TY - SER AU - Chris Coppens AU - Mark Derez AU - Jan Roegiers CY - Leuven, Belgium LA - English N1 -

Contents:

I. THE LIBRARIES OF THE OLD UNIVERSITY, 1425-1797
- One university, many libraries
- Monasteries
- Faculties
- Colleges
- A central library in 1636 Charles II of Croy
- Beyerlinck and Jansenius Valerius
- Andreas Slow growth
- The library in a brand-new building
- A library and wine cellar
- A grand chamber
- Baroque theatre
- Books in trompe-l’oeil
- Between Enlightenment and Revolution
- Abbé (de) Nelis
- Jean Noël Paquot
- Jan Frans van de Velde
- A castle in the air
- Moved to Brussels
- Plundered by Paris
II. THE LIBRARY IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION, 1797-1835
- The State University of Leuven
- The Belgian Revolution
III. A LIBRARY FOR THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, 1835-1914
- The daughter of Jaïrus
- An academic museum
- Book stacks from Germany
IV. BELLO DIRUTA. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RECONSTRUCTION, 1914-1940
- The fire of Leuven
- The franc-tireurs
- The Oxford of Belgium
- The Sarajevo of the intellectuals
- Culture and civilisation
- The reconstruction
- The Treaty of Versailles
- The flood of dollars
- The architect
- Whitney Warren
- An American library
- The Giralda of Seville
- A castle in Denmark
- A war monument
- Allied fauna and flora
- A gift from America
- Liberty Bell
- Written in the stars
- A political symbol
- The atmosphere of Locarno
- A counterblast from Berlin
- The balustrade smashed to pieces
- Transatlantic
- An ideal library?
- German money
- Scholarly libraries
- Wish lists
- Collector’s items or mass production
- A reader survey
V. BIS DIRUTA. THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE RECONSTRUCTION, 1940-1970
- The second fire Bis repetita
- The reconstruction
- Help from abroad
- The American College
- Versailles article 247
- A disaster plan
- Architect Henry Lacoste
- Belated art deco
- Beeswax and solid oak
- The new collection
- Scholarly libraries
- Manuscripts and archives
- Fragmentation
VI THE LIBRARY AFTER THE PARTITION, 1970-2000
Split and division
Odd and even
Drastic action Centralisation?
Campusen
Faculties
New structures, new technology
The Central Library
Cultural heritage
Cranevelt and the other Friends
The Tabularium
Governments, newspapers and databases
Explosion
VII. THE LEUVEN LIBRARY LANDSCAPE AFTER 1970
From Arenberg to Gasthuisberg
A profession of faith Philosophy
The Falcon
The garden of Letters
Temple of Mercury
Behavioural sciences
Gasthuisberg Arenberg Courtrai
Together with others
Network Consultation
VIII. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT COROLLARIA
Corpus Inscriptionum
Library data
Series bibliothecariorum
The library year by year

PB - Leuven University Press PP - Leuven, Belgium PY - 2005 SN - 9789058674678 EP - 543 pp. TI - Leuven University Library, 1425-2000 ER -