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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Library
Libraries were filled with parchment scrolls as at Pergamum and on papyrus scrolls as at Alexandria: export of prepared writing materials was a staple of commerce.
Research libraries are most often academic libraries or national libraries, but many large special libraries have research libraries within their special field and a very few of the largest public libraries also serve as research libraries.
Libraries have materials arranged in a specified order according to a library classification system, so that items may be located quickly and collections may be browsed efficiently.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Library   (3633 words)

  
 Informat.io on Leiden
Leiden is also known as one of the places where some of the Pilgrims (as well as some of the first settlers of New Amsterdam) [1] [2] lived for a time in the early 17th century before their departure to the New World [3].
The population of Leiden which, it is estimated, reached 100,000 in 1640, had sunk to 30,000 between 1796 and 1811, and in 1904 was 56,044.
The University of Leiden is famous for its many developments including the famous Leyden jar, a capacitor made from a glass jar, invented in Leiden by Pieter van Musschenbroek in 1746.
www.informat.io /?title=Leiden   (1860 words)

  
 LIBRARY - GoGoSearch.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Libraries are often staffed by a librarian working from a reference desk or information desk to help users find what they are looking for.
Library instruction is closely related to the study of information literacy.Libraries inform the public of what materials are available in their collections and how to access that information.
Basic tasks in library management include the planning of acquisitions (which materials the library should acquire, by purchase or otherwise), library classification of acquired materials, preservation of materials (especially rare and fragile archival materials such as manuscripts), patron borrowing of materials, and developing and administering library computer systems.
www.gogosearch.com /Library.htm   (2305 words)

  
 Library of the Leiden branch
The library pursues an active exchange policy which is possible thanks to the many in-house publications of the institute, and which yields many rare acquisitions not commercially available.
The library serves a diverse clientele that includes, apart from our own staff and students, many colleagues from sister institutes and is also open as a reference botanical library to the public.
The library is one of the founding members of the EBHL (European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries group)
www.nationaalherbarium.nl /nhnlibrary   (370 words)

  
 Leiden University Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oriental Collections of Leiden University Library are known as the Legatum Warnerianum (Warner's Legacy), referring to Levinus Warner (1619-1665), envoy to the Sublime Porte at Constantinople, whose collection of 1,000 Middle Eastern manuscripts forms the core of the present-day Oriental Collections.
The institute was named after Josephus Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), Leiden's most renowned scholar during the early years of her existence and a great benefactor of the University Library through the donation, at his death, of his exceptional collection of manuscripts and all his oriental books.
Leiden University Library in 1610 from Woudanus in Stedeboeck der Nederlanden, Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, 1649.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leiden_University_Library   (1726 words)

  
 Leiden University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The university was founded in 1575 by Prince William of Orange, leader of the Dutch revolt in the Eighty Years' War.
It is traditionally said that the citizens of Leiden were offered the choice between a university and a certain exemption from taxes, and that the citizens believed that a tax law could be rescinded, whereas the great universities of Europe had survived for many centuries.
The anatomical and pathological laboratories of the university are modern, and the museums of geology and mineralogy have been restored.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leiden_University   (1310 words)

  
 The Peace Palace Library
Schalekamp was succeeded by Jeroen Vervliet, a historian and former head of the library of the Department of Law at Leiden University Library.
Paradoxically, the digital library seduces distant users to visit the Library in person so as to be able to benefit from the modern reading room facilities and to do research in older parts of the collection.
Melius De Villiers, for instance, was Professor of Zuid-Afrikaansche Recht at the University of Leiden from 1902 till 1909, H.D.J. Bodenstein was Professor of Roman-Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam from 1912 till 1919 and John Dugard is at this moment Professor of International Law at the University of Leiden.
www.ppl.nl /100years/peacepalacelibrary   (2649 words)

  
 The Churches of Leiden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The English Reformed church was composed of merchants, scholars, and soldiers garrisoned in Leiden as part of the hundreds of English troops fighting with the Dutch against Spain.
The loose connection of this English congregation with the Church of England is indicated by the fact that Goodyear's ordination came at the hands of two Reformed friends in Leiden rather than from an Anglican bishop.
Leiden's English church later moved to the Jerusalem's Chapel (no longer standing) and then to the front ground-floor room of the Leiden University Library, occupying another medieval chapel.
www.leidenchurches.org /WK/index.cfm   (364 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
More recently, libraries are understood as extending beyond the physical walls of a building, providing assistance in navigating and analyzing the information morass with a variety of digital tools.
The contents of these Islamic libraries were copied by Christian monks in Muslim/Chrisian border areas, particularly Spain and Sicily, and from there they eventually made their way into other parts of Christian Europe.
The design of the medieval library arose very directly from the fact that these books were manuscripts created via the labor-intensive process of hand copying, and were valuable possessions, were therefore likely to be stolen, and were far too expensive for most people to own.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/library   (2748 words)

  
 International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World - ISIM
The ISIM was established in 1998 by the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, and Utrecht University.
The University of Nijmegenjoined the ISIM in January 2000.
Furthermore, in order to further the development of the library collection on the modern Muslim world, the ISIM cooperates with the Leiden University Library in which a special ISIM section has been created.
www.indiawijzer.nl /university_education/leiden/leiden_isim.htm   (266 words)

  
 Map-collection of the University Library Leiden
Besides normal acquisitions by the library the maps and atlases derived mainly from the purchase of the Vossius Library, the legacy of J.T. Bodel Nijenhuis and from what is called the Bibliothèque Japonaise.
In 1959 the heirs of F.C. Wieder (see chapter 2) presented to the University Library of Leiden the documentation (20 boxes of references and 20 portfolios with reproductions and drawings) which he used in connection with his work for Youssouf Kamal's Monumenta Cartographica.
Atlases and maps from the library of Isaac Vossius (1618-1689) / Dirk de Vries.
www.kb.nl /skd/atlantes/collecti/ubl.html   (358 words)

  
 Ex Libris - News
LEIDEN, the Netherlands, January 6, 2003--The Leiden University Library has awarded Ex Libris a contract for the licensing, implementation, and support of DigiTool, the company’s digital-asset management system.
DigiTool was first installed at the University of Maryland and, more recently, at Brandeis University, the University of Iowa, and Boston College, all in the United States; and at Curtin University, in Australia.
Leiden University, the oldest Dutch university, was founded in 1575.
www.exlibrisgroup.com /newsdetails.htm?nid=50   (426 words)

  
 Southeast Asia Collection Major Library Catalogs
The Southeast Asia division of the Harlan Hatcher Library at the University of Michigan is an excellent resource for both vernacular and English-language materials from Southeast Asia, but especially from Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.
The Southeast Asia section of the University of Washington Libraries is particularly strong on publications from Indonesia, Thailand, and Laos.
Of special note are library holdings on the anthropology and religion of Thailand (reflecting the research interests of well-known scholar Charles Keyes), human rights and law in Southeast Asia, and modern Vietnamese history.
www.library.ohiou.edu /sea/catalogs.html   (1051 words)

  
 Leiden University Library Oriental Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Oriental Department in the Library of Leiden University houses a considerable and varied collection of Oriental material, consisting of both handwritten and printed pieces, which originate mainly from the Middle East and Indonesia.
The first voyage by the Dutch to the Indonesian archipelago, just before the end of the 16th century, resulted for the Leiden Library in the acquisition of a Javanese manuscript on palm leaves, which is now one of the very oldest in existence.
Material from the Far East and South Asia was acquired by the library in the course of the nineteenth century, albeit in more modest quantities than that which was collected from those regions where the Dutch traditionally had a greater commercial, political and colonial interest.
www.leidenuniv.nl /pun/ubhtm/ubor/ordep.htm   (291 words)

  
 D-Lib -- In Brief (May 2006)
Zetoc [1] is a bibliographic current awareness service that provides discovery of relevant literature within the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents of journal articles and conference papers, to UK researchers, learners and teachers.
Leiden University Library is pleased to announce that a first set of collection guides is currently available online.
Davenport, he noted, has also had a key role in launching CLIR's 'place as library' initiative, which is examining libraries' current efforts to transcend physical structures in order to better serve users and their communities.
www.dlib.org /dlib/may06/05inbrief.html   (3576 words)

  
 Leiden University Projects with the AMICO Library (AMICO@Leiden University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Leiden University stated these goals when licensing the AMICO Library:
The focus in Leiden is presently on the HyperIconics Project.
The Leiden project makes use of central repositories of digital images, with primary textual data in database-files, modelled after the AITF/Getty core Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA).
www.let.leidenuniv.nl /arthis/projects/amico/library.html   (295 words)

  
 Jan Oort Bibliography
Katgert-Merkelign, J.K., The Manuscripts and Correspondence of Jan Hendrick Oort (University Library, Leiden, 1992).
Oort, J.H., “The Density of the Universe,” Astronomy & Astrophysics 7, 405 (1970).
Oort, J.H., “Structure of the Universe,” in Early Evolution of the Universe and its Present Structure; Proceedings of the Symposium, Kolymbari, Greece, August 30-September 2, 1982, (Reidel, Dordrecht & Boston, 1983), 1-6.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists/Oort/OortRefs.html   (911 words)

  
 Walaeus Bibliotheek
The Walaeus Library is the medical library of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC).
All books can be borrowed from the library, except for loose-leaf works, reference and study books, and those with a yellow cover strip.
A library pass is free for staff members of the LUMC and Leiden University, and for students of the Leiden University.
www.lumc.nl /1060/engfolder.html   (470 words)

  
 Hebrew books and manuscripts
This resulted in an active acquisition policy, whereby the first Hebrew books of the Leiden library were collected in a structural way.
A few Hebrew incunabula came into possession of the library, but these were exceptions; the main part of the older Hebrew collections consists of early sixteenth-century Italian prints.
Not only the Italian prints are well represented in the Leiden Library, but Hebrew books which were printed in Holland (in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) also form an important part of the collection.
www.leidenuniv.nl /pun/ubhtm/ubor/heb-syr.htm   (490 words)

  
 Dutch Library Holdings
Lawh el Aqdas (Bahá'u'lláh, miscatalogued in Leiden UB as 'Abdu'l-Bahá) an English translation by M U Esphahani of the lawh-el-akdas (Tablets, p7-17) and a German translation by Fanny Knobloch of the Tablet 'O Army of God', (pp 69-75 in Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá).
Oddly, a note in Leiden Ms Or 6131, memorabilia of Dawud, states that printed facsimilies which were previously part of that Ms folder have now been bound in Dawud, The River of Life.
Leiden UB., Persian Manuscript collection, Oosterse Handscriften (OOSHSS) room: four items from the Dunlop donation of 1898 (Moojen Momen says a Mr Dunlop was attached to the British Legation in Tehran)
bahai-library.com /?file=mcglinn_dutch_libraries.html   (10082 words)

  
 Dutch Studies Web: History
Searchable catalog of Dutch emblem books of Leiden University Library, the ‘Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde’ and Bibliotheca Thysiana; part of the Dutch Golden Age project at Electronic Text Center in Leiden.
A database of over 50,000 records of 18th century Dutch ships that sailed through the Danish Sound to Baltic countries; database is a postgraduate project from the Rijksuniversteit Leiden.
Leiden University Library resource for the study of the Revolt of the Netherlands; contains extensive secondary and primary sources; part of the Dutch Golden Age project at the Electronic Text Center in Leiden.
area.lib.umn.edu /duhistory.html   (707 words)

  
 Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden
Met de aanschaf van de database ECCO krijgt de UB Leiden er in een keer meer dan 150.000 titels bij van boeken die in de 18de eeuw in Engeland zijn gepubliceerd.
Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden Mini-symposium Open Access @ work for Leiden research Online acquisitions lists Aanwinstenlijst online Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Beeldbepalende collectie brieven aangekocht door MNL Meer nieuws Lenen Helpdesk Nieuw in de collecties Lezing eerste Scaliger/Brill-Fellow Tentoonstelling 'Ô bloem der steden'.
Bilderdijk en Leiden Boekenmandjes Helpdesk Over deze website
ub.leidenuniv.nl   (218 words)

  
 Indonesian Internet Resources
University of California at Berkeley The Center for Southeast Asia Studies International and Area Studies
University of New England, Armidale: Department of Asian Languages and Societies
Moderated by Dr.Tim Behrend (The University of Auckland).
www.hawaii.edu /indolang/links2.html   (376 words)

  
 The Letters and Papers of Jan Hendrik Oort: as archived in the University Library, Leiden (Astrophysics and Space ...
The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort (1900-1992) left behind an extensive collection of notes and correspondence, both on his research and on matters that concerned him in a variety of official functions.
The inventory is accompanied by a short biographical sketch, and a number of photographs, mostly relating to Oort's career as a scientist.
The original papers themselves are archived in the Leiden University Library.
www.gettextbooks.com /isbn_0792345428.html   (212 words)

  
 2006 Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
2006 Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Library
Brill Academic Publishers, the oldest scholarly publishing house in The Netherlands based in Leiden, is sponsoring the Scaliger Institute for a three-year period.
This contribution provides an opportunity for one or two fellows to come to Leiden University Library each year in order to do research in the library’s rich Special Collections.
www.titap.org /leiden.htm   (198 words)

  
 Judaic Academic and Library Links
The Libraries of Hebrew College, The Jacob and Rose Grossman Library and The Lawrence J. and Anne Cable Rubenstein Library, serving as the Jewish Public Library of Greater Boston
University of Manchester - The John Rylands University Library - Special Collections - Jewish, Near Eastern and Oriental Studies
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth - Archives of the Center for Jewish Culture
www.library.upenn.edu /cajs/academic.html   (1307 words)

  
 Yale University Library
Philippine holdings in the Library of Congress, 1960-1987: a bibliography.
Gainesville, Fla., Dept. of Reference and Bibliography, University of Florida Libraries, 1958.
Vietnamese holdings in the Library of Congress: a bibliography.
www.library.yale.edu /southeastasia/biblio.html   (770 words)

  
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Catalogue of Malay and Minangkabau manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and other collections in the Netherlands / compiled by E.P. Wieringa ; edited by John de Lijster-Streef and Jan Just Witkam.
Comprising the acquisitions of Malay manuscripts in Leiden University Library up to the year 1896.
Leiden, the Netherlands : Research School CNWS, School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies, Universiteit Leiden, 1999.
www.library.cornell.edu /Asia/acc/acc_apr2000/apr_2000.html   (10737 words)

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