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Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections 18 December 2019Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library
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Recap of Symposium on Tools Criticism and Public Lecture 28 November 2019On Thursday 21 November, Leiden University Libraries' (UBL) Centre for Digital Scholarship and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities organised a Sy...
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art? 26 November 2019Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the ...
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Leiden University Libraries expands graphic novel and comic book collections 26 November 2019Comic books and graphic novels are more important than ever in the Leiden University curriculum. That is why Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is curr...
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Collection of historian Johan Huizinga fully available online 19 November 2019The complete Johan Huizinga, the single most important historian of the Netherlands, is now available worldwide through the new Huizinga Online websit...
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‘Rembrandt has come home’ 04 November 2019Rembrandt Year is concluding with a major exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal. There are still numerous other activities such as lectures, the University...
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Piloting FAIR metadata with iRODS and YODA at Leiden University 01 November 2019The FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles are a framework for researchers to make their scholarly output ready for use an...
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75% of Leiden University publications now Open Access available 21 October 2019Researchers of Leiden University (excl. LUMC) are collectively using the Leiden Repository to make their publications Open Access available. They have...
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Public Lecture ‘The Role of the Humanities in an Information Age’ by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor 18 October 2019Leiden University Libraries invites you to the public lecture by Ted Underwood, Visiting Scaliger Professor. This lecture will be held on Thursday 21 ...
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Symposium on Tools Criticism 07 October 2019
The Centre for Digital Scholarship of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities would like to invite you to the s...
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Exhibition Photography Becomes Art - Photo-Secession in Holland 1890-1937 18 September 2019In collaboration with the Fotomuseum Den Haag, Leiden University Libraries organizes the exhibition Photography becomes Art - Photo-Secession in Holla...
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Theological pamphlets reveal passionate religious debate 09 September 2019They might not have had Twitter, but they did have brochures (pamphlets), the Roman Catholics and ‘modern’ Protestants between 1840 and 1870. In these...
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Winners of Fellowship for Digital Scholarship sponsored by Elsevier 21 August 2019Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger Institute are glad to welcome the first two Fellows for Digital Scholarship in fall 2019. The Fello...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia 02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future 19 June 2019Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary o...