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From 4 January until 17 January UT Library organizes a traditional Night Library. During these two weeks the library is open until midnight.

The collection of articles “Karl Morgenstern 250. Qui vult, potest" about the life and work of Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern has been published.

UT Library celebrates the 250th anniversary of the world famous composer Ludvig van Beethoven with a mini-exhibition of the letter, written by Beethoven himself to a German musician Bernhard Heinrich Romberg. Bernhard Heinrich Romberg (1767–1841) was a composer and cellist, but also a good friend of Beethoven. In the letter Beethoven complains about his poor health, particularly aching ears, due to which he could not meet his friend who was on a tour in Vienna.

University of Tartu Library celebrates the 101th anniversary of the Estonian national university with the exhibition of doctoral theses, defended in 2020. Printed dissertations of this year's new doctors are exhibited in the 2nd floor hall of the library. 23 dissertations were defended in the humanities, 17 in social sciences, 18 in medical sciences and 52 in natural and exact sciences; 10 of them were written in Estonian, 97 in English and three in Russian.

Dear readers! On Tuesday, 1 December the library is open 9-12 due to the celebration of the 101-st anniversary of the university.

From 16 November to 13 December the University of Tartu Library offers the digitizing of the out-of-copyright books, stored in the library collections, for a special price. During the campaign period the price for the digital copy is 10 euros.

On November 18, UT Library and several other memory institutions of the University of Tartu celebrate Academic Heritage Day. This year the focus is on the heritage that Karl Morgenstern, the founder and first director of the library and museum, left to the university.

Trial use for Datenschutz- und Informationsfreiheitsrecht PREMIUM and IT-Recht PREMIUM modules until 15.12.2020!

Information regarding the opening hours in December 21 and 22 Dec open 9-18 23-27 Dec closed 28-30 Dec open 9-21 31 Dec and 1 Jan closed

The UT Library calendar for 2021 shows examples of marbled paper, made with the marbling technique, which has already for centuries been used to decorate books.

The traditional OpenAIRE week will this year be held from 20 to 23 October, inviting researchers, post-graduates, administrators of research projects, librarians and everyone else who is interested in the progress of open science to participate in different webinars which focus on establishing the participatory environment for academic cooperation.

UT Library will continue the service, started in January, which offers the UT users the possibility to return books borrowed from any UT subject library or the main library to any library in the UT Library network.

On 24 September, the exhibition “Tartu Classicist” was opened in the University of Tartu Library to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its first director Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern. The exhibition displays a selection of documents, books and works of art from the library collections related to Morgenstern.

On Wednesday, 30 September a RDA Estonia National Event Opening Minds and Digital Collections: Digital Humanities Seminar will take place in the UT Library. The event will be organized by Estonian RDA Node and DataCite Estonia Consortsium. The online seminar "Opening Minds and Digital Collections" aims to strengthen the connection between arts and humanities researchers and digital practices, using open resources of cultural heritage (libraries, archives, repositories, etc.) as the main example.

On Tuesday, 22 September the popular adventurous game "Hunger Games" will take place in the open stacks of the library. The game is one of the events in the programme of Tartu Students Days which last from Monday till Sunday.

The exhibition “The Magical World of Harry Potter” in the UT Library offers a joy of recognition and discovery to all fans of the famous literary character. The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with students of the Tartu Art College.

Dear readers! Due to the celebration of the 218th anniversary of the UT Library on Thursday, 24 September, the library is open until 14.

From 07 September until 07 October all books in the renewed UT Library e-bookstore are reduced 20%. Additionally, the clients can now pay for the books via bank link or with the credit card. The payment for the orders can be made via Swedbank, SEB, LHV, Luminori and Citadele bank links and with the credit card. Visit the e-books store here.

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On Friday, 28 August, the University of Tartu Library and the University of Tartu Art Museum will jointly celebrate the 250th birthday of Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, the founder of both the Art Museum and the Library of the University of Tartu, the professor of rhetoric, classical philology, aesthetics and history of literature and art. This day, the restored monument to Karl Morgenstern will be opened on Toomemägi, and free tours will take people to places related with Morgenstern’s life and work. A memorial ceremony will be held at the Raadi Cemetery.