In 2025, it will be 600 years since a university was founded in Leuven, the forerunner of today's KU Leuven.

In anticipation to these festivities, KU Leuven Libraries, in collaboration with UCLouvain, is putting its academic collection in the spotlight.

Thanks to the efforts of the past months and years, images of 2025 rare books published by Leuven professors have now been uploaded to the Lovaniensia platform.
However, this enormous growth - in May 2020, about 400 works were available digitally - is not the only reason why it is worth surfing to this website.
There are also extra pages with information about the Old University of Leuven (1425-1797) and its various faculties, and the professors' page was supplemented with biographical descriptions of some 130 professors (with even more extensive records for each professor in ODIS). In addition, via the filters it is now clear which works have been digitised internally or externally. And last but not least, thanks to a collaboration with Google Books, all works from the Leuven collection are now provided with an ocr layer, so that each work on the platform is now textually searchable.