89 search results for “more collections en samenleving” in the Library website
-
Enes Sütütemiz
Faculty of Humanities
e.h.sututemiz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2031
-
Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
g.g.van.beijeren.bergen.en.henegouwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6509
-
Ewout Cornelissen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
e.j.m.cornelissen@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
-
Jennifer Becker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.m.becker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 NVT
-
Collections
The UBL develop collections which support the needs of faculty and students of the University.
-
Collections
The special collections of Leiden University Libraries offer access to worldwide known valuable, rare, and unique materials. The collections are actively complemented and made accessible for research and education.
-
Tommy van Avermaete
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
t.o.van.avermaete@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2818
-
Anja Zonneveld
PLATO
zonneveld@plato.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3430
-
Martin Berger
Faculteit Archeologie
m.e.berger@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
-
Cartographic Collections
In addition to the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection, the map collections of the former library of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), and the map collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the collection of Maps and Atlases includes several smaller sub…
- Special Collections
-
Special Collections
Special books, drawings, photos and other source material in the UBL collections can be found at the Special Collections department. You can’t borrow these materials, but you can request them via the catalogue and consult them in the library. Planning your first visit to the Special Collections reading…
-
Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
-
Chinese Special Collections
The Chinese Special Collections are part of the Asian Library. Items can be consulted at the Special Collections Reading Room.
-
Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.
-
Accessing Special Collections
The Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries contain a world-renowned and vast collection of old prints, manuscripts, archives, prints, drawings and photography. Our collections are accessible to Leiden researchers and students, as well as external researchers and other interested parties.
-
Middle Eastern Special Collections
The Middle Eastern Special Collections form the nucleus of the entire range of Oriental heritage collections of Leiden University Libraries.
-
Islamic World Special Collections
The main focus of the Islamic World Special Collections is on the Middle East and North Africa, with smaller holdings from Indonesia, the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia as far as Xinjiang, China.
-
Teaching with Special Collections
There are several excellent options for teachers and researchers to engage students and other audiences with primary sources. Either by requesting items from the Special Collections for use during lectures or by integrating our educational resources into your lesson plans.
-
Japanese and Korean Special Collections
The special collections from Japan and Korea are located at the central library building at Witte Singel, where it forms a part of the Asian Library.
-
How to use Digital Collections
Digital Collections contains over 500,000 digitized primary sources, reference works and digital born materials held by Leiden University Libraries. In this repository you will find digital facsimiles of prints, drawings, photographs, maps and archival documents; digital facsimiles of manuscript books…
-
South Asian and Tibetan Special Collections
The South Asian and Tibetan special collections provide material pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, art and material cultures of the region. The focus lies on Sanskrit, Tibetan, Lepcha, and Buddhism, but the collections also hold rich visual material for educational and academic purposes…
-
Hebrew, Semitic and Armenian Special Collections
The Library of Leiden University holds c. 550 manuscripts and an extensive collection of rare printed books in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, the languages of Ethiopia, South Arabic, Coptic and Armenian, as well as a collection of rare books on the Jewish World.
-
Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
m.francozo@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2437
-
Websites Studenttheses, Scholarly Publications and Digital Collections currently unavailable
Education, Library, Research
-
Guus Heerma van Voss
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.j.j.heerma@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7626
-
Marika Keblusek
Faculty of Humanities
m.keblusek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2360
-
Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
r.b.halbertsma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
-
New search options for archives and collections in Collection Guides
The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This has greatly improved the findability, visibility and ease of use of these collection finding aids.
-
Digitised Leiden Maps and Atlases collection available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than 20.000 maps, atlases and topographical prints and drawings available in Digital Collections. With this, a significant part of one of the largest and most important collections of maps and atlases in the Netherlands has now been made digitally available…
-
Digitised Leiden Middle Eastern collections available in Digital Collections
More than 2000 objects from the Middle Eastern collection at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available online through Digital Collections. These collections mostly consist of written works in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac, but also contain printed works and the…
-
Open Science stimulus: Call 'Citizen Science voor Gezondheid en Zorg'
On 11th February 2021 ZonMw and Health~Holland jointly launched the call 'Citizen Science voor Gezondheid en Zorg (CS4GZ)'.
-
Loan agreement South Asia Collection
The UBL and the Friends of the Kern Institute (VVIK) signed a loan agreement for the collection of South Asia, especially India, and Tibet.
-
Important collection of topographical images of the Netherlands available in Digital Collections
Castles, monasteries and bridges, but also city profiles, history prints and water management works. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) manages one of the most important collections of topographical images in the Netherlands. The collection, bequested to UBL by Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872)…
-
post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection now available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has digitized more than a thousand individual manuscripts and several complete archives from the post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection and made them available online through Digital Collections. With this, some of the most important archives and masterpieces…
-
Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections
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…
-
Opening of the 'Bob Wessels Collection'
Friday 26 January 2018 saw the festive opening of the Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection. This Collection is a most valuable addition to the present prestigious collection on (international) insolvency and commercial law and will be expanded and kept up-to-date in the coming years.
-
Collection of anatomical drawings available in Europeana
Almost 4400 anatomical drawings from the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are now available through Europeana. The collection shows medical art on paper from the early eighteenth century to the present day. Most of the drawings were created in or around the Leiden University Medical…
-
Exhibition W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp en de Nieuwe Kunst rond 1900
The exhibition W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp en de Nieuwe Kunst rond 1900 will be on display in Leiden University Libraries in the period 21 January-17 May 2016.
-
Digitised photos, daguerreotypes, and slides now available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made 45,000 digitised daguerreotypes, autochrome plates, photo prints, albums, cameras and other objects from its photography collections available through Digital Collections. This means that parts of the oldest photo collection in the Netherlands are now digitally…
-
Old printed works and special editions in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made approximately 2300 old printed books and special editions available online through Digital Collections. With this, a small but important part of one of the oldest and most important collections of printed works in the Netherlands is now digitally available…
-
New in the Leiden collections: the Amsterdam Yemen Library
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…
-
Digitised drawings and prints now available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Library (UBL) has made more than 20,000 digitised drawings and prints available via Digital Collections. This means that the core of Leiden University’s collection of European ‘art on paper’, which ranks fourth in the Netherlands in terms of size and importance, is now available in…
-
Unique manuscript map of Suriname now available in Digital Collections
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.
-
Collection on the Italian occupation of Libya donated
UBL recently received a donation of some five hundred books on the Italian occupation of Libya and on Arabic linguistics. UBL gratefully acknowledges this donation by a Leiden University alumnus.
-
Franco Donati
Science
f.donati@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4571
-
Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
-
Chinese unofficial poetry journals now accessible in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens up thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including…
-
KF-ENKRS Network Workshop 2023: Connect, Collect and Catalogue
Library, Social
-
New in the collections: correspondence of Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska
Slavicist, translator and publisher Pim van Sambeek recently donated his correspondence with Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska to Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Most letters were written in 1982-1983 before the first publication of a collection of Szymborska’s poetry in Dutch, translated by…