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Ali Houissa | 6 May 2010 18:02
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Tunisia: National Library Books Digitized

Tunisia: National Library Books Digitized

unis — A number of books of Tunisian National Library recently joined the digital era. Electronic books in Arabic and French as part of the eBooks Project in Tunisia can be downloaded via smart phones such as iPod, iPhone and iPad.

This initiative was conducted namely by "Sanabil Med Company", specializing in digital publishing.

Mrs. Sana Fathallah-Ghenima director of the company stressed that "the company decided to include 15 books and rare manuscript on digital devices" adding that "the books listed deal with avariety of disciplines, themes and sectors".

Zoubeir Turki's book which was issued by Tunisia's National Library in honor of the late painter was one of the books that were digitized. The book showcases paintings and drawings of Zoubeir Turki in books and periodicals.

Tunisia's National Library announced on its website that "it is proud to put online the first online iPhone application for reading eBooks".

The library has a fund of one million books, 40,000 manuscripts and 16,000 periodical collections.

As far as digital devices are concerned, the library will help facilitate the consultation of its funds and to discover its riches by putting them within reach of users as well as provide an alternate method to better preserve the original documents.

Copyright © 2010 Tunisia Online. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com).

 

 

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Peter Magierski | 6 May 2010 18:09
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"Historic' day as first non-latin web addresses go live"

"Arab nations are leading a "historic" charge to make the world wide web live up to its name.
Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called "country codes"
written in Arabic scripts."
Full story at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10100108.stm

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Boutaqmanti, Abdelaali | 6 May 2010 18:39
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Mechanics of submitting subject proposals webinar

All,

The Education Committee is organizing a one-hour webinar on how to submit SACO proposals. This is in response to members  expressing interest in doing authority work but are not familiar with the mechanics of how to submit a proposal.  We are still working on a possible in-depth SACO training workshop at the MELA Annual meeting in November.

 

Subject: Announcement: The mechanics of submitting SACO LCSH proposal.

Event: The mechanics of submitting SACO LCSH proposal.

Date:  Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) 11-12 p.m. (Pacific Time)

Place: Your workstation via Elluminate

 

 

This one-hour Elluminate session will cover the mechanics of submitting subject proposals and proposed updates to Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) via the Subject Authority Cooperative Program

(SACO) of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). The session will also discuss the Arabic Funnel Project, coordinated by Ms. Joyce Bell, Princeton University, and the funnel's involvement in enriching LCSH with Arabic-related subject headings. 

 

— A brief history of the SACO Program

— Using the online form on the SACO website to submit new LCSH subject proposals and proposed updates to existing LCSH  headings — The Arabic Funnel Project and its relation to SACO for LCSH contribution — Tracking the progress of proposals from the point of submission to the point of approval — Following-up on proposals and keeping contact with LC's Cooperative Programs Section

 

Presenter: Paul Edwin Frank (Cooperative Cataloging Specialist, Library of Congress Cooperative Programs Section)

 

Moderator: Iman Dagher (Arabic & Islamic Catalog Librarian, Cataloging & Metadata Center, UCLA)

 

If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Iman Dagher at idagher-pJ6Lu2hYgzjHDPtHwZCLWA@public.gmane.org and you will be sent a link to the session.

 

Education Committee

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Peter Magierski | 6 May 2010 22:21
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First digital library of Azerbaijan?s history created

This was posted on SLAVLIBS list. 
English interface at http://www.history.az/en/

Peter

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Subject  	[SLAVLIBS] First digital library of Azerbaijan?s history created

Colleagues,

For FYI.

First digital library of Azerbaijan’s history created

The first digital library of Azerbaijan’s history -www.history.az - consisting of electronic
versions of history books, documents and other sources and information on Azerbaijan, has been launched
by “Ireli” Public Association in Azerbaijan.

The trilingual library (Azerbaijani, English and Russian) contains digital versions of books and
articles written by Azerbaijani and foreign scholars, historical documents, as well as maps, photo
databases of historical and cultural monuments, carpets, archaeological excavations, and numismatic
materials. The portal provides extensive information about all periods of Azerbaijan’s history.

Liladhar

Liladhar R. Pendse
Librarian for Central  and Eastern European , Slavic and Eurasian, South Asian, Pan-Asian , Central Asian  Studies
Interim Librarian for Philosophy
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Brenda Bickett | 7 May 2010 20:57
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Egyptian group wants to ban Arabian Nights



** Egypt anger at call to ban book **
Writers in Egypt condemn a call by a group of lawyers to ban the classic folk tale Arabian Nights.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/8663123.stm

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Egypt anger at call to ban book

Egyptian writers have condemned a call by a group of Islamic lawyers for the classic book Arabian Nights to be banned because it is "obscene".

The group, Lawyers Without Shackles, filed a complaint with Egypt's prosecutor general after the collection of folk tales was republished.

They called for the new edition to be pulped and the stories to be banned.

But the country's writers union has said it will fight the group in the courts if they try to proceed.

'Like the Taliban'

"I was shocked at the offensive phrases it contains," Ayman Abdul Hakim of Lawyers Without Shackles was quoted by the TV station Al Arabiya.

“ Egyptians are avid readers and they will not be influenced by a bunch of people who take advantage of Islam in order to suppress freedom ”
Ahmed Megahed Publisher

They catalogued several references to sex in the book and said they were "calls to sin".

But Writers' Union spokesman said the lawyers were behaving "like the Taliban".

"Those who want to destroy our heritage are taking the same path as the Taliban when they destroyed Buddha's statues," Mohammed Salmawy told the news agency AFP, referring to the destruction of the giant sculptures of Buddha in Bamiyan.

The book's publishers, the state-run General Organisation Cultures Palaces, said the republishing had been very popular and the print run had sold out.

"Egyptians are avid readers and they will not be influenced by a bunch of people who take advantage of Islam in order to suppress freedom," Ahmed Megahed, Chairman of the GOCP was quoted by Al Arabiya.

Arabian Nights, also known as The 1,001 Nights, is a centuries-old collection of Arabic and south Asian folk tales.

It includes the stories Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.



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ks46 | 7 May 2010 22:18
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A'yan al-Shiah: entry on "Dik al Jinn"

Hello,

A Prof. here at Columbia is looking for the entry on "Dik al jinn"  
from A'yan al-Shiah,  by `Amili, Muhsin al-Husayni, 1865-1952.  
Unfortunately, our copy  has gone incomplete: vol. 30 of the 1960  
edition (Bayrut : Matba`at al-Insaf), which contains the entry on "dik  
al jinn" has gone missing. Could anyone with a complete holding of  
this 1960 edition kindly scan the entry on "dik al Jin" and e-mail it  
to me? (A photocopy would also do. Please let me know if you need my  
mailing address.)

?A?mili?, M. a.-H. (1960). A?ya?n al-Shi??ah. Bayru?t: Mat?ba?at al-Ins?a?f.

Thanks a million!

Kaoukab

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Peter Magierski | 10 May 2010 18:33
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Censorship At Tehran's Book Fair

"Meanwhile, the "Tehran Times" reports that the Egyptian pavilion was shut down at the book fair for
offering a book that referred to the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf."

Full story at: 
http://www.rferl.org/content/Censorship_At_Tehrans_Book_Fair/2036783.html

PM

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Steven Blackburn | 12 May 2010 16:19
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Info Literacy course

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This fall I'm teaching a new course - new both for me and for the Seminary - entitled "Islamic Studies Information Literacy."  Here's the course description:

 

“To conduct basic research in Islamic Studies requires knowledge of resources from manuscripts to websites, Arabic transliteration systems, Arabic keyboarding for data searches, the nature of historiography and its relation to disciplines within Islamic Studies, and the role of Orientalism, inter alia.  Students will learn how to think critically concerning information produced about Islam from both within and without the religion.  Differing editions of the Qur'an in translation as well as hadith, fatwas, and other classical texts will also be addressed, in addition to differing calendar systems, styles of calligraphy, the use of maps and atlases, and so on.  Pre-requisite:  one year of Arabic or permission of the Instructor.”

 

If you or anyone you know has done something like this, could you please put me in contact regarding reading lists, course calendar / syllabus, etc?  No sense re-inventing the wheel, and Thank You!

 

Rev. Steven Blackburn, Ph.D.
Library Director;
Faculty Associate in Semitic Scriptures,
MacdonaldCenter for the Study
of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Hartford Seminary
77 Sherman Street· Hartford, CT06105USA
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Hirad Dinavari | 12 May 2010 21:12
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Lecture: Tuesday, May 18th, At Noon, A Lecture By Nancy Gallagher About "Stories from Afghanistan"


The Near East Section
Of The African Middle Eastern Division
At The Library Of Congress 

Invites You To a Talk by: 
Nancy Gallagher
Professor of History and Chair of the Middle East Studies Program
University of California, Santa Barbara

Delivering a lecture entitled: 
“Stories From Afghanistan”  

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM
African Middle Eastern Reading Room
Room LJ-220
101 Independence Ave., SE.
Washington, DC
Free and Open To the Public
For Information contact:
Hirad Dinavari [(202) 707-4518 
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Ibrahim al-Rajab | 13 May 2010 17:30

Rawdat al-Hajuri: An Iraqi scholar requesting information

Greetings,

 

A scholar in Baghdad is trying to locate volume 2 and 3 of the following manuscript:

 

Rawdat al-akhbar / lil-Shaykh Abi Muhammad Yahya ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hafiz al-Hajuri [d. 1196?]. It is also known as "Rawdat al-Hajuri".

 

Any guidance on this, or better a lead to a library with holdings of this manuscript would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you,

 

Ibrahim

 

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