The Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungarian: Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem or in short Műegyetem), official abbreviation BME, is a public research university located in Budapest, Hungary.

Training courses are provided in five languages: Hungarian, English, German, French and Russian.

The faculties consist of departments, institutes, research centres that are supported by deans offices and other units.

The Chancellor ensures the technical conditions, the administration, the financial management in order to complete the functions of the university.

The Rector and the Chancellor regularly calls executive board meetings to prepare strategic decisions.

The university has one sports club, the Műegyetemi AFC, which played in the first 1901 Hungarian League season.

The library of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (then Joseph Polytechnics) was formally founded in 1848 when Baron József Eötvös, Minister of Religion and Public Education donated a book in five volumes that become the first item in the inventory of the library.

The central Aula connects the spacious, 16.5-meter (54 ft) wide reading room to the north, the multi floor storage facility to the west and the workrooms of library procedures to the south.

In 1884 the first classification system of the library was elaborated and the first printed catalogue of the library was published by Vince Wartha, who was by the way professor of urban chemical technologies, dealing with construction materials, with gas production and water supply, and rector of university two times.

In the following years extended editions of the printed catalogue were published and distributed to the departments and to other major libraries in the country.

Transition to electronic cataloguing began in the 1980s, and the integrated library system was introduced in the 1990s.

There were two major additions by receiving the heritage of baron József Eötvös in 1872, and of Károly Hieronymi engineer and politician in 1912.

Since 1952, increasing amount of the collection has been placed on open shelves for direct access of the readers.

In the beginning only fiction, later on handbooks, and nowadays textbooks and current literature can be found on the shelves in the reading rooms.

In 1953 the library started publishing serials (Methodical papers of the Central Library of Budapest Technical University, publications on history of science and engineering, Scientific Technical Bibliographies) and some other serials in the 1960s.

In 1883 Ágoston Trefort, minister of education opened the Technological Museum including a library consisting the “basic Hungarian and international literature dealing with industry”.

After several changes in the organization and supervision, in 2001, with the decision of the minister of education, most of the tasks, the staff and the whole collection of the National Technical Information Centre and Library were integrated into the Library of Budapest University of Technology and Economics.