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- The Digital Library has recently been enriched with Oxford Reference Online (Premium): over 175 dictionaries and reference works issued by Oxford University Press
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- 10 Tips for new students to make a successful start.
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- Visit our weblog on a regular basis over the next few months for updates on the renovation works in the Tielehal of the University Library.
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- The annual report 2006-2007 of the University Library (in Dutch) is available online.
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- From the 25th of August to the 3rd of September 2008 an exhibition of Dutch maps of Latin America will take place at Leiden University Library.
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- The computers in Leiden University Library will be replaced in the week of 4 august.
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- The libraries apply adjusted opening hours in July and August.
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- Database provider EBSCO recently introduced a new interface.
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- Thanks to a large subsiy the archives of Leiden's Observatory, including letters written by Einstein, can be conserved and digitalised.
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- Our online service 'Ask a librarian' and the online course UB-live are back online. Due to technical difficulties with the university website, some of our services are still temporarily unavailable on our Dutch website: the lists of new acquisitions and the digital expositions.
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- In honour of one hundred years of liquid helium, Leiden University Library currently presents a selection of publications from Kamerlingh Onnes.
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- The e-journals of Blackwell Synergy, which were recently integrated in Wiley InterScience, are available again.
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- Publishers have changed the interfaces of a couple of databases on 1 July: PiCarta and the WebSPIRS databases. These databases are available in the Digital Library.
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- Leiden’s University Library brings a certified fire extinguishing gas and sprinkler systems into use to optimize the protection of its collections against fire.
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- Leiden's university libraries have launched the new English website on 16 June.
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- Leiden University Library has developed a new digital service to keep you informed of masterpieces and acquisitions in our special collections on a regular basis.
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- DAREnet has been incorporated into the NARCIS science portal for Dutch scientific information.
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- The Leiden institutions with science collections have agreed to cooperate in several fields to offer wide and digital access to their collections.
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- From 6 June until 29 July 2008 you are welcome to visit the free exhibition ‘Eyes on Persia’ in the University library, an exhibition of late nineteenth century images of Persia from the Hotz collection.
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- From now on, you can ask questions to most libraries of Leiden University via the website.
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- From now on, visitors of the Law Library and the University Library can contact the helpdesk directly in the event of computer malfunction.
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- The new database of Dutch translations of Chinese literature is now online!
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- Registration for the open afternoon on 29 May is now closed.
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- With effect from 1 March 2008, Umar Sayyed is the new librarian for the Social Sciences Library.
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- On 31 March 2008, a new version of the Digital Library (U-LIP) is available. Read more about the changes, and the consequences for your personal preferences.
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- Research has shown that students and researchers know how to find online sources, but that they can still improve on assessing them.
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- The Leiden repository ranks #34 in the world-wide top 200 of repositories, and highest of all Dutch repositories.
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- The offices of subject librarians in the Leiden University Library are now open to the public.
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- The circulation and information desk of the University Library are now available via one telephone number.
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- The collections of Bodel Nijenhuis (De Verzamelingen van Bodel Nijenhuis) will be exhibited in the University Library from 7 March to 29 April.
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- Leiden University Library loans a number of its most special documents to the Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal.
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- On 28 February, RTL broadcast an interview with Dr Sergio Meira about the artificial language Volapuk in an episode of the programme '[4] in het Land'. The interview was recorded in Leiden University Library where Meira discovered much information about this language.
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- The newly renovated Special Collections reading room has reopened on the second floor.
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- The graphic art collection has been expanded with hundreds of modern works, dating from 1970-1995.
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- The University Library has been granted a subsidy to conserve three special collections and to make the collections digitally accessible.
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- From now on, the special collections can always be accessed by everybody, and from any location on http://disc.leidenuniv.nl
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- You can now use your laptop to make a wireless connection to the internet and the University network from the University Library and the Law Library.
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- More than 6 000 medieval manuscripts from Dutch collections can now be searched via one website.
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- The owner of the former 'winkel van Brill' (Brill's book shop) has donated his professional archive to the Leiden University Library. The collection provides us with an unique insight into the oriental book business in Leiden in the twentieth century.
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- In July 2007, the following title appeared: Catalogue of Malay and Minangkabau Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and other collections in the Netherlands (Volume Two) by Prof. Dr E.P. Wieringa.
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- In July 2007, a catalogue was published on the archive created by Max Weisweiler during his research on Oriental book covers.
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- Christiaan Huygens has been included in the top fifty of Dutch historical events and people. This inclusion was at the expense of the invention of bookprinting.
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- On Thursday 7th of June 2007, Prof. Dr Paul Hoftijzer will leave his function as Director of the Scaliger Institute. He will be succeeded by Prof. Dr Marika Keblusek.
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- The 150 000 e-books from Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) can now be found in the Leiden Library Catalogue.
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- At the end of February, the 10 000th publication was added to the Leiden Repository. Complete, full-text versions of over 7 500 of these publications have been made available world-wide in digital form.
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- Learn how to use the databases of Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
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- Leiden University Library has recently acquired a copy of the Sejarah Patani ('History of Patani'). The bound manuscript was presented to the curator of the South-East Asian Collections, Dr Marie-Odette Scalliet.
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- Open Access @ work for Leiden research: the presentations
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- October 2006: the literary archives of the prominent writer Frans Kellendonk (1951-1990), have recently been entrusted to the library of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde - part of Leiden University Library - by the Frans Kellendonk fund.
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- From now on, you can keep up to date with the new acquisitions of the University Library. With the help of the online new acquisitions list, you can see per discipline what publications have been recently added to the collections of the Leiden University Libraries.
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- The National Dissertation website was officially opened on Wednesday 13 September 2006. Over 10 000 Dutch dissertations can now be accessed online from a central spot world-wide.
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- With effect from the 2006/2007 academic year, the Leiden student card will also serve as a library card. This means that the student card can be used at all Leiden University Libraries to borrow, request and renew books.
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- A joint project of the university libraries of Amserdam and Leiden and the Koninklijke Bibliotheek to digitise special collections, receives 3 million euro from the Minister of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science.
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- Over recent weeks, the consumption of food and beverages in the reading rooms has led to the accumulation of litter. We would therefore ask our visitors to respect the houserules.
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- As of 12 April 2006, new descriptions of special collections can be examined on the University Library website: a uniform design, clearly structured and easy to search.
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- From now on, the University Library will send you an email as soon as a book placed on recall has been returned.
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- From 1 February onwards, the University Library has provided blue plastic book baskets for visitors to carry their personal belongings to the reading rooms.
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