Academic literature on the topic 'Borchardt Library'

Lars Schreiber Pedersen: “Ich zweifle nicht, dass man hier für die Bauforschung sorgen könnte.” [“I do not doubt that one could take care of construction research here.”] New light shed on H. O. Lange’s struggle for a Danish scientific institute in Egypt 1938–39 Fund og Forskning 46 from 2007 contained an article about the Egyptologist and head librarian at The Royal Library from 1901–1924, H. O. Lange’s attempt to help his long-time friend, the German-Jewish Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt and his wife Emilie to acquire Danish citizenship and at the same time ensure Denmark and Copenhagen University a scientific institute in Cairo in Egypt. As early as 2007, it was clear that parts of the initial correspondence were missing between Ludwig Borchardt and later, after Ludwig Borchardt’s death on 12 August 1938, his wife Emilie Borchardt and H. O. Lange. Lange quoted diligently from these letters when he promoted Ludwig and Emilie Borchardt’s case in the summer and autumn of 1938 to several Danish ministries and at Copenhagen University. Part of the supposedly lost correspondence, including 14 letters from Ludwig and Emilie Borchardt to H. O. Lange, as well as three response drafts from H. O. Lange showed up a few years ago at Copenhagen University and constitute the focal point of this article. The letters provide new and detailed insight into H. O. Lange’s efforts to ensure the Danish state and Copenhagen University the scientific institute in Egypt. An institute, which could help highlight the leadership of Danish Egyptology in the Nordic countries. The rediscovered letters also document how tight a grip Ludwig and Emilie Borchardt had on the institute, and how unwilling the couple really were to entrust the institute and its corresponding assets to the Danish State. The letters leave the impression of a married couple, who did not hesitate to play close friends and peers (George Reisner, Allan H. Gardiner and H. O. Lange) against one another based on a supposed risk that the institution and its assets could be seized by National Socialist Germany. However, the foundation created by the couple using private funds in the district of Zamalek in Cairo, was never close to ending up in Danish, English or American hands. Since the alleged risk of seizing the institute and its corresponding assets in the late summer of 1938 had blown over, Emilie Borchardt gradually retracted the feelers she had put out. In the three countries, which participated in the battle to take over the institute, namely USA, England and Denmark, civil servants and politicians were in the end not willing to pay the price presented by the Borchardts for the scientific institute, plus the granting of citizenship. Today, the institute bears the name Schweizerisches Institut für Ägyptische Bauforschung und Altertumskunde (Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt) and continues to be financed by the foundation created by Ludwig and Emilie Borchardt.

This thesis examines the history of Commonwealth Government higher education policy in Australia between 1958 and 1997 and its impact on the development of two groups of academic librarians: the Association of Librarians in Colleges in Advanced Education (ALCAE) and the Committee of Australian University Librarians (CAUL). Although university librarians had met occasionally since the late 1920s, it was only in 1965 that a more formal organisation, known as CAUL, was established to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information. ALCAE was set up in 1969 and played an important role helping develop a special concept of library service peculiar to the newly formed College of Advanced Education (CAE) sector. As well as examining the impact of Commonwealth Government higher education policy on ALCAE and CAUL, the thesis also explores the influence of other factors on these two groups, including the range of personalities that comprised them, and their relationship with their parent institutions and with other professional groups and organisations. The study focuses on how higher education policy and these other external and internal factors shaped the functions, aspirations, and internal dynamics of these two groups and how this resulted in each group evolving differently. The author argues that, because of the greater attention given to the special educational role of libraries in the CAE curriculum, the group of college librarians had the opportunity to participate in, and have some influence on, Commonwealth Government statutory bodies responsible for the coordination of policy and the distribution of funding for the CAE sector. The link between ALCAE and formal policy-making processes resulted in a more dynamic group than CAUL, with the university librarians being discouraged by their Vice-Chancellors from having contact with university funding bodies because of the desire of the universities to maintain a greater level of control over their affairs and resist interference from government. The circumstances of each group underwent a reversal over time as ALCAE's effectiveness began to diminish as a result of changes to the CAE sector and as member interest was transferred to other groups and organisations. Conversely, CAUL gradually became a more active group during the 1980s and early 1990s as a result of changes to higher education, the efforts of some university librarians, and changes in membership. This study is based principally on primary source material, with the story of ALCAE and CAUL being told through the use of a combination of original documentation (including minutes of meetings and correspondence) and interviews with members of each group and other key figures.