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Jonathan Rodgers | 17 May 2013 12:16
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Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries - preliminary report

From: James Simon
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Subject: Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries - preliminary report

MELA Friends:

 

Attached you will find the preliminary report from the December 2012 event "Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries: A Forum on the Future." This forum brought an array of scholars, librarians, and other stakeholders together to consider the future of research libraries and their role in advancing international scholarship and the globalization of the universities of which they are a part. 

 

This preliminary report shares a vision of the new, broad-gauged information infrastructure and services that will energize scholarship on issues of local and international concern, now and into the future.  Its recommendations are offered as a point of departure for discussions among stakeholders.

 

We are eager to generate ideas from organizations and individuals to incorporate into an ambitious and solid action plan. The feedback and suggestions will help inform strategies for libraries to align their collecting, tools, and services to support expanded international studies in the increasingly globalized world of U.S. higher education.

 

We are distributing the report widely, to scholarly societies, research associations, library organizations, collection development and subject specialists, and university decision-makers. We ask each of you to consider the recommendations and offer your suggestions and strategies to enact them. Please share with your constituency, and we welcome any and all comments. You may submit them to me (simon-s8m7MN4ixSw@public.gmane.org) and/or the steering committee via the address global-forum <at> duke.edu.

 

We would also welcome a formal response from the Middle East Librarians Association, reflecting how the recommendations align, overlay, or contradict your own aspirations and activities, and specific steps MELA may take to advance the ideas advocated in the report.  Please submit your response by July 30, 2013.

 

With thanks and appreciation for your feedback,

James

 

The “Global Dimensions of Scholarship and Research Libraries” forum was supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by Duke University and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). 

 

 

James Simon

Director of International Resources

Center for Research Libraries

6050 South Kenwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637 USA

773-955-4545

http://www.crl.edu

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Ali Houissa | 8 May 2013 15:30
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'Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet' 5/7/2013

[I’ve checked several Syria-based sites and they are all unavailable! There we go again].—A.

 

 

Web monitor: 'Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet'

Web monitor: ‘Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet’

Posted by Max Fisher on May 7, 2013 at 5:16 pm

Screen shot of Google’s traffic data from Syria shows sharp drop-off at 2:45 p.m. Eastern time.

Both Google and a Web security company called Umbrella Security Labs are indicating that the entire country of Syria may have been severed from the Internet.

The outage appears to have begun at 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, or 9:45 p.m. in Syria. According to a blog post by Umbrella’s chief technology officer Dan Hubbard, “On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.”

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Lila Saab | 8 May 2013 12:20
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Translation of Ahmed Shawki Poem

Hello 

Can anyone help me get an English translation of this poem by Ahmed Shawki?  Thank you

مضناك جفاه مرقده وبكاه ورحم عوده 

حيران القلب معذبه مقروح الجفن مسهده 

يستهوي الورق تاوهه ويذيب الصخر تنهده 

وينادي النجم ويتعبه ويقيم الليل ويقعده 

الحسن حلفت بيوسفه والصوره انك مفرده 

وتمنت كل مقطعه يدها يدها لوتبعث تشهده 

جحدت عيناك زكي دمي وكذلك خدك يجحده 

قد عز شهودي اذ رمتا فأشرت لخدك اشهده 

بيني في الحب وبينك ما لا يقدر واش يفسده 

مابال العاذل يفتح لي باب السلوان واوصده 

ويقول تكاد تجن به فاقول وأوشك اعبده 

مولاى وروحي في يده قد ضيعها سلمت يده 

ناقوس القلب يدق له وحنايا الاضلع معبده 

قسما بثنايا لؤلؤها قسم الياقوت منضده 

ماخنت هواك ولا خطرت سلوى للقلب تبرده 

لأمير الشعراء :أحمد شوقي




  • "Modnaka Jafahou" 



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Rachel Simon | 7 May 2013 19:11
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Book for review in MELA notes

I received the following book for review in MELA Notes. Please contact me directly if you are sure you can return a review WITHIN SIX MONTHS:

 

Nazli Eray, The emperor tea garden. Translated from the Turkish by Robet Finn ((Syracuse UP, 2013)      

 

Thanks,

 

Rachel Simon

MELA Notes Book review editor

rsimon-uX/v2g6dJhCyum0STUha2w@public.gmane.org

 

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Brenda Bickett | 7 May 2013 15:48
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An Egyptian Legacy: the German Bookshop in Cairo

hi all,
apologies if this has been posted before; it appeared back in Feb.  I just stumbled across it today & thought it might be of interest:
An Egyptian Legacy: the German Bookshop in Cairo
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/1515/23/An-Egyptian-legend.aspx
cheers, Brenda
Brenda E. Bickett
Bibliographer for:
 *Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
 *Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies
 *Prince AlWaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
 *Dept. of Arabic & Islamic Studies 
 *Dept. of French (interim)
 *Dept. of Slavic Languages
 *Div. of Eastern Mediterranean Languages (Persian & Turkish)
Georgetown University Library
Washington DC 20057-1174
voice: 202/687-4482
www.library.georgetown.edu
bickettb <at> georgetown.edu

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Riedlmayer, Andras | 5 May 2013 22:32
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Turkish novels spark controversy at Tehran Book Fair

Turkish novels spark controversy at Tehran Book Fair

http://www.payvand.com/news/13/may/1039.html

http://www.radikal.com.tr/dunya/irandan_ask_i_memnu_ve_hareme_toplatma_karari-1132106

The controversy concerns, inter alia, a Persian translation of Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love), a romance novel by Halid Ziya Uşaklıgıl that was first published in Turkish more than a century ago (1899-1900). The Iranian censors' objections may have been sparked by allegedly immoral scenes in the currently popular Turkish television soap opera of the same title that is loosely based on the novel. The soap opera is banned in Iran. But Majid Hamidzade, the director of the Tehran Book Fair, counters that in his view there's no objectionable content in Halid Ziya's book.

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Saeed Damadi | 1 May 2013 01:15
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Congratulations David!

Congratulations David!
Saeed

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Shayee Khanaka | 30 Apr 2013 20:06
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Congratulations, Sensei


Dear David,

Pîroz bê, indeed!
And, thank you for unoffially mentoring me and,  I am sure, many other MELA
members.
Well deserved.

Shayee Khanaka
Librarian for Linguistics & 
Middle East-North African Collections
438 Doe Library
University of California 
Berkeley CA 94720-6000
(510) 768-7620
(510) 666-2020 (fax)

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Muhammad al-Faruque | 30 Apr 2013 18:45
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.bok sofware

Dear colleagues: 
Can you suggest a reliable, no-string, free, software to read ".bok" files. Please suggest ONLY, if you have used the program and did not encounter any problem, or it does not bring any spyware with it.

Thanks in advance.

Muhammad al-Faruque




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Muhammad al-Faruque, Ph.D.
Champaign,      Illinois,    USA

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Deeb, Mary Jane | 30 Apr 2013 16:19
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Congratulations!

Congratulations David!  Well deserved.

Mary-Jane

 

Mary-Jane Deeb, Ph.D.

Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division

The Library of Congress

 

email: mdee-+hwoy1Po9Oc@public.gmane.org

phone: 202-707-1221

fax: 202-252-3180

 

The views expressed by the author are not necessarily those of the Library of Congress

 

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Visel, Patrick | 30 Apr 2013 15:42
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Congratulations David

Congratulations David

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Congratulations to our colleague and friend David Hirsch for being named the "Librarian of the Year at UCLA"

It is my pleasure to announce that David Hirsch, a librarian in UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library
Collections, Research and Instructional Services, has been chosen by the Librarians Association of the
University of California, Los Angeles, as the 2013 Librarian of the Year. This award recognizes
excellence in librarianship over the last twelve to eighteen months, particularly as it furthers the
teaching and research mission of UCLA, and meets the intellectual, informational, and cultural needs of
the university community.

The award, conferred during the Association's spring meeting on April 24, 2013, recognizes David's
continual efforts to enhance the Library's Middle East collections, helping to make the UCLA Library the
premier West Coast destination for Middle East scholars and researchers. David also worked on three
exhibits, on Afghan history, Armenian printing history, and Islamic superhero comic books (which
included a Library-sponsored event and film screening). During the last year, David provided
invaluable assistance in finding a permanent home for the Tahrir Documents Archive in UCLA Library
Special Collections. In his unrelenting efforts to enhance collections, share research, and partner
with libraries in the Middle East, David's bravery was exemplified by a recent two week workshop at the
University in Basra and through his contributions to the development of Iraq's libraries, despite the
obvious danger posed to an American traveling in that country.

The Librarians Association of the University of California is the system's primary organization for
professional librarian and governance affairs.

Congratulations to David Hirsch, the LAUC-LA 2013 Librarian of the Year!

Sincerely,

Angela Riggio

On behalf of the LAUC-LA Librarian of the Year Award Committee, 2013

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