492 search results for “time” in the Library website
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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…
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Leiden cholera epidemics mapped out, literally
Three cholera epidemics struck 19th-century Leiden. Today’s corona epidemic prompted Martijn Storms, curator of maps and atlases at the Leiden University Libraries, to scour the library for maps about these past epidemics.
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Library staff aim to maintain services and collections
The people behind the Leiden University Libraries aim to maintain the level of their services to clients as much as possible. They are making thankful use of internet, but not everything can be put online.
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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…
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‘Behaviour comes to us in big data’
Jurist Gineke Wiggers wants to predict the expected impact of legal articles. Carel Stolker, Rector of the University and, like Wiggers, a legal specialist, is enthusiastic about the research. ‘A big data project like this will help us establish the effect of our work on society.’
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Sugoi! Start of Leiden Asia Year
Throughout the coming year, all attention in Leiden will be on Asia. This special year, featuring numerous Asian events, conferences, exhibitions and concerts, celebrates the new Asian Library at Leiden University. Come and read, watch, listen, taste or dance Bollywood style.
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Politics after Pim - a reading list
A flamboyant politician, a divisive figure in the Dutch political landscape and a 'man of the people' who presented himself as an unconventional minister. Exactly twenty years ago today, the Netherlands was shocked to its core by the political murder of Pim Fortuyn. Who was Pim Fortuyn? What were his…
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Crafting Resilience Kick-Off Conference
Conference
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Webinar
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Visualizer training: using the overhead Visualizer and special collections during your lectures
Training session
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Webinar
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Diversiteit en Inclusie bij de Politie
Conference, Van willen naar zijn
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Research Data Management for Archaeology
Training
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Webinar
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Visualizer and Special Collections
Training
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Lecture
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Webinar
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Webinar
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Cleveringa lecture
Inaugural lecture
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Lecture
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Copyright and Open Access for PhDs
Lecture
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Overview of databases, reference works and websites in western languages for research in Comparative Philosophy
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Centre for Digital Scholarship Summer Training Week
Seminars, workshops
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Research
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Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks - a reading list
On Saturday 11 September, it will be 20 years since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in the very heart of Manhattan. The images of smoking towers are etched into the memories of many, not only in the United States, but all over the world. September 11 became the subject of much research,…
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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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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Our favourites for the summer - reading list
The collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) not only hold academic material, but also many novels, collections of poetry, non-fiction works and even cookbooks. Is there still some space on your summer reading list? Take a look at the list below and borrow your book through the UBL.
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Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy
Symposium
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Workshop: Sharing field notes
Workshop
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From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China
Symposium
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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop
Symposium & Workshop
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library
Arts and culture
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Symposium on the future of AI and academic publishing
Symposium
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Weekend of Science
Festival
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Ancient Near East Studies
Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Ancient Near East Studies. Last update: October 2020
- Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
- 10th Anniversary Celebration Adv LLM ICR
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Prior Fellows
Overview of the Scaliger, Brill, Elsevier, Van de Sande, Juynboll, Drewes, Isaac Alfred Ailion, Arminius, Van Gulik and Lingling Wiyadharma Fellows who have conducted research in the Special Collections of the University Library.