The reading room of the university library in the former palace of Louis Napoleon, Wittevrouwenstraat, c. 1930. Photo: Special Collections University Library Utrecht
The reading room of the university library in the former palace of Louis Napoleon, Wittevrouwenstraat, c. Photo: Special Collections University Library Utrecht - These days, people are hard at work in the University Library, and the books are neatly organised and categorised for everyone who wants to use them. That is a relatively new thing. In the hundreds of years of our library's existence, academics and students have only been using them for a little while. It is already a miracle in the first place that the books survived the library at all. The history of the library goes back centuries. The history of our library goes back a long way: it is older than the university itself. Back when the city came out of years of unrest and moved to protestantism in 1580, a problem manifested.
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