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Dear readers! Just to a kind reminder that we can help to prevent the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 from spreading if we: 1. Stay at home when being ill or not feeling well. 2. Wash and disinfect hands. 3. Keep a safe, 2x2 m distance. Protect yourself and all the others!

Opening hours of UT Library in summer: 29 June – 30 Aug Mon–Fri 12–18 Sat–Sun closed 20–21 Aug closed

The 3rd floor reading rooms and open stacks are again open from Monday, 1 June. Until 28 June the library will be open at regular opening hours. To borrow books picked up from these areas, the readers should use the self-checkers or go to the 2nd or 3rd floor service points. If the reader cannot/do not want to go to the open stacks at the moment, the library service staff will exceptionally bring books out for you if they are requested via the e-catalogue ESTER.

Dear readers! On Sunday, 31 May the UT Library is closed due to the national holiday.

Starting from 25 May, the second hall reading room of the UT Library will again be open from Monday to Friday from 9-21, and on Saturday 12-18. On Sunday, 31 May the library is closed due to the public holiday. The reading room of manuscripts and rare books is open from Monday until Friday 10-19, on Saturday 12-18.

Information about borrowing books from 25 to 31 May:

UT Library opens the 2nd floor reading rooms for the students on Monday, 18 May to offer a pleasant learning environment. The desks are placed according to the 2+2 rule and other safety requirements. As a result, 100 students can study in this area. Online number of the visitors in the library can be seen on the library's webpage.

Information Technology Foundation for Education (ITFE) announced the recipients of the e-course quality label in 2020; among others, this acknowledgement was awarded to the online course “Research Data Management and Publication”, created by the UT Library and the UT Natural History Museum. The e-course was authored by Tiiu Tarkpea from the UT Library and Urmas Kõljalg, Allar Zirk and Veljo Runnel from the Natural History Museum.

emergency situation

Dear readers! On Friday, May 1 the library is closed and the requested books cannot be picked up. Happy May Day!

University of Tartu Library is asking students, researchers and lecturers to suggest which books and learning materials, written by Estonian authors, should be digitised in the first order. Digitisation will be carried out under the four-year-long European project EODOPEN, aiming at making 15 000 texts from the 20th and 21st centuries digitally accessible to all in the digital format.

An online platform named Human Kinetics Library is open for trial, lasting until 31th May. The online platform - Human Kinetics Library - which is dedicated to the teaching, research and understanding of sport, kinesiology, and exercise science. The platform features over 150 eBooks, alongside ancillary materials for students. Please send your feedback to the address [email protected]

Due to the emergency situation and closing of universities, several publishing houses and databases gave free access to their materials that could be used by the students, researchers and employees of the University of Tartu. In case of some databeses, free access has been extended also after the emergency period.

FAQ

UT Library is closed due to the emergency situation, but starting from Wednesday, 25 March, users can request books via the e-catalogue ESTER. The requested books can be picked up from the Smart Lockers in the library lobby.

Instructions how to request and borrow books in emergency situation

emergency situation

Prime Minister Jüri Ratas visited the University of Tartu Library on 6 March to get an overview of the renovated building, which was reopened at the end of 2018. The Prime Minister met the director Krista Aru to discuss the role and opportunities of the libraries in the present educational and research situation.

The traditional two-day winter seminar of memory institutions, organised by the UT Library at Kääriku on 19-20 March, will concentrate on the topics of opening up the collections.

The exhibition to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the writer Andres Ehin will be opened in the UT Library on Thursday, 12 March. The exhibition gives an overview of Ehin’s poetry as well as his activities as a translator. At the opening event, Andres Ehin’s life and works will be introduced by his wife, the poet and translator Ly Seppel-Ehin, and his daughter, the poet Kristiina Ehin. Visitors of the exhibition can also listen to the writer reading his poems – his voice comes from the vinyl album, recorded in 1973.