East Asian LibraryThe libraries of Leiden University are closed on Thursday May 17th 2012, Ascension Day. The University Library is open on Friday May 18th 2012 (the day after Ascension Day) and the following weekend on the regular opening hours.
This is an overview of the addresses and opening hours for 2012 of the Leiden University Libraries and the Leiden University Medical Center's Library (Walaeus).
Starting this week it is possible to restrict searches in the Catalogue to books and other material available in Leiden University Libraries.
What does Japan mean for your colleagues and teachers? How have their interests in Japan started and developed? What brought them here? These questions will be answered in the exibition "Why are we here?"
Starting this week, the new catalogue (PRIMO) is ready for online requests of books from the East Asian Library . This service has been long practice in other library locations, but only after a few updates in the new catalogue, filling in forms at the service desk for most of the books in the EAL is no longer needed!
The East Asian Library now have their own blog with background information on the Chinese, Japanese and Korean collections, detailed information on the most important databases in the field of Asian studies, and lots of other useful and interesting links for our library. You can find our blog through eastasianlibrary.wordpress.com .
The system update that we announced earlier for Monday 26 March after 18h00 has been cancelled. This means you CAN borrow materials from the Law Library and the Library of Social and Behavioural Sciences. You also have access to the Catalogue as usual.
The new Catalogue allows you to search the different databases available through our libraries with one search query. Eventually the Catalogue will replace all these systems, starting with the Digital Library as of January 2012
Information about the collections of the East Asian Library.
This is an overview of contact persons for collections, management, Public Relations, Scaliger Institute and others.
The collection of the East Asian Library is accessible to all students, staff members and researchers of Leiden University. Others can also use the facilities for study and research.
Arsenaalstraat 1, Leiden
Is the building accessible for wheelchair users and are there special facilities?
Copying and Printing in the East Asian Library
The East Asian Library has a multimedia room with tv, video and dvd equipment where one can watch and listen to all the multimedia materials available in the East Asian collections. Use of the equipment is free of charge.
Computer and study facilities in the East Asian Library
In the study of Non-Western cultures the use of audio visual material has grown tremendously. Therefore the East Asian Library is taking effort in assembling a representative collection of films from Chinese, Japanese and Korean cinema. Coming weeks a selection of this material is displayed in the reading room of the library, visually enhanced by original film posters from the private collections of LIAS staff members.
Leiden University would like to express our sincere sympathy to students and staff who have been affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. On Tuesday 22 March there is a meeting for Japanese students and staff. Mari Hosho, an exchange student from Japan, studying psychology at Leiden University, reflects on the disaster that has struck her homeland.
A bèta version of the mobile website of Leiden University Libraries is available now. We invite you to test it and let us know what you think.
As of November 2 it is possible to search and find books in Chinese characters using the Catalogue of the Leiden University Libraries. Until now Chinese language materials could be found in a separate database, ChinaBase, and the online catalogue OPAC only showed them in Chinese Pinyin transcription.
