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Trial of various ProQuest legal and other disciplines' resources is open until 23 June 2017 to all UT students, faculty and staff. E-resources are accessible over the university computer network. Here are the descriptions of the databases with access hyperlinks: http://search.proquest.com/?accountid=28432 Proquest ebook collection:

From 31 May to 30 June, UT Library will offer used books to everybody for free. Books are on the shelves in the library back entrance lobby (Akadeemia Street entrance).

Vlog episode no. 4 with the title "RVL - what is this?" introduces the interlibrary loans service which during renovation period is very popular among students. Link to the vlog here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cNPAxtG_bk

On 23 May 2017, the University of Tartu announced a public procurement to resume the stalled reconstruction works in the library. Vice Rector for Development Erik Puura says the university has decided that the works are carried out in phases, like in the previous procurement for construction works.

The third episode of the UT library vlog "Have you already been to the library?" is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P2xkc7tm6o&t=9s

On 22 May, the UT Library will open its traditional Night Library at the pop-up reading rooms on J. Liivi Street. During two weeks the Night Library will work from Monday to Sunday, from 9 a.m. until midnight.

Until the end of the spring exam period, the pop-up reading rooms and group work rooms are open on J. Liivi Street. In August, the temporary reading rooms will be opened in a new location – 32 Veski Street.

The second episode of the vlog is ready: the journalist visits the library to find answer to the question "Do you really work there as well?". Link to the vlog: https://youtu.be/4QwQMMTtLtA

Dear readers! On Monday, 1 May UT Library is closed.

Upon the request of the Office of Research and Development of UT the database Elsevier SciVal Funding is open for trial until 2 May 2017. The database contains information about the research funding programmes and grants. Until the end of June 2017 De Gruyter e-magazines are available for trial. The database contains more than 900 magazines practically from all research fields.

UT Library starts vlogging The first episode of the UT Library vlog was launched today. New entries will appear every two weeks, aiming to provide information about everything that is going on in the library – its daily life, services, and also renovation news.

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Opening hours of the UT Library and pop-up reading rooms (J.Liivi Str.) during the Easter Holidays: 14 April – closed 15 April – 12-16 16 April – closed.

UT Library will hold the public reading of Homer’s Odyssey on Friday, 24 March at 11.00. The epic will simultaneously be read in 26 countries in relation to the European Festival of Latin and Greek in Lyon. “We will read out the 5th book of Odyssey, and we will do it in Estonian as well as in old Greek,” said one of the organisers of the event, the UT Library senior research fellow Janika Päll. “This book tells us about the beginning of the last decisive stage of Odysseus’s journey home.”

Live stream On 20 April, the University of Tartu Library and DataCite Estonia will hold an international seminar Open Research Data - the FAIRest Data is the Future of Science at Tallinn Technical University, welcoming all scientists, researchers, postgraduates and other interested people. The seminar focuses on research data, approaching the topic from technical, political and practical aspects.

The University of Tartu Library launched the Estonian-language MOOC titled “Information Literacy”. This is the first open online course fully developed and managed by the library staff. The main aim of the course is to introduce different information sources available on the Internet and provide knowledge and practical information search skills.

The traditional two-day Winter Seminar of memory institutions, organised by the UT Library, will start today at Kääriku. The first day of the seminar is focusing on all kinds of staff-related problems and discusses ways of staff development.

UT Library opened a photo exhibition on its website, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the opening of the new building in Struve Street. The exhibition contains … photos. The new UT Library building was opened on 22 February 1982. The web exhibition introduces the story behind the planning and building of the library and presents photos of the construction, moving of the books, the opening ceremony and the interior design of the building.

Dear readers! On Thursday, 23 February the UT library main building (Struve str) and pop-up reading rooms (Liivi str) are open until 12. On Friday, 24 February the library is closed. Happy Independence day!

Starting from 7 February, the e-catalogue ESTER is accessible via one of the largest meta catalogues in the world – the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue http://kvk.bibliothek.kit.edu/. The Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue is a meta-catalogue of e-databases and books, established by the Karlsruhe University Library in cooperation with the IT department of the same university in 1996. Today the catalogue enables meta search in 74 databases worldwide, including the biggest Estonian e-catalogue.