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The traditional two-day Winter Seminar of memory institutions that takes place on March 13 and 14, organised by the UT Library, focuses on data protection and relevant legislation. As a tradition, the meeting place is Kääriku.

The unpacking and re-shelving of books in the newly renovated library stacks has already started and the UT Library invites its university staff members and students to volunteer in the cleaning of books.

Starting from 1 March, the UT Library will provide a new service for students who are writing their final theses. The service is in the form of personal consultations, given by the specialists of the Service Department and the Department of Subject Librarians.

Starting from today, the UT Library will daily upload the digitised version of the newspaper Postimees, which was published on that day 100 years ago. This is a gift from the library for the 100th birthday of the Republic of Estonia.

Dear readers! On Friday, 23 February the UT library main building (Struve str) and pop-up reading rooms (Liivi str) are open until 12. On Saturday, 24 February the library is closed. On Sunday, 25 February the library is closed, pop-up reading rooms in Veski str are open 12-18. Happy Independence Day!

Our 9th vlog episode should be particularly interesting for these people who want to know how an old book is restored. Did you know that before restoration all pages must be washed separately? How to treat the paper so that it would be possible to read the book even after a century? Is it possible to restore the parts that are made of leather?

When making a purchase in the e-bookshop of UT Library, you can now order it to be sent to Omniva or Itella parcel machines. „E-shops are becoming more and more popular and thus, the number of purchases in our e-shop is increasing all the time," told Kristhel Haak who is responsible for the orders in the e-shop. „Now the client can choose the parcel machine the location of which suits him or her best and we will send the book(s) there."

Collaboration between the University of Tartu Library and the Estonian National Library has resulted in a new language resource, making accessible the frequency lists of n-grams which were created on the basis of newer Estonian works of fiction. The resource includes both the lists of n-grams as they appear in the texts and as lemma n-grams.

On 2 January, UT Library will open its traditional Night Library in the pop-up reading rooms on Veski Street. Night Library welcomes the students from Monday till Sunday, from 9 a.m. until midnight.

During Christmas and New Year UT library is open as follows:

Due to the 98-th anniversary of the University of Tartu on Friday, 1 December, UT Library and pop-up reading rooms (Veski str 32) are open 9-12.

Dear readers! Due to the renovation works the books that are requested on Friday, 17 November and Saturday, 18 November will be available for picking up on Monday, 20 November. The service point in the main building of the library (Struve 1) is open on Friday 9-19 and Saturday 12-16 and all books requested earlier will be available for picking up on time. Sorry for the inconveniences! UT Library

The University of Tartu Library Calendar for 2018 introduces the Roman Carnival as described 230 years ago by the great German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) in his book Das Römische Carneval.

The database of The Geological Society of London, Lyell Collection, is available for trial until 1 December 2017. The Lyell Collection represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth Science literature available. Please send your feedback to the address [email protected]

Dear readers! On Saturday, 28 October the library is closed due to the power cut. The pop-up reading rooms in Veski str 32 are open as usual from 12 until 18. Sorry for the inconveniences!

The anatomy databases Acland Anatomy and Visible Body are open for trial until 18 November 2017.

From 23 - 27 October 2017 OpenAIRE celebrates Open Access Week with a series of webinars, every day at 12.00-15.00 (Estonian time). The webinars will focus on a range of topics, including two webinars dedicated on research data management and data management plans, discipline specific workflows and tools for open science, legal and privacy issues and of course our well-known overview webinars on H2020 open access policies and mandates. Here is the list of webinars: MONDAY OCTOBER 23 2PM CEST

Medical database ClinicalKey is available for trial for the University of Tartu until 30 November 2017.

Dear readers! Due to server renovation on Monday, 02 October and the books that are requested on Monday will be available for picking up on Wednesday, 04 October. Books can be returned during the opening hours 9-19. As there is no network connection in the pop-up reading room in Veski str, the computer class is also closed on Monday. Wi-fi connection is avilable. We are very sorry for the inconveniences!

If you are looking for a quiet learning environment or you need a place for discussing group works, just pop in to our pop-up reading rooms. The first-year students visited us and made a short tour for you as well.