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 CEU's
educational site is located in the heart of Budapest. The main downtown
buildings consist of two period structures and a modern tower as
well as several courtyards and passages linking these, and other,
buildings. Of particular historical note is a listed monument, a
palace built for the Festetics family, designed by one of the most
famous architects of Central and Eastern Europe, Mihaly Pollack.
For its careful renovation of the building, CEU received the "Urban
Rehabilitation of 1995" award from the Association of Hungarian
Architects. The modern, ten-story adjoining Faculty Tower was constructed
behind the palace and now houses many of the university's faculty
offices and classrooms. On its lower levels the tower is also the
location for the library and the university auditorium. There are
further buildings in the university block located along Oktober
6 u., Zrinyi u., and Nador u. The Business School is temporarily
located in another part of the city, while a new building is being
constructed. In addition, OSA's Art Nouveau edifice, a noted historical
building, which houses the Archives' storage rooms, offices, and
Research Room, is open to visitors throughout the day.
The CEU Residence Center is a modern residence complex located in the 10th District of Budapest. It provides air-conditioned single rooms for up to 300 graduate students, as well as single and double rooms for the undergraduate students of the CEU Business School. Altogether, the Residence Center can accommodate approximately 400 students.
Although wireless Internet access will be provided in the facility as of September 2007, students have the option to request a PC in their room.
Each room provides comfortable furniture and has a private bathroom. Graduate students are accommodated in single rooms only.
An enhanced residential life program—building upon CEU’s unique international student profile, student life programs and activities—is now in prospect.
The downtown CEU Sports Center serves as a complement to the already
existing sports center at the CEU Residence and Conference Center
(Kerepesi Dormitory). The use of the basic services of the Sports
Center is free for CEU students. The Sports Center is located in
Nador u. 12.
 More
information available at: sports center
summary page
 CEU maintains a computer network and connections to the Internet as a service for all members of the CEU community: faculty, students, and staff. There are around 109 computers available for Master's level students, and 88 computers available for doctoral students in the Nador u. complex. In addition, the CEU Residence Center houses a lab of 23 computers for both Master's and doctoral students (including non-resident students). There are also 266 computers in the dormitory rooms.
User regulations and procedures can be found in the "Guidelines for Use of Network and Computing Resources" and in the CEU Residence and Conference Center House Rules and Regulations.
The network system (GroupWise) provides a Noticeboard feature where students can post personal messages accessible to all students ("Noticeboard for Students" and "Noticeboard for CEU" to be accessed through the GroupWise Address Book). Students can distribute only strictly work/study-related messages through the network system.
More
information available at: computer
facilities summary page
 The
CEU Library has 2,000 square meters of open access area comprising
four separate reading halls and a Multimedia Library. Thirty computers
with access to online and CD-ROM databases are available for students,
faculty, and staff members in the reading areas. The CEU Library
collects materials in the fields of the social sciences, art and
literature, business studies, economics, environmental science,
gender studies, history, international relations, legal studies,
medieval studies, philosophy, and political science.
Detailed information about the library rules, services, collections,
and electronic databases is available on the library website at
http://www.library.ceu.hu
as well as in the CEU Library Short Guide.
All CEU students are automatically eligible for full membership
in the Library, but they are first asked to register at the Circulation
Desk and to participate in an introductory library tour. Student
memberships expire at the end of the academic year, unless otherwise
requested by their departments.
Address: Budapest, 1051, Nádor utca 9.
Phone: (36-1) 327-3099
Fax: (36-1) 327-3041
Email: library@ceu.hu
Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
May 19- 20 (Sat-Sun), 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
May 26 (Sat), 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
June 2-3 (Sat-Sun), 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Based upon an agreement in 1992 between Eotvos Lorand University
(ELTE) and CEU, the bulk of the Medieval Collection is housed at
the central building of ELTE and functions as an affiliated library
to the CEU Library. It is open to the general public and supports
the scholarly work of the students of both universities.
The main aim of the CEU-ELTE Medieval Library is to collect publications
on medieval Europe with special emphasis placed on source publications,
translations of medieval texts, the medieval history of Central
and Eastern Europe, and the interaction between the Byzantine civilization
and the West. The library presently holds about 13,000 items in
its collection.
1088 Budapest, Muzeum krt. 6-8, 1st floor, Rooms 149-150.
Contact Librarians at ELTE: Agnes Havasi and Judit Majorossy
Phone: (36-1) 485-5200 or 411-6900/ ext. 5139, Email: medlib@ceu.hu
Curator: Balazs Nagy; Phone: (36-1) 327-3052.
Monday to Friday: 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Established as a joint project of the CEU Library and the Center
for Academic Writing, the Multimedia Library is a learning resource
for language improvement and individual study. Video consoles, tape
recorders, DVD players, and multimedia PCs are available for members'
use. The Multimedia Library collection contains DVDs, CD-ROMs, tapes,
discs, videocassettes and language books, all of them are searchable
through the OPAC. The Multimedia Library is located in the basement
of the "Small House" (library office building) and is
accessible through the reading halls.
Monday to Friday: 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday: Closed
More
information on all the CEU library's resources and services is available
at: CEU Library website
 The
Open Society Archives (OSA) is a complex institution: not only an
archive, but also an educational, research and documentation center,
which has an exhibition hall of its own. OSA was established in
1995 with the purpose of saving, processing and making publicly
available the materials of the Research Institute of the legendary
"enemy" Radios: Radio Free Europe and the Radio Liberty.
Since the start OSA's collection has grown continually and today
OSA is recognized as one of the largest archives on Communism and
Cold War, with the most significant Human Rights collection in the
region.
Its holdings, 7,000 linear meters by archival measure, include
in the first place the records of the Research Institute. The Institute
collected background material for the programs that were actually
broadcast between 1952 and 1993: clippings from the socialist press,
transcripts of interviews with emigrants and tourists from the eastern
block, transcripts of the daily news broadcasts of the socialist
radios, samizdat publications smuggled out of the region, and, also,
postcards sent to the Radio's music editors. OSA's holdings also
include the documents of the International Helsinki Federation;
the background materials of the famous, London-based journal of
the freedom of speech, Index on Censorship; the research documentation
of Physicians for Human Rights, an international group of doctors
who excavated the mass graves in the Balkans. OSA holds audiovisual
materials, too. Some of these are the products of its own research,
like the Balkan Monitoring, which includes parallel recordings of
the television news programs in the war-weary former Yugoslav countries,
or the complete recording of the Iraqi and Kurdish television programming
in the days immediately before and after the intervention. Several
audiovisual collections were donated to OSA, such as Peter Forgacs's
home movie collection, a unique record of domestic and everyday
life between the 1940s and 1970s, or the world's largest documentary
film collection on genocide, compiled by the International Monitor
Institute. In 2003, OSA became the only Central European location
where the entire database of the 20 million entries and a selection
of one million images from the archives of the Communist International
are accessible.
OSA's own library has a rich collection of books, periodicals and
microfilms published in the region and in the West. Some of the
subcollections are unique of their kind, such as the Russian press
collection from the perestroika period, the collection of Polish
samizdat publications, the documentation of the Prague Spring or
the diplomatic and intelligence documentation of the CIA and the
US Foreign Department. OSA's library is the only place in Central
and Eastern Europe where the Wiener Library collection of documents
on the Nazi movement and the history of European Jews from 1930-1960
is accessible.
The Archives teaches archival courses, runs public programs, organizes
film screenings and exhibitions for-and with the active participation
of-the CEU community. Students are encouraged to delve into the
holdings to find research subjects for their theses, to identify
materials for research publications, to prepare research papers
and thematic guides (Research Information Papers) for the Archives,
and also to apply for student internships with OSA. As interns,
they can participate in the processing work, obtaining hands-on
experience of using primary resources in research, and gaining an
insight into the process of setting up exhibitions.
Research in the Archives is free and open to anyone both on-site, in the Research Room located 5 minutes away from the CEU main building, and off-site, through the Internet. Whether on- or off-site, OSA provides reproduction services in different formats, such as digital images, videotape and audiotape copies.
OSA Archivum is located in the Goldberger House in central Budapest: 1051 Bp. Arany Janos u. 32. The OSA Research Room can accommodate up to 20 researchers, providing them with a comfortable working environment and essential equipment including 2 microfilm/microfiche readers with integrated printers, 4 computers with Internet access, and 2 VCR+TV sets, a scanner and a digital camera. It has the complete set of finding aids and a wide selection of handbooks and journals on open shelves. This is also where OSA's film library is housed. Consultations with the staff of OSA can be requested personally at the reception of the Archives, by phone, fax or e-mail during the opening hours of the Research Room. More information here.
Opening Hours: Monday- Friday 10:00 - 17:45. Closed on weekends.
Summer break: the reading room is usually closed from the last week of July till the first working day in September
More
information available at: OSA website
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