The brief history of the Kertész street Library, the predecessor of the Boulevard Library

The Library had opened on the 7th November 1957 as the MESZL Library Nr. 22 on the first floor of 32 Lenin blvd. Its base collection consisted of the 6-7000 books donated by the then Ministry of Popular Culture. The place was provided by the District Council, while the staff of operations and the equipment by the Metropolitan Ervin Szabó Library. Interestingly enough, this Library was the first in the network of MESZL to try out the open shelf system.

As the number of readers increased, upgrading the library became necessary, so on 7th November 1962, a new, up-to-date, open shelf library was opened on 20 Kertész str., which had a large reading-room. The library has become the institute with the most circulation out of the network, the reading-room was open even on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings.

The District Council provided opportunity for the expansion of the floorspace and allocated the "Dance School" on 15 Kertész str. to the library.

The new place was 400 m2 and had two floors. It held a reading-room and an AV section. Besides the documents in the reading-room, the library collected linguistic, literary history and critical books. The AV section was a highlight, the library collected cassettes and discs for literature and learning languages.

In 2000, during the opening of the Central Library, the reading-room material was moved to the Central stock, the Kertész street Library moved from 20 Kertész str. to 15 Kertész str. and continued its services there.

The Kertész street Library

In 2018, the Andrássy road Library closed, the two libraries merged and the documents from Andrássy road Library were available in 15 Kertész street.

On 1st July 2021, the Kertész street Library shared the same fate as the Andrássy road Library, but after the closing of the two, a new library came to fruition, one that has been planned for many years and had multiple new functions.

On 1st September 2021, the Boulevard Library has opened on 2-4 Theresa blvd.

Building operations (picture gallery)

Paintwork and works of interior decoration (picture gallery)


Furnishing and moving (picture gallery)

The mission of the Boulevard Library is to become a multifunctional cultural and community meeting place that provides high-standard library services. We offer the usual, traditional services to the readers of the Andrássy road and Kertész street Libraries, while we also have new types of services, as well.

Our services:

1. Local usage

2. Borrowing: books, periodicals and magazines, DVDs, audiobooks

3. Self-service borrowing

4. Books to Houses – home deliveries for the residents of the 6th District restricted to their homes

5. Computer access, Internet, WiFi

6. Local and remote usage of databases

7. Locker

8. Printing, scanning – both for registered and non-registered users

9. Study room - with your own equipment

10. Exhibitions and cultural events

11. On demand, user training for readers (with own equipment)

The library has 26.000 documents, majority of them literature. Our main mission is collecting the modern Hungarian and world literature. Other major part also is the popular literature. We feel it is important to update/expand the scientific literature, especially the collection of social sciences, the foreign language section, the travel books and the local history books.

We also have 47 types of periodicals, 4 newspapers and two foreign language newspapers.