International award for Mayombe book

In October 2010 the museum M organised the exhibition Mayombe, masters of magic on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Congolese independence. At the same time, they issued a catalogue edited by Jo Tollebeek, together with Mark Derez, Liesbet Nys, Eline van Assche, Hein Vanhee en Anne Verbrugge. This book has now been awarded with the important Prix international du livre d’art tribal. The internationally renowned French Tribal Art Magazine allied itself with the prestigious auction house Sotheby’s, and assembled a jury of mainly Parisian specialists. This jury rewarded this substantial and magnificently published book with the award for showing the colourful and at times surprising objects from Mayombe, a region north of the river Congo, as well as for putting them into their historical, artistic and etnographic context.

Season’s greetings

Best wishes for the new year from the University Library. We look forward to a continued support in your study or research during 2012.

For students we take the opportunity to draw attention to the Studying in Leuven page for the coming study and exam period.

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.

Elsevier ScienceDirect: available again

Since yesterday the K.U.Leuven access to the Elsevier ScienceDirect platform is available again.

LibriLinks: planned interruption

On Monday 21 November from 7.00 till 9.00 the LibriLinks-menu’s will be unavailable due to server maintenance works.

Elsevier ScienceDirect: access interrupted

At the moment there is practically no access to journals on the Elsevier ScienceDirect platform from within the K.U.Leuven network. The publisher has been notified and is working on a solution.

Access is possible by using the proxy server access (also possible from within the K.U.Leuven network).

Planned interruption: ProQuest

The provider ProQuest announces a planned interruption of their platform due to maintenance works, starting Sunday November 6th from 03.00 (CET) for 12 hours

De Legerbode digitized

The university library of Louvain has recently finished the digitalization of the Belgian newspaper “De Legerbode”. The issues 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918 are now available in full text via Limo and the Abraham journal database.

 This military newspaper, published by the Ministry of Defence appeared about three times a week. Throughout the war, it played an important role in information and propaganda and was first and foremost meant for the soldiers. Each company, squadron or battery received ten French and ten Dutch copies.

 It is a rich source of information regarding the history of the First World War in Belgium. The digitalization of this collection links up perfectly with the growing attention for the Great War in Europe and the numerous initiatives in the making for its centennial (1914-2014).

CSA-databases moved to new ProQuest platform

The start of the new academic year sees the definitive migration of all CSA databases from their current interface (about to be abandoned) to the new ProQuest platform. For K.U.Leuven this concerns the following resources:

• ARTbibliographies Modern / ABM
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Dissertations & Theses
• EconLit
• ERIC
• FRANCIS
• GeoRef
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences / IBSS
• Library and Information Science Abstracts / LISA
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts / LLBA
• PILOTS Database
• ProQuest Sociology
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts

In addition to separate links for the individual databases we have also created a general record for the ProQuest platform as a whole. There you can search the aforementioned resources altogether in one fell swoop, or in groups by selecting any of the following subject sets:

• Health & Medicine
• Humanities & Social Sciences
• Science & Technology
• Dissertations & Theses

New search interface for all collections of K.U.Leuven libraries

From this academic year on, the discovery service Limo is the central access point to the collections of the K.U.Leuven libraries. You can now discover in a single search what sources are available on a certain topic.

What can you find in Limo ? Books and journals from the libraries, but also articles and other documents from important databases and e-journal collections that are available within the institution. It further contains all publications that are available in Lirias, the research repository of K.U.Leuven. The current content can later be extended with other interesting sources such as important digitized collections.

Some advantages of Limo:

- print and electronic publications via one search interface,

- search results by default ordered by relevance,

- search results easily refined by use of facets (filters),

- suggestions for further reading via “Recommendations”

Take a look at http://limo.libis.be/KULeuven and discover the new search features to find information in these rich collections.

Of course, an extended help function is available. Your feedback is always welcome, for this you can use the button “Feedback” on the top right corner of every screen.

At this moment, the university library of the K.U.Leuven is the only university library in Belgium that offers such a tool. Limo is based on the software PRIMO, a product of the Ex Libris Group, one of the important providers of library software.