CEU Expands Access to its Budapest Library

Several public collections, higher educational institutions, and research institutes are forced to close their doors in the coming winter months in Hungary. The library of Central European University in Budapest, however, remains open, CEU has announced.

Furthermore, the leadership of the university decided to expand access to the library for the students and faculty of Hungarian universities and colleges; scholars at the former research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and representatives of the media too.

Central and Eastern Europe’s largest library in the humanities and social sciences with its collection of 400.000 titles, 61.000 online journals, and the most important databases in humanities and social sciences, can be visited between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on working days, and from noon until 6 p.m. on Saturdays. The five-story library provides 400 reading spaces and over 100 networked PCs. The library is located in the main CEU building in downtown Budapest.

Press reports remind that in 2017, the Hungarian government adopted an amendment, known as 'lex CEU', to the Higher Education Act, which tightened the conditions for foreign universities to operate in Hungary, and although the European Court of Justice ruled that the law violated EU law, the university's management announced on December 3, 2018 that their US accredited courses would be launched in Vienna instead of Budapest from September 2019. The 'lex CEU' has since expired and the university has set up a research institute in Budapest.