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New Dutch website for East Asian Library
The East Asian Library has a new website in Dutch. The new website replaces the websites of the former libraries of Chinese, Korean and Japanese Studies. An English version will be developed in the near future.
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Leiden newspaper archive available
The Digital Newspaper Archive of the Regionaal Archief Leiden (Leiden Regional Archives) is now available in the Digital Library and the Catalogue. You can search the archive for old volumes of Leiden newspapers.
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Love and eroticism in the library...
How did Eve persuade Adam to take a bite from the Apple? Don’t you think that biblical characters are in fact captured far more seductive in the 16th and 17th century than today’s pin-ups? Let the collections of Leiden University seduce you at an exhibition about love and eroticism from 25 March to 2 May 2010.
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