During the first few weeks of the academic year, Leiden University Libraries extends a warm welcome to new students in the library. In the Get Started...

The top Asian pieces from the University’s Special Collections were on display at special popup exhibitions for ICAS11 delegates on 17 and 18 July. An...

The ICAS Book Prize (IBP) is one of the most prestigious book awards in the field of Asian Studies. The prizes were awarded in the Hooglandse Kerk in ...

The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) will be held in Leiden from 16 to 19 July. A number of panel sessions will be organised during th...

The Greek manuscripts and mixed Greek and Latin manuscripts collected by Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) are digitised and now available as an online public...

Utrecht University Library has donated 13.023 books to Leiden University Libraries in the areas of Portuguese language and literature, and the cultura...

The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...

A previously unknown document about Rembrandt’s student years in Leiden has been found in the archive of Leiden University. The document, which is bei...

The Panji manuscripts, Prince Diponegoro’s autobiography, and the La Galigo epic poems are some of the most remarkable literary works from Southeast A...

Seven large reproductions of works by Rembrandt on seven Leiden University buildings reveal the relationship between the painter and the University. R...

With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers, Elsevier and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries and the Scaliger Institut...

Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is making over 3 million digital objects (more than 60TB) available worldwide for education, research and the genera...

On May 15th, from 15.15 to 17.00 in the Vossiusroom, Leiden University Libraries will host a program on web-archiving and digital archives of Chinese ...

Due to an overwhelming amount of enthusiasm for Touching Treasures: The History of Photography, another workshop will be organised on 13 May 2019, fro...

Pseudo-writing on Delftware, naive scribbles by young monks, the “withdrawn withdrawal” of the character script, calligraphy on the pavement: on Monda...