In my last message I should have added that, according to the
currently valid terms of use of the State Library of Berlin, access to
the holdings of the NGMPP is of course still not subject to any
restrictions with regard to the nationality of the users:
https://webshop.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/english/bedingungen-ngmpp/?___from_store=deutsch
Best regards,
RS
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Datum: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:20:13 +0100
Von: Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY <[email protected]>
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Dear Dominik,
In the NGMPP leaflet of 2010 (“VORLäUFIGE Benutzungsordnung des
Mikrofilm-Depots”, “PROVISIONAL Usage Regulations of the Microfilm
Depot”), point 2 actually says that “according to the contract
concluded between the government of the Kingdom of Nepal and the
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft [DMG, German Oriental
Society], copies may only be made for citizens of Germany, Austria
and Switzerland.”
The above claim that this is stipulated in the contract between the
Nepalese government and the DMG is simply false. Neither in this
contract of 16 February 1970 nor in the contract of 24 March 1984
between the DMG and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (to which
the State Library of Berlin belongs) is there such a restriction.
Consequently, it is also missing from the Berlin State Library's
“Information Sheet for the Use of Manuscripts” (“Merkblatt für die
Benutzung von Handschriften”) of November 2009 and from the current
“Terms and Conditions for the Use of the Microfilm Depository
(NGMPP)” (“Benutzungsordnung des Mikrofilm-Depots [NGMPP]”) of the
Berlin State Library of March 2014.
It was never intended to be otherwise.
Best regards
Roland
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Datum: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 20:23:19 -0700
Von: Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <[email protected]>
Antwort an: Dominik Wujastyk <[email protected]>
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An: Indology <[email protected]>
The original contract between the German Research Society and the
Nepalese authorities stipulated that copies of microfilms had to be
purchased directly from the National Archives in Kathmandu. The
one exception to this was that copies of the films were available
in Berlin, where German nationals could consult them and have
copies. That's the contract and it has not been renegotiated.
Many of us have wrestled with all this for many decades.
If anything different from this is happening then it is the
result of an altruistic gesture by someone in favour of supporting
non-nationalistic scholarship, which is lovely. But it's not a
result of a change in the original terms of the contract.
Best,
Dominik
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University of Alberta
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