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On Thursday, 05 December a traditional Christmas Fair will take place in the first floor lobby of the UT Library. The fair will be open from 12 until 18 and you can buy jewellery, ceramics, linen products, herb teas, different food products, also Christmas cards and gingerbreads. Everyone is welcome! Additional information: Katriin Kaljovee Director's Personal Assistant UT Library [email protected] 737 5727

The memorial exhibition for Professor Leonid Stolovitš will be opened on the 3rd floor of the University of Tartu Library on Wednesday, 27 November at 16. On 22 July this year, the professor of philosophy, poet and translator Leonid Stolovitš would have celebrated his 90th birthday. The exhibition, dedicated to his anniversary, gives us an overview of his life and research activities.

University of Tartu Library celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Estonian national university with the exhibition of doctoral theses, defended in 2019.

Two exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the national university were opened at the Library on 22 November.

Dear readers! On Sunday, 1 December the UT Library is closed due to the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the University of Tartu.

The UT Library and the National Library of Estonia are offering the digitization of copyright-free books from their collections at a special price of 10 EUR from 18 November to 15 December 2019. All books with discount can be found here or find books you want to digitize in the Estonian catalogue ESTER (choose from collections of NLE and UTL). How to order?

The University of Tartu Library Calendar for 2020 contains works from the art collection of professor Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern (1770–1852). The calendar album is issued to celebrate the 250th birthday of the first director of the UT Library and art museum.

During Christmas holidays and at the end of the year the UT Library will be open:

University of Tartu Library and the Estonian DataCite Consortium will hold an international seminar “Open Access – Plans and Choices” at the UT Library Conference Hall (1, W. Struve St.) on 6 November.

An international Open Access Week started today, aiming at attracting everyone to learn more about the research information of the Open Access. UT Library conitnues with the tradition started in 2010 and offers different opportunities to get more information about the principles of open science. Everyone who is interested in these topics ise welcome to participate in OpenAIRE webinars, which concentrate on the topics related with OA publications, data administration, open access regulations of the program Horizon 2020 and plan S.

The fairy tale wood is open in the exhibition hall of the Library, giving everyone an opportunity to compare the change and development of the text and illustrations of the "Little Red Riding Hood" fairy tale. The texts are taken from the books by brothers Grimm, Ch. Perrault and A. Lang.

On 18 October, the University of Tartu Library will hold the Friedrich Puksoo Day seminar “The Library of the National University 100”, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the National University of Estonia.

From 13 September until 15 October all books in UT Library e-bookstore are reduced -20%. Visit the e-bookstore here.

Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO) is open for trial until 17 Oktober 2019. It is a fully searchable collection of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the 20th C. Coverage: 1898 - 1990. Access to the database is possible via UT computer network.

The European Documentation Centre (EDC), located at the University of Tartu Library and containing official documents and publications of the EU, has lately updated its homepage.

UT Library will continue with the guided tours on the week starting with 16 September. During the tours the building and library services are introduced to students. The tours are in Estonian, English and Russian.

On Friday, 06 September, the photo exhibition "Women in Science" was opened on the second floor area of the UT Library. The photos of the L´Oréal Baltic fellowship recipients in 2019 are exhibitied in the exhibition.

Dear readers! On 4 September, starting from midnight the maintenance works of e-catalogue ESTER will take place and the users have no access to it. The maintenance works are planned to last for 4 hours. Sorry for the inconveniences!

To give you a better overview of the library and its services, we offer guided tours from Monday to Friday in the first two weeks of September. The first year students as well as those who have already started their studies earlier are welcome to participate.

On August 15, Krista Aru took up post as the Director of the UT Library. On her first day of work, she met the staff of the library to introduce her vision of the role and development perspectives of the UT Library within the university as well as in Estonia as a whole.