In 1921, after the peace treaties following World War I, the Ferenc József University moved from the city of Kolozsvár (today: Cluj Napoca, Romania) to Szeged. Its library with all other belongings of the university remained in Kolozsvár. In the academic year of 1921-22 the university library in Szeged occupied only two rooms in the building of the university at the Dugonics square (its present site) and at the beginning its material consisted of the duplicate copies of some large libraries: the Széchényi Library of the Hungarian National Museum donated 11.000, the University Library of Budapest 9.600, the Budapest Municipal Library 5.700, the Academic Library 5.000 volumes to the new collection. Later it were the deposit books of the Prosecution which ensured almost the half of the annual increase of the collection. As a result, in 1922 the Library already possessed a holdings of 50.000 volumes. Donations of university professors and collectors, the purchase of several private libraries also enriched the material. Between 1922 and 1924 the 3-3300 volume estate of Géza Tarnovszky, Károly Lechner and Sándor Imre, between 1924 and 1930 the library of Sándor Márki (10.000 volumes), between 1930 and 1932 the collections of Lajos Dézsi (2.000 books) and Sándor Gyuritza (3.000 volumes) also became parts of the University Library. The reading room opened up in 1924: the number of seats was 100 in 1925, and 140 in 1952. After 1945 the development of the collection was systematic which, from 1952 on, was supported by the close cooperation between the departmental libraries and the main library. The Library also received material when holdings of the libraries of the church and the aristocrats were secularized and nationalized between 1949 and 1952. It was that time when the collection of the monastic libraries in Szeged and the near 5.000 volume collection from the Eszterhazy library also were integrated into the University Library. During the sixties the acquisition of foreign books and periodicals increased considerably. New catalogs were set up to help to find and identify documents and new types of services were introduced. Another new era began in the life of the Library when at the beginning of the nineties, due to the reconstruction of its setting, the increase in the number of reading room seats and the automation of the document processing procedures and information services, the Library of the University in Szeged became one of the most dynamically developing collection of the country. At present the network of the Main Library of the University and the 52 institutional and departmental libraries possess 1.200.000 books, 250.000 periodicals and 130.000 other documents (manuscripts, microfilms, xerox copies etc.), that is, altogether more than 1.5 million library items are preserved in the University Library.