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Every now and then, a true masterpiece enters the Imaging Lab at the University Library of the KU Leuven. Currently on the Conservation Copy Stand is an early sixteenth-century masterwork of Flemish Illumination in Ghent-Bruges style: the famous Mayer van den Bergh Breviary. Continue reading
DISH2015, the conference about digital strategies for heritage, was all about empowering heritage institutions and their digital wares. What added value can digitisation bring to the physical objects? What value does it bring to society? And how do we create this value? Continue reading
Looking into outsourcing possibilities for the digitization of microfilms, we stumbled upon our predecessor: the ‘Photographische Dienst’ or ‘Service Photographique’ Continue reading
The University Library has a collection of 159 posters from the First World War, with the official announcement by the (mostly German) government. These were digitized in recent months and are now accessible online.