Access to libraries for students Association

For the students of Association KU Leuven there is a significant change on access regulations from 26^th of December 2012 onwards.

Students of the Association still have free access to the libraries of the KU Leuven but those who have not yet applied for a library card on Wednesday 26^th of December 2012, pay a day card (€ 2.5 + 5 € deposit). This rule also applies to KU Leuven students.

This action runs until the end of the exam period, Friday 1^st of February 2013.

So come as soon as possible – before 23/12/2012 – to our desks for requesting a free library card. KHL-students can also apply for this card in their own KHL-libraries.

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Wanted: New Head University Library

The KU Leuven is looking for a Library Director to succeed the present Chief Librarian, Professor M. W. Collier, who retires in the summer of 2012. The KU Leuven Library is a large and complex organisation including campus libraries, faculty libraries, electronic library services, archives and art collections. The job of Library Director provides the challenge of combining the management of important traditional and heritage collections with an ultra modern approach to e-resources and digitalisation of library materials. The Library’s IT division LIBIS provides a wide range of services to a network of institutions throughout Belgium and beyond. KU Leuven has also a network of University Colleges offering academic and professional programmes. The libraries of these Colleges form part of the wider network of the University Library. Moreover, the Library participates in a range of Flemish, Belgian and international co-operative activities.

 More information can be found here.

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Job opportunity : Head of Central Library

The Central Library (CB) is one of two heritage libraries of the University Library (UB) of the KU Leuven, consisting of 11 libraries and two central services.

 The CB is located in a beautiful, legally protected building on the Ladeuzeplein and is the storage library for the humanities and social sciences libraries (with the exception of the Maurits Sabbe library of the Faculty of theology, the other heritage library).

In addition, special collections such as the Tabularium (preciosa and historical bibliography) and the East Asian library are housed in the CB.

The CB further plays an important role in the appearance of the KU Leuven, by receiving ambassadors, heads of State and other public figures.

In the framework of the heritage policy, the CB is involved in different digitisation projects, in collaboration with the Flanders Heritage Library.

Applications can  be send until 5th of July 2012. More information available on  http://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/vacatures_atp/bibliotheek.html

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Library card mandatory during exams

This is a call especially aimed at students of Association KU Leuven. We receive a lot of students from KH Leuven and GroepT without carrying a library card.

Who – after Friday 25 May – has not yet requested a library card will only gain access after purchase of a day card (€ 2.50 + 5 € deposit).   The same principle is applied for quite some time, for students from KU Leuven.

So in order to have easy (and free) access to our libraries in the forthcoming exam period, you better ask for a library card before Friday 25 May. This library card is free and gives access to all KU Leuven libraries. This card can be requested in all our libraries.

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Exhibition of pottery (Ōbori Sōma-yaki) in Fukushima

From Friday 6^th of April 2012 you can visit in the Central Library of the KU Leuven a small exhibition of pottery (Ōbori Sōma-yaki) Sōma in Fukushima (Japan), in the area that was hit by the devastating tsunami last year.

You will find the exhibition in the hall between Main and small reading room.

On Friday 6/4 at 2 p.m. there is a lecture in the East Asian Library, by the creators, on the pottery and their current conditions in Fukushima.

More info: Act for Japan and Somayaki in Europe

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1 minute of silence – Fri 16/3 11am

The University Library would like to join the day of national mourning following the victims in the bus accident in Switzerland.

That is why we invite you on Friday 16/3 at 11 a.m. to keep a minute’s silence. Customers and staff come together in the main reading room at 10u55.

More info on http://www.kuleuven.be/english/news/ku-leuven-expresses-its-deepest-sympathies-for-those-involved-in-the-bus-accident

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Closed on Tuesday 13/12 from 3 to 5 pm

Due to the inauguration of the Window on Korea program, the East-Asian library will exceptionally be closed on Tuesday 13/12 from 3 to 5 pm.

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Window on Korea

On Tuesday December 13, the Central Library will host the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Ho-Young Ahn, the Chief Executive of the National Library of Korea in Seoul, Jin-Yung Woo, and other very important Korean guests. The East-Asian library will receive a donation of 3 500 books, worth more than 40 000 Euro, and will be a  “Window on Korea“  for the coming 5 years.

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Limo: temporarily incomplete search results

Due to technical issues Limo currently provides incomplete search results from the K.U.Leuven collections. Only results from Primo Central (i.e. a selection of our licensed e-sources) are presented.  Documents from Lirias and our paper collections are currently not searchable through Limo.
If needed you can temporarily consult the old LIBISng catalogue for these documents.

Our apologies for the inconvenience.

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Beginning of Photography in China

George R. West and his Lost Portfolios: the Beginning of Photography in China

Sebastian Dobson

 

Sunday 4th of December 2011 at 10.30 h

Auditorium of Royal Museums of Art and History

Jubelpark 10 Parc du Cinquantenaire

Brussel 1000 Bruxelles

 

The short but adventurous career of George R. West (c.1825-1859) offers a fascinating

insight into the opportunities, not to mention the limitations and dangers, faced by early

photographers in China. Between 1844 and 1846, this hitherto little-known American artist

visited Macao, Guangzhou and Hong Kong with a daguerreotype camera, and although recent

research has finally confirmed West’s place in the history of photography as the first

commercial photographer in China, the exact nature of his activity remains unknown. This

obscurity can be explained partly by the disappearance of West’s first portfolio during its

transit to the United States, but mainly, as this lecture will reveal, by a second, more

disastrous setback which put an end to his photographic career altogether.

 

Sebastian Dobson is an independent scholar of the history of photography based in Antwerp.

His recent publications include contributions to Art and Artifice: Japanese Photographs of

the Meiji Era (2004) and A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and

Imagery (2005), both published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as entries in The

Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Encyclopedia of

Nineteenth Century Photography (Routledge, 2007).

 

In collaboration with ECD Royal Museums of Art and History

6€ / 5€ – Free entrance for members BIHCS/IBHEC, VED and Per Musea

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