Save Dutch Egyptology and ANE studies

It is important that Egyptological and Ancient Near Eastern studies stay independent in the University, because they deal with facts from the start of our civilization

Dismantling the NINO like this is just another step to the dismantling of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern studies. What use is a Research School if there is no good place to do research? Other collections have been moved to the University Library, and have suffered greatly by inaccessibility, lack of expertise by the library staff, and the general overcrowding in the Library. And shame on the National Museum of Antiquities for using this as a cheap way to acquire the Böhl collection.

NINO is a key part of ANE research in the world.

I remember many afternoons spend at the NINO library during my studies there. Please don't go down the road of privatizing and monetization; we, scholars, are better than that.

Keep NINO independent!

Please save this precious facility.

NINO is an outstanding institution, and houses one of the best Egyptology departments in the world, which does first-class research on Deir el-Medîna. The institute constantly proves its worth and should remain as it is.

Please save NINO

First it was Sanskrit. Now Egypt and Mesopotamia. Why do the Dutch want to unravel their most prized and enviable institutions?

The Dutch contribution to ANE studies is very impressive. NINO plays a major role in this and its continuation and support will help to sustain the tradition of excellence.

It's not clear to me at all why the NINO library and center has to be moved and reconfigured as this plan proposes. The present arrangement appears to have been quite successful and continues to be so, while the planned proposal, from other related situations, seems to promise only big trouble. Please keep the NINO where it is.

Mainting the NINO library as an independent entity is essential for the books to properly serve scholarly needs. I came to Leiden as a graduate student for a year because I knew that at the NINO I would have all the books I needed at my finger tips and that I could see everything that I needed to read and know. This would not have been possible if the collection were housed in the University Library. Assyriology is a book-intense discipline and institutions like the NINO library are as essential to it as laboratories are to molecular biology. Dismantling the NINO library would put an end to Leiden as one of the very few top locations to pursue ancient near eastern studies in the world. The NINO is a Dutch national treasure and should be treated appropriately.

Nothing good ultimately comes out of breaking up a proven institution into entities that are assigned hither and yon. Why do it?

I concur with all reserchers that NINO should be respected and left to those who know what has been done and needs to be done the opportunity to go on working with efficency and not let in ignorants to spoil their good job

NINO is a venerable, highly regarded, and important academic institution. It does not need or deserve to be amputated and recreated in some other form. D.A. Foxvog, Lecturer in Assyriology (retired), UC Berkeley.

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NINO is too important to the world community of scholars to alter its organizational structure. Peter Der Manuelian Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology Director, Harvard Semitic Museum Harvard University 6 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138

I support the continuation of an integrated and independent NINO, which will better serve the fields of Ancient Near Eastern Studies in the Netherlands.

NINO is one of the most important European institution for ANE and Egypt. studies.

I have seen this kind of rationalisation destroy disciplinary bases in UK universities. They NEVER result in benefits on an academic front, merely satid=sfying bureaucratic and economic interests.

As an alumni of leiden, I am appalled and dismayed about this!