News and courses
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Building Community Infrastructure for Collaborative Metadata Enrichment

On 10 September 2025, the ETH Library invites you to the sixth SYoS Lecture at ETH Zurich. Juan Pablo Alperin will speak on open metadata and collaborative research infrastructures.
Join us on a journey of discovery to forgotten places in Switzerland!

In the new exhibition, 'Switzerland in the Mirror of the Past: Mosaic Stones of Forgotten Landscapes', the ETH Library invites you to embark on a historical quest to uncover traces of the past.
Events
Our doors are open to everyone. Come see our exhibits, take one of our public tours, or plan a private tour of our archives or collections for groups of five or more. Researchers and science lovers are invited to attend our conferences and podium discussions.
Courses and workshops

We hold courses and workshops that are open to the public and cover topics such as information research, reference management and scientific writing as well as research data management and open access.
Title | Date | Duration | No. Places available/total |
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Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 26.06.2025 | 75 min | 3 / 4 |
Get writing – overcome your writer’s block (German) | 21.07.2025 | 75 min | 4 / 4 |
Blogs and social media

The ETH Library regularly updates different blogs with content from our collections, archives and holdings: from highlights from the archive to the latest results of crowdsourcing initiatives all the way to multimedia stories posted on the storytelling platform Explora.
On social media, we share our knowledge on a variety of different platforms – from Facebook to Instagram to YouTube – in order to promote dialogue both within and outside of ETH Zurich.