Start: 2024-04-25 17:00

End: 2024-04-25 18:30

On 25 April, at 5 p.m. in Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall, the Library will be opening an exhibition dedicated to the twentieth anniversary of Lithuania’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty and the European Union. Documents from the 16^th to the 20^th century that are associated with the capitals of both the European Union (including candidate countries) and the NATO members (41 states) were selected in the book storages and put on display in an exhibition.

The exhibition will invite visitors to become tourists and take a journey around the European states this time not by bus or by plane but with the help of manuscripts, books, maps, plans of cities, photos and other documents that reveal the rich historical past of the countries. During the opening, VU historian, associate professor Dr Tomas Čelkis will talk about the impressions of travellers who came to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16^th – 18^th century.

More about the exhibition please read here >>

Date: 25 April 2024–14 June 2024 / 15 October 2024–31 January 2025.

Opening: on 25 April 5 p.m. Entrance is free.

Location: VU Library, Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall (Universiteto str. 3, ground floor). 

Start: 2023-11-21 15:00

End: 2023-11-21 16:30

Open science is a topic that is gaining more and more attention in the international community. Vilnius University supports and promotes the application of the open science principles documenting its position in the Vilnius University Open Science Policy (text in Lithuanian) approved by the Senate of the University on 22 February 2022. In order to turn the ideas expressed by the Open Science Policy document into deeds, on 6 June this year, the Rector of the University approved an Open Science Policy implementation plan (text in Lithuanian).

In response to the University's expressed support for Open Science and in order to stimulate discussions about the principles underlying Open Science and their influence on academic practices, Vilnius University Library invites the University community to presentations touching on various aspects of Open Science delivered by internationally renowned experts.

This year, we invite you to a lecture by Dr. Louise Bezuidenhout from Leiden University Centre for Science and Technology Studies under the title Ethics and Open Science: How does it all fit together? that will touch not only on Open Science, but also on another important topic of academic ethics:

The Open Science movement is rapidly gaining prominence in discussions about responsible research. It is associated with a range of different activities, as well as an evolving number of research technologies. However, in addition to being a practical movement, Open Science is also changing how we think of ourselves as responsible researchers, and how we communicate with our fellow researchers and the general public. In this lecture I will look at the values underpinning the Open Science movement, and how they relate to more familiar topics such as research misconduct, research integrity and transparency. I will show how Open Science builds on these movements and fosters responsible research in an increasingly digital age.

About the speaker: Louise Bezuidenhout is a social science researcher who specializes on issues relating to Open Science, data sharing and access. Her research is broadly oriented around themes such as justice and access, inclusion and marginalization and equity. Much of her work to date has concentrated on identifying ways to improve the inclusion of low/middle-income country researchers into the Open Science landscape. This work has involved embedded ethnographies, interviews and surveys in a number of countries in Africa, Europe and North America.

Dr Bezuidenhout holds PhDs in cell biology (University of Cape Town, RSA) and sociology (University of Exeter, UK). She has had postdoctoral research posts at the Universities of Exeter (UK), Notre Dame (USA), Oxford (UK) and Cape Town (RSA). She has also held lectureships at University College London (UK), University of the Witwatersrand (RSA) and the University of Oxford (UK). Dr Bezuidenhout currently works for the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University as a senior researcher.

Date and time of the lecture: 21 November 2023, 3 to 4 p.m.

The duration of the lecture will be 1 hour.

Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/G0g5dbmnBR  

The lecture will be held remotely in English with live captions.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr Ginte Medzvieckaite at 

Start: 2023-10-12 17:00

End: 2024-03-01 17:00

In Lithuania the year 2023 has been declared the year of St. Josaphat. On 12 October at 5 p.m., an exhibition of old documents “Burning for Love of God and Serving God – 400 Years for St. Josaphat's Martyrdom” will be launched at Vilnius University Library to mark the occasion. A unique exhibit– recreated ecclesiastical vestment of St. Josaphat – will be presented to the public during the opening event. More information >>

Start: 2023-09-18 17:00

End: 2023-10-09 21:00

The Embassy of Ireland, in cooperation with Vilnius University Library, invites to the exhibition “Into Europe: Ireland and the EU 1973 – 2023” celebrating the 50 year anniversary of Ireland’s membership of the European Union. The exhibition will be open from 18 September to 9 October at VU Library’s Communication Corner, Universiteto str. 3, Vilnius. More information>>

Start: 2023-09-26 19:00

End: 2023-09-26 20:30

This year, Scholarly Communication and Information Centre (SCIC), a division of Vilnius University Library in Saulėtekis beloved by students, is celebrating its 10^th anniversary. Since the very opening, it has become a place where one can have a great and productive time, deepen knowledge, look for answers to important questions or simply have fun with friends. Therefore, on this occasion, the Library is inviting its visitors for a friendly meeting, a short films event on 26 September at 7 PM. The program titled Short Films. Youngster’s Diaries includes five Lithuanian movies that reveal various challenges, internal strengths, fears and desires of a young man as well as the strive for independence and the search for a close one. 

More about an event>>

Start: 2023-06-19 08:00

End: 2023-08-31 17:00

The exhibition is on display at the Gallery of VU Central Library (Universiteto g. 3, 2nd floor) until 31 August 2023.

Daliutė Ivanauskaitė (born in 1958) works in the field of printmaking, small graphics, ex-libris, calligraphy, has created a book of works of art and graphic design, curator of exhibitions and compiler of catalogues. In 1977, she graduated from J. Naujalis Secondary Art School in Kaunas, 1983. – VDI (now Vilnius Academy of Arts), graphics specialty, and since 1984 she participates in exhibitions. The artist is a participant in many international graphics exhibitions: she has participated in more than thirty countries of the world, about a hundred international and group exhibitions, and has organized over twenty personal exhibitions in Lithuania, USA, Germany, Scotland, Spain.

Awarded at international graphics exhibitions: 2019 – Prize winner of the 39th Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain; in 2012 – 1st Grand Prize Raimundo Cela, Sobral, Brazil; 2012 – diploma at the international ex-libris exhibition dedicated to Donelaitis’ 300th birth anniversary, Vilnius. More information>>

Start: 2023-01-30 11:00

End: 2023-02-28 22:00

Thousands of rock paintings which, being pieces of art, are also indispensable historical evidences of the livelihood, rituals, customs, beliefs and faiths of the primordial times, created by artists of those epochs, are also found in the vastness of Mongolia. The rock art demonstrates surprising facts that the tribal seals representing ownership relations of 20000 years back are still found in usage as brands on the Mongolian horses today while the style of outfits and accessories of 5000 years ago are still in our clothing. Moreover, it is miraculous that depictions and facilities reminding the burial culture that existed in the Mongolian steppes 5000 years ago are also discovered on the territories of France and Switzerland.

The exhibition is on display in the Gallery of VU Central Library (Universiteto g. 3, 3rd floor) until 28 February 2023. Photos taken by Mr. B.Bayar in Bayan-Ulgii, Gobi-Altai, Umnugobi, Sukhbaatar, Khentii and Arkhangai aimags.

Start: 2022-11-29 17:00

End: 2022-11-29 18:15

Vilnius University Library and Elsevier invite you to an event for junior researchers. The online training "Elsevier Author Workshop. How to write and publish a scientific article?" will be held on November 29, 15:00-16:15 on the Zoom platform.  

Click to register: here

More information>>

Start: 2022-09-22 12:00

End: 2022-10-15 23:00

Start: 2022-11-21 11:00

End: 2023-04-30 23:00

This year marks 500 years since the establishment of the first printing house of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the printing of Francysk Skaryna’s Little Travel Book which was the first printed book in the country. While marking this occasion, Vilnius University Library will launch the Inspired by Skaryna: 500 Years of Vilnius Printings exhibition on 21 September at 5 p.m. in Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall. The exhibition will present the first printing houses of Vilnius and the books printed in them, thus showing the trajectory of Vilnius printing from Skaryna till the end of the 18^th century. 

The exhibition will be on display until 21^st November in Franciszek Smuglewicz Hall of Vilnius University Library (Universiteto str. 3, I floor). Extended until April 30, 2023. 

Start: 2022-08-31 20:30

End: 2022-08-31 22:00

VU Contact Fair will be bustling in the Grand Courtyard on 31 August 5.30-7 pm, dedicated to the integration of first-year students. At this event, you will be able to find representatives of the VU Library who will answer all questions about our services, exhibitions and events held here, and will also reveal where to find the most comfortable and convenient workplace in the library.

More information please find here. 

Start: 2022-09-09 13:00

Guided tours will be organised for students in the Central Palace of the VU Library, which is still working in authentic 16th-century buildings. Together with all the buildings and courtyards of the University, these spaces form an architectural ensemble of the Old Town of Vilnius, which is visited daily by the members of the university community as well as by tourists from all over the world. VU Library visitors will not remain indifferent to the interiors of the historic halls, their decorations, and extraordinary stories about the life of the Jesuits who founded the University centuries ago.

During the tours, the guides will invite the freshers to the impressive J. Lelewel Reading Room, P. Smuglewicz Hall, and the White Hall. Once upon a time, the latter functioned as an Astronomical Observatory. After climbing the tower located in this hall, it will be possible to admire the views of the city from it.

The guided tours will take place on 9 September. Registration:

9 September at 10 am (in English). Registration

9 September at 11 am (in Lithuanian). Registration

9 September at 2 pm (in Lithuanian). Registration

Duration: 1 hour

If you have registered but would like to cancel your registration, please call us on 8 5 268 7103.

The guided tours for freshers are free.

Start: 2022-04-19 12:00

End: 2022-08-30 23:00

Start: 2022-05-25 18:30

End: 2022-06-15 23:00

We welcome you to the exhibition opening on 25 May at 3:30 PM at the Vilnius University Library.

The exhibition will remain open from 25 May to 15 June 2022.

An exhibition “Art between the walls” features the artworks made by migrants living in the detention camps in Lithuania. This exhibition allows us to meet those who have become hostages to the migrant crisis that started in the summer 2021, and to see the creative, thoughtful and full of feelings individual behind the term ‘migrant’.

Art is one of the few ways for these people to cope with the difficult everyday life in the camps and tell their stories. Art is the only expression of their freedom.

This social exhibition seeks to draw the society’s attention to the migrants, their personal stories and different experiences, so that we get to see those who often remain unseen and who are still trapped behind the walls, even though they have been in Lithuania right by our side for already nine months.

The exhibition presents 10 artists from Iraq, Turkey and the Republic of the Congo. A short presentation of each of them will be available in Lithuanian and English.

Start: 2022-05-26 19:00

End: 2022-05-26 20:30

The Italian Embassy in cooperation with Vilnius University Library invites you to the presentation of the film “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” which will take place on 26 May (Thursday) at 4 pm at MKIC Conference Hall, Saulėtekio al. 5, Vilnius 10221, Lithuania.

The documentary was awarded for the best director at the famous film festival “Sundance” (USA).
The film reveals the daily life of a family living on the front line in Donbas, Ukraine. While the external world is in chaos and bomb explosions can be heard, a single mother Anna and her four children are able to save their home even in a war zone. And their home is a peaceful haven full of life and light. Passion for cinema inspires the family to film, edit and present a film inspired by their own life during the war. Anna and her children are transforming their trauma into creativity as it is the only way to remain human.

The film which has won many international awards was produced by the famous Lithuanian film director Giedrė Žickytė (“Šuolis”) and the studio “Moonmakers” founded by her.

The film is in Ukrainian, Russian and with English subtitles.

Start: 2022-04-25 19:00

End: 2022-05-16 23:00

We cordially invite you to the exhibition of the artworks dedicated to Russian-Ukrainian war by students‘ of Kyiv College of Arts and Design “We were. We are. We will be. And so will Ukraine!” on 25 April at 4PM in the Galery of Vilnius University Central Library (Universiteto g. 3, 3rd floor).

The artworks presented in this exhibition are the artistic expression of emotional shock (grief, anger, terror, hope) experienced from the first day of the war until today by teenage students of Kyiv Professional College of Arts and Design. At first, the students thought that these works cannot be shown in the exhibition. However, the true artist cannot abandon one’s craft. The students were painting while hiding in basements from bombings and shelling, while they were living in the cities and villages occupied by Russians, while they were on the evacuation buses, or while they were already abroad. More information >>

The exhibition will be on display until 16 May 8 p.m. 

Start: 2022-01-19 18:00

End: 2022-02-03 22:00

On 19 January 2022, at 4 p.m., in the White Hall (Universiteto str. 3, 4^th floor), Vilnius University Library, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, will be launching an exhibition of illustrations by the Italian artist Amos Nattini “Dazzling Inferno”.

The exhibition will show the illustrations from a copy of Dante’s “Inferno” that was donated by the artis Amos Nattini (1892-1985) himself to the than Deputy of the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dino Grandi. For a long time, the document was forgotten until it was recently discovered in the holdings of the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ministry’s library.  

The exhibition will be on display from 19 January 2022 to 3 February.  

More information: here

Start: 2022-01-11 18:00

End: 2022-01-11 19:00

The Italian Embassy in cooperation with Vilnius University Library kindly invite you for a free film screening The Climate Limbo on 11 January at 4 p.m. at Vilnius University Library. The film screening will take place at the Scholarly Communication and Information Centre (Saulėtekio av. 5) in the Conference Hall A103. 

The Climate Limbo is a documentary about the link between the climate change and migration that was made in preparation for the Climate Change Conference COP 26.

More: here 

Start: 2022-01-06 18:00

End: 2022-02-04 23:00

The Goethe-Institut and the Max Planck Society present a STEM exhibition “Universe. Human. Intellect.” that aims to present the most advanced scientific research that is carried out in Germany. With the help of photos, videos and research projects, the interactive exhibition tells about the great mysteries of humanity and implementation of scholarly ideas thus encouraging to reflect on the most urgent topics of science and society.

The exhibition consists of five sections: “The Universe”, “The History of the Humanity”, “Our Brain”, “A Life in the Anthropocene” and “The Artificial Intelligence”. Every module has an interactive element such as a monitor for the transformation of facial features, an air balloon showing distances in the cosmos or shelves filled with jars containing various objects that remind of a laboratory demonstrating the impact of human activities on the environment, and other special installations.

The exhibition will be on display at the Scholarly Communication and Information Centre of Vilnius University Library (Sauletekis av. 5) until 4 February 2022.

Start: 2021-10-28 19:00

End: 2021-10-28 20:30

On 28 October at 16:00 EEST Vilnius University Library will host an online lecture by Pablo García Sánchez, the Director of the Free Software Office at the University of Granada entitled „Free and Open Source Software - Concepts and Philosophy”. In the lecture, Pablo will explain the concepts and philosophy behind Free and Open Source Software and its relation to open science. He will also discuss the differences between the individual open software licenses. Finally, he will explain how the Free Software Office of the University of Granada helps and advises the whole university community in everything related to Open Source Software.

Pablo García Sánchez is the Director of the Free Software Office (FSO) at the University of Granada. The FSO offers a series of services to the university community related to free software and open culture: technical support, training, management of Linux images in classrooms, conversion to open formats, and other. The FSO is also dedicated to recycling computer equipment to install free software and donate it to NGOs or schools, as well as technology summer campuses for children and motivating STEM careers for girls.

The lecture will take place via Zoom and will be read in English. Registered participants will be sent a meeting link on the day before the event. Registration to the lecture>>