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Leiden University Libraries participates in international research project Mediating Islam in the Digital AgeAn international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries, including Leiden University, has...
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Symposium Panji stories in manuscripts and performancePanji stories are among the most popular works of Indonesian literature, art and theatre. To celebrate the recent Unesco-recognition of this important...
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New Interface for the CatalogueOn 16 July a new interface will be launched for the Catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The design of the new interface is based on the se...
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Deal Dutch Universities and Wolters Kluwer Nederland on Open AccessWolters Kluwer and the Dutch Universities have reached an agreement about Green Open Access as part of a contract dealing with legal en fiscal literat...
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Volunteers are helping to make historical atlases of Asia digitally availableLeiden University Libraries (UBL) are launching Maps in the Crowd – Atlases, a project that welcomes participation from the public to make accessible ...
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Touching Treasures An exhibition on the materiality of text and imageBooks, manuscripts and images are of course made to be read and looked at, but they are also so much more. There is a world to discover in this new ex...
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And the winners are:With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries and the Scaliger Institute welcome ...
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Collection on the Italian occupation of Libya donatedUBL recently received a donation of some five hundred books on the Italian occupation of Libya and on Arabic linguistics. UBL gratefully acknowledges ...
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National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and Leiden University Libraries sign letter of interestOn 23 April Muhammed Syarif Bando, director of the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia and Kurt De Belder, University Librarian & Director ...
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Council of State donates Netherlands Indies law collection to University of LeidenThe ‘Netherlands Indies Collection’ of the Library of the Council of State was officially transferred to Leiden University on Friday 20 April. Rector ...
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Beyond Content: Experience objects from the special collectionsLeiden University Libraries has started the programme ‘Beyond Content’ in which attention will be devoted to the materiality of text and image. Throug...
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What was published in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic?On Monday, 26 March, the MA Programme Book and Digital Media Studies, in collaboration with the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Library, organ...
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16th-century herbarium researchIn March 2018 with the support of the Van de Sande Foundation Dr. Abdolbaset Ghorbani Dahaneh (Uppsala University) will research the sixteenth-century...
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Exam stress? Extended opening hours study areasVarious University locations have extended their opening hours during the upcoming exam period to give you more chance to study. The cafés have also e...
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian studentsA new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...