359 search results for “middle eastern library” in the Library website
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The Comics Canon - Graphic Novels at Leiden University Libraries
Graphic Novels and Comics have developed from pulp status to an entirely self-contained medium. This form of storytelling is not limited to stories of superheroes but has been used, molded and reshaped to display historical events, classic stories and autobiographical memoirs. But where should you begin…
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Leiden University Libraries elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium
Leiden University Libraries has been elected to the Executive Committee of the IIIF Consortium. The term of office is two years starting from January 2022.
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Exceptional collection of maps and atlases donated to Leiden University Libraries
Private collectors John Steegh and Harrie Teunissen from Dordrecht have donated their entire collection of maps, city plans and atlases to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). In almost 40 years they brought together circa 17,000 map sheets and 2,300 atlases and travel guides. Especially the thematic…
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Leiden University Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict (dated 1582) from the Ming dynasty period, at one time part of the former collection of well-known sinologist and author of detective-novels Robert van…
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
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Dimiter ToshkovFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Hans Oversloot
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Shadowy art from Leiden University Libraries
Ominous witches, gruesome monsters, and hideous freaks: from Saturday 15 June, Kunsthal Rotterdam will be putting the spotlight on the shady depths of human imagination in the exhibition Hello darkness, my old friend. Seventy works on paper from the collection of the Leiden University Libraries confront…
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Library consortium UKB signs new deals for access to scientific journals and open access publishing
Early 2022, the UKB consortium renewed a number of 'read and publish' contracts with major publishers.
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Leiden University Libraries acquires major 19th-century photography collection on South East Asia
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently acquired a major collection of 19th-century photographs on South East Asia. The collection comprises more than 3,700 photographs of the Netherlands East Indies and mainland South East Asia, including Singapore, Myanmar, Penang and Malacca. The photographs are…
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Shi’i Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Or.95 in the Leiden University Library
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Donation of early twentieth-century glass negatives and prints from the Arabian Peninsula
On Thursday 11 November, Jan Jaap Hooft and Marjon Hooft donated a special collection of glass negatives and photographic prints from the Arabian Peninsula to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The collection is part of the estate of their grandfather Jan Albert Hooft (1883-1972). Hooft held a position…
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Daniela VoicanLeiden University Library
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Gessica SastrosoedjonoLeiden University Library
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Pema GurungLeiden University Library
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Kevin StoofLeiden University Library
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Claudia PeesLeiden University Library
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Stein BrugmanLeiden University Library
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Bernie PerssonStudent and Educational Affairs (SEA)
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Anouk MansfeldLeiden University Library
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Sophie MulderLeiden University Library
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Yoran KremerLeiden University Library
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Mart van DuijnLeiden University Library
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André BouwmanLeiden University Library
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Els KoenemanLeiden University Library
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Nina KuitertLeiden University Library
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Ilse JansmaLeiden University Library
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Marco de NietLeiden University Library
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Paul MaasLeiden University Library
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Hyunsook ChoiLeiden University Library
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Kirsten van EgdomLeiden University Library
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Mick RubinghLeiden University Library
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Jacqueline AbrahamseLeiden University Library
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Sufyan Al KaraimehLeiden University Library
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Fleur PraalLeiden University Library
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Bart WentholtLeiden University Library
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Esther HanekrootLeiden University Library
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Ari AsmiLeiden University Library
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Erik WeberLeiden University Library
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Marc GilbertLeiden University Library
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Marjolein van ZuylenLeiden University Library
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Claudia Moreira CalzadillaFaculty of Humanities
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Nathaniël LinssenLeiden University Library
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Guus JanssenLeiden University Library
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Yvonne AchterkampLeiden University Library
