Collecting Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at UCLA
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David Hirsch Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies مؤتمر المكتبات معرض الشارقة الدولي للكتاب ALA/SIBF Library Conference • November 11, 2015 MS 170/46 : Arabian Nights. Sinbad the Sailor. قصة السندباد البحري والهندباد البري circa 1700
University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA)
The Charles E. Young Research Library
UCLA Research Library Open Stacks (Islamic Studies)
Works on Quranic Commentary in the UCLA Library Stacks. The Arabic speaking students love to rearrange these because we normally shelve them "backwards."
Arabic Literature
Middle Eastern Serial publications
Women’s magazine from Pre-Revolutionary Iran
Recent issues from the same magazine
Graphic Novels and Graphic Serials
Examples of unique materials from the UCLA Collections
Print Acquisitions and Shared Print Services
• All analog-print acquisitions including... -Approvals plans for English language, European, and all other area studies regions -Firm orders and print subscriptions -Gifts & Exchanges -LC Coop -PL 480
Print Acquisitions and Shared Print Services Cont'd
• ARL Annual Statistics, 2012-2013 – UCLA Library • - ranked 7th in its size of volumes • - ranked 2nd in terms of distinct titles held • - 416 different languages and dialects represented
Print Acquisitions and Shared Print Services cont'd
• Mainstream Western Language materials from Acq. View - Approvals, Firm orders - Monographs, serials, other print - Routine, Efficient, Online, and Automated - Payments not an issue at all
Print Acquisitions and Shared Print Services cont'd
• "Not so mainstream" and Squiggly Languages from Acq. View - Approvals for many regions, firm orders, G&E, LC Coop - Individual contacts, network(s) - Little automation and online ordering - Check payments - transaction fees, and thus increasing unpopularity - More and more wire transfers on global scale
… And we now need to pay for it Account#: UCLA LA #88
1001 Tunis
Date: 05-10-2012
TUNISIE
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Ship to:
Espace Carthage
UCLA University Research Library
24, Rue Saïd Abou Baker, Appt. B-5
Acquisitions Dept.
1001 Tunis
BOX 951575
Tel. & Fax : 00216 71 333740
Los Angeles, CA 90095 – 1575
TUNISIA
USA
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A U T H O RS
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T I T L ES
COS T Au nom du temps,Je vous arrête
Slaheddine Haddad
1 Ahmed Mahfoudh
Dernier voyage à Kyrannis
collectif
Ecrits de femmes
1 1 Espace et Enonciation
collectif
1 La Deuxième Fatiha
Yadh Bn Achour
1 La femme chez Voltaire
Halima Ouanada
1 Yesmine Karray
La Valse des Beignets
Hichem Djait
La vie de Muhammad
Ouled Kesmi
Le mur des souvenirs
Samy Ghorbal
Orphelins de Bourguiba et héritiers du Prophète
1 1 1 1 توفيق قريرة
االسم واالسميّة واإلسماء في اللغة العربيّة
عبد هللا الزين الحيدري
اإلعالم الجديد النظام و الفوضى
1 1
لطفي دبيش
اإلنسان و المكان في الثقافة العربية اإلسالمية 1
عادل بالكحلة إبراهيم الشايبي
بحّارة الساحل التونسي
1
التبرع باألعضاء بين السائل و الفقيه 1
أحمد السعداوي
تونس في القرن السابع عشر وثائق األوقاف في عهد الدايات و البايات المراديين
نور الدين الشابي /أحمد المرواني منيرة بن مصطفى حشانة الجمالية واانقد في فكر هابرماس (الوسيطي)
1
الجسد و الثقافات
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عمل جماعي رضا بن سعيد سالم الزريبي
الحركات اإلجتماعية في العالم العربي اإلسالمي ()9avril خصائص الشخصية في الرواية الفلسطينية :الوقائع الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل إلميل الخطيئةنموذجا حبيبي الكبرى
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اتحاد الكتاب التونسيين
ديوان الثورة :مختارات مما قاله الشعراء التونسيون في ثورة الحرية والكرامة
ثريا السكري عامر
ظاهرة اإلنحاء اللغوي في اللغة العربيّة
محمد الصياح /المولدي األحمر أشغال ملتقى
الفاعل و الشاهد
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الكتابة التاريخية في العصر الوسطي 1
محمد الهادي بن صالح
للصمت معنى ...و للحياة بقيّة...
أحمد الجوة
المطولة في الشعر العربي الحديث
العربي العكرمي
من ذاكرة مجاهد
البشير العباسي
موعد مع الفجر الجليل
د.أبو بكر خالد
نفخات من تراثنا العلمي المجيد
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Methods of acquiring materials
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Gift Purchase Exchange LC Cooperative Acquisitions Program Selector buying trip
Library of Congress Cairo Field Office
LC CAPSEA materials awaiting location decisions
Vendors for Middle Eastern materials used by UCLA • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Egypt: Leila Books Syria: Palmyra Books in Lattakia Lebanon: Sulaiman’s Bookshop Tunisia: Espace Carthage Morocco: Center for Cross-Cultural Learning Saudi Arabia: Ali al-Ghadban Iran: Vardeh Books and others Turkey: Libra Books and others Sweden: Ferdosi for Persian materials published in Europe West Bank/Palestine: Mary Fasheh Jordan: Leila Books USA: Buraimi Books for Iranian American Materials Library of Congress field offices in Cairo and Islamabad
Our vendor for Persian books in Europe, Ferdosi located in Stockholm
Our Turkish vendor, Rifat Bali with books being packed for UCLA
Our vendor in Baghdad, Iraq-Muthanna Books
Our vendor in Cairo, Egypt –Leila Books
Gift and Exchange Partners • • • • • • •
Sharjah Dept of Information and Culture TCA Abu Dhabi Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research Al-Misbar Turk Tarih Kurumu among others! Istanbul Sehir Universitesi Many others!
Collecting Gifts from Sultan Qaboos University at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2015
collecting gift books from the Hamdan International Photography Award in Dubai
Statistics July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015 Books - purchased: 3937 approval Arabic 72 firm orders Arabia 442 approval Persian 111 firm orders Persian
Gifts cataloged: Arabic books – 724 Persian-199 Turkish-73
Arabic serials: 559 paid subscriptions -
$99,288
Selector contacts in region are extremely important •
These contacts can prove invaluable to selectors when responding to research needs of the faculty, graduate students and researchers
One of the UCLA Library’s Digital Ephemera Projects
Middle East E-Resources Western Language-Fee based Brill Islamic Reference Index Islamicus Encyclopedia of Islam Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/subjects/Middle%20East%20and% 20Islamic%20Studies Cambridge Archive Editions Online http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/images/titles/88.jpg I am sure any of you working in libraries in the UAE will be familiar with these large gilt edged presentation volumes of documents. They are now available online http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/udb/1670
Arabic Fee-Based Resources Kotob Arabia: http://www.kotobarabia.com/ Arab World Research Source: https://www.ebscohost.com/academic/arab-world-research-source Al-Manhal: http://www.almanhal.com/index.aspx Mandumah: http://mandumah.com/ Multidata Online: http://www.multidataonline.com/ E-Marefa: http://www.e-marefa.net/ Askzad: http://www.askzad.com/login Gale Early Arabic Printed Books-To be launched in DECEMBER 2015 http://gale.cengage.co.uk/arabic.aspx
Free Arabic E-Resources KADL-Arabic Digital Library http://kadl.sa/ Arabic Collections online-NYU http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/
Freely available collections of Islamic Manuscripts http://library.princeton.edu/projects/islamic/ http://minasian.library.ucla.edu/
My assistant, Nursel: helps with bibliographic checking in Arabic, Persian and Turkish
Receipt receipts from Tunisia and Egypt in our Acquisitions Section.
Arabic Language Cataloging-We have a full-time original cataloger for Arabic
And a full time original cataloger for Persian and Armenian
Our serials catalogers.. They catalog in all languages
http://minasian.library.ucla.edu/
Original Islamic Manuscripts @UCLA
Collection of Persian Calligraphic Samples, ca. 11001899 Collection number: 1123
Qajar Lacquer Bindings From the Exhibit collection of Near Eastern manuscripts, 1492-1848 Collection 1656
International Acquisitions yield unique and valuable collections. The process can be as routine as having choices of vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream. But from the Middle East and Southeast Asia it is more like rocky road!
Questions? Jade Alburo, Librarian for Southeast Asian Studies
[email protected] Osman Çelik, International Acquisitions Coordinator, Gifts & Exchange Section Head,
[email protected] David Hirsch, Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies
[email protected]