International Visitors to This Old Library

Welcome to Mr. Mohamed El-Halosy

The Yale Library would like to extend a very warm welcome Mr. Mohamed
El-Halosy, Software Engineer at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria,
Egypt. Under the mentorship of Curator Simon Samoeil, Mr, El-Halosy will
be serving as an OACIS intern in the Near East Collection and Electronic
Collections during the month of May 2005. The OACIS project is funded by
the US Department of Education and provides funding for interns during
each of its 3 years. Mr. El-Halosy will be the first of three interns
coming to the Yale Library for project work this spring and summer; the
second intern will also be from the BA and will spend a month in June at
the Yale Library.

Mr. El-Halosy graduated from the Alexandria University in July 2002 with a
B.A in Computer Science. A month later, he began work in the Database
Management Unit of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, where he has been involved
in the development and investigation of various Web-based tools.

The interns from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina will collaborate on the
integration of the digital demonstration materials and processes within
OACIS. Both will participate in developing a presentation prototype that
includes search, display, and navigation for the integrated digitized
materials. In addition, the interns will work on technical programming
tasks with OACIS Technical Administrator, in order to more fully automate
OACIS, making it self-reliant for ongoing record loads and related
activities.

We would like to give Mr. El-Halosy an opportunity to visit many of the
departments in the Yale Library during his short stay here, for an
overview of how large research libraries function in North America. If

Turkmenistan alert (IFLA/FAIFE alarmed over closure of libraries)

>
>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:59 PM
>Subject: [IFACTION:10408] Turkmenistan alert (IFLA/FAIFE alarmed over 
>closure oflibraries)
>
>
>IFEX - News from the international freedom of expression community
>_______________________________________________________________
>
>ALERT - TURKMENISTAN
>
>29 April 2005
>
>IFLA/FAIFE alarmed over closure of libraries
>
>SOURCE: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
>(IFLA) / Committee on Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression
>(FAIFE)
>
>(IFLA/FAIFE/IFEX) - The following is an IFLA/FAIFE media release:
>
>IFLA protests closure of libraries and violations of human rights in
>Turkmenistan
>
>The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
>strongly protests the closure of libraries in Turkmenistan and its impact on
>freedom of access to information and freedom of expression in the country.
>
>While the World Summit on the Information Society debates how best to

The Entry Level Gap

Look it up in Freeman-Grenville

microfilms

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs REQUESTS FOR GRANT PROPOSALS

Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

REQUESTS FOR GRANT PROPOSALS:
  ISLAMIC LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES
http://www.exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps/may23arfgp.htm

Announcement Type: New Grant
Funding Opportunity Number: ECA/PE/C/NEA-AF-05-61
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 00.000
Application Deadline: May 23, 2005

Executive Summary:

The Office of Citizen Exchanges of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural 
Affairs, U.S. Department of State, announces an open competition for one 
grant to support an international exchange project under the rubric "Islam: 
Scholarship and Practice in the United States." Public and private 
non-profit organizations or consortia of such organizations meeting the 
provisions described in Internal Revenue Code section 26 USC 501(c)(3) may 
submit proposals to develop and implement a multi-phased exchange involving 
the travel of scholars and clerics from Egypt, Jordan, and one or more 
additional countries of the Middle East to the United States and of 
reciprocal visits to the Middle East by American scholars of religion, 
scholars of Islamic studies, and clerics.

Re: microfilms

Saudi word for 'profit

>   I'm a court reporter transcribing a conference on unity/dialogue 
> between religions.  The Saudi word for 'profit' came up and phonetically 
> sounds like 'al-fyta'.  I'm looking for a relatively correct 
> spelling.  any help you can give would be most appreciated!
>Thank you,
>
>Robin Merker
>

RE: Saudi word for 'profit

I would suggest "al-fa'idah," which is the correct term for "profit" is
written Arabic. That apostrophe indicates the glottal stop, which tends
to get elided or turned into a "y" in spoken Arabic. 

Cathy Rockwell
Middle East Cataloger & Bibliographer
University of Utah Library
Salt Lake City, UT

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-MELANET-L@... [mailto:owner-MELANET-L@...]
On Behalf Of Ali Houissa
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 9:11 AM
To: Middle East Librarians Association
Subject: Saudi word for 'profit

>   I'm a court reporter transcribing a conference on unity/dialogue
> between religions.  The Saudi word for 'profit' came up and
phonetically 
> sounds like 'al-fyta'.  I'm looking for a relatively correct 
> spelling.  any help you can give would be most appreciated!
>Thank you,
>
>Robin Merker
>

Re: Saudi word for 'profit

Robi,

The word you are looking for is written " al-fa'idah" means profit or
intrest.
Basima Bezirgan
Bbezi@...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ali Houissa" <ah16@...>
To: "Middle East Librarians Association" <MELANET-L@...>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: Saudi word for 'profit

>
> >   I'm a court reporter transcribing a conference on unity/dialogue
> > between religions.  The Saudi word for 'profit' came up and phonetically
> > sounds like 'al-fyta'.  I'm looking for a relatively correct
> > spelling.  any help you can give would be most appreciated!
> >Thank you,
> >
> >Robin Merker
> >
>