Don't let this study field die, even though its study object is already dead. You have a responsibility towards continuation and tradition.
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R M Kerr
9 years ago
NINO's fame is due to its independence, it should not drown in the administrative madness that has become Leiden University. That the library staff will administer the books forebodes the worst.
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Jan Lisman Netherlands Beek
9 years ago
An integrated and independent NINO is the best guarantee for the continuation of the excellent scientific standard of the staff and the institute.
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J Berkheij Dol
9 years ago
De huidige facliliteiten van het NINO en de hulp van haar personeel is voor de voortgang van mijn studie (PhD) zeer wezenlijk!
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Alwin Kloekhorst
9 years ago
The open stacks system of NINO is essential for doing thorough and efficient research. Please do not change that!
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Bert Hogervorst
9 years ago
Are we to return to a 19th century situation where Holland had no department of Egyptology?
PLEASE NO!!
Henri (Hans) Frankfort (1897 Amsterdam - 1954 London, was a brilliant Dutch academic. Fulfilling his wish to study Egyptology, he had to leave Holland, as there was no department of Egyptology in his native country at the time.
To this very day he is claimed to be an American archeologist by encyclopedia brittannica....
But as a student of Egyptology in Leiden, I discovered that he was originally a Dutch citizen: Hans Frankfort. And that he wrote a wonderful, internationally recognized standard work: "Kingship and the Gods".
So please do not waste talent and save Dutch Egyptology and ANE studies!
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Michael CA Macdonald
9 years ago
NINO in its present form has served scholars working on Egyptology and the ancient Near East very well for many decades. To break it up and integrate the pieces into different parts of the university structure would destroy an institution of immense value.
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Anonymous
9 years ago
The NINO library is not only vital to the study of the Near East/Egypt, but also for us ancient historians and classicists. Integration into the library is certainly no guarantee for a successful future - especially given the fact that the NINO functions so well as it is.
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Emma Cunliffe
9 years ago
This is an essential institution in the field, precisely because of its composition as a centre of excellence, and distributing those resources and the expertise will not produce beneficial results for the field.
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Manfred Bietak
9 years ago
As Egyptologist and Near Eastern scholar and reviewer of Bibliotheca orientalis I have always admired the NINO, its capacities and its library. It is a world respected Institution and one should leave it intact as it is in order to ensure the continuation of its quality. The Netherlands should be very proud of it
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Annemiek Steenbergen
9 years ago
save this precious library!
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Lucas
9 years ago
Een shande voor een universiteit met zo'n lange geschiedenis van excellente geesteswetenschappen.
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stephanie dalley
9 years ago
NINO is at the very top of Near Eastern Studies in the world. It underpins brilliant scholarship in universities in the Netherlands, including ancient languages, ancient history, and field work. To take away its independence would be to undermine a national and international treasure. It is shameful that such a course should even be considered.
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Frédéric Rouffet
9 years ago
I went to NINO few years ago... what a wonderful place, so great to work in ! Please keep it independent !
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De Putter Thierry
9 years ago
Manager-led changes in research institutes often produce disasters because there is a strong difference between a research institute and a private company. Scientists know the best way to adapt and improve their structure. They have often done it for centuries without “managers”.
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Vande Walle Etienne
9 years ago
Please keep NINO independent
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L. Bouke van der Meer
9 years ago
I am against dismantling the NINO. The present situation is the best one for scholars and students. NINO is user-friendly in all respects. I got much support there since 1973.
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Jan Tavernier
9 years ago
I have always enjoyed visiting the NINO with its phantastic library. Frankly, changing well-working structures for whatever reasons (budget, architecture, to be the great "reformer") has no sense at all!! So please, leave NINO as it is, a great institution!!
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Anonymous
9 years ago
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I don't see any advantage in breaking up a fine scholarly institution with a long tradition into a research school. The success of Egyptology and ANE Studies is also guaranteed by an adjacent library and the combination of teaching and research on actual artifacts.
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Melanie Wasmuth
9 years ago
NINO library is one of the most attractive research places for cross-regional as well as regionally specialised studies in Ancient Cultures! To even envision to put such a national and academic asset into jeopardy is to me incomprehensible.
Please keep NINO what it is!
Don't let this study field die, even though its study object is already dead. You have a responsibility towards continuation and tradition.
NINO's fame is due to its independence, it should not drown in the administrative madness that has become Leiden University. That the library staff will administer the books forebodes the worst.
An integrated and independent NINO is the best guarantee for the continuation of the excellent scientific standard of the staff and the institute.
De huidige facliliteiten van het NINO en de hulp van haar personeel is voor de voortgang van mijn studie (PhD) zeer wezenlijk!
The open stacks system of NINO is essential for doing thorough and efficient research. Please do not change that!
Are we to return to a 19th century situation where Holland had no department of Egyptology? PLEASE NO!! Henri (Hans) Frankfort (1897 Amsterdam - 1954 London, was a brilliant Dutch academic. Fulfilling his wish to study Egyptology, he had to leave Holland, as there was no department of Egyptology in his native country at the time. To this very day he is claimed to be an American archeologist by encyclopedia brittannica.... But as a student of Egyptology in Leiden, I discovered that he was originally a Dutch citizen: Hans Frankfort. And that he wrote a wonderful, internationally recognized standard work: "Kingship and the Gods". So please do not waste talent and save Dutch Egyptology and ANE studies!
NINO in its present form has served scholars working on Egyptology and the ancient Near East very well for many decades. To break it up and integrate the pieces into different parts of the university structure would destroy an institution of immense value.
The NINO library is not only vital to the study of the Near East/Egypt, but also for us ancient historians and classicists. Integration into the library is certainly no guarantee for a successful future - especially given the fact that the NINO functions so well as it is.
This is an essential institution in the field, precisely because of its composition as a centre of excellence, and distributing those resources and the expertise will not produce beneficial results for the field.
As Egyptologist and Near Eastern scholar and reviewer of Bibliotheca orientalis I have always admired the NINO, its capacities and its library. It is a world respected Institution and one should leave it intact as it is in order to ensure the continuation of its quality. The Netherlands should be very proud of it
save this precious library!
Een shande voor een universiteit met zo'n lange geschiedenis van excellente geesteswetenschappen.
NINO is at the very top of Near Eastern Studies in the world. It underpins brilliant scholarship in universities in the Netherlands, including ancient languages, ancient history, and field work. To take away its independence would be to undermine a national and international treasure. It is shameful that such a course should even be considered.
I went to NINO few years ago... what a wonderful place, so great to work in ! Please keep it independent !
Manager-led changes in research institutes often produce disasters because there is a strong difference between a research institute and a private company. Scientists know the best way to adapt and improve their structure. They have often done it for centuries without “managers”.
Please keep NINO independent
I am against dismantling the NINO. The present situation is the best one for scholars and students. NINO is user-friendly in all respects. I got much support there since 1973.
I have always enjoyed visiting the NINO with its phantastic library. Frankly, changing well-working structures for whatever reasons (budget, architecture, to be the great "reformer") has no sense at all!! So please, leave NINO as it is, a great institution!!
I don't see any advantage in breaking up a fine scholarly institution with a long tradition into a research school. The success of Egyptology and ANE Studies is also guaranteed by an adjacent library and the combination of teaching and research on actual artifacts.
NINO library is one of the most attractive research places for cross-regional as well as regionally specialised studies in Ancient Cultures! To even envision to put such a national and academic asset into jeopardy is to me incomprehensible. Please keep NINO what it is!