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• Experience the Japan collections

  Old maps, beautifully coloured drawings, early photographs, rare books, and even a genuine love letter. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) holds an important and diverse Japan collection. From January through December 2026, we will organize various public activities around the Japan collections.

• Drewes Fellowship

  The G.W.J. Drewes Fund was invoked to celebrate the transfer of the scholarly legacy of Professor Drewes to the UBL and to mark the opening of the Asia Library in the University Library at the Witte Singel. The fund provides financial support to one or more fellowships at the Scaliger Institute. The…

• Easy access tools

  Leiden University Libraries' favourite tools to facilitate your online work and research.

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  Anna van 't Veer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Ruthie Pliskin Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Floor van Meer Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Xiaochen Zheng Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Martina Revello Lami Assistant professor

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  Martina Vijver Scientific director/Professor

• Leiden University Libraries welcomes Antariksa as visiting researcher News - 9 May 2017

  Antariksa (Indonesia) is a researcher and co-founding member of KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He is the 2017 laureate of Global South(s) du Collège d'études mondiales/Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme fellowship, Paris, and currently Associate Fellow of the Institute of…

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  Evert van Nieuwenburg Associate professor

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  Wessel Kraaij Professor

• Anoma van der Veere did Japanese Studies at Leiden University News - 17 May 2023

  Alumnus Anoma van der Veere did Japanese studies and talks in this interview about his studies in Leiden and his work as a researcher at the Leiden Asia Centre and as Japanese correspondent in Tokyo.

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  Pingtao Ding Assistant professor

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  Laurens van Gestel Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Fenying Zang PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Pam ten Broeke Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Sander Nieuwenhuis Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• VICI winner Cwiertka: ‘I am contrary by nature’ News - 8 July 2014

  Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Professor of Modern Japan Studies, was already the recipient of a VENI and a VIDI grant. Now she has also been granted a VICI, worth 1.5 million euro, for her research project Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia. ‘I want to do something that hasn’t…

• Death of former Librarian Jacques van Gent News - 30 March 2021

  Jacques J. M. van Gent (8 June 1932 - 26 March 2021) was director of Leiden University Library from 1983 to 1993. He was librarian in a time of transition and, as director, was able to benefit from the new library building on the Witte Singel. Van Gent was a very different kind of manager from his predecessor,…

• Leiden University receives first Javanese Culture Award News - 28 October 2017

  On 28 October, Leiden University received the first Javanese Culture Prize from Universitas Sebelas Maret in Solo, Indonesia. The jury praised Leiden University’s extensive collection of Indonesian and Javanese manuscripts.

• New Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship for Indonesian special collections News - 7 February 2022

  The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship program offers the opportunity to three scholars to spend up to three months conducting research using the Southeast Asian and particularly the Indonesian special collections at Leiden University Libraries. The Lingling Wiyadharma Fellowship was made possible by Mr…

• Exhibitions

  Library exhibitions, both online and physical, give an idea of the breadth of our collections.

• Chinese Special Collections

  The Chinese Special Collections are part of the Asian Library. Items can be consulted at the Special Collections Reading Room.

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Radhika Gupta Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Jay Huang Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Rogier Creemers Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jue Wang University Lecturer Chinese Economy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Liesbet Nyssen PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Florian Schneider Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jan van Rijn Associate professor

• Acquisition: early topographic manuscript map of southeast Sumatra News - 18 October 2016

  Thanks to the financial support of our friends foundation (Stichting Vrienden van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden) Leiden University Libraries was able to purchase a very early topographic map of southeast Sumatra.

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  Arturo García De León PhD candidate

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  Kiki Zanolie Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Michiel van Elk Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Carlijn Bergwerff Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Andrea Bartolucci Assistant professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Federica Lucchi
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  Elise Dusseldorp Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Rachael Hall PhD candidate

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  Leticia Rettore Micheli Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Kaya Peerdeman Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Digitised manuscripts, old prints, photos and maps of Southeast Asia available in Digital Collections News - 9 April 2020

  Part of the Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) collections on Southeast Asia is now available in digital form for research, educational purposes and the general public. The collections consist of manuscripts, old prints, photos and maps of Southeast Asia, which have been made available via Digital Collections.…

• Room for everyone at a sun-drenched EL CID News - 14 August 2023

  Thousands of first-year students and hundreds of mentors kicked off the EL CID on Monday morning. This year for the first time, the introduction week of Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied Sciences was also open for students of Regional Training Centre mboRijnland and the Leiden Instrument…

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  Marieke Bos Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Iliana Samara Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Marieke Liem Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants News - 13 February 2023

  The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2023. The Scaliger Institute, the special collections research centre of the UBL, supports scholars in any field of study and from anywhere in the world to…

• Historian Peter Frankopan Visiting Scaliger professor News - 12 June 2017

  Historian Peter Frankopan has been appointed Visiting Scaliger professor at Leiden University for 2017. The holder of this chair is affiliated both to the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Libraries and to the Faculty of Humanities. Former holders of the chair include Anthony Grafton (Princeton…