Katalin Dobó began her career as bibliographer, editor, and reference librarian at the Hungarian National Library. With Blinken OSA since 1995, she is responsible for the library management, the integrated library system, for library collections, and services. In addition, she has also curated exhibitions (The Millenary Exhibition, Contagious Middle Ages, Dead Library), supervised major digitization projects, and is involved in archival educational projects. Her current professional interests cover research data management and functional integration of sources from the library and archival domains. Katalin holds an MA in Hungarian and Russian literature and philology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), as well as an MSc in Library Informatics (Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen), and completed her postgraduate studies in Library Management at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

The Archives received posters produced by Atelier Populaire, a workshop that supported the 1968 Paris protests with graphic works.

Posters Made by Atelier Populaire in 1968

To demonstrate his physical prowess, on July 16, 1966 72 year-old Mao decided to participate in the competition to swim across Yangtze river...

Mao’s Little Red Book

Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) was a Russian writer and a decorated, famous war correspondent for the central military newspaper of the Red Army ‘Red Star’ during WWII.

“To tell the terrible truth” -- Vasily Grossman

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Moon Landing, OSA presents the press coverage of the event.

Men walk on the Moon! The coverage of the event on the two sides of the Iron Curtain

Large, massive album with gilded title, imperial eagle and Swastika on the cover – it is not only the cover but its content which makes this book, which is an absolute rarity in the second hand book market, special.

Castles in the shadow of the swastika

The early years of Central European University are in the focus of a Czech language book by Tereza Pospíšilová, now available in OSA's Library.

Dobó Katalin