Dear Colleagues,
in January 1998, Halle University Library took over
responsibility for the special subject collection "Middle East
/
North Africa" from Tuebingen University Library. The change
and
its consequences have been described in a paper "The Special
Subject Collection Middle East/North Africa one Year after the
Transfer from Tuebingen to Halle - Problems and Perspectives"
presented at the annual meeting of MELCOM International, Liège,
19.5.1999 -
http://www.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/text/vorträge/ssgliege.htm
Currently, we are preparing a project "Virtual Library Middle
East / North Africa". An essential part of this project is the
creation of a Subject Gateway of relevant digital and printed
resources on and from the Middle East. The technical structure
will be similar to that of existing subject gateways for other
areas of research like that of the special subject guides
offered
by some of the special subject collections situated at the
Lower Saxony
State and University Library Göttingen
(http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/f_fachin.htm), that is
providing a link/bibliographical information together with a
set
of metadata describing formal aspects and contents of the
respective sources.
There is a number of comprehensive link lists concerning Middle
East Studies without additional metadata available already.
However we should like to invite colleagues and institutions to
join forces to create a structured subject guide Middle
East/North Africa providing metadata and other additional
information concerning the sources collected. The cooperative
realization of this tool is hoped to guarantee a continuing
growth of the database in the future. Contributing institutions
will be members of the editorial board of the subject guide.
A decision concerning our project by the German Research
Foundation is expected to be announced in April 2000. If the
decision is positive, work on the subject guide Middle
East/North Africa could start in Summer 2000.
If you or your institution are interested in participating,
please contact
Dr. Lutz Wiederhold
Curator of the Oriental Books
Universitaets- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
August-Bebel-Strasse 13
06098 Halle
Germany
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Tel.: 49-(0)345-55-22164
Fax.: 49-(0)345-55-27140
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