The Central Library of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music has the biggest music-related collection in Hungary. The Library has 450 000 music scores, 70 000 books and 100 journals, and there is a collection of 25 000 CDs, DVDs and vinyl records at 12 Semmelweis Street.
During the reconstruction of the Main Building in Liszt Ferenc Square, the Central Library operates in the Terézváros Cultural Centre at 10 Eötvös Street (District 6 of Budapest).
For the online public access catalogue of the library click here (link).
After logging in to the system you can request the documents you wish to borrow.The requested documents are available at the service counter within 24 hour or at a pre-agreed time and date.
The temporary phone numbers of the library are:
borrowing documents: +36 30-813-6209
cataloguing: +36 30-813-6208
Opening Hours
Reading Room
Monday – Friday: 9 am to 6 pm
Saturday: 9 am to 1 pm
Borrowing documents:
Monday – Friday: 9 am to 5 pm
Saturday: 9 am to 1 pm
The above are the opening hours of the library during term-time and the examination period, otherwise the Library is closed or operates with reduced opening hours from Monday to Friday 9-13.
We would like to inform our patrons that the opening hours are 9 am to 1 pm between 27 and 30 December 2011 .
The Reading Room of the Library is open to the general public, anyone can enter it and browse the collection free of charge after registering.
Borrowing documents
Registration fees in the 2011-2012 academic year:
For patrons who are not students or staff at the Liszt Academy of Music, for a year,
including access to the database and borrowing CDs and DVDs 6000 HUF
For patrons who are not students or staff at the Liszt Academy of Music, for six months,
including access to the database and borrowing CDs and DVDs 4000 HUF
For students of the Academy, for one academic year (until 30.06.2012) 1500 HUF
Supplementary fee for using the database and borrowing CDs and DVDs 600 HUF
Erasmus and Balassi Scholarship students can borrow documents free of charge after registering.
Part-time students need to pay a deposit of 30.000 HUF, which can be reclaimed at the end of their programme at the International Registrar’s Office.
Professors and students of the Academy can borrow 20 or 50 documents, outside patrons can borrow 10 documents at a time. Those affiliated with the Academy can borrow the documents for 1 semester, outside patrons for 1 month, which can be extended once (if the document is not requested by somebody else).
The following items can be borrowed for only 1 month: orchestra materials, copies of complete works, Henle-Urtext
After the deadline for returning documents have passed, patrons cannot receive library services until the documents are returned.
1st and 2nd year BA students and 1st year MA students can borrow 3 documents for the summer, and they can only register for the following semester when they have returned these documents.
Media items in the Studio of the Central Library can only be borrowed by professors, students and staff of the Academy, and not more than 6 items. These items can be borrowed for 2 weeks. In the Media Library, 3 documents can be borrowed for 1 week.
The overdue fines are as follows: 35 HUF/day for documents and 100 HUF/day for CDs and DVDs.
