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From 13 September until 15 October all books in UT Library e-bookstore are reduced -20%. Visit the e-bookstore here.

Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO) is open for trial until 17 Oktober 2019. It is a fully searchable collection of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), shedding light on diplomatic history throughout the 20th C. Coverage: 1898 - 1990. Access to the database is possible via UT computer network.

The European Documentation Centre (EDC), located at the University of Tartu Library and containing official documents and publications of the EU, has lately updated its homepage.

UT Library will continue with the guided tours on the week starting with 16 September. During the tours the building and library services are introduced to students. The tours are in Estonian, English and Russian.

On Friday, 06 September, the photo exhibition "Women in Science" was opened on the second floor area of the UT Library. The photos of the L´Oréal Baltic fellowship recipients in 2019 are exhibitied in the exhibition.

Dear readers! On 4 September, starting from midnight the maintenance works of e-catalogue ESTER will take place and the users have no access to it. The maintenance works are planned to last for 4 hours. Sorry for the inconveniences!

To give you a better overview of the library and its services, we offer guided tours from Monday to Friday in the first two weeks of September. The first year students as well as those who have already started their studies earlier are welcome to participate.

On August 15, Krista Aru took up post as the Director of the UT Library. On her first day of work, she met the staff of the library to introduce her vision of the role and development perspectives of the UT Library within the university as well as in Estonia as a whole.

On Friday, 21 June the senate elected Krista Aru to the position of director of the University of Tartu Library. Candidates for the post of the library director were Liisi Lembinen, Krista Aru and Asko Tamme. The senate admitted that all three were strong candidates and worthy to be elected to the position.

Dear readers! On Sunday, 9 June, UT Library is closed due to a public holiday.

Dear reader, The University of Tartu Library warns its readers and persons related to the University of Tartu in regard to the following phishing scam letters and asks you not to enter your username and/or password to the added web-address. If you find this letter in your mailbox, please ignore it and delete the e-mail immediately. The content of the scam letter: Saatja: University of Tartu Library <[email protected]> Teema: Library Account Dear User,

On Monday, 20 May the traditional Night Library will open its doors to all students. During the following two weeks the UT Library will be open on workdays from 9-24 and on weekends 9-21. „The Night Library has become a part of a student life," said Liisi Lembinen, the acting director of the UT Library. „Twice a year, during the more intensive period of exams and prelims, the students have an opportunity to study in the library until midnight. We hope that our reading rooms and group work rooms will be widely used by the students."

Dear readers! On Wednesday, May 1 the UT Library is closed. Happy May Day!

UT Library invites everyone to join for the movie night on April 30, at 18:00 when the film "How to build a spaceship" will be shown. The movie night takes place in the seminar room Tõstamaa.

Information about the opening hours in summer: 09 June - closed 20 June - open 9-17 22-24 June - closed 01 July – 04 August – closed 05 August - 01 September – open Mon-Fri 10-18; Sat-Sun closed. 19-20 August - closed.

On Easter Holidays the UT Library is closed on Friday, 19 April and Sunday, 21 April. On Saturday, 20 April the library is open from 12 until 18.

The University of Tartu Library in cooperation with DataCite Estonia will hold the international seminar „FAIR Data – the Key to Sustainable Research“ in the UT Library (W. Struve 1) on 9 and 10 April. „As in previous years, we are organising the seminar on research data management and usage this year as well,“ said Lilian Neerut, the head of the Department of Subject Librarians. “Researchers, postgraduates, funders and research administrators, as well as other people interested in the topics of research data, are welcome to participate in this seminar.“

On 19 March, the exhibition "Rarities of Astronomy" was opened in the UT Library, displaying the most valuable part of the historical books and documents that arrived in the library from Tartu Observatory in the end of the previous year.

On Tuesday, March 19 at 15:00 the medical database DynaMed Plus, presently open for trial, is presented in the UT Library. Everyone who is interested in gaining more knowledge about this database is welcome to participate in the event in the group work room Rotalia on the second floor of the library. Additional information: Pille Naggel Subject Librarian of the Department of Subject Librarians UT Library [email protected] 737 5780

For trial are open two EBSCO medical databases DynaMed Plus and Isabel. Trial is open until 30th Aprill.