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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.
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As of Monday 15 June, the Library of the African Studies Centre of Leiden University will reopen for visitors - but only after reservation by e-mail. Studying in the ASCL Library will be possible during time slots of maximum 3 hours. Read all about the new regulations.
In Senegal, graffiti artists engage actively in the fight against the coronavirus, by creating murals relating to Covid-19 on city walls, to spread information and warn the population and also to support healthcare personnel confronting the disease. Realised in a very short time by the ‘Fondation Dapper’, the free online book Le Graffiti pour sauver des vies: l’art s’engage contre le coronavirus au Sénégal preserves some of this street art. It is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
'For gathering information about Africa there is no better place in the Netherlands than the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden'. Marijke Boter wrote an article about the wealth of the ASCL Library on Voertaal.
