Vályi Rózsi Library, Archives and Dance Research Centre

1145 Budapest, Columbus u. 87-89. (HDU campus) building ’E’, so-called small house

phone.: +36 1 273-2781
e-mail: konyvtar@mte.eu

The predecessors of the Vályi Rózsi Library of the Hungarian Dance University were the Library of the Primary School and High School of the State Ballet Institute (founded in 1961) and the Methodological Cabinet of the State Ballet Institute (founded in 1968).

The heads of the library were: from 1961 to 1965 Lászlóné Berecz, from 1966 to 1970 Dr. Endréné Dudich, from 1970 to 1987 Dr. Endréné Dudich and István Tálasi. Heads of the Methodological Cabinet: from 1968-81 Dr. Emma Lugossy, from 1981-83 Mrs. András Balogh Lilla Bozóki, from 1983-87 Ludovika Gabriella Konrád. The union of the two collections led to the creation of the academic library in 1987 under the leadership of Gabriella Ludovika Konrád. Irén Bíróné Tóth was the head of the library from 1993 to 2010, and Péter Herke from 2011.

From the beginning, the collection was housed in the Dreschler Palace (25 Andrássy út), the headquarters of the University (formerly the Academy). In 2001, it moved together with the Academy to the basement of the main building of the Columbus Street campus. In November 2011, the library’s entire collection was moved to a new building on the campus, in a professionally designed, modern environment. On 9 December 2011, the library was named after Rózsi Vályi, dance historian and founding teacher of the State Ballet Institute. Since 1 February 2016, it is a university library.

The Vályi Rózsi Library is a public institutional library serving as a high school, higher education and specialised library. Its basic task is to provide the teachers, researchers, students, pupils and staff of the Hungarian Dance University with documents and information, but the library is open to anyone who accepts the rules of library use.

The library has a total collection of more than 35,000 documents. Its collections are mainly related to dance, dance studies, dance pedagogy and other areas of university education (music and art history, theatre and film, media studies, aesthetics, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, ethnography, physiology, etc.). It includes specialist and fiction books, manuals, textbooks and notes, yearbooks, theses, professional journals, music, records, audio and video cassettes, CDs, DVDs, photo albums.

The library preserves the gifts and legacies of several leading dance artists and dance writers. Among them stand out György Lőrinc’s (ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet master, founding director of the State Ballet Institute, ballet director of the Hungarian State Opera House), Dr. Géza Körtvélyes’s (dance historian, aesthete, candidate of philosophical sciences, doctor of musicology, secretary general of the Hungarian Dance Artists Association, university teacher), and István Hézső’s (dance historian, dance critic, living in the Netherlands) bequest.

Since August 2018, the library has been a department of the University’s Dance Research Centre, and since February 2019, the newly established specialised archives have also been part of this department.

The Archives of the Hungarian Dance University preserves and explores the historical documents of the University and its legal predecessors, which are available for historical research under appropriate conditions. The inventory of the archives can be found here. Prior consultation is required for archival research.

On the one hand, the Dance Research Centre of the Hungarian Dance University provides a venue for dance research at the University (including archival research), and on the other hand, it takes an active part in the organisation and implementation of scientific programmes (symposia, conferences, etc.). Prior arrangement is required to use the Dance Research Centre.

REGISTRATION

Our library is open to all Hungarian citizens of school age or older and foreign citizens who are students, students or employees in Hungary, who have a valid registration card and fill in the enrolment form.

Enrolment forms

Enrolment Statement(with Registration Form) can be downloaded here.
Filling Pattern to Enrolment Statement (and to Registration Form) can be downloaded here.

The Enrolment Statement is valid together with the Registration Form.

The personal presence of a legal guardian (parent or guardian) is required for enrolment of children under 14 years of age, and the written consent (or presence) of a legal guardian (parent or guardian) is required for enrolment of children between 14 and 18 years of age.

Consent of the Legal Representative can be downloaded here.

The registration is valid for 1 calendar year from the date of registration. (The registration of library users who are pupils or students of the University does not need to be renewed until the end of their studies at the University, and the registration of library users who are employees of the University does not need to be renewed until the end of their employment.)

Enrolment fee

• For students, teachers and employees of the Hungarian University of Dance: free of charge
• The registration fee for persons who are not students, teachers or employees of the Hungarian University of Dance:
  • • adult: 4.000 HUF/year
    • student and pensioner under 70: HUF 2,500/year
    • Pensioners over 70 years, librarians, archivists, museum and educational staff: free of charge

ONLINE CATALOGUE

Library catalogue: konyvtar.mte.eu