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On Friday, 21 June the senate elected Krista Aru to the position of director of the University of Tartu Library. Candidates for the post of the library director were Liisi Lembinen, Krista Aru and Asko Tamme. The senate admitted that all three were strong candidates and worthy to be elected to the position.

Dear readers! On Sunday, 9 June, UT Library is closed due to a public holiday.

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On Monday, 20 May the traditional Night Library will open its doors to all students. During the following two weeks the UT Library will be open on workdays from 9-24 and on weekends 9-21. „The Night Library has become a part of a student life," said Liisi Lembinen, the acting director of the UT Library. „Twice a year, during the more intensive period of exams and prelims, the students have an opportunity to study in the library until midnight. We hope that our reading rooms and group work rooms will be widely used by the students."

Dear readers! On Wednesday, May 1 the UT Library is closed. Happy May Day!

UT Library invites everyone to join for the movie night on April 30, at 18:00 when the film "How to build a spaceship" will be shown. The movie night takes place in the seminar room Tõstamaa.

Information about the opening hours in summer: 09 June - closed 20 June - open 9-17 22-24 June - closed 01 July – 04 August – closed 05 August - 01 September – open Mon-Fri 10-18; Sat-Sun closed. 19-20 August - closed.

On Easter Holidays the UT Library is closed on Friday, 19 April and Sunday, 21 April. On Saturday, 20 April the library is open from 12 until 18.

The University of Tartu Library in cooperation with DataCite Estonia will hold the international seminar „FAIR Data – the Key to Sustainable Research“ in the UT Library (W. Struve 1) on 9 and 10 April. „As in previous years, we are organising the seminar on research data management and usage this year as well,“ said Lilian Neerut, the head of the Department of Subject Librarians. “Researchers, postgraduates, funders and research administrators, as well as other people interested in the topics of research data, are welcome to participate in this seminar.“

On 19 March, the exhibition "Rarities of Astronomy" was opened in the UT Library, displaying the most valuable part of the historical books and documents that arrived in the library from Tartu Observatory in the end of the previous year.

On Tuesday, March 19 at 15:00 the medical database DynaMed Plus, presently open for trial, is presented in the UT Library. Everyone who is interested in gaining more knowledge about this database is welcome to participate in the event in the group work room Rotalia on the second floor of the library. Additional information: Pille Naggel Subject Librarian of the Department of Subject Librarians UT Library [email protected] 737 5780

For trial are open two EBSCO medical databases DynaMed Plus and Isabel. Trial is open until 30th Aprill.

The traditional two-day winter seminar of memory institutions, organised by the UT Library, will take place on 6-7 March at Kääriku. The focus of this year's seminar will be on the topics of open and linked data. The second half of the first day will be concentrating on design thinking. On the second day of the seminar the participants will have a chance to share their experience on different subjects related to the development of memory institutions.

Journal Bioanalysis is open for trial until 31st December 2019. UT only has access to the 2018 & 2019 content. The journal Bioanalysis focuses on the techniques and methods used for the detection or quantitative study of analytes in human or animal biological samples. Please send your feedback to [email protected]

Dear readers! On 22 February the UT Library is open from 9-21. On 23 and 24 February the library is closed.

The UT Library and the National Library of Estonia are offering the digitisation of copyright-free books from their collections at a special price of 10 EUR from 4th to 28th February 2019.

The exhibition „Etudes“ by Maire and Alo Aarsalu is now open in the third floor lobby of the UT Library. Alo Aarsalu works include mainly compositions, while paintings of Maire Aarsalu are from nature. Both artists have said that they were inspired by colors and composition. Therefore, they did not consider it important to specify the titles of the paintings. Maire Aarsalu has studied art and painting in the University of Tartu, her husband Alo in Konrad Mägi Atelier.

The database Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is open for trial. The Thesaurus is the first to cover all the Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D. Please send your feedback to the address [email protected]

On Tuesday, January 8 an exhibition „Get ready! A hundred faces of the University of Tartu“ was opened on the second floor exhibition area of the library. In 2017, one of the best-known portrait photographers in Estonia, Birgit Püve, captured one hundred outstanding scientists and lecturers from the University of Tartu with an object reflecting their work or relationship with the university.

At the Rector’s New Year’s reception on 2 January, staff members of the university selected the reopening of the UT Library after renovations as the Deed of the Year 2018 The top three nominations for the Deed of the Year title were announced at the reception.