Dear members of Melcom International,
First of all I would like to thank you for your confidence in appointing me
as president of Melcom International. I will do my best to serve the
interests of Melcom as well as I can, like my predecessors have done before
me.
This is perhaps also the right opportunity to announce to you that our
ex-president, Jan Just Witkam, has been appointed to the newly created chair
of Islamic Book Science in the faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.
Professor Witkam will retain his position of Curator of Oriental Collections
at the University Library and he will continue to teach, study and publish
as he has always done, so in the daily affairs of our department there will
be little change. However, there is no doubt that the new chair will give
Islamic Book Science a firmer place in the Dutch academic world. It is also
a reward for Professor Witkam's lifelong dedication to Islamic manuscripts
and printed books.
Arnoud Vrolijk
Dr. Arnoud Vrolijk
Curator of Middle Eastern Collections
Leiden University Library
P.O. Box 9501
2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 71 527 2867
Fax: + 31 71 527 2836
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Visit the Web pages of the Oriental Department at:
http://bc.leidenuniv.nl/olg/default.htm
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