FBI Begins Visiting Libraries

Associated Press
June 24, 2002

FBI Begins Visiting Libraries

By Christopher Newton
Associated Press Writer

  WASHINGTON, June 24 (AP) -- The FBI is visiting libraries nationwide
and checking the reading records of people it suspects of having ties
to terrorists or plotting an attack, library officials say.

   The FBI effort, authorized by the anti-terrorism law enacted after the
Sept. 11 attacks, is the first broad government check of library records
since the 1970s when prosecutors reined in the practice for fear of
abuses.

   The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment Monday, except
to note that such searches are now legal under the Patriot Act that
President Bush signed last October.

   Libraries across the nation were reluctant to discuss their dealings
with the FBI. The same law that makes the searches legal also makes it
a criminal offense for librarians to reveal the details or extent [of
such searches].

   "Patron information is sacrosanct here. It's nobody's business what
you read," said Kari Hanson, director of the Bridgeview Public Library
in suburban Chicago.

Kuwait Opens First Private University

This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education 
(http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: straley.1@...

  Tuesday, June 25, 2002

  Kuwait Opens First Private University

  By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

   

  Kuwait's first private university has begun accepting students
  in preparation for its opening in September. The Gulf
  University for Science and Technology is an undergraduate
  institution that will grant bachelor's degrees in
  science-related fields, as well as in business administration.

  The University of Missouri at St. Louis is providing the
  institution with curriculum-development assistance, as well as
  an exchange program. "Our level of cooperation with Missouri
  will allow our students to study abroad, especially subjects
  like engineering, which we don't offer here," said Rasha
  Ibrahim, the secretary for admissions at Gulf University.

  Around 1,500 students are expected to enroll this year, and
  officials plan to eventually develop master's- and
  doctoral-degree programs.

  The language of instruction will be English, and tuition has

ALA Resolution on Palestinian Libraries

I thought you might be interested in seeing a recent ALA resolution:

http://www.pitt.edu/~ttwiss/irtf/resolutions.alapalestinianlibs.html

David Hirsch
Middle East Bibliographer
Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA
PO BOX 951575
Los Angeles,CA 90095-1575
email: dhirsch@...
Tel: 310-825-2930
Fax: 310-206-4974
efax: 707-313-7712

Alexandria University website and publications

Is there a functional website for University of Alexandria other than:
 	http://www.frcu.eun.eg/www/universities/html/alex.html

I am trying to find out if a series of "papers" published by their 
Kulliyat al-Adab exists, other than the Majallat Kulliyat al-Adab. I 
got a garbled citation from a faculty member for a #18 from 1991/92 
which does not match the numbering for the journal. We checked the 
journal anyway but could not find the article.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
David

David Hirsch
Middle East Bibliographer
Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA
PO BOX 951575
Los Angeles,CA 90095-1575
email: dhirsch@...
Tel: 310-825-2930
Fax: 310-206-4974
efax: 707-313-7712

new arabic ms. at the bodleian

Dear friends,

The front page of the latest Outline, the Oxford University 
Libraries staff newsletter, announces the acquisition of a 
new Arabic ms.:

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/outline/pdf/outline0084.pdf

--Robin
former MELA prez

----------------------
Roberta Lynn Dougherty
roberta.dougherty@...
rldougherty@...

Do Libraries Really Need Books? <fwd>

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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 06:46:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: walter.armbrust@...
Subject: Do Libraries Really Need Books?
To: roberta.dougherty@...

This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education 
(http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: walter.armbrust@...

  From the issue dated July 12, 2002

  Do Libraries Really Need Books?

  By SCOTT CARLSON

   "I love libraries. Books talk to me," says Madeline M. Wake,
  dean of the nursingschool at Marquette University, who will
  become provost in August. She likes to walk through the stacks
  and pull out books that catch her eye. "As I was growing in my
  education, that's the way I processed stuff," she says.

  But her students learn differently. They turn to the Internet
  instead of books. So she's looking forward to a new library at
  Marquette, to be stocked with computers and digital-media
  centers. She hopes that they will help teach a generation
  raised more on cathode-ray tubes than printing presses.

  "My guess is that people are reading the things that they
  really rely on for information online," Ms. Wake says. "So to
  pretend that we're living in yesterday isn't helpful."

Looking for a Turkish book

I am posting this on behalf of a scholar at another institution, who 
sometime ago acquired a copy of a publication held by the Hoover 
Institution, viz.:

	Ciladir, Ahmet Naim.
	   Yer altinda kirk bes sene / yazan:
	Ahmet Naim.  Komur havzasinin
	gunluk gidasi : direk / yazaz: Halil
	Nadir Kutluk.  -- [s.l. : s.n., 195-?]
	   74, [1] p. : ill

The t.p. is split, with the author/title statement of Yer altinda, and a 
photograph of mine buildings, occupying the top half, and the author/title 
statement of K"om"ur havzasinin with a photo of a truck and some outdoor 
work, the bottom half.  Hoover's volume contains only the Yer altinda work 
by Ahmet Naim (Ciladir, a name that was supplied by an early Hoover 
cataloger).  The author/title statement for the Kutluk work is crossed 
out.  Date of publication may be earlier than 195-.

The scholar is looking for the work by Halil Nadir Kutluk.  I am unable to 
find it it RLIN and OCLC.  I have also been unable to find it in the online 
catalog of the British Library, but am never sure whether I'm searching 
that file correctly.  Attempts to search other OPACs remotely have been 
inconclusive or ineffective.

I would be most grateful if my colleagues could search their catalogs, or 
those parts of their catalogs that may not be in RLIN or OCLC, and let me 
know if they have the work K"om"ur havzasinin g"unl"uk gidasi : direk / 
yazan: Halil Nadir Kutluk, and, if by some miracle it may exist, how a copy 
may be obtained.

modern Islamic court architecture

Colleagues:

A visiting judge is giving a lecture in Des Moines which s/he hopes 
to illustrate with some images of modern court (i.e. judicial) 
buildings in Muslim countries. I have been unable to locate any works 
on modern (i.e. late 19th-20th cen.) Islamic court/judicial buildings 
that contain plates or photos. Can anyone be of assistance? Any help 
would be appreciated. Thanks.

Karl
--

-- 
Dr. Karl R. Schaefer
Cowles Library
Drake University
karl.schaefer@...

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't
have to experience it." (Max Frisch)

Re: modern Islamic court architecture

A picture of Hyderabad High Court designed by Vincent Esch in the 1930s in 
Hyderabad, India appears in my article "Immediately Apparent Splendor: 
Osmania University Campus Design and Architecture," in Islamic Culture 
(April 2002).  The picture is by Prof. Giles Tillotson of SOAS.

Omar Khalidi, Librarian
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
MIT 7-238 Rotch Library
Cambridge, MA 02139

At 09:23 AM 7/9/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Colleagues:
>
>A visiting judge is giving a lecture in Des Moines which s/he hopes to 
>illustrate with some images of modern court (i.e. judicial) buildings in 
>Muslim countries. I have been unable to locate any works on modern (i.e. 
>late 19th-20th cen.) Islamic court/judicial buildings that contain plates 
>or photos. Can anyone be of assistance? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
>Karl
>--
>Dr. Karl R. Schaefer
>Cowles Library
>Drake University
>karl.schaefer@...
>
>"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't
>have to experience it." (Max Frisch)

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