Andreas
Unfortunately the British Library does not have any holdings of the Calcutta
Habl al-matin. In fact there are no acquisitions of antiquarian newspapers to
add to the records of our collection found in the Ursula Sims-Willams's 1985
"Union Catalogue of Persian Serials & Newspapers in British Libraries".
With regard to the OPAC, so far as I know no resources have been allocated to
retrospective conversion of BL catalogue records in any oriental languages; and
certainly none have been for Arabic, Iranian or Turkic. Also, as a national
library we do not qualify for the grants received by some U.K. academic
libraries. At present it appears that researchers will have to refer to other
sources besides OPAC for some considerable time. We regret this very much.
I apologize that on this occasion the British Library cannot even offer red
tape, let alone a strong rope.
Best wishes
Muhammad Isa Waley
Head of Persian and Turkish Collections
British Library
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Subject: Habl al-matin?
Author: "andreas.drechsler@unibib" <[log in to unmask]> at
Internet
Date: 14/04/2000 09:51
Dear colleagues
on behalf of two researchers from the Department
of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg, I am searching
for holdings of a weekly Persian newspaper called "habl
al-matin", which was published in British India
(Calcutta) and should not be confused with at least two
other newspapers of the same name, published in Iran. What
I found so far are five different libraries/projects with
diverse holdings:
- The biggest set seems to be in Cambridge
(research results from COPAC, http://copac.ac.uk/)
Title Details: Habl 'al-matin
Publisher: Kalkattah, 1905-1915
Physical Desc.: 11v ; 35cm
Notes: Imperfect set, Weekly
Subject(s): Persian newspapers
Holding Libraries: Cambridge -
L830.a.2.13-
- SOAS has a set of two years:
TITLE Habl al-matin.
IMPRINT Calcutta.
ADD TITLE Habl al-matin.
LIB. HAS Main Library L E Per 9402 Holdings: Vol. 8
-Vol. 9 , 1900-1902.
- If it is the same Habl al-matin from Calcutta (the
catalogue doesn't mention the place of origin, but the years
would fit), Harvard has a set of two different years: Title
Habl al-matin
Microforms (Lamont): Film S 802
HOLDINGS: 12-13 (Sep. 12 1904 - July 27 1906)
- The MEDOC Catalogue of Microform Projects of the
University of Chicago
(http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/CatIntro.html)
mentions a holding of one year (1900), which is to be found
in the LoC, too.
Now my (very obvious) questions are:
does anybody know of a complete set of this rare newspaper?
I would suspect the BL, OIOC, to have some holdings as
well, but so far the OIOC have not been incorporated into
their Opac (or is there any progress in sight?).
If there is a more complete holding than the one from
Cambridge, would it be accessible through Interlibrary Loan (I
would guess only, if they have been microfilmed)? If
not, are the holdings of Cambridge accessible through
Interlibrary Loan?
I am thankful for any answer!
Greetings from currently rainy Bamberg
Andreas Drechsler
Librarian for Oriental Studies
University Library of Bamberg
Postfach 2705
D-96018 Bamberg
Germany
Tel.: 0951/863-1530
Fax:: 0951/863-1565
e-mail:
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