,” said Krista Aru, Director of the UT Library. “Of course, it is essential that only people who are healthy and wear a mask come to the library. I therefore once again urge all our readers to follow that rule.”

The exhibition "Mordor 89", showing photos taken in the non-renovated part of the Narva mnt 89 student dormitory, is open in the UT Library.

Friedrich Puksoo Prize 2020 was awarded to the catalogue With Work and Devotion. 500 years from the birth of the most famous publisher of the Netherlands Christophe Plantin, compiled by Ülle Mölder, Janika Päll and Kaspar Kolk and designed by Lilian Mengel. The catalogue is accompanied by the online exhibition under the same title.

Dear readers! On 23 February, the day preceding the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, the library is open 9-12. On Wednesday, 24 February, the library is closed.

The photos in the exhibition "REDISCOVERED", made by Gunnar Toomemets during the last ten years, depict detailly the Estonian nature in different times of the year. “In my photos I have focused on the nature which came closer to us last year which was quite special," said Toomemets. “I wanted to show that the moments of nature and beauty are just nearby." Among other photos there are also some that have captured the moments in Tartu and in its surroundings.

The exhibition “Winners of the Friedebert Tuglas Short Story Award” on the 3rd floor of the UT Library presents the first printed editions of the short stories which have been awarded the prize named after one of the best short stories writers in Estonia.

From 4 January until 17 January UT Library organizes a traditional Night Library. During these two weeks the library is open until midnight.

The collection of articles “Karl Morgenstern 250. Qui vult, potest" about the life and work of Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern has been published.

UT Library celebrates the 250th anniversary of the world famous composer Ludvig van Beethoven with a mini-exhibition of the letter, written by Beethoven himself to a German musician Bernhard Heinrich Romberg. Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (1767–1841) was a composer and cellist, but also a good friend of Beethoven. In the letter Beethoven complains about his poor health, particularly aching ears, due to which he could not meet his friend who was on a tour in Vienna.

University of Tartu Library celebrates the 101th anniversary of the Estonian national university with the exhibition of doctoral theses, defended in 2020. Printed dissertations of this year's new doctors are exhibited in the 2nd floor hall of the library. 23 dissertations were defended in the humanities, 17 in social sciences, 18 in medical sciences and 52 in natural and exact sciences; 10 of them were written in Estonian, 97 in English and three in Russian.