At 11:11 AM 5/20/2002 [sic] +0000, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues
> But the members of the WOCMES International Advisory and Programme
>Committee (of whom I am one) have also been asked to nominate three further
>scholars for WOCMES awards. I should like to nominate at least one from the
>library and bibliographical community, or at any rate a scholar whose work has
>been of particular value in our field. I should appreciate suggestions, which
>need to reach me within the next four days. I see no need for confidentiality,
>so by all means post them to this list.
> Geoffrey Roper
> Islamic Bibliography Unit
> Cambridge University Library
Unsure as to whether I have the standing to make a nomination, I
nevertheless submit the following: I can think of no person "from the
library and bibliographical community, or at any rate a scholar whose work
has been of particular value in our field," who deserves nomination for the
award, than Geoffrey Roper himself. Index Islamicus is indispensable to
Middle East scholarship, for librarians and bibliographers and for
"scholars" as well. Having visited Geoffrey's offices and seen how he does
his work, having worked with the CD-rom version of II that expands
searching access, knowing the importance to scholarship of the work that
Geoffrey took over from others and has continued and expanded, and having
seen his readiness to provide information from II on various listserves, I
feel that Geoffrey fully deserves recognition by the world of Middle East
studies.
Ed Jajko
Edward A. Jajko
Curator
Middle East Collection
Hoover Institution
Stanford, California
USA 94305-6010
tel.: 650-723-2050
fax 650-723-9852
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http://www.hoover.org
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