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The library of the African Studies Centre Leiden is a research library, which is also open to the general public. The library consists of a digital and a paper library. The digital library gives access to an unlimited number of publications, the paper library holds 91,000 books about and from Africa, 90,000 journal articles and 1,700 films on DVD.
Please note that the ASCL and its Library will be closed on Monday 4 October, due to the Leidens Ontzet festivities.
On 30 September 2012, Somali poet and political activist, Mohamed Hashi Dhamac (Somali: Maxamed Xaashi Dhamac) better known as Gaarriye died at a hospital in Norway. He is regarded as one of the most important Somali poets of the twentieth century. Read more
In the year when the world became familiar with ‘zoonotic diseases’, and a photo of the locusts invasion in East Africa won a prize in the World Press Photo contest, the ‘animal turn’ in the social sciences is here to stay. Catering for this relatively new research theme, the ASCL Library does not need to revise its collection profile drastically, but it needs to address a potential information need, and direct students to relatively new research areas. Find out more in our latest Library Highlight!
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