47 search results for “conservation” in the Library website
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Conservation workshop
When making available the heritage collections for study and research extra measures are taken to minimize risks and optimize conditions for use.
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Conservation Workshop
Our collections contain many materials that are old, fragile, light-sensitive, maltreated in the past or much used and therefore tattered. Other items may be hundreds of years old and still be in sound condition. We aim to have all collections available as much as possible, while we also preserve them…
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Geert de Snoo
Science
g.r.de.snoo@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Anagnostis Theodoropoulos
Science
a.theodoropoulos@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4882
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Caitlin Black
Science
c.e.black@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mariana Braz Pires
Science
m.braz.pires@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kevin Groen
Science
k.groen@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6822
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Sam Boerlijst
Science
s.p.boerlijst@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kaixuan Pan
Science
k.pan@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kees Musters
Science
musters@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7461
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Emily Strange
Science
e.f.strange@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Chengyi Liu
Science
c.liu@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Merlijn van Weerd
Science
m.van.weerd@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jie Hu
Science
j.hu@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Michiel Veldhuis
Science
m.p.veldhuis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1494
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Liselotte Rambonnet
Science
l.rambonnet@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 715272 5082
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Ann Brysbaert
Faculteit Archeologie
a.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5328
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Art & Art History
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Art & Art History
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Emilie Didaskalou
Science
e.a.didaskalou@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5652
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Gerard Persoon
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
persoonga@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Kat Stewart
Science
k.a.stewart@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Wil Tamis
Science
tamis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Manon de Visser
Science
m.c.de.visser@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4882
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Harry Wels
Afrika-Studiecentrum
h.wels@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3771
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Hans de Iongh
Science
h.h.de.iongh@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7461
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Matana Ng'weli
Science
m.l.ngweli@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
l.n.m.tissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Library organisation
Leiden University has several library locations. These libraries are part of one organisation: Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The UBL includes the University Library, the Social and Behavioural Sciences Library, the Law Library, the Science Library, the Asian Library, the NINO Library, the Walaeus…
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Leiden Yemeni manuscripts now digitally available
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently digitized circa 150 Yemeni manuscripts and has made them freely available for research and education. The manuscripts, dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, were digitized as part of the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition project. Yemen has been marked…
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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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Clay tablets dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’
How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home.
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Closer collaboration NINO with Leiden University and the National Museum of Antiquities
The board of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) has agreed on June 27 on a plan for closer collaboration with Leiden University and the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO). The plan includes the launch of a NINO research institute with an annual budget of approximately 300.000 euro.
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Complete access to Annual Reviews
Library
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Leiden University Libraries donates more than 3000 images to Wikimedia
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has donated over 3000 historic photographs and prints on the Dutch East Indies, China, Japan, Singapore and Suriname to Wikimedia Commons, the image database of Wikipedia.
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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Populism: democracy under pressure – a reading list
The storming of the United States Capitol in January 2021 showed people disrupting democratic procedure in the name of ‘real democracy’. Both elected politicians and the Capitol stormers claimed to act in name of ‘the people’. The incident illustrated the disruptive potential of populist politics, and…
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland
Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Leiden University and Wageningen University & Research (WUR) planted roughly 3,000 rice plants on the Polderlab near Leiden. The researchers want to test rice as a…
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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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Fifty years of teaching and research in Egypt: ‘Visit to Cairo a highlight for students’
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Thousands of students and researchers from eight partner universities in the Netherlands and Flanders have been able to gain valuable experience in Egypt through the institute. Good reason for a celebrat…
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Visualizer training: using the overhead Visualizer and special collections during your lectures
Training session
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Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Summer School
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Visualizer and Special Collections
Training
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Japan Studies: Politics and International Relations
Overview of reference works, journals and website for research in Politics and International Relations of Japan
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The Pen and the Sword: A reading list about writer's quarrels
Writers are not just storytellers: with their novels, tales and critiques they broaden the social imagination, reflect on societal developments and sometimes put new themes on the map. This can easily lead to a conflict because writers and literati often think very differently about issues such as…
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).