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gjr | 4 Aug 1997 17:30
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J.D.PEARSON

		Professor JAMES DOUGLAS PEARSON 1911-97

	With great regret I must report the death of J.D.(Jim) Pearson last
Friday, 1 August 1997, at the age of 85. He had suffered a stroke about a week 
previously.

	His funeral will take place on Friday 8 August at 1630 in Cambridge 
Crematorium (West Chapel), Huntingdon Road, Girton, near Cambridge. All
mourners are welcome.

	Condolences, etc. should be sent to his widow, Hilda Pearson, at
			79 Highsett
			CAMBRIDGE
			CB2 1NZ
			UK

	Professor Pearson was one of the most eminent, and pioneering,
librarians and bibliographers in the field of Middle Eastern and Islamic
studies, and beyond that in Oriental studies generally. Born in December 1911, 
he grew up and was educated in humble circumstances in Cambridge. First
employed in Cambridge University Library at the age of 16 as a book-fetcher, 
he developed a taste for, and skill in, "exotic" languages, and was awarded a
scholarship at St John's College, graduating in Hebrew in 1936. He was then
employed in the Oriental Section of the Library until 1941, when he was
enlisted for war service until 1945. He worked again in Cambridge University
Library as an Assistant Under-Librarian from 1945 until 1950.

	In 1950 he was appointed Librarian of the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) in London, and from then until 1972 oversaw the drastic 
expansion and development of the SOAS Library in what were probably the most
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gjr | 4 Aug 1997 18:33
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JIM PEARSON

Following my recent posting about the late Jim Pearson, it occurs to me that
some colleagues may like to offer their own memories of or tributes to Jim, via
this list. I could then assemble these in a suitable form and present them to
Hilda and other mourners after the funeral on Friday.

						Geoffrey Roper

						Islamic Bibliography Unit
						Cambridge University Library
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Andras Riedlmayer | 4 Aug 1997 17:23
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Islamic architecture in Spain and in the New World

There is renewed interest these days in the study of the
areas of mutual influence and contact between cultures. Among 
the most fascinating and enduring of these has been the legacy 
of al-Andalus, both in peninsular Spain and Portugal and in
the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the New World. 
We have just catalogued a recent book on the subject: 

        TITLE: El mudejar iberoamericano : del Islam al Nuevo Mundo.
     PUB. INFO: Granada : El Legado Andalusi, [1995].
   DESCRIPTION: 319 p. : ill. (some col.), plans ; 30 cm.
         NOTES: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palacio Episcopal,
                Malaga, in 1995.
                Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-302).
          ISBN: 8477823340

The volume has illus. articles on topics that range over two continents
and five centuries, incl. subjects such as arabesques and muqarnas in the
Indian churches of the high Andes, "muxarabi" (mashrabiya) on residential
architecture in Brazil, etc. The volume also has a very useful review of
current literature on this subject, compiled by Ana Reyes Pacios Lozano:
"Bibliografia de arte mudejar: addenda." (pp. 293-302), 
which continues and supplements her standard bibliography of the subject:

Reyes Pacios Lozano, Ana.
Bibliografia de arquitectura y techumbres mudejares, 1857-1991.
  Teruel : Instituto de Estudios Turolenses, Excma. Diputacion Provincial
  de Teruel ; [Zaragoza] : Gobierno de Aragon, Departamento de Cultura
  y Educacion, 1993.  450 p. (Serie Estudios mudejares) ISBN: 8486982375

Both of the above can be ordered from
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midhat abraham | 5 Aug 1997 00:05

Area Librarian-Area Studies (fwd)


Dear MELA members:

FYI and any feedback. Two more items were added to the lis below. These 
were: l)Does the area librarian association have any official status 
within the area studies association, and 2) how many proposals for 
cooperative activity has the area librarian association made to the area 
studies association in the past 5 years.

Thanks,
Midhat D. Abraham

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:16:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Nancy Jeanne Schmidt <schmidtn@...>
To: libadmin_area97@...
Subject: Area Librarian-Area Studies (fwd)

If anyone has items to add to the list below, please send them to the
majordomo so that the representatives of the area librarian associations can
add them to the list.  Thank you.  Nancy

Also, one more person is joining the majordomo, Jim Neal from Johns Hopkins,
who was instrumental in starting the Future of Area Librarianship
Project .

Information area librarian association representatives will collect from 
their members on the relationship between their national area librarian 
association and their national area studies association and report to 
Nancy Schmidt, who will compile the information and distribute it to
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Ed Jajko | 4 Aug 1997 22:46
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Re: Area Librarian-Area Studies (fwd)

Gee, this one is real simple.  The answer to everything is a big,
resounding NO.

eaj

At 01:05 PM 8/4/1997 -0900, you wrote:
>
>Dear MELA members:
>
>FYI and any feedback. Two more items were added to the lis below. These 
>were: l)Does the area librarian association have any official status 
>within the area studies association, and 2) how many proposals for 
>cooperative activity has the area librarian association made to the area 
>studies association in the past 5 years.
>
>Thanks,
>Midhat D. Abraham
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:16:13 -0500 (EST)
>From: Nancy Jeanne Schmidt <schmidtn@...>
>To: libadmin_area97@...
>Subject: Area Librarian-Area Studies (fwd)
>
>If anyone has items to add to the list below, please send them to the
>majordomo so that the representatives of the area librarian associations can
>add them to the list.  Thank you.  Nancy
>
>Also, one more person is joining the majordomo, Jim Neal from Johns Hopkins,
>who was instrumental in starting the Future of Area Librarianship
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Roberta L. Dougherty | 4 Aug 1997 23:07

Re: Area Librarian-Area Studies (fwd)

Looks to me like this list of questions could form the basis of a MELA 
action plan.

--Robin

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Roberta L. Dougherty
Middle East Bibliographer &
  Head, Middle East Technical Services
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA   19104
telephone:  (215) 898-3795
fax:  (215) 898-0559
e-mail:  rld@...
URL:  http://pobox.upenn.edu/~rld
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Mark Tyler Day | 5 Aug 1997 06:13
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Re: Area Librarian-Area Studies (fwd)

   I think Robin has gone straight to the point. Good succinct 
suggestion. I strongly concur. How do others feel?

   Mark

PS Ed mentioned in his response that the current answer to "all" the 
questions is "no." Isn't the answer yes, however, to question #7 (do 
we hold our meeting . . . b. immediately before or after the annual area
studies assoc. mtg.). Also, I seem to recall that we have done some of 
the other things in the (maybe distant) past.

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e         Mark T. Day, Associate Librarian, Reference          e
f           Bibliographer for Middle Eastern Studies           f
e---------------Indiana University, Main Library---------------e
R       1320 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1801        R
e         Phone: (812) 855-8028 | FAX: (812) 855-1624          e
f                  E-mail: daym@...                    f
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On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Roberta L. Dougherty wrote:

> Looks to me like this list of questions could form the basis of a MELA 
> action plan.
> 
> --Robin
> 
> -- 
> Roberta L. Dougherty
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Leila Books | 5 Aug 1997 22:30

LB97/08/7 - MELANET (Laysa bihadha al-shakl...)

Sabah al-Full ya-MELA

A new title is published in Kuwayt and we are distributing:

Haddad, Qasim
Laysa bihadha al-shakl.. wa la bishakl akhar.
(Sirat al-nass, tis`at asdiqa' habibah wahidah, baban wa-bahr `abir)
Kuwayt, 1997, 1st edition, 213 pages, US$10.-, paperback.
(Literature)

We will not send this title to our approval plan program members unless 
we receive a confirmation / order by return e-mail.

Regards.

George Fawzy

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Visiting Address: 39 Kasr El Nil Str.-Office 12, Cairo, Egypt; 
Tel.: 3924475-3934402-3507399;  Fax: (00202) 3924475;
E-mail: leilabks@...;  http://www.leila-books.com; 
Postal Address: P.O.Box 31 Daher, 11271 Cairo, Egypt.
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Andras Riedlmayer | 5 Aug 1997 15:15
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Symmetry of Rugs - new on-line exhibit (fwd)

---------------  Announcing a new on-line exhibit  ---------------

                      SYMMETRY AND PATTERN:
                   THE ART OF ORIENTAL CARPETS

            http://forum.swarthmore.edu/geometry/rugs/

--- A joint project of The Textile Museum and The Math Forum ----

            Highlights include:

            + About Symmetry and Pattern
                An illustrated introduction to the
                mathematical aspects of this exhibit.

            + Rug Gallery
                Images of 28 carpets, each accompanied
                by comments from the author.

            + About Oriental Carpets
                Social, historical, and technical
                information about Islamic art.

            + Educational Resources
                Including student activities and
                suggestions for further reading.

Carol Bier                               Melissa June Dershewitz
Curator                                  Project Coordinator
The Textile Museum                       The Math Forum
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John Eilts | 5 Aug 1997 17:47

Need help for 25th anniversary

MELA members,
     By now you all know about the upcoming 25th anniversary of
MELA.  I am investigating making it somewhat special and want to
see if we can produce a commemorative program for the meeting.
For this I would like a number of contributions from our
membership.

1)  If any of you, or anyone you know, has photographs taken
at previous MELA events, could you spare them for possible
inclusion in the program?

2)  Addresses for former members who have been lost over the
years, due to career changes, or other events.

3)  Names of our colleagues who have died for a special
in memory of page.  With the recent sad announcement of the
passing of our friend Jim Pearson, I think that we may want to
have a special memorial to him in the program and I will be
contacting Geoffrey Roper and our British colleagues for some
contributions here.

     If you can think of any other ideas, please contact me.

John

John Eilts
Exhaulted High Curmudgeon of MELA
(I'd better be carefull or I might lose this title)
bl.jae@...
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