Leiden University Library
| Leiden University Libraries | |
|---|---|
Library in 1610 (print by Woudanus) | |
| Location | Leiden, The Netherlands |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 24 May 1575 |
| Architect(s) | Bart van Kasteel |
| Branches | 5 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 5,200,000 volumes, 1,000,000 e-books, 90,000 e-journals, 2,000 current paper journals, 60,000 Oriental and Western manuscripts, 500,000 letters, 100,000 maps, 100,000 prints, 12,000 drawings, 300,000 photographs, and 3,000 cuneiform tablets. |
| Other information | |
| Director | Kurt De Belder |
| Website | www |
Leiden University Libraries is the set of libraries of Leiden University, founded in 1575 in Leiden, Netherlands. Holdings include some five million volumes, one million e-books, ninety thousand e-journals, two thousand current paper journals, and three thousand cuneiform tablets. The library manages large collections on Indonesia and the Caribbean, and curates seven entries in UNESCO's international and Dutch Memory of the World Register. Joseph Justus Scaliger, who was a languages and history professor at Leiden from 1593 up to 1609, commented in Latin on the library:
- "Est hic magna commoditas bibliothecae ut studiosi possint studere"
- —Josephus Justus Scaliger
- "Here [at Leiden] is the great convenience of a library so that those who want to study [students], can study."