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On March 31st at 3 pm, a Juhan Luiga-themed exhibition titled "Where are you going, where are you all going?!... Juhan Luiga 150" will be opened on the third floor of the library.

The Taylor & Francis eBook platform is open for trial in the University of Tartu network until the 31st of May. The platform includes e-books about science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social science.

Due to Easter holidays, the library will be closed from April 7th to April 9th. Happy holidays to everyone!

On Thursday, March 23, a bookbinding exhibition entitled "Hidden Half. From Handicraft Binding to Machine Production" will be opened in the exhibition hall of the library.

In March, six galleries at the University of Tartu launched a series of exhibitions and events called "Order and Chaos" to deepen cooperation and foster synergy between science and the arts.

The library asks all readers who have left their personal belongings in the lockers and closed them to open and empty the lockers by Thursday, 23 March at the latest. On that evening the lockers will be cleaned. The library reminds that the lockers in the first floor are meant to be used only while studying in the library and clothes and other items that are stored there, must be removed by the end of the day and leave the lockers open.

The photo exhibition “Moon” by the sky photographer Martin Vällik is open on the second floor exhibition area of the library.

The University of Tartu Commemorates the Anniversary of the full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine and invites everyone to visit the Memorial Exhibition of Unissued Diplomas. The University of Tartu is hosting a memorial exhibition to commemorate the anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine. The exhibition titled "The Diplomas That Never Be Issued" will showcase the unissued diplomas of the students who were killed by Russia in the ongoing war.

The Elsevier database ClinicalKey Student contains medical students' textbooks, images and videos and is open for trial in the University of Tartu network. ClinicalKey Student is an interactive platform. To register and get access, please visit www.clinicalkey.com/student. More information can be found here. The trial period runs from the 20th of February to the 31st of March.

Dear readers! On Thursday, 23 February the library is open 9-12. On Friday, 24 February the library is closed. Happy Independence Day!

On the third floor of the library, an exhibition of the books by Estonian authors, published in the year 2022, is open. More than 200 books are exhibited, first printings as well as revised ones. “The number of literary works, written by the Estonian authors within one year, is quite remarkable,” said the compiler of the exhibition Marianne Tiik. “It is difficult to have an overview of all new books, but here it is a good opportunity to have them just in front of you."

On Thursday, 09 February, starting from 7 p.m., UT Library will host the first indoor orienteering competition. The starting point of the competition will be set up in the lobby of the main entrance and the checkpoints are located all over the three floors of the library’s public area – in reading rooms, open stacks and other public spaces and lobbies. The preparation will start at 5 p.m., the start will be given at 7 p.m. The competition will last 1-1,5 hours.

Doctoral students can register to the e-course “Research Data Management and Publishing” LTOM.00.007 until the 2th of March. The online course gives knowledge of the main principles of Open Science and Open Access and the importance of planning and managing research data in the FAIR manner. Additional information:

Doctoral students can register to the e-course “Introduction to Information Research” OIAO.06.051 until the 5th of February. The online course gives knowledge and practical skills in searching for and managing research information and research data. The course is supervised by the UT Library subject librarians.

After a couple of years, the traditional winter seminar of memory institutions, organised by the University of Tartu Library, will again be held at the Kääriku Sports Centre. The seminar, focusing on sustainable development and ecological footprints of memory institutions, will take place on 7-8 March.

UT Library invites its readers to visit the digital archive DSpace and find materials for studying and research, as well as the collections of general interest. DSpace is a repository for all electronic materials, including e-theses and e-publications, and digitised theses, books, manuscripts and images, etc. At present, it contains more than 80 000 objects.

Therapy dogs from the Estonian Association of Assistance and Therapy Dogs traditionally visit the night library. The readers can meet the first dogs already today.

For the library, the new will start with the Night Library which lasts for two weeks. During this period the library is open until midnight. „We really start already on the second day of January,” said the head of the service department of UT Library Olga Einasto. „We know from previous years, that the prepration for the exams starts on the first days of the year. The reading rooms and group work rooms here are ideal for concentration, so we really hope that many students will come to the library to study."

The traditional Christmas Fair takes place on Friday, 9 December in the first floor lobby of the UT Library. This year the fair is organised together with Tartu Folk High School. „After two years we can again invite people to the Christmas fair,“ said the Communication Manager of UT Library Herdis Olmaru. „As we have had several projects with the Folk High School recently, it seemed a good idea to cooperate for this event as well.“

The UT Library 2023 year calendar presents a selection of flower images, which were used as models in the classes of the University of Tartu Drawing School in the 19th century. Such pictures were used as examples when students of natural sciences and medicine, as well as hobby artists, were practicing drawing.