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Unlock Prince Panji to the World! 25 September 2017Prince Panji is the title character in the popular Panji tales from Java. These stories are, without fail, about a prince and a princess, about love a...
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Before and After Luther in Leiden 23 September 2017On 31 October 1517 Martin Luther attacked the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church by posting 95 theses. This bold gesture of five centuries ago launch...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires remarkable medical manuscripts 22 September 2017Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire four remarkable medical manuscripts partly thanks to support from the Friends of Leiden Uni...
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Two exhibitions with Asian maps of the university library 18 September 2017From mid-September two exhibitions with maps from the collections of Leiden University Libraries are on view. Mapping Asia opens in the National Museu...
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Festive opening of Asian Library by Queen Máxima 14 September 2017On 14 September Queen Máxima symbolically opened Leiden’s new Asian Library. In a Pieterskerk filled with international guests, the queen received the...
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Urban Jungle: Megacities in Asia 08 September 2017What is it like to live in a megacity? To have more than ten million fellow citizens? How do you get from home to work, is there enough green space ar...
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Centre for Digital Scholarship for Leiden researchers 04 September 2017The Centre for Digital Scholarship of Leiden University Libraries Leiden collaborates with Leiden researchers, faculties, national and international c...
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available 27 July 2017The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of t...
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Donation photo archive of Volkskrant Journalist and Photographer Hans Beynon 18 July 2017Can you still remember the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, or the Dutch royal state visit to Indonesia in 1971? These are only a few of the dr...
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The Leiden Special Collections Blog live! 14 July 2017The Leiden University Libraries is proud to announce its new Leiden Special Collections Blog. Curators, guests and fellows of the Scaliger Institute w...
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Centre for Digital Scholarship 11 July 2017De doelstelling van het Centre for Digital Scholarship is om, in samenwerking met expertisecentra, faculteiten en (inter)nationale partners, ‘Digital ...
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Centre for Digtal Scholarship 11 July 2017De doelstelling van het Centre for Digital Scholarship is om, in samenwerking met expertisecentra, faculteiten en (inter)nationale partners, ‘Digital ...
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Centre for Digital Scholarship 11 July 2017
De doelstelling van het Centre for Digital Scholarship is om, in samenwerking met expertisecentra, faculteiten en (inter)nationale partners, ‘Digital ...
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Queen Máxima to open Asian Library 06 July 2017Queen Máxima will open Leiden University's new Asian Library in a ceremony in the Pieterskerk on 14 September. The Library houses important collection...
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Centre for Digital Scholarship 04 July 2017De doelstelling van het Centre for Digital Scholarship is om, in samenwerking met expertisecentra, faculteiten en (inter)nationale partners, ‘Digital ...