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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.

One of the ten nominees who received most votes in the competition “The Deed of the Year 2018”, organised by the Tartu City Government and the newspaper Tartu Postimees, was the completion of the UT Library renovation. The Letters of Honour were given to the nominees yesterday, on 27 December. Tartu’s Deed of the Year was selected already for the 21st time. There were twenty-three different events, achievements and undertakings nominated as the candidates of this competition.

The traditional Night Library will open its doors for the winter exam session already on the second day of the new year. After several years, the Night Library is again organised with the support of the UT Student Council.

On Wednesday, 12 December a Christmas Fair will take place in the 1-st floor lobby of the UT Library. The fair will be open from 11 until 16 and you can buy jewellery, ceramics, linen products, herb teas, different food products. Everyone is welcome! Additional information: Katriin Kaljovee Director's Personal Assistant UT Library [email protected] 737 5727

The University of Tartu Library Calendar for 2019 introduces the parrots as they are featured in François Levaillant’s book Histoire naturelle des perroquets (The Natural History of Parrots). The author of the book, François Levaillant (1753–1824), was the first scholar to study the birds of Africa. He was among the first to describe, in addition to the appearance of the birds also their behaviour and habitats and he illustrated his books with masterful colour tables.

From Monday, 03 December, copies from the collections of dissertations, Estica-materials, journals and older memorial collections can again be requested. These collections were packed for the renovation period and were therefore not accessible since the summer of 2016.

On Friday, 30 November, the exhibition of doctoral theses, defended in 2018, was opened in the UT Library to celebrate the 99th anniversary of the Estonian national university. At the ceremonial meeting, held in the UT Assembly Hall on 1 December, 113 scholars who have defended their doctoral dissertations during the year were awarded their degrees. Dissertations of these new doctors are exhibited in the 2nd floor hall of the library – 9 of them were written in Estonian, 99 in English, 3 in Russian, 1 in Spanish and 1 in French.

The opening hours of UT Library in December: 17-18 Dec – open 9-18 19-20 Dec - open 9-21 21 Dec - open 9-18 22-26 Dec – closed 27-28 Dec – open 9-21 29-31 Dec and 01 Jan – closed

Dear readers! On Saturday, 1 December, the UT Library is closed due to the 99th anniversary of the national university.

On Monday, 12 November Tartu Observatory will give 260 older books that have so far been in its library over to the UT Library. “Holding conditions in the newly renovated library are definitely better than in our building,” Maret Veldre, the librarian of Tartu Observatory explained the need for rehousing the books. “Some of our books are even now in a bad need of restoration and the UT library has this competence. Also, as the ink won’t remain on the paper forever, manuscripts should be digitised. This work can also be done at the library by specialists.”

On Thursday, 8 November, the artist Kaire Nurk will open an exhibition of her paintings “Bivalent” in the second floor lobby of the UT Library. “Bivalent” brings together the paintings the artist made during her Master’s studies at the University of Tartu and the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2015-2017, and the works she had created as a professional artist before starting her studies.

On Friday, 09 November the representatives of the Rotalia Foundation USA gave a cheque on 100 000 US dollars as a gift to the UT Library. The gift was received by Kristjan Vassil, the UT Vice Rector of Research and Liisi Lembinen, the UT Library Acting Director. The donated sum will be used for purchasing additional technological equipment to expand the list of services offered to the readers.

Stalin Digital Archive is open for trial until 8 December 2018. Stalin Digital Archive contains a selection of documents, which covers Stalin's personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs (1889-1952). Access to the archive is possible via UT computer network. Please send your feedback to [email protected]