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Large expansion of contemporary Moroccan collections01 March 2019The Netherlands Institute in Marocco (NIMAR) has recently added more than 1000 titles to the Leiden University Library (UBL) collection at our locatio...
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How Leiden University celebrated its first day in 157504 February 2019Lifelike gods, provisional professors and the city militia with weapons a clanking. Leiden put on a colourful procession and drummed up hundreds of ci...
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Dutch universities give Open Access another boost31 January 2019The Dutch universities will give Open Access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications availa...
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‘Cleveringa was more than a one-day hero’14 January 2019In his biography about Professor Rudolph Cleveringa, Kees Schuyt adds to the image we already have of this famous Leiden professor. The overriding foc...
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Did Rembrandt paint Leiden Professor van Schooten?06 November 2018Leiden Professor of Maths Frans van Schooten Jnr. (1615-1660) and his wife Margrieta were painted by Rembrandt. This is the claim made by mathematicia...
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Online publication of the Institute’s coin collection05 March 2018On the 26th of February, 2018, it was exactly 25 years ago that the coins of ‘Verzameling Mr. B. Kolff’ were handed over to the Leiden Papyrological I...
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Opening of the 'Bob Wessels Collection'01 February 2018Friday 26 January 2018 saw the festive opening of the Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection. This Collection is a most valuable addition to the presen...
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This was the Leiden Asia Year18 December 20172017 was the Leiden Asia Year. Leiden has had connections with Asia and built up extensive knowledge of the continent over many centuries. This Leiden...
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Press Release of the Hague Space Resources Governance Working Group22 November 2017The Hague Space Resources Governance Working Group, hosted by the IIASL, has recently agreed on the Draft Building Blocks for the Development of an In...
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Launch of new book on Protection of the Environment in the Aftermath of Conflict14 November 2017New volume in the Jus Post Bellum series
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Panji tales awarded the status of world heritage by UNESCO31 October 2017The unique collection of more than 250 ancient tales revolving around the mythical Javanese Prince Panji, which is curated by Leiden University Librar...
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Leiden University Libraries acquires remarkable medical manuscripts22 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 library18 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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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available27 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 Beynon18 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...