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• La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available News - 27 July 2017

  The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…

• Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections News - 21 September 2021

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This makes a third of her collection of Western medieval manuscripts – one of the largest and the most important in the Netherlands – available in high resolution…

• Online access to medieval manuscripts improved News - 26 October 2023

  Do you frequently search the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) for western medieval manuscripts? Then you must have noticed important changes lately. Some 1800 summary catalogue records in Dutch were replaced by more elaborate descriptions in English. Furthermore, the catalogue interface…

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  Friso Selten Teacher/researcher

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Wouter Jong Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana News - 21 October 2022

  Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…

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  Moniek Akerboom Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Publications

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) works together with authors and publishers regularly and supports publication of books about the collections. Publications can be obtained from bookshops or publishers. You can also order publications via email (plaatsing@library.leidenuniv.nl). Please give the following…

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  Rik de Ruiter Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Siavash Rafiee Rad University Lecturer Persian

  Faculty of Humanities

• Leiden University Libraries to contribute 55,000 old printed books to online library Google News - 12 September 2016

  Starting in September, 55,000 books from the Leiden University Libraries will be digitized. This marks Leiden University’s contribution to the successful partnership between the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and Google.

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  Tanachia Ashikali Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Arco Timmermans Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Discover Leiden University's new Middle Eastern Library and take a closer look at our Middle Eastern collections News - 12 September 2024

  An evening program in the University Library and Middle Eastern Library in Leiden for everyone who has something to do with the Middle East; from Tajikistan to the Mahreb and from Istanbul to Sanaa. View the oldest books and clay tablets from the collection and listen to the most fascinating stories…

• Public Administration

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Public Administration

• Visit ambassadors to the University Library Special Collections News - 18 December 2019

  Special visit of seven ambassadors of the Arabic-speaking world to the University Library

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  Astrid Vandendaele Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Acquisition: early topographic manuscript map of southeast Sumatra News - 18 October 2016

  Thanks to the financial support of our friends foundation (Stichting Vrienden van de Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden) Leiden University Libraries was able to purchase a very early topographic map of southeast Sumatra.

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  Patrick Gouw Subject Librarian

  Leiden University Library

• New in the Leiden collections: the Amsterdam Yemen Library News - 30 June 2021

  The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been enriched with the Maktabat al-Yaman al-Amstirdāmīyah, or Amsterdam Yemen Library. This collection, which exists of about a thousand books, journals and maps, is the largest coherent Yemen collection in The Netherlands and was brought together…

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  Andrei Poama Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Ken Meier Professor emeritus Bureaucracy and Democracy

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Ashley Wilkinson PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joris van der Voet Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Caelesta Braun Professor Public Governance and Civil Society

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Bram Caers University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nadine Raaphorst Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Ben Kuipers Professor Public Leadership

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Strategic Publication Framework

  Leiden University has adopted its first Strategic Publication Framework for publishing the works of its researchers. The framework has been prepared by the Open Scientific Publishing think tank in the Academia in Motion program and has gone through extensive consultation in the faculties. On 11 November…

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  Roel Bekker Senior Fellow

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Anchrit Wille Professor by Special Appointment Transitions in the Public Sector

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Leiden University Libraries joins the International Image Interoperability Framework Consortium News - 22 March 2016

  A growing community of the world’s leading research libraries and image repositories have embarked on an effort to collaboratively produce an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery.

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  Emma ter Mors Associate Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Sanneke Kuipers Scientific Director / Professor Crisis Governance

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Martin Sievert Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Petra van den Bekerom Assistant professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• University Library heating issues Announcement - 3 October 2024

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• Leiden University Libraries acquires a rare map of Suriname News - 29 August 2023

  Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has acquired a rare manuscript map of Suriname. The map from 1830 is almost 2.5 meters long and is highly detailed. It was hand-drawn by Helmuth Hendrik Hiemcke (1808-1858), one of the official surveyors employed by the colonial administration, and shows Suriname in…

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  Sem Grootscholten Lecturer

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Kees Nagtegaal External PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Finding open access publications

  Resources for searching Open Access articles, journals and books

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  Gerard Breeman Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Bram Klievink Scientific Director/Professor Public administration, Digitalisation and Public Policy

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts News - 11 May 2023

  Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the last examples of a so-called pictographic script that can only be interpreted by Dongba priests, shamans, who have knowledge of the ancient Dongba cu…

• Unique manuscript map of Suriname now available in Digital Collections News - 28 May 2024

  The map of Suriname, drawn in 1830 and acquired by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in 2023, has now been made available online via Digital Collections in open access. The map can be viewed and downloaded in high resolution.

• UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage News - 18 May 2023

  UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts as World Heritage. The manuscripts are inscribed in the global UNESCO Memory of the World Register. This list contains documentary heritage…

• More than 300 medieval manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Vossiana now available in open access News - 23 January 2025

  The most important group of medieval manuscripts from the Special Collections of the University Libraries of Leiden (UBL), the Codices Vossiani Latini, is now available in open access via the Digital Collections. The 324 Latin manuscripts copied in medieval Europe, along with 48 post-medieval manuscripts,…

• Herta Mohr library entrance open Announcement - 12 December 2024

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  Sarah Giest Professor Public Policy with a focus on Innovation and Sustainability

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Library closures around 3 October Announcement - 22 September 2025

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