According to statements from bank employees, the sale was discussed
before the financial crisis and is not related to those events.
Secondly, I don't think the bank is at all uninformed about the
schoilarly value. Without the bank the scholarship of the last 25
years would not exist. The chief concern is the continued cost of
maintaining and protecting the collection, is this a cost a single
private enetity should bear? The possibility of a permanent loan or a
purchase of the collection by the state of Niedersachsen are both on
the table and would serve both to keep the collection in tact while
allowing the bank to be free of the cost of maintaining the collection.

Jorg Lueke

--- In amnumsoc-l@yahoogroups.com, "archnathan" <NTElkins@...> wrote:
>
> It would indeed be a great scholarly loss for another old collection
> to be sold off as Deutsche Bank simply seeks to make up for losses,
> unconcerned or uninformed about the educational and scholarly value of
> the collection they wish to sell.
>