Tulaytula?

Dear Colleagues

In search of something completely different, I stumbled upon this open access journal which is perhaps of
interest to some here:

Tulaytula: Revista de la Asociación de Amigos del Toledo Islámico
Información General
ISSN: 1575-653X
Periodicidad: Irregular
Inicio: 1998
Editores:  Asociación de Amigos del Toledo Islámico
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/revista?tipo_busqueda=CODIGO&clave_revista=11206

There are 13 volimes of it online here

As far as I can tell there is no Worldcat record for it.

As of March 1st, 2008, I willl be the Head Librarian at the new Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (http://www.nyu.edu/
isaw) at NYU.

-Chuck Jones-

Souvenir of Istanbul : photographs from the Yildiz Palace albums

We have received a copy of  Souvenir of Istanbul : photographs from the Yildiz Palace albums, published by
Akkok, 2007 (LCCN 2007492232)   Our copy is missing pages 337-344; duplicates of pages 97-104 are inserted
where 337-344 should be.

Does anyone have a copy which is perfect or do your copies also have this defect?

Thanks,
Sarah

Sarah S. Ozturk
Team Leader
Middle East/North Africa Team
Regional and Cooperative Cataloging Division
Library of Congress
202 707-6485
sozt@...

al-Mawrid article

Esteemed colleagues:

Thanks to all who replied to my query about the article from 
al-Mawrid. I have been contacted by several librarians who are able 
to provide it, so please do not expend any further efforts on the 
matter.

Gratefully,

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

"[The] practice of scholarship and teaching is a matter of public 
good, not commercial exigency... In a scientific age, when secular 
knowledge must undergird secular understanding, independent 
scholar-teachers are more critical than ever before. When they and 
their training are redefined as dispensable, valued only for their 
instrumentality in the competitive arena of vocational skill 
training, academic freedom becomes a privilege of powerful 
universities and status-laden faculty. Everyone else would be 
disposable, and a disposable faculty would not speak truth to power, 
but rather do its bidding." (Mary Burgan, Whatever Happened to the 
Faculty?)

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

The Independent: Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography

A friend (bickettb@...) has sent you an article:

Robert Fisk: The curious case of the forged biography
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/fisk/robert-fisk-the-curious-case-of-the-forged-biography-776775.html
It arrived for me in Beirut under plain cover, a brown envelope containing a small, glossy paperback in
Arabic, accompanied by a note from an Egyptian friend. "Robert!" it began. "Did you
really write this?"

Apologies if you have already seen this...
cheers, Brenda E. Bickett

The Lesley Wilkins Award Fund

Dear MELANET-L members,

Last fall the Executive Board of MELA set up a new fund to enable an 
award in honor of Lesley Wilkins, one of the most energetic and avid 
members of MELA and its activities.  The board set a goal of building 
the fund to a minimum of $10,000 so that the award could be funded 
perpetually.  By my estimation we have only achieved just over 25% of 
this goal.  I would like to challenge ALL of you to make a donation to 
this fund, even if you are not a member of MELA.  I would also like to 
make a further challenge for those organizations where Lesley worked 
(Harvard Law, Harvard Widener, Boston Public, Sultan Qaboos, AUC) to 
reach out to all in those organizations and come up with more $$$ to 
meet our goal before MELA next meets in November.

John

--

-- 
John A. Eilts
Curator, Islamic and Middle Eastern Collection
Stanford University Libraries
251 Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
USA
Tel: +1.650.736.1815
Fax: +1.650.723.5476
Mobile: +1.650.862.4878
Email: john.eilts@...

International conference on Libraries from a Human Rights Perspective

http://www.rchrs.ps/aboutC.html

Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies

International conference on Libraries from a Human Rights Perspective

Ramallah - Palestine
31 March - 2 April 2008

This conference - organized by RCHRS in cooperation with IFLA - will 
highlight the importance of achieving human rights related to library work 
and these rights include: freedom of expression, freedom of access to 
information, tolerance, acceptance of the other, respect of diversity
and cultural rights. When examining these rights, it looks very obvious 
that all of them are direct to library missions and without raising 
awareness of these rights inside libraries, the latter will not be
able to provide services that respect human development needs.

For registration or more information on this conference, please
contact us: <dweikat@...>

The Program and other information is posted on the Conference web site
http://www.rchrs.ps/aboutC.html

Conference comments ...

Claudia Lux, IFLA President 2007-2009:
  "Free access to information and human relations have always been
at the top of IFLA's objectives, as librarians play key roles in 
furthering these values"

Report of IFLA/FAIFE-mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

http://www.ifla.org/faife/faife/FAIFE-Mission-report-Aug2007.pdf

Preliminary report and recommendations from an IFLA/FAIFE-mission to 
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 13th-21st April 2007.

by Stuart Hamilton and Frode Bakken

Received and adopted by the FAIFE Committee and the IFLA Governing Board, 
Durban, 18/19 August 2007.

...for more, see
http://www.ifla.org/faife/faife/FAIFE-Mission-report-Aug2007.pdf

call for nominations from ALA/ALCTS

Attached is a message from Magda El-Sherbini.  A related message will be sent separately.  --Joan Biella

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Date:		February, 1st, 2008
To:		Library Community
From: 	Steering Committee to Oversee the Implementation of the Non English 			Access Recommendations
Subject:	Call for nominations to serve on the Working Group for Defining Specific 			Scripts and
Language Support in Library Computer Applications

The Steering Committee to Oversee the Implementation of the ALCTS Task Force on Non-English Access is
seeking nominations, including self nominations to serve on the newly formed Working Group to define
specific scripts and language support in library computer applications.  Attached is a copy of the charge
with detailed information.  Here will be between 6-8 Participants in this Task Force. If you or someone you
know is interested in serving as a member or as a Chair, please send a message expressing your interest in
serving and also include your vita To Magda El-Sherbini at
el-sherbini.1@...  The call for nomination will be closed on February 15th,
2008.  The Steering Committee will review the nominations and will contact the selected people.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,

 		
Magda El-Sherbini, Chair

charge for the ALA/ALCTS working group

This is the second document forwarded to MELANET by Magda El-Sherbini. 
--Joan Biella

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Charge for the Working Group 
for Defining Specific Scripts and Language Support in Library Computer
Applications
		
Goal: 
To create standards that facilitate a common understanding between
librarians and vendors and serve as a prioritization tool to be used by
system vendors, an evaluation tool against which functionalities of
library systems can be measured, and a standardization tool to
facilitate exchange between library and other systems.  

Charge:

To define requirements for the support of each script and language in
library computer applications, including not only in the various modules
of integrated library systems, but also in other library-related
programs, such as Interlibrary Loan systems, Next-generation OPACs or
Course Management software.  These requirements will facilitate library
system development and evaluation and provide guidance to system
implementers.

The issues to be addressed by the Group include the following:
·	Create a checklist that supports all scripts and languages, and
that can be the basis for requirements for specific scripts or
languages.  
·	Determine the scripts to be documented, including Latin. 

Wikipedia Islam Entry Is Criticized