Dear Andreas
I cannot provide details of further holdings of Habl al-matin at present,
but it may be helpful to you and others to know that the UK Research
Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) Mapping Asia Project will be gathering
detailed information about UK holdings of newspapers (in any language,
alive or dead) published in Asia (including Middle East and North Africa)
and disseminating this information via the Web. We shall of course be
including the OIOC/other relevant BL holdings. One of our aims also is
to identify which titles have been microfilmed, and where there are loan
copies in the UK. The Mapping Asia project started in February 2000 and
will run till July 2002, so we would hope during 2001 to be able to help
with enquiries before the full public mounting of the data in 2002.
I realise that this will be of no immediate help to your two researchers -
apologies for this, but maybe this information provides some hope for the
future.
For everyone's information, the Mapping Asia project will also be gathering
descriptions of UK library collections on Asia, and making this information
available on the Web.
Best wishes
Lesley Forbes
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:51:36 GMT+0200 "andreas.drechsler@unibib"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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:
> [log in to unmask]
Lesley Forbes
Keeper of Oriental Collections
Bodleian Library
Broad Street
OXFORD, OX1 3BG
Telephone: 01865 277033
Fax: 01865 277029
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