Leiden University Library Home Page

http://www.leidenuniv.nl/pun/ubhtm/marten/libhome.htm (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)

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Library Staff; E-Mail, Phone-Numbers and other Information about our Staff Members (X.500).
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Things to know about the Virtual Library

For a short introduction to the Internet, take the GlobalCenter Web Internet Tour, follow the Internet for Everyone course.
If you want an explanation of an Internet-related term you don't understand, try the Glossary of Internet Terms
For a basic introduction into the World Wide Web, which is a part of the Internet, read the World Wide Web Workbook
For a more advanced introduction to the World Wide Web, read the World Wide Web FAQ or Kevin Hughes' Entering the World Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace
For a one-stop site, with essential info on the Web AND lots of good pages, arranged by subject, use the The Atlas to the World Wide Web
A Beginner's Guide to URL's gives you a short introduction into the composition of Uniform Resource Locators
If things don't work, read What to do if there is a problem with a URL
Finally find out How to Build Your Own Collection of Useful Addresses using Netscape (in Dutch)
Some people may be interested in Advertizing their WWW-resources
Want to know more? Click here

Catalogues of the Virtual Library

At the Reference Desk

New! Webcatcher. The `Webcatcher' searches the web for the latest sites and sends you regular updates listing any new sites which match your region [optional] and/or topics of interest. (You need an E-mail address to use this current awareness service!)
Stanford Netnews Filtering Service. If you've got an E-mail address, use this service to get news on just the topics you're interested in
And if there are things you want to know, here is a your chance to Ask a Question! at The Internet Public Library Reference Center
For computing questions, you can also try the UCS Knowledge Base
See also: Electronic Reference
New! Jobs:
- Vacatures in Hoger Onderwijs en Onderzoek
- Internet Vacature Overzicht

Roaming the stacks

In the refreshment room

Are you filled with bitterness and frustration because you're getting nowhere using the Virtual Library? Then maybe this is the moment to do the Keirsey Temperament Sorter-Jungian Personality Test
Or perhaps now is the time to Dump Your Beloved Electronically
If this doesn't calm you down, you may want to pay a visit to a nice American family on the The John and Kelsey Rakes "Why Do We Have To Share Everything" Homepage
Or you could learn a lot about writing scholarly articles by reading an exemplary paper on Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Or take a holiday and find here what the world's swinging capitals have to offer you during the next few weeks (but you have to register first)
And now, for something completely different..., The Monty Python Home Page!!!!
And now, for something completely (?) different..., Steve Rapport's Monty Python Home Page
But of course, if you are an addict, have fun at the Weboholic's Anonymous Homepage or use the Web to Create Your Own Newspaper

To WWW Leiden University Home Page with links to other Leiden University departments
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