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UBL signs Digital Heritage Network Manifesto 26 November 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) signed the manifesto of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) this November, during Digital Heritage Month, there...
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Exhibition photographic oeuvre of world traveller Alexine Tinne 25 November 2021In collaboration with the The Hague Historical Museum and photographer Dagmar van Weeghel, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is the first to present a...
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Call for proposals Scaliger Institute fellowship grants 22 November 2021The submission deadline for applications to Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Scaliger Institute fellowship programmes has been set for 1 April 2022. ...
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project 19 November 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundre...
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Donation of early twentieth-century glass negatives and prints from the Arabian Peninsula 11 November 2021On Thursday 11 November, Jan Jaap Hooft and Marjon Hooft donated a special collection of glass negatives and photographic prints from the Arabian Peni...
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Climate fiction – a reading list 10 November 2021World leaders and hundreds of delegates are gathered in Glasgow for the COP26 climate summit. Under ever-increasing pressure, they are discussing poss...
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Your opinion of the library counts! 09 November 2021What do you think about our libraries, the (digital) collections, services and the library staff? The Leiden University Libraries (UBL) would like to ...
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Walaeus Library part of UBL 01 November 2021Starting 1 November, the Walaeus Library, located in the Leiden University Medical Centre, is part of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).
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Now available: a practical guide to preprints 29 October 2021A useful hands-on guide to preprints is now available for researchers. It provides anwers to some urgent questions. What are preprints? What are the ...
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New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska 21 October 2021Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden Universit...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list 08 October 2021The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and co...
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James Bond, the cultural phenomenon - a reading list 30 September 2021With the creation of James Bond, author Ian Fleming laid the foundation for a sprawling media franchise. Since the first novel appeared in 1953, Bond ...
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Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections 21 September 2021Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This mak...
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Can you still trust the (Dutch) government? – a reading list 21 September 2021The democratic legal order can only function optimally if there is sufficient trust between citizens and government. Citizens must be able to trust th...
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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document 13 September 2021Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...