After the closure of these departments in Amsterdam and Groningen, and now the threatened closure of NINO do the Leiden university administrators really want to deprive all Dutch citizens of the chance to use the only library of its kind in the country? The Netherlands used to be a place of culture which attracted both national and international scholars as evidenced by this petition. Now it seems they want to drive them away. O tempora o mores !
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Martina Markic
9 years ago
Don't. Closing the NINO would be a huge loss for science.
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Veronika
9 years ago
Dont do it!!
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Shuichi Hasegawa
9 years ago
An absolutely stupid decision!
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Frank van Dam
9 years ago
Behoud dit instituut, splitsen van dit instituut en collectie heeft geen enkele meerwaarde.
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Eugene Cruz-Uribe
9 years ago
A proven recognized high quality program and structure. Why mess with something that works?
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Ronald E Kon
9 years ago
Reasons and supposed advantages of this change of structure are unclear and therefore not convincing. Having been an editor of the section of, a.o., Arabic, Turkish, Iranian, Islamic and pre-Islamic studies of Bibliotheca Orientalis (400 reviews and 24 leading articles edited) under the aegis of NINO, and having contributed to NINO by securing the Richard Hoogland Collection of publications on Islamic Art and Material Culture (including an enormous collection of slides) I really deplore the proposed new situation.
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Ronnie Lauxen
9 years ago
Bizar to want to throw away such vast and rich knowledge only a few bucks!
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Bolten
9 years ago
Deze prachtige bibliotheek de volgende in de rij van Leidse bibliotheken die men de laatste jaren de nek heeft omgedraaid, zoals Kern, Archeologie en KITLV? Dit mag niet gebeuren!
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Arjan Nabbe
9 years ago
Such a great institution to safeguard the knowledge and heritage of countries unable to independantly do that themselves. Shame to put it to this end.
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Marjo Korpel
9 years ago
The NINO collects all material needed for research in fields covering both ancient and modern Middle Eastern cultures. This is extremely rare in the whole world. It enables us to better understand where it all came from. Recently I lectured at a conference in Groningen about the long history of religious intolerance. I could not have prepared that paper without having access to the rich resources of NINO. Those who have proposed the ill-considered detachment of NINO from its base should consult the illuminating manifest of Nuccio Ordine, L'utilità dell' inutile (The Usefulness of the Useless).
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joost golverdingen
9 years ago
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During my study egyptology I used the library almost every day and enjoyed it very much. Almost every title (book and periodical) is avalible and easy accessable! The NINO is unique and a unmissable institute for research, something to be proud of!
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Jeannot Kettel
9 years ago
Is this the beginning of Dutch cultural suicide? I honestly hope not. Kannitverstan!
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Karola Zibelius-Chen
9 years ago
It is hardly intelligible why anyone would want to endanger an excellent scholarly institution such as NINO and its future research by plans as proposed .
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Marlieke
9 years ago
SAVE THE LIBRARY!
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Cynthia May Sheikholeslami
9 years ago
NINO's contributions to Egyptology are fundamental and the last bastion of Egyptology in the Netherlands should endure to keep a proud tradition of scholarship and education alive.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
Save European Egyptology !
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Debra Tily
9 years ago
Far too important, needs to be saved.
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Prof Dr J de Roos
9 years ago
It will be a terrible loss to Dutch scholarship if NINO were to lose its independent management of its library books and clay tablets. It would be a mistake to pull NINO apart before the precise conditions, long-term consequences and benefits (if any) of the currently proposed plans are even revealed. I therefore urge the board of curators of the NINO to take notice of the widespread international opposition against these plans, as I fear the proposed changes will mark the end of more than 75 years of Near Eastern studies in the Netherlands for sure.
Prof. Dr. J. de Roos
Former Director of NINO (1990-2002)
Prof. Em. in Hittitology
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Laurens Aelberts
9 years ago
Keep the study! History is the basis of the future
After the closure of these departments in Amsterdam and Groningen, and now the threatened closure of NINO do the Leiden university administrators really want to deprive all Dutch citizens of the chance to use the only library of its kind in the country? The Netherlands used to be a place of culture which attracted both national and international scholars as evidenced by this petition. Now it seems they want to drive them away. O tempora o mores !
Don't. Closing the NINO would be a huge loss for science.
Dont do it!!
An absolutely stupid decision!
Behoud dit instituut, splitsen van dit instituut en collectie heeft geen enkele meerwaarde.
A proven recognized high quality program and structure. Why mess with something that works?
Reasons and supposed advantages of this change of structure are unclear and therefore not convincing. Having been an editor of the section of, a.o., Arabic, Turkish, Iranian, Islamic and pre-Islamic studies of Bibliotheca Orientalis (400 reviews and 24 leading articles edited) under the aegis of NINO, and having contributed to NINO by securing the Richard Hoogland Collection of publications on Islamic Art and Material Culture (including an enormous collection of slides) I really deplore the proposed new situation.
Bizar to want to throw away such vast and rich knowledge only a few bucks!
Deze prachtige bibliotheek de volgende in de rij van Leidse bibliotheken die men de laatste jaren de nek heeft omgedraaid, zoals Kern, Archeologie en KITLV? Dit mag niet gebeuren!
Such a great institution to safeguard the knowledge and heritage of countries unable to independantly do that themselves. Shame to put it to this end.
The NINO collects all material needed for research in fields covering both ancient and modern Middle Eastern cultures. This is extremely rare in the whole world. It enables us to better understand where it all came from. Recently I lectured at a conference in Groningen about the long history of religious intolerance. I could not have prepared that paper without having access to the rich resources of NINO. Those who have proposed the ill-considered detachment of NINO from its base should consult the illuminating manifest of Nuccio Ordine, L'utilità dell' inutile (The Usefulness of the Useless).
During my study egyptology I used the library almost every day and enjoyed it very much. Almost every title (book and periodical) is avalible and easy accessable! The NINO is unique and a unmissable institute for research, something to be proud of!
Is this the beginning of Dutch cultural suicide? I honestly hope not. Kannitverstan!
It is hardly intelligible why anyone would want to endanger an excellent scholarly institution such as NINO and its future research by plans as proposed .
SAVE THE LIBRARY!
NINO's contributions to Egyptology are fundamental and the last bastion of Egyptology in the Netherlands should endure to keep a proud tradition of scholarship and education alive.
Save European Egyptology !
Far too important, needs to be saved.
It will be a terrible loss to Dutch scholarship if NINO were to lose its independent management of its library books and clay tablets. It would be a mistake to pull NINO apart before the precise conditions, long-term consequences and benefits (if any) of the currently proposed plans are even revealed. I therefore urge the board of curators of the NINO to take notice of the widespread international opposition against these plans, as I fear the proposed changes will mark the end of more than 75 years of Near Eastern studies in the Netherlands for sure. Prof. Dr. J. de Roos Former Director of NINO (1990-2002) Prof. Em. in Hittitology
Keep the study! History is the basis of the future