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Dear Colleagues In the absence of a MELCOM e-list, please forgive my posting on this list a message only applicable to some readers of it! Following a brief discussion at the MECOLM meeting on 21 January, and now that we have received the long-awaited RSLP guidelines, and in an attempt to get things moving, I'd like to find out: a) what interest there is among UK libraries with ME collections in a consortial bid for a retrocon project for ME materials (primarily Arabic, Persian, Turkish) - the BL, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford (Bodleian) already having expressed interest. b) if there is interest, how many records in which languages do you have for retrocon? I think at this stage we only need to give estimates of records for retrocon to the nearest thousand. If the BL, Leeds and Manchester could confirm their interest and give details of languages and numbers of records this would be helpful. Please could you reply as soon as possible to a) as time is very short to prepare bids. I am also wondering if there would be any interest in a project with Hebraica? But maybe others are dealing with this. If you would rather discuss this by telephone, and I am not at 277033, please ring 277034 and leave a message for me to ring you.. Many thanks for your time and help on this. Lesley Forbes Keeper of Oriental Collections Bodleian Library Broad Street OXFORD, OX1 3BG Telephone: 01865 277033 Fax: 01865 277029 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%