LIGETI LAJOS ORIENTAL COLLECTION


   The Oriental Collection of the University Library, founded by 
the famous Hungarian mongolist, turcologist and tibetologist 
Lajos Ligeti was opened at the end of 1987 in order to help the 
establishment of an international research centre on Altaistics 
in Szeged.

   The collection contains 11 thousand documents (books, 
offprints and periodicals). Most of them - according to Ligeti's 
field of interest - deal with mongolistics, turcology, tibetology 
and sinology. 
   The collection is strong in Turkic, Mongolian and Chinese 
linguistics, Hungarian prehistory, history of Eurasian nomadic 
peoples, Buddhism, Shamanism. Visitors also can find text-books 
and dictionaries in different oriental languages (Turkish, 
Mongolian, Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hebrew etc.)

   Altough the catalouging of the material is not finished yet, 
visitors can use all documents of the collection and they can 
search in a printed catalouge of monographs on Altaistics (with 
subject index in English). Web-users can search soon in our 
database which contains monographs and collectaneas on Altaistics 
catalogued by that time.

         All documents can be used only locally
                          but
        copies of articles or books are available.


   Opening hours: from Monday to Friday 8 am - 4 pm.

             E-mail: paulik@bibl.u-szeged.hu
             Phone:  (36-06-62) 454-000/3388