Library and education
The Leiden University Library (UBL) has more to offer to lecturers than you might think. The UBL can provide you with general rules for copyright in Blackboard, information skills training for your students, or the option of using library collections as part of your teaching.
Copyright
Agreements and tips on the responsible use of publications can be found on the website of the University library.
Education and information skills
The University library offers information skills workshops for study programmes and institutes that can, for instance, be integrated in the regular curriculum. The programme is determined in consultation with the lecturer. Think of topics such as how to assess the value of information, prevent plagiarism or use exceptional collections. The University library also has a number of lecture and instruction rooms available that you can use for instructions on the use of the library and its exceptional collections.
Using library collections in teaching
The University Library can reserve any literature you need for the duration of a course on a separate course shelf. The books on this shelf cannot be loaned and therefore remain available to all students at all times. You should submit your application for a course shelf no later than five weeks before the start of the course. Course shelves are only available at the Witte Singel and East Asian Library locations. If you wish to consult materials from the exceptional collection, please submit your request via the website of the University library.
ICLON library
ICLON has its own library for staff members and students. The library is open on Mondays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The librarian, Pascal Lemoine, is present on Mondays. On other days, you can hand in books s at the desk of the VO department on the third floor.
Purchase suggestions
The library committee welcomes suggestions for the purchase of books and other media. Please use the form below (in Dutch).
- It is not permitted to purchase materials yourself and to declare the costs at the library, unless the librarian has given permission for this in advance.
- Applications must be made using the online application form.
- When ordering volumes of a teaching method (textbooks), no form needs to be used. Please send an email with an overview of the volumes you wish to order.
- The library committee decides on the purchases.
- When urgent, submit the application form to a member of the library committee.
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Orders not placed through the library are not paid for from the library budget.
Textbooks
The teaching methodologists are responsible for keeping the collection of textbooks for their subject up-to-date, both by having outdated books removed and by requesting the purchase of new textbooks.
Orders for books on other budgets (for example your research budget) can also be requested from the librarian. Use the form below (in Dutch) for this.