The Library of the Institute of Slavic Studies houses approximately 80,000 volumes, located on the second floor of the Main Building of the University of Debrecen. The collection is distributed among Room 247 (literature, arts, culture, and history), Room 241 (linguistics), and Room 243 (Polish collection).
The library offers an extensive range of works in linguistics, literary history and theory, fiction, translation studies, the arts, history, folklore, mythology, philosophy, and the history of religions. In addition, a large number of general and specialized dictionaries as well as language textbooks are available in Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, and Ukrainian.
This specialized research library, which supports the work of scholars, lecturers, and students engaged in Slavic studies, has been continuously expanding its collection since 1947.
Librarians*
- Sándorné Jánoska Slitszkaya Ninel (1956)
- Imréné Nádudvari Prokofyeva Lidia (1959-1960)
- Sándorné Zemlényi Tóth Margit (1960-1966)
- István D. Molnár (1966-1968)
- Zsuzsanna Dombi (1971)
- Dr. Pálné Misley Lidiya Turenko (1972-1980)
- Éva Földi (1978)
- Klára Nyilas (1979-1982)
- Dr. Ernőné Balogh Stébel Éva (1980-1983)
- Miklósné Komáromi Ficzere Éva (1983-1984)
- Jiří Pilarský (1984-1986)
- Dr. Erzsébet Bodnár Árvayné (1986-1988)
- Ibolya Takács (1983-2023)
- Éva Péntek (2023-2026)
Source: József Mudrák, “Archontology of the Kossuth Lajos University of Debrecen, 1950-1990. Part VIII: Institute of Slavic Philology,” Gerundium, Vol. 8, No. 3 (2017).