Accessibility of the NINO Near Eastern Library during the Rencontre
The library of the NINO (Netherlands Institute for the Near East) will be open for visitors during the entirety of the week of the Rencontre, including Friday 21st. However, preparations for the upcoming move to the library's new premises may cause some inconvenience.
Visiting the NINO Library during the Rencontre
Visitors of the RAI68 are welcome to visit the NINO Near Eastern library during the week of the RAI from Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. However, due to the large renumbering operation in preparation for the upcoming move of the library, publications may be found in a different location than before, or be unavailable for a short time. More information regarding the implications of the move can be found on the NINO website.
The librarians strive to keep the NINO Library accessible and the library items available to users as much as possible.
About the NINO Near Eastern Library
The NINO library is an academic research library, open for the public but mostly used by researchers and students from Leiden University and other universities in the Netherlands and abroad – we welcome an average of 9,000 visitors yearly. The collection is directly accessible for visitors and meant primarily for study purposes; books cannot be borrowed. The NINO library collection contains an increasing number of digital resources.
The main fields of interest are Egyptology, Assyriology, archaeology, and the Ancient Near East in general. Other subjects are the Middle East, including Turkey, Iran, Islamic art and architecture, Hebrew studies and archaeological reports from the Levant area (F. Scholten collection). Since 2000 acquisition is mainly restricted to the fields of Egyptology, Assyriology and archaeology of the Near East.
The library includes special collections on travel literature and country descriptions, as well as the legacies of G.H. de Knegt (Egyptian art), R. Hoogland (Islamic art and architecture), D. van der Meulen (travel literature), and the Rudolph Said-Ruete/Seyyidah Salme collection (Near and Middle East). It also hosts an impressive collection of dynamic and static periodicals for all the categories available in the collection. Beside publications in western languages there are many publications in Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish and several other non-western languages.