Save Dutch Egyptology and ANE studies

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Please allow NINO to stay independent. They do amazing work with that independence!

Waarom zou een goed werkend instituut moeten verdwijnen? Dat soort reorganisaties, soms met veel blabla aangekondigd om efficiënter te werken en zo de dienstverlening te verbeteren is meestal een wassen neus en draait uiteindelijk uit op een vermindering van de dienstverlening.

As a specialist of Coptic studies , I want to emphasize the importance of the NINO as an independent library.

I myself study this in Belgium and I think the study of this is very important.

De afschaffing van eender welke richting die relaties tussen mensen en wederzijds begrip bevordert is een beslissing die enkel mensen met dezelfde benauwde geest van Trump kunnen nemen.

Io ho firmato e tu?

As chairman of the Belgian Royal Society of Oriental Studies and Professor at the Catholic University of Lille (France), I consider that maintaining the independance of NINO is absolutely necessary, regarding the scientific reputation and importance of this institution.

For its reputation and excellence, I support the continuation of the NINO.

It is precisely because of the long-term relationship with the staff and the associated resources in Cairo that I have been able to continue my research in Egypt for over 15 years. Without these resources, my project, and many others that I am associated with in Egypt, will suffer a huge impact in our ability to work and integrate our research with those working at Leiden University and additional institutes around the world.

NINO should be independent

Succes

The NINO library is (or was, when I still worked in Leiden) also an indispensable tool for Arabic studies.

Keep NINO independent!

Without the knowledge of our past, there is no meaningful future.

It should be clear that this 'reorganization' in reality means an abolition. On paper it may look respectable, but that is mere appearance: in practice the priceless collections will disappear and be forgotten in a cellar. Another branch of Dutch learning will be cut off and dead.

SAVE DUTCH EGYPTOLOGY!!!!!!!!

Such crude "integration" almost inevitably result in a lack of scholarly social capital. And in areas like this, it really counts.

NINO is not only a celebrated institution of long-standing reputation, it is also the crystallization point of Near Eastern Studies in the Netherlands. The exceptional library (particularly exceptional on the ancient Near East) offers a unique study and research environment. No doubt the considerable success (which, at KU Leuven, makes me quite envious) in attracting well-paying foreign students to Leiden is a direct consequence of the intertnationally competitive environment that NINO offers. The decision to incorporate the NINO collections and its unique library in other contexts (where at least the books will be less easily accessible) will destroy this environment, and threaten to leave the library in less expert hands. Ancient Near Eastern studies in Leiden will lose much of their attractiveness, and indirectly the idea to close down NINO is likely to have disastrous effects on the income to the university (in the form of tuition fees) that the flow of foreign students generates. This attempt at rationalization would not have been taken by persons competent in the domains of ancient Near Eastern Studies, in which Leiden has a world reputation. Harco Willems full professor of Egyptology, KU Leuven

Please keep this vital program and library open. Programs and collections of this caliber are fewer and fewer and experience shows that they are irreplaceable in that universities with dwindling humanities funding rarely if ever have the capital to acquire such a collection or begin such a program once it has been reduced by reorganization.