Many scholars such as Jerome visited the school of Alexandria to exchange ideas and to communicate directly with its scholars.

In the 19th century, European scholars, archaeologists and missionaries visited often.

During this time, scholars from India and China visited these kingdoms to translate literary and religious texts.

And as they do today, foreign scholars visited the library and borrowed the occasional object for an exhibition abroad.

About 1000 scholars visit the ZiF every year, one third from abroad.

Officials and scholars in Germany and the rest of the world increasingly visited the institute.

Tourists and scholars still visit, but they rarely linger.

Successive Chief Ministers and great scholars visited the library and paid encomia.

Many Jain saints and scholars visited the place and composed the religious books there during the fifteenth century.

The scholars met with business leaders, government officials and trade negotiators, and visited factories, universities and historic sites.