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The article presents the department of early printed and rare books of the University Library on the occasion of making available the special collection of 16th and 17th century books for public use in November 2003. Sixteen of the most valuable books were displayed in the framework of an exhibition at the time of the opening. The history of the University Library dates from 1561 when the first Jesuit monastery including a library was founded in Nagyszombat (Trnava, Slovakia). The University of Nagyszombat was founded in 1635. After the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773, the library became a state-owned entity. It was moved to Budapest in 1777 and occupied its current premises in 1876. The new catalogue of the library, including 11 main themes was completed in that year. In the collection, Hungarian and foreign books were separated, but they were arranged on the shelves by size, in order to save space. The University Library joined the national early printed books program in 1990. In 2000, a separate unit, the Department of Early Printed Books was created in order to select, catalogue, preserve and make available for users all early printed books from the collection of the library. The library comprises 7200 early printed books, which means that this is the second largest such collection after the one at the National Library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A new historical research library was opened in autumn 2007 on the third floor of the Central Library of the Corvinus University of Budapest. The Library, founded as the library of the University of Economics of Budapest in 1948 had several legal predecessors: the Library of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Budapest (1850), the Library of the Department of Economics of the Hungarian Royal University (1925), and the Library of the Department of Economics of the University of Technical and Economic Sciences (1934). The current re- search library holds and makes available the historical items of the book collections of the above mentioned libraries, and also holds the original furniture and artefacts of these libraries. The most prestigious collection is the Chamber Library, founded in 1850. Between 1900 and 1904, under the direction of Ervin Szabó, the collection was developed into a high quality re- search library well ahead of its time. Its collection was opened to the wide public in 1901. The historical volumes were re- catalogued in 2006 in the framework of the Hungarian National Shared Catalogue project. The online cataloguing made it possible to access the owner stamps, ex libris and possessor labels of the historical books, which is a very important step made in the reconstruction of the history of the library collection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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