The page links to Lund University's people and address directory. Library Director and Office Library Director Håkan CarlssonDeputy Library Director Karin JönssonLibrary Office Departments CollectionsITLibrary ServicesMetadata and CataloguingPreservation and DigitisationScholarly Communication Find staff in the University's people and address directory

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Renovating UB Current opening hours apply through 5 June. The library will be closed from 6 June to 15 June as we prepare to reopen the main entrance on 16 June. Opening hours Monday–Friday: 12–19Saturday–Sunday: 10–15 Limited opening hours April WalpurgisWednesday30 AprilClosed May May DayThursday1 MayClosedFriday2 May12–17**AscensionThursday29 MayClosedFriday30 May12–17****We will not process re

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The printed ephemera is arranged chronologically by publisher. When searching for your request, we need to know the time and the publisher. Please specify only one publisher per request.We will contact you when the material is available in the Special Collections Reading Room, normally within one week. Title/description (required) Publisher/source (required) Year/time period (required) Other descr

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Search older literature at the University Library Catalogue -1957 is a card catalogue listing Lund University Library’s holdings up to 1957. Literature printed before 1800 is listed both here and also mostly in our library catalogue LUBcat and can be requested there. From 1800 to 1957 only a smaller section is recorded in LUBcat. Catalogue -1957 is also available for searches and requests through

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We have large collections of manuscripts and archives. Most of them are searchable online. Some of the special collections can only be searched in catalogues and other finding aids placed in the Special Collections Reading Room. Alvin is a search portal for cultural heritage collections such as manuscripts, personal archives, images, maps and older printed material. Lund University Library is cont

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The De la Gardie Archive is one of the largest archives in Sweden. It contains material from the period 1520-1850 and amounts to about 200 shelf meters, half of which consists of some 20 family archives. The other half contains historical and topographical documents, parchment letters and bound manuscripts on different subjects. A map collection and a collection of portrait engravings are also inc

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Unique manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan The Jarring Collection consists of 560 manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan, today's Chinese province of Xinjiang. The books date from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The collection not only mirrors Eastern Turkestan society and culture with its classic and folk literature, Islamic religious manuscripts, judicial and historic documents, manuals of medicine,

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The University Library holds original maps from the 15th century to the present. We also have most Swedish maps and map series. You can search the University Library's atlases, road atlases, and major map series in the library catalogue LUBcat. Still, you cannot see which map sheets are available at the University Library.Search our atlases in LUBcatYou can search our old atlases in Catalogue -195

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The University Library has an extensive collection of musical scores dating from the 16th century to the present day. You can search for printed music books in the library catalogue LUBcat. Search music books in LUBcat The Catalogue of Swedish printed music in LIBRIS contains all Swedish music since 1986. Search for printed scores and sheet music in LIBRIS Sheet music published up to and including

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You will find a selection of our most used scholarly journals on the entrance floor. You need to request most of the printed journals through LUBcat. You who are a student or staff at Lund University can use Lubito to order free copies of journal articles. Journals are available in the library catalogue You can search for journals in the library catalogue LUBcat. Most of the University Library's p

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Ephemera are, generally speaking, advertising and information materials. These reflect the society and everyday life of their time, which is why they are important research sources. Ephemera forms a large part of our collections because ephemera is the most printed material in Sweden. Ephemera is material published by companies, institutions, organisations, and associations, such as almanacs, adve

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We store most newspapers in original print format in an off-site storage location. Newspapers are available on Wednesdays if you make a request no later than Monday of the same week.We do not collect newspapers in original print format if they are digitally available or on microfilm. But we make exceptions if you need to get the original digitised for publishing. We also have newspapers which we c

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The most extensive collection of papyri in Sweden belongs to Lund University Library. This collection consists of 800 papyri of varying content from Egypt, written in Greek during the first centuries B.C. and A.D. Among other papyri you will find a copy of a text from the Iliad, private letters, an astronomical calendar, receipts, leases etc. The collection is available in digital form on the net

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At the University Library we have been working on digitising our special collections for many years. We have now started digitising our early printed books. At the University Library we have been working on digitising our special collections for many years. Thanks to external funding we have been able to digitise all our medieval manuscripts and several major photo collections.   We have now start

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In 1945 about 20,000 liberated prisoners from German concentration camps arrived in Sweden on the so-called White Buses. Their experiences and sufferings during the war are documented for future generations in a unique archive which the University Library is now making available on the web. When the survivors arrived in Sweden, Zygmunt Łakociński, Polish lecturer at Lund University, took the initi

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The University Library's Work with Research Data Research data are in popular demand, and funding bodies and others are placing more and higher demands on researchers to make their data available. The topic of open science and open data is discussed in many different contexts at Lund University and other national, EU, and global stakeholders.  Projects that have been granted funding from Horizon 2

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Our e-resources are available in LUBsearch. All users can search in LUBsearch but only students and staff at Lund University have full access. Other users can create a guest account that gives access only when using it at the University Library. Find our e-resources in LUBsearch There are three different parts of LUBsearch: Discovery, Databases A–Z and ePublications. Depending on what you are look

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Join our panel and help us get better We want you to have a good experience using our search systems or other services or visiting our Library. To achieve this, we need your help. Join our panel and take part in a study. You will receive a gift as a thank-you for your time. The University Library handles most of the search systems you use for books and digital materials. To develop the systems and

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Manuscripts, images, maps and rare prints We are continually working on making our collections digitally available Explore the special collections We continually digitise manuscripts, images, maps, and rare prints from our collections and make them freely accessible online.Below you can browse among a selection of categories and collections or browse among different subjects and scientific discipl

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Discover the width of our collections  Below you can browse among a selection of subjects and scientific disciplines, from astronomy to zoology.The collections of Lund University Library have been growing for 350 years and span the entire spectrum of human knowledge. Our ambition is to make our digital collections reflect this width, so that they can be used and enjoyed by as many as possible – by

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