MELCOM INTERNATIONAL
THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/unibib/melcom/home.html
21st International Conference, Liege, 17th-19th May 1999
SECOND CIRCULAR
(also at http://www.uni-bamberg.de/unibib/melcom/news.html)
Dear colleagues
a little late (as usual ...) I have finished an informal
second circular containing the preliminary programme, the
names of all so far confirmed participants and the titles of
the presentations (which are currently still in a purely
alphabetic order; I will try to set up a more precise
timetable in the 3rd circular). I also included those who
weren't yet sure if they can come or not but showed interest
to receive further informations. Furthermore Frederic Bauden
has given some advices on how to get to Liege.
A 3rd and final circular will be sent out a few weeks before
the conference.
Finally I have to apologize to all those who have written
something personal and have not received anything alike from
me but I presently have not the time to respond in a more
personal matter. Liege will hopefully give an opportunity
for that.
See you soon
Andreas Drechsler
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME:
Monday 17/5:
morning: registration and lectures; afternoon : lectures
4.30 or 5 PM: brief presentation of the most important mss
preserved at the University Library by Carmelia
Opsomer-Halleux, curator and presentation of islamic mss.
and rare imprints by Frederic Bauden
6 PM: cocktail reception by the Chief librarian.
Tuesday 18/5 ("Brussels' day"):
in the morning visits of the Royal Library, manuscripts and
old imprints departments, with lectures by Godefroid de
Callatay (on Oriental rare imprints) and Hossam Elkhadem (on
Islamic manuscripts), and the exhibition "Splendeurs du
Maroc" at Royal Museum of Central Africa with a Moroccan
lunch there (approximate costs 665 BEF). In the afternoon
visit of the Bibliotheca Wittockania, a private museum
presenting the collection of Mr Wittock devoted to binding.
There is currently an exhibition on Ruffin's work in Egypt
during Napoleon's expedition. Approximate costs for the
museums: 400 BEF or 20 DEM
In the evening farewell dinner in a Tunisian restaurant in
Liege (approximate costs 1000 BEF or 50 DEM).
Wednesday 19/5:
morning: lectures; early afternoon :
lectures, afternoon: Melcom affairs.
Farewell cocktail offered by the Governor of the Liege
Province at the old palace of the Bishop
A few people have asked Frederic Bauden for closer
information on how to reach Liege once you arrived in
Belgium, so Frederic has put together some advices:
1) For those coming from Great Britain by Eurostar, their
train will stop at Bruxelles Midi. They have to take another
train at the same station to Liege. There are two trains per
hour leaving at '27 and '54. It is not possible to make a
reservation for national trains from abroad. They will have
to buy it at their arrival.
2) Those coming by airplane through Bruxelles National
Airport will have to take the train at the airport up to
Bruxelles Nord, get off at that station and take the train
to Liege (add ten minutes to the timetable mentioned for
Bruxelles Midi).
3) Those coming from France or Germany by train with Thalys
(there are direct Thalys from Paris to Liege twice a day),
should reach Liege without problem.
4) Once at Liege station, called Liege Guillemins, they
will find taxis and buses in front of the station. A taxi
ride to the centre must cost about 300-400 BEF (15 to 20
DEM). To go to the centre by bus, one must take the nGrad 1,
4, 48, and ask to the driver to indicate them the Place de
la Republique Francaise stop. This is where the Hotel Ibis
is. Those willing to stay more days in Liege might be
interested in buying an 8-ride pass (210 BEF or 10,5 DEM).
A one-way ticket costs 50 BEF (2,5 DEM).
In case anybody gets lost Frederic offers this:
"Anyway Belgium is a small country. He or she can call me
and I will take my car !"
PRESENTATIONS (as known until 26/3/99):
- Prof. Eleazar Birnbaum: Turkish and Persian manuscripts in
Morocco
- Azzedine Bouderbane: Academic libraries and the internet
- Dr. Tuba Cavdar: The Rare book department of the Istanbul
University Library : from the beginning to the present time
- Laurence Denooz: L'internet et l'edition dans le monde
arabe
- Lajla Gazic: Collections of Oriental manuscripts : current
situation and perspectives in cataloguing
- Marie Genevieve Guesdon: Les manuscrits arabes de la BNF
et le projet de Bibliotheque virtuelle mediterraneenne de
l'UNESCO (Medlib)
- Hala Kaileh: Etude de faisabilite de la numerisation d'un
corpus des manuscrits arabes a Jerusalem
- Dr. Stoyanka Kenderova: L'expedition d'Egypte (1798-1801)
d'apres les archives ottomanes conservees a Sofia
- Prof. Aubert Martin: Un manuscrit inedit de Pierre
Burggraff (1803-1881)
- Sara Yontan Musnik: Paysage documentaire de la turcologie
en France
- Muhammad Zainiy Othman: The Grabar collections in the
ISTAC library
- Efim Rezvan: The Qur'an in Russia
- Dr. Arnoud Vrojlik: The Turkish script reform of 1928
PARTICIPANTS (as known until 26/3/99):
- Thair Ajlouni, manager technical publications and
information, p.o.box 39218, Amman 11104, Jordan, e-mail:
>Thair Ajlouni <[log in to unmask]>
- Frederic Bauden, Universite de Liege, 32, Place du XX
Aout Bat. A 8, B-4000 Liege, Belgium, Fax: (32)
4/366.56.55, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Prof. Eleazar Birnbaum, Dept. of Near & Middle Eastern
Civilizations, University of Toronto, Toronto,Canada, M5S
1A1, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
- Heather Bleaney, Islamic Bibliography Unit, Cambridge
University Library Cambridge, GB, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
- Azzedine Bouderbane, Universite de Constantine, Institut
de Bibliotheconomie, Constantine, Algeria, Fax: 00213 (4)
926790
- Jill Butterworth, University Library of Cambridge, GB,
e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Dr.Tuba Cavdar, Istanbul university, Faculty of Letters,
Department of Library Science, Fen Fak. PTT, 34 459
Vezneciler, TR-Istanbul, e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
- Peter Colvin, SOAS, Library, GB, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Debbie Cox, Curator, Arabic Section, British Library,
London, GB, e-mail: [log in to unmask] (Debbie Cox)
- Marge Dean, Journals, Marketing, University of California
Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-5812, USA,
e-mail:[log in to unmask]
- Mary-Jane Deeb, Arab World Area Specialist, Library of
Congress, Wahington, USA, e- mail: [log in to unmask]
- Laurence Denooz, Universite de Liege, e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
- Claude Detienne, Bibliothecaire, Institut Orientaliste,
Universite catholique de Louvain, Place B. Pascal, 1, B-1348
Louvain-la-Neuve, e-mail: "Detienne Claude"
<[log in to unmask]>
- Andreas Drechsler, Universitaetsbibliothek Bamberg,
Germany, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Mastan Ebtehaj, Librarian, Middle East Centre-St.Antony's
college, Oxford, GB, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
- Lejla Gazic, Orijentalni Institut u Sarajevu, 8b Zmaja od
Bosne, 71000 SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Hercegovina, tel-fax : 00
387 71 670 353
- Antonella Ghersetti, Dipartimento di Scienze
dell'Antichita e del Vicino Oriente Sezione Orientalistica,
S. Polo 2035, I 30125 VENEZIA, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
(antonella ghersetti)
- Bertil Govers, IDC Publishers, P.O. Box 11205, 2301 EE
Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail: Bertil Govers
<[log in to unmask]>
- Marie Genevieve Guesdon, Bibliotheque nationale de France,
Departement des manuscrits, division orientale, 58, rue de
Richelieu, F-75084 Paris Cedex 02 e-mail
[log in to unmask]
- Dr. Aliya Haji, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation,
Library, High Street, Wimbledon, GB-London SW19 5EF, e-mail:
"Aliya Haji" <[log in to unmask]>
- David Hirsch, Middle East Bibliographer, Charles Young
Research Library, UCLA, PO BOX
51575, Los Angeles,CA 90095-1575, email:
[log in to unmask]
- Zemely Ita, Rechovjessi - Cohen 14, Holon 58518, Israel
- Edward A. Jajko, Deputy Curator, Middle East Collection,
Hoover Institution Stanford, California, USA 94305-6010,
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
- Hala Kaileh, e-mail: kaileh Hala <[log in to unmask]>
- Anita Keizers, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 1,
Dr Mahmoud Azmi Street, P.O. Box 50, 11211 Zamalek - Cairo -
Egypt, tel: ++20 2 3400076 - fax: ++20 2 3404376, e-mail :
[log in to unmask]
- Dr Stoyanka Kenderova,.National Library of Bulgaria,
Sofia, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Dr.Aviva Klein-Franke, Martin-Buber-Institut f. Judaistik
& Institut f. Voelkerkunde, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Latifa Laroui-Benjelloun, 6, rue Mohammed Rounda, Souissi,
Rabat, Morocco, Fax : + 212- 7-758004
- Petra Machiels, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DDI/DOC-DAM,
PO box 20061, NL-2500 EB The Hague, e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
- Prof. Aubert Martin, Universite de Liege, e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
- Sara Yontan Musnik, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Quai
Francois Mauriac, F-75706 Paris cedex 13, e-mail: Sara
YONTAN <[log in to unmask]>
- Meline Nielsen, Orchard Learning Resources
Centre, Selly Oak Colleges, e-mail :
[log in to unmask]
- Muhammad Zainiy Othman, Zainiy, Senior Research Fellow,
ISTAC Library, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, e-mail: "Dr. Muhammad
Zainiy Uthman" <[log in to unmask]>
- Angela Parvanta, University of Bamberg, Germany, e-mail :
"gk.anthropolog@split" <[log in to unmask]>
- Efim Rezvan, St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
- Nathalie Rodriguez, Universite Paris III, Sorbonne
Nouvelle, Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire des Langues
Orientales, 4, Rue de Lille, 75007 Paris Cedex 07, e-mail :
[log in to unmask]
- Daphne Roper, Adab, Cambridge, GB, e-mail :
[log in to unmask]
- Geoffrey Roper, Islamic Bibliography Unit, Cambridge
University Library, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
- Dr. Arie Schippers, e-mail: "A. Schippers"
<[log in to unmask]>
- M. I. Shaikh, 17 Trafford Road Eccles, GB-Manchester M30
OJX
- Prof. Abdelatif Soufi, Universite de Constantine,
Institut de Bibliotheconomie, Constantine, Algeria, Fax:
00213 (4) 926790
- Nuria Torres Santo Domingo, Directora de la Biblioteca
Islamica "Felix Maria Pareja" Agencia Espanola de
Cooperacion Internacional, Avda. de Reyes Catolicos, 4
E-28040 Madrid, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
- Sergei Turkin, St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail:
[log in to unmask]
- Dr. Mario Vitalone, Istituto Universitario Orientale,
Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici Piazza S. Domenico Maggiore,
12, I-80134 Napoli, e-mail: [log in to unmask]
- Dr. Arnoud Vrolijk, Leiden University Library, e-mail :
[log in to unmask]
- Dr. Lutz Wiederhold, Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek
Sachsen-Anhalt, August-Bebel- Strasse 13, 06098 Halle,
Germany, e-mail: "Dr. Lutz Wiederhold"
<[log in to unmask]>
- Dr. Jan Just Witkam, Curator of Oriental Collections,
Leiden University Library, P.O. Box 9501, NL-2301 RA
Leiden, The Netherlands, fax: +3171 527 2836, tel. +3171 527
2868, e-mail : [log in to unmask]
Dr.Andreas Drechsler
Secretary of MELCOM International
Universitaetsbibliothek Bamberg
Postfach 2705
96018 Bamberg
Germany
Tel.: 0951/863-1530
Fax: 0951/863-1565
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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