166 search results for “construction heritage” in the Library website
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds five sets of manuscripts recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. They are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents (Memory of the World Register).
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Monique van den Dries
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mara de Groot
Faculteit Archeologie
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Willemijn Waal
Faculty of Humanities
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Miyuki Kerkhof
Honours Academy
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Berthe Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Hebly
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sophie Starrenburg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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Martin Berger
Faculteit Archeologie
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Geert Booij
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gül Aktürk Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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UBL signs Digital Heritage Network Manifesto
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) signed the manifesto of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) this November, during Digital Heritage Month, thereby joining the network. The manifesto calls on archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions to make their digital collections more visible,…
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available
The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…
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Stijn Bussels
Faculty of Humanities
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Construction of Middle Eastern Library in Final Phase
Library
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Noise due to construction works next to the UB
Facility, Library
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Lingli Hou
Science
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Catrin Böcher
Science
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Elout Korevaar
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marika Keblusek
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik de Maaker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Angus Martin
Faculteit Archeologie
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Verena Meyer
Faculty of Humanities
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance
Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. This project will address a significant knowledge gap on the potentials and pitfalls of climate governance, with an initial…
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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The importance of preserving documentary heritage: UNESCO Memory of the World register
One of the main functions of a University Library is the preservation of documentary heritage. Not just to facilitate research and education, but also because this heritage in many ways represents our collective memory. UNESCO has been registering special and often threatened documents in the international…
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Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage
UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat Aceh manuscripts as World Heritage. The manuscripts are inscribed in the global UNESCO Memory of the World Register. This list contains documentary heritage…
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Elmer Veldkamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Tomer Fishman
Science
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Shiza Aslam
Science
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.
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Ian Simpson
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Aya Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Lydia van de Fliert
Faculteit Archeologie
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Peter Pels
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen