Library
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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The Library of the African Studies Centre Leiden is planning two important relocations in the coming months. From Wednesday 5 December 2018, 30,000 books from the ASCL collection will be temporarily moved to Leiden University Libraries at the Witte Singel 27. All books can be requested and picked up either at the ASCL Library or at the Witte Singel. From 2 January 2019, the library will undergo major maintenance. The ASCL Library will be temporarily relocated to the nearby Library of Social Sciences in the first week of January 2019. The library will return to its own location at FSW at the beginning of March.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Equatorial Guinea's independence (from Spain) the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on Equatorial Guinea. The dossier consists of selected titles from the ASCL Library Catalogue, extended with sources available through the UBL Catalogue. The dossier is introduced by PhD candidate Anita Brus and concludes with a selection of links to relevant websites. Read the web dossier.
