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Extended opening hours
The Library will be extending its opening hours from Monday, 2 May to Wednesday, 15 June 2022.
The Main Library Study Halls on Level II and Level III will open on:
Mondays to Fridays: 07:00 - 23:00
Saturdays: 09:00 - 16:45
Sundays & Public Holidays: 09:00 - 16:45
The Circulation Desk, Melitensia and Reference Departments will be closed during the extended opening hours.
Book transactions (borrowing & returning books) are carried out until 20:00 during weekdays and until 12:15 on Saturdays.
For further information on the opening hours of Library departments, branch libraries and depositories visit our website.
News from the Institute for European Studies Library
Extended opening hours
The Institute for European Studies Library (EDC) will be extending its opening hours until 15 June 2022.
Mondays to Fridays: 8:00-12:30; 13:30-16:30
The library offers study spaces for both individual and group work and is equipped with wi-fi, and facilities for photocopying and printing.
New acquisitions
Institute of European Studies Library acquired new books on politics and foreign policy at the Institute for European Studies Library (EDC):
Israel and the European Union: a documentary history by Sharon Pardo and Joel Peters
Kollox politika? : governanza, reliġjon, ekonomija u amministrazzjoni pubblika by Mario Thomas Vassallo
Policy-making in the European Union edited by Helen Wallace
The Ukraine crisis and EU foreign policy roles : images of the EU in the context of EU-Ukraine relations by Natalia Chaban and Ole Elgstöm
What's new in Melitensia
Melitensia’s book of the month – May 2022
The Malta Antica series by Luigi M. Ugolini (1895-1936), edited by Andrea Pessina and Nicholas C. Vella, with an introduction and commentary in English by Anton Bugeja. Published by Midsea Books in 2021.
This series gives an intellectual and socio-political context for Ugolini’s work, after a rediscovery of his archive in Rome. The Malta Antica series is spectacular because it gives us a detailed account about the prehistoric monuments of Malta, a study which was carried out by Ugolini, who visited Malta on numerous occasions between 1924 and 1935. The Malta Antica series incorporates four volumes: The Malta Antica I - I Templi Neolitici di Tarscien about the Tarxien Neolithic Temples, The Malta Antica II: I Maggiori Templi Neolitici e l’Ipogeo about the major Neolithic temples and the Hypogeum, The Malta Antica III: Templi Neolitici Minori e Monumenti Megalitici about the minor neolithic temples and Megalithic Monuments in Malta, and Malta and Mediterranean Prehistory: Luigi Maria Ugolini, Politics and Archeology between the two World Wars.
This publication is ideal for those who are following a course about the prehistory of Malta, conservation, and archeology. One can admire this unpublished Malta project which was written by Ugolini, a project which was cut short due to Ugolini’s death, discovered in 2000 and finally published in 2021. For further reference, one can also read Malta: Origini della Civiltà Mediterranea which was published back in 2012.
