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MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION

Number39 Fall, 1986

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From the Editor 1 MELA Annual Meeting Schedule 2 MELA By-Laws 4 Middle East Microform Committee Meeting Minutes 12 Articles 14 Book Reviews 24 Announcements 29 Conferences 32 Contributors to MELA Notes 36 Membership List MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 1 Number 39 Fall, 1986 FROM THE EDITOR

MELA NOTES ISSN 0364- 2410 The 1986 Annual Meeting of our Association will take place in Boston in conjunction with the 20th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, November 19-23. The MELA Meeting will be November 20th. See the detailed program inside. MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION The Executive Committee has submitted the following names as nominees for the vacant positions in MELA: James W. Pollock President I ndiana Univers ity Vice-President and Program Chairperson Meryle A. Gaston, Bobst Library, New York University David H. Part ington Vice-President Janet P. Heineck, University of Washington, Seattle Program Chair Secretary-Treasurer

Dona Straley Secretary-Treasurer Ruth Baacke, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C. Ohio State University James Weinberger, Princeton University Library Sorry for the error in the page numbering on the contents Basima Bezirgan Editor page in the last issue. University of Chicago I am looking forward to seeing you all in Boston and to participating in a lively program prepared by David Partington. Thanks to Paul Sprachman and Palmira Brummett for assistance on this issue. Mela Notes is published three times a year, i n winter, spring, and fall. It is distributed to members of the Basima Bezirgan Associati on and to nonmember subscr i bers. Membership dues of $10.00 bring ~ and other mailings. Subscri ptions are $10.00 per calendar year, or $3.00 per issue for most back numbers. Address dues, requests for membership information or.sub~cr iptions to Dona Stra l ey , Secretar y-Treasurer MELA: Main Li brary Rm. 308, 1858 Neil Avenue Ma l l Ohio State Univers ity, Co l umbus, Ohio 43210 . ' MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 3 2 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 Affairs, HIID, and others. Barbara Mitchell, Librarian, will MELA 1986 talk about the services of this special library. AN~1JAL MEETING OF THE MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIAN'S ASSOCIATION, 20TH NOVEMBER 4:15-5:00 PM Tour of the Semitic Museum and its special exhibit on the Arabian Nights; Dr. Carney Gavin, Curator, Convened by the Middle Eastern Dept., Library will talk about recent work by the Museum and preside over refreshments. SCHEDULE 5:30-7:00 PM Supper for MELA members and guests, at 33 9:00 AM-1:00 PM Dunster St. Restaurant. "Open House" in t he Middle Eastern Dept. Room R, top floor of 7:00-9:00 MELA BUSINESS MEETING, chaired by Jim Pollock Widener Library. Staff will be available for discussion of (Indiana). Location (if not at the site of supper) will be library matters: the Forum Room in . First order of business Alice Deyab, Serials & special project on Arab Women will be the election of the secretary-treasurer and the Dr. Kevork Bardakjian, Armenian vice-president. Other business includes LC news, ALA report, Koharig Tololyan, Armenian MELA questionnaire, MEMP, role of MELA, etc. Fawzi Abdulrazak, Arabic selection Michael Hopper, Arabic cataloging Ahmed Jebari, Aabic & HOLLIS data base Marie Mazloum, Arabic catalogs Noor ed- Din, Indic language Dr. John Emerson, Persian selections & cataloging Dr. Shaha Haeri, Persian selection and a cquisition Dr. Ali Asani, Khodjki manuscript project Dav id Zm i jewski, Turkish D. Partington , anything not mentioned above Tours of t he department, the collections, and Widener Library will be offered; note the Department's exhibit in the main lobby on "Harvard's Contributions to Middle Eastern Studies." Special tours to the Fine Arts Library may be arranged by request to see the work of the Aga Khan Bibliographer and the Visual Collections. Duplicate sales. SPECIAL: Middle Eastern delicacies will be served. 11:15 AM (approx) MELA Board Meeting. Room R, Widener. l:00-3:15 PM MELA Program: "The Bibliography of Middle :1 Eastern Minorities." I Papers by: Panzer; Jajko; Weryho; Kasow; Farahian; I. Abdulrazak; Riedelmayer; and others. .,I Place: The Forum Room in Lamont Library 11" 1:30- 4:00 PM Tour of Harvard's Middle East Center, Coolige llnll, 1737 Cambridge St., with stops at the "Outreach" I l ihrary (Ms. Susan Kerr van de Ven will describe the pl'llr,rams), and the Coolidge Hall Library, which houses the ME Cr.11ter' 1> library, the library of the Center for International 4 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 5 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION BY-LAWS (selection, acquisition, cataloging, reference work, administration, and/or preparation of research tools) shall be eligible for professional membership. ARTICLE I. NAME AND NATURE B. All other individuals or organizations and institutions shall be eligible for associate membership. Section 1. Name Section 2. Election .!& memb~ The name of the organization shall be the Middle East Librarians Association. Members shall be elected by approval of the Secretary-Treasurer in the interim between meetings, subject Section 2. ~ to ratification by vote of the Executive Board at the annual meeting. The Association shall be a private, non-profit, non-political organization of librarians and others interested in those Section J. Privileges Q_f Members aspects of librarianship which support the study of or dissemination of information about the Middle East. The area A. Both categories of Members may attend all meetings of the signified shall be considered to include those countries from Association and participate in discussions and programs. All ~orocco ~hrough Pakistan as well as other areas formerly members may attend committee meetings not designated as included ln the Arab, Ottoman or Mughal empires. closed. Only committee members may vote in committee deliberations. ARTICLE II. PURPOSE B. Both categories of Members shall be eligible to serve on committees with the exception of committees designated as It shall be the purpose of the Middle East Librarians special by the Executive Board. Only Professional members may ·/ Asso:iation to fac~lit~te communication among Members through serve on these special committees. meetings and publ1cat1ons; to improve the quality of area I libraianship through the development of standards for the C. Both categories of Members shall be entitled to receive profess~on and e~ucation of Middle East library specialists; all publications of the Association, including: r I - to comp1le and disseminate information concerning Middle East 1. Minutes of meetings ; libraries and collections and to represent the judgement of 2. Notice of meetings the Members in matters affecting them: to encourage 3. Agenda of meetings cooperation among Members and Middle East Libraries, 4. Roster of Members and Conunittee Members 1, especially in the acquisition of materials and the 5. By-laws and amendments development of bibliographic control; to cooperate with other 6. All official organs library and area organizations in projects of mutual con cern l and benefit; to promote research in and development of D. Only Professional members may serve as officers of the indexing and automated techniques as applied to Middle East Association and vote in elections and meetings. Associate materials. members appointed to a committee may vote in the I deliberations of the committee. " ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP Section ~. ~ Section 1. Categories 2.f membership Members may be required to pay such annual dues as voted by a Membershi p in the Middle East Librarians Association shall be majority of the Professional Members in person or by mail. of two categories: Professional and Associate. Section 2. ~ Qf Membership A. Any person who is employed by an institution to service Middle East library materials in a professional capacity Membership shall be on a calendar year basis and continuous unless resigned by the Member or revoked in accordance with the provisions of Article III, section 6. 7 6 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 7. Paying all invoices charged to the Association Section Q. Res i gnations or Removal of Members B. Submitting annually an account of the finances of the Association, either at the annual meeting or by mail, A. Any me~ber may resign at any time , forfeiting dues paid to all Members for the ba lance of t he year. 9. Collecting the revenues from non-member subscribers to publications of the Association . B. A member s hip held in either of the two categories may be revoked by: D. Editor, whose duties shall inc lude: 1. A majcrity of t he Professional members present at any l. Gathering and disseminating news of Members and news of business session, in which case dues would be returned; interest to Members or 2. Selecting articles of interest to Members submitted by 2. The Secretary-Treasurer if the Member is more than Members or others twelve months in arrears of dues. 3. Publishing the aforementioned items and articles at least annually in the official organ. 4. Publishing and editing all other official publications ARTICLE IV. ORGANIZATION of the Association, unless the President appoints an editor for selected publications of the Association Section l . Offi c e~ 5. Maintaining subscription files. The Officer s of the Association shall consist of the Section z. Executive Boar..Q. following: The Executive Board shall consist of the President, A. A Pres i der. t , whose duties shall include: Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, the Editor, and other 1. Chai ring the meetings of the Association and Executive Officers as may be added by the Membership. It shall meet Board . prior to each business meeting of the Association to prepare 2. Rep~es e n ti ng the Organization on appropriate occasions the agenda and act on any necessary business, and at any or i n co rrespondence as necessary. other time at the call of the President or by a majority of Members of the Board. Such meetings may be in person or via B. Vice-P~e:ident , whose duties shall include: correspondence. Three-fourths of the Executive Board shall 1. Chairing the meetings of the Association in the absence constitute a quorum. The Executive Board shall make of the President appointments to all committees not otherwise provided for in 2. Con~u~ting the Program portion of the annual meeting these by-laws and appoint interim officers to fill vacancies, 3. Chainng the Program Committee and make appointments to membership in both categories. 4. Carrying out all and any other duties delegated by the Pres ident. The immediate past President of the Association shall serve as an ex- officio member of the Executive Board. C. Secretary~Treasurer, whose duties shall include: 1. R~co r ding and submitting to all Members, by mail t he Section l. ElectiQD. Q.f Officers minutes of t~e annual meeting and any other meeting of the _?-tembersh1p or of the Executive Board. Election to all Offices, other than that of the Presidency, 2. Notify all M7mbers of the date, time, place, and agenda to which the Vice-President automatically succeeds, shall be for ~ 11 .meetings of the Association. held at the annual meeting. Officers shall be elected from 3. Publ:shing t~e ~ist of members and the rosters of among the Members in good standing by a majority of the committees within the Assoc iation at least once a Members present. The election shall be by secret ballot from year a list of two or more candidates for each vacancy, provided 4. Carryi~g on the correspondence of the Association by the Nominating Committee with provision for additional ex c ept1~g that requiring the signature of the President nominations from the Membership by mail or during the annual 5. Collecti ng f~om each Member the dues as are voted by meeting. All ballots will be preserved for a period of sixty the M~mb e rship and notifying Members in arrears days to allow for a recount if called for. After this period, 6. Revokin~ the Membership of any Member more than twelve ballots will be destroyed. months in arrears of dues MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 8 9 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 Section ~. Te rms Q1 Office B. Nominating Committee . . The term of office for the President and Vice-President shall The Executive Board shall constitute the Nom1nat1ng be one year , with the Vice-Pres ident becoming President for Committee. . the follow ing year. The Secretary-Treasurer shall serve for The Nominating Committee shall present to the M7mbersh1p a term of three years and may not succeed himself or herself before the annual meeting a minimum of two cand1dat7s ~or in that position. The Editor shall serve for a term of three each vacancy to be filled, either through the Association years and may not serve in that position for more than two official organ or through an Association mailing. successive terms. Terms of office for other Officers shall be determined at the time of creation of t hei ~ positions. Other Committees c. The Executive Board in session or by correspondence or the Section 2· Cornoensation Professional Members in any business session may constitute such other committees with such functions,. Officers serving voluntarily shall not receive compensation powers and duties as the const ituting body shall ~rov1de. for their services. They may r equest from the Each such committee shall enact rules and regulat1ons.for Secretary-Treasurer reimbursement of expenses for materials its government. The names of the members of each committee needed in connection with the performance of their duties . and the terms of office shall be made known to the Members of the Association at least annually by the Secretary- Section Q. Resignati on of Officers Treasurer. Any Officer may resign at any time. The Executive Board may appoint any Member in good standing to serve the remaining ARTICLE V. MEETINGS portion of a vacant term. If a vacancy occurs in the Off ice of President, the Vi ce-President will assume the office of Freguenc..Y Qf Meetings President immediately and serve the unfilled portion of the ~ction l· vacated term as well as his or her own term the following The Members shall meet at least once each year at such p~aces yea1. The vacancy in the Vice-President's position will be and times as designed by the Executive Boar~. If possible, filled by the appointment of an interim Vice-President who the annual meeting shall be concurrent with the annual shall serve until a new Vice-President is elected at the next meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of. ~o~th meeting of the Association. This appointment will be made by America, Inc., which has extended its conference fac1l1t1es the Executive Board. to the organization gratis.

Section 2. Additional Officers Section k• !:Q!:.!!! Qi Annual Meetin& a The Members may elect such additional officers or appoint The annual meeting shall normally consist of two parts: such agents or employees, and determine their term of office business session and a program. and compensation, if any, as they may deem advisable. A. Business Session . . Section ~. Co!!¥llittees The business session shall be under the cha1rmansh1p of the President, or. the Vice-President in the absence of Committees shall be established as needed. the former. One quarter of the Professional Members shall constitute a quorum. Associate Members an~ other ob~ervers A. Program Committee may attend this session but may not vote in the business The Program Committee shall be a permanent standing committee, composed of the Vice- President, as chair, and session. at least two Members appointed for a term of one year by B. Program . the Executive Board. A Member may serve no more than two The program shall be under the chairmanship of the Vice terms in succession on the Program Committee. The President, or any member of the Program Committee in the Committee shall be appointed at the annual meeting of the absence of the former. The program shall be open to all following year. interested persons. C. Discussion Groups 10 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 11 Discussion groups may be scheduled at the time of the annual meeting whenever a topic meriting discussion is Section ~. Effective Date .oi. Amendments by the members is proposed by the Executive Board or by petition t o the Executive Board by five or more members. Amendments shall become effective immediately upon adoption, Discussion groups will normally be confined to topics unless otherwise provided for at the time of voting . concerning the practical aspects of Middle East librarianship. Such discussion groups will be open to all interested parties, Members and non-Members, August 1986, as amended November 1981 unless designated otherwise. Section d· Additional Meetings If necessary, additional meetings may be held on dates and at places determined by the Executive Board.

section ~. Notice Qi Meetings Notices of all meetings shall be mai led to all Members at least thirty days prior to meetings. CONDUCT OF METINGS The conduct of all meetings shall be governed by Robert's Rules of Order , Revised. Section l. Proposal of Amendments Amendments of these by-laws may be proposed by: A. The Executive Board in session or by correspondence. B. Petition signed by one-fifth of all the members, without regard to category of membership. Section z. Discussion Qi Amendments Discussion of amendments shall be placed on the agenda and discussed at the first annual meeting following their proposal, provided the Members have received copies of the proposed amendments at least thirty days prior to the meeting. Section l· Adoption .oi. Amendments After discussion, all proposed amendments must be submitted to the Professional Members for approval . They shall be considered adopted if a simple majority of t he total Professional Membership approves: A. in person at the annual meeting; or B. on a ballot, submitted by mail by the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall allow sixty days for returns. 12 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 13 Our time-table is that Mr. Boylan will bring the matter to the Collection Management Committee which meets this Fall, MINUTES OF THE MIDDLE EAST MICROFORM COMMITTEE MEET ING JUNE and MEMP will bring the proposed bylaws changes to the MELA 29~ membership in November. If all goes well, the proposal could go before the CRL Board at its meeting in January.

The corrunittee met with Mr. Ray Boylan of CRL. Mr. Boylan presented to the group the concerns of the CRL management relative to our proposed bylaws. Some of the concerns were anticipated. We feel that we can solve the matter of the lack John Eilts of cataloging staff in the requisite languages at CRL. The Research Libraries Group University of Chicago Middle East Division would probably be Dona Straley willing to catalog the MEMP materials on a cost reimbursement basis. Ohio State University Library The further concerns involved some of the basic (combined reports) assumptions in our bylaws. CRL J.S proposing that all materials are the property of CRL as a legally constituted entity with restrictions on the use of the materials during the life of the project. C RL prefers a statement that CRL owns the material so that if the project dies or is disbanded, it would retain the material. Another basic concern is the restriction on the use of the materials to members only. Mr. Boylan suggested that the management of CRL would be more comfortable with a limit of 3-5 items per year for non-members. This would allow the isolated scholar, who is at a non-member institution, to still have some access to the collection. Mr. Boylan also suggested that it might be wise to allow the sale of copies of films to non-members as this can bring a small amount of money back to the project to recover part of the cost of filming an item. CRL at present sells copies for the cost of the positive plus 1/3 the cost of the negative. CRL does not give interest on unexpended balances. CRL charges for existing mi croform projects are: 1. $10 .00 service charge for each order placed. 2. $1.10 service charge on each roll of film (soon to be $2.00). 3. Professional cataloging time. 4. Expenses of CRL representatives to Executive Board meetings. 14 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 15

ARTICLES which each is to be found. For example: "al-Qiinun fi al-tibb ~ .l.lllfil Avicenna, 980-1037." "AACR 2" rules have been applied to spelling and punctuation so far as possible. Since the content of NENUL is mostly of pre-MARC origin, adaptation to the MARC format has Eight years ago, in 1978, the embarked sometimes been impractical and compromises have been on a project to edit and publish that part of the National introduced. Attempts to reorganize title page information as Union Catalog which covers works in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman prescribed by AACR 2 are sometimes counterproductive and have Turkish, and modern romanized Turkish. The project was been avoided. AACR 2 rules have, generally speaking, not been planned and is being directed by Dr. George N. Atiyeh, Head applied to choice of entry and form of heading; the of the N~ar East Section of the Library of Congress, with the retrospective character of NENUL makes radical changes at cooperat1on of the Processing Services Dept . , the Automated secondhand not only unhelpful but unwise. MARC tagging has Systems Office, and the Publishing Office of L.C., and with been routinely applied -- again, as far as possible. Where the support of the National Endowment for the and MARC fails to provide for a type of entry prescribed by ALA the Middle East Studies Association. (Note: The edit~rial rules but eliminated by AACR 2, adjustments have been made. staff of the project has normally consisted of an editor an The "notes" field, for example, carries information that assitant editor, and a typist, but there have been inte~vals would have had the form of a dash entry under ALA rules. when not all posts were filled.) A union catalog, manual or automated , requires decisions, In June. 1986, L.C. plans to issue the first volume of the concessions, and compromises which any one who has been a " National Union List" (NENUL ). The vo l ume wi ll cataloger makes only reluctantly. NENUL is no exception. cover entries in "A" only: i.e. main entries beginning with Editing must be done without seeing the publication itself. the letter A, and added entries and cross references leading The identity of a particular publication must be discerned by to ~ain.ent:ies in A. ~t will cover works whi ch began comparing different catalogers' descriptions, based on publ1cat1on ln 1978 or earl1er, and which have been reported different cataloging codes and varying standards of to the NUC by one or more of some 240 libraries in the U.S. completeness and exactness, and by disregarding differences and Canada. It will list in one alphabet approximately 12,850 in script and language. In this situation, accuracy on the monographs and serials, including a few manus cripts and part of the reporting library is a great virtue, and a microfilms. The "A" volume will contain roughly one-fifth of reliable page-count is a very valuable piece of data. t~e .whole NENUL (A is a big letter in Islamic-language b1bl1ography); so far about 20,000 entries have been edited Duplication of entries for the same publication is a by the project, out of a total of 60,000. compromise that leaves its mark on union catalogs . Reports which are incompatible have to be listed individually even The information in the "A" volume has been organized by when the presumption is strong that only one publication is computer -- or one might say that it is the automated NENUL involved. "Which report is right and which is wrong?" data base that is being published. This guarantees that the "Impossible to say on the basis of available evidence." scope and content of the catalog are capable of being Duplication also occurs when a publication contains more than expanded indefinitely, and that extracts from the data base one work and can be treated both as a collection and as a can be produced through a variety of access points and made multivolume monograph capable of being analyzed, but in this available on demand via printout. case repetition does not inflate the number of editions represented as being in existence. Acces~ points to information in the printed volume will be th~ head1~g chosen as main entry; cross references leading to Romanization sometimes creates artific ial problems for th1s head1ng; added entri es for joint authors, editors, and which solutions must be invented. The NUC reports making up t:anslators , ~nd cross references leading to their names ; and NENUL mostly carry the title in the script of the t1~les .. The t1tle ~ndex is planned as a separate list, A-Z in publication, although recently a trend toward total wh1ch title page titles, alternative titles uniform titles romanization has become apparent. NENUL would have opted for and analytical titles are selected from the data base and the use of the Arabic alphabet to record titles of connected by a "see under" directive to the main entry under Arabic-alphabet publications if that alternative has been a MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 16 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 17 real one, but it was not available to L.C . automated systems NENUL in its printed form would be functionally in 1978, nor is it now. Romanization requires that words -­ indistinguishable from manually compiled catalogs. and names be vocalized, and this occasionally leads to inconsistent or mistaken orthography, and may even affect The title index is designed as a separately paged alphabetical arrangement. Romanization generates another supplement to the main body of the "A" volume . It will be problem too: the need to disti nguish t wo different languages generated from the NENUL data base. This means that titles in transcribing a given title page, because these languages, must be provided in the data base which have the form and both written in Arabic alphabet, are differently romanized. content appropriate to the purpose of identifying the works Take for example an Ottoman Turkish work: is the title in they belong to. It is true that the titles of Islamic works Turkish because t he text is in Turkish? or is the t itle in are characteristically unique, distinctive, and memorable; Arabic because the vocabulary and syntax of the work are Islamic title pages, on the other hand, can often be prolix, Arabic? The question is foolish, but an answer must be found. so that a brief, familiar title may be embedded in a lengthy, rambling statement. This circumstance has led NENUL to the Automation itself, while greatly increasing the rather frequent use of "uniform" titles, i.e. to the accessibility of the information in a catalog, sometimes exaggerates difficulties which were previously insignificant. addition, in the entry, of the brief familiar designation which will permit chronological arrangement of editions and Typographical errors on the part of the inputter are capable translations, regardless of the wording of the particular of causing severe deformation of dislocation of information; manual fil i ng in a card catalog, on the contrary, is capable title page. It is these "uniform titles" which are adopted for the index in place of unsatisfactory "titles proper". of silently correcting many typographical errors. Automation requires elaborate "programs" for handling data: the more elaborate, the less flexible. NENUL would have been glad to Since Islamic names are notoriously hard to standardize for catalog entry purposes, that is, since it is hard to find list its serials according to the rules for cataloging MARC serials; the serials program, unfortunately, is not adaptable a useful formula for constructing an Islamic personal name to NENUL's needs, and NENUL has had to forego the additional heading, the task of identifying an author in an author list may prove formidable, calling for patience and page-turning. fields and access points available through the serials The title index performs three functions: it shows the program. presence (or absence) of the work in the catalog; it One of the rewards of automation is the flawless identifies the author; it gives the form of name under which application of rules for catalog arrangement. Unlike human the author is entered. filing, what the computer puts in order is arranged in NENUL, despite its potential, will certainly fail to absolute conformity to precise directives. NENUL, however, as a retrospective record, incorporates types of entry not satisfy some of the requirements of its users. It contains many errors for which the editor is to blame, and some errors provided for in the automated filing rules. An illustrative which are due to its secondhand character. But perhaps it case is that of monographic "special issue" titles . will inspire the librarians who use it and the libraries whose collections are represented in it, to probe arrearages, Two problems associated with automation which NENUL has to review holdings, to close entries, and to call salutary resolved are those relating to cross references, and to the attention to shortcomings in the NENUL record. Al-Ja~i~ might Arabic initial article al-. NENUL has developed an adequate apparatus of cross references (so necessary to a catalog of have been thinking of union catalogs when he said: "Lii yaCt"ifu al-khata' man yajhalu al-~awiib, One doesn't Islamic authors) without establishing an independent "name recognize a mistake if one doesn't know what is correct.'' authority" data base. I t seems to be unique in having met this need in simple fashion. And NENUL has developed a device for retaining the initial al- in Arabic names and titles in Dorothy Stehle the visible record, but suppressing it as a filing element. Editor of NENUL, 1978-1984 That is, a name or title beginning with ~ is arranged January 8 , 1986 alphabetically according to the element following the article. These and other innovations NENUL owes, as a pioneer project, to the resourceful programmers and analysts in the Automated Systems Office of L.C.. Without their efforts, 18 MELA NOTES 39, fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 19 A BIBLIOMETRIC EXAMINATION Qf GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS East researchers are likely t o have accessible. Cl ) DISSEMINATION THROUGH NTIS ON MIDDLE EASTERN TOPICS , WITH TIME ~ QI PUBLICATIONS EQR 1.RAii, IEAQ, ISRAEL, SAUDI ARABIA, AND SYRIA FOR 1966-1985. Nevertheless, it is worth looking at the magnitude of " ... no one knows the extent of area-related collections resources that are available through such on-line searching. in federal libraries or data bases [sicl. 11 This short article will provide an overview of the extent of -Michael W. Albin, " Beyond Growth and Its Implications for Collections Development", in Mk!...A ~. the DIALOG supported version of the NTIS database ( Fi le 6 ) . no. 38, Spring 1986. p. 2. The NTIS database is, of course, the machine readabl e equivalent of GRAI and both are produced by t he National Area Studies, perhaps least among all social sciences, Technical Information Service of the Department of Conune rce. have to date seldom attempted to incorporate new information Included are a dazzling array of the publications of tens of science technologies and methods, in either research or in thousands of us and foreign government agencies , pedagogy. One corollary to this problem has been the corporations, grantees and just about any other entity with a unwillingness of Area Studies faculties and librarians to t ypewriter in this end of the twentieth century. Table 1 attempt to use government documents in research or as source below provides a glimpse of the "collections size" of the materials in teaching. Middle Eastern holdings for randomly selected coutries. Five These problems are inter-related inasmuch as the novice of the contries, indicated with asterisks and select ed user of government documents typically is reduced to the use without rationale, will be the subject of a detailed of the several on-line bibliographic systems that are bibliometric time series infra. publicly accessible, even if not particularly cheap. While these systems do allow a certain access to the masses of government documents available, the systems are neither 1. Consider such curiosities as the present author's largely comprehensive nor complementary. However, in the absence of unpublished bibliographies: Bibliogr aphy cl Universally Ayailable Reference Materials 1Q£ ~ Arabic Language written bibliographic tools providing access to government (compiled by Keith Molinek), ~cationi Q.f the Atomic Energy Organization 21 l.!:An: An Annotated ~ibliogrephy, documents from the perspective of Area Studies, the cruder Bibliography Q.f Universally Available ~~ Materials !.Qr. Persian, !&ti and Ta Uk Languages, and ~ ~ SD.. t.~J.11~ machine-generated information products are all that Middle (Television, RruU.Q. gn,Q, Satellite) .f.Qr .!.D..C B..~l. Educational Development: The ~cl A.tl:J&!l and the Middle ~ (co-·compiled by Patricia Romero ), publiched by ERIC, ED-260-864. MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 20 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 21

Table 2 Table 1 NTIS Publications on the Middle East: Iran, Iraq NTIS Publications for 11 Middle Eastern Countries Listed by Number Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Syria 1966-1985 of Publications

Country Number of Documents ': YEAR IRAQ SYRIA SAUDI IRAN ISRAEL TOTAL ARABIA Bahrein 36 9 12 27 18 37 103 Qatar 43 1985 1984 9 23 23 17 45 117 11 34 108 Iraq 144 1983 12 18 33 1982 10 10 23 26 33 102 22 30 17 51 129 Libya 162 1981 9 1980 12 11 34 44 51 152 27 17 47 47 149 Lebanon 197 1979 11 1978 7 7 11 41 112 178 145 212 Syria 221 1977 8 7 16 36 ii 1976 5 13 16 57 119 210 Ir 16 26 80 137 314 1975 5 9 Saudi Arabia 1974 5 6 13 34 88 146 12 37 80 143 Ii Jordan 391 1973 6 6 I 1972 2 7 8 18 66 101 3 3 6 31 91 134 [, Iran 548 1971 1970 4 8 5 19 84 120 1 8 103 121 Egypt 1112 1969 4 5 1968 4 6 2 20 108 140 6 3 16 102 133 Israel 1735 1967 3 1966 1 4 5 3 87 106

'66- 185 (Source: Statistical research undertaken by author) TOTAL 129 210 301 526 1563 2729 NTIS TOTAL 144 221 314 548 1735 2962 (Source: Statistical research undertaken by author.) 22 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 23 Although the limitations of space prevent a detailed analysis Finally, there is a loose, but real, correlation between here, several trends are apparent in Ta ble 2. the state of US-Country X relations and the volume of documentation disseminated through NTIS. The number of First, although there are ephemeral gains in the number of documents concerning Iran, for example , falls steeply after publications disseminated for selected countries and for the Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979. (2) Although these modes t selected years (associated with what might be tautological l y conclusions may demonstrate that there is a potential for the termed discrete "document-generating phenomena", such as use of bibliometric techniques in Area Studies, a larger regional wars or oil booms), this twenty year series ends in purpose will have been served if we recall the existence of much the same aggregated range as it begins. However, for information available through the databases and, more to the Saudi Arabia the number of publications increases after the point, the vast resources of government documents. rise in oil prices, peaks near the time of highest oil prices, but continues to maintain a high general level. Sibliometrically speaking, Saudi Arabia has arrived.

James Sanchez Second, there has been a dramatic shift in the distribution of the NTIS disseminated documents among this small sample of countries . While in the first year 82% of all publications concerned Israel, in 1985 a mere 35.9% concerned Israel. Concurrent with the relative and absolute fall in documents on Israel, there has been a long term shift towards Saudi Arabia, in this small and random sampling.

2. The significance of a single "document generating" phenomenon is difficult to guage simply from numbers such as And third, the minimal coverage of some countries, such these. The ephemeral from numbers such as these. The ephemeral burst of federally funded documents for Czech as Iraq in this sample, can apparently be increased beyond language instruction, appearing in the years ~ the R~ss~an invasion ~and noted in the introduction to my its very slow growth by no imaginable event. B1bl1ograpby ,Q_[ Universally ~ble Curriculum M2.terial s ' ' !.Q.r. ~tern European Languages: Bulgarian, Byelorussian, ~. Slovak W Ukranian l.fil:l.&.~, availa ble as ERIC document ED- 253- 082) is of unusually clear causation. 24 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 25 BOOK REVIEWS It is unclear however whether the Middle Eastern scholarly wor ld at t his juncture needs such another general journal . The field is probably better served by periodicals with a more specific disciplinary, geographical, or historical ~ International Journal Q.f Islamic and Arabic Studies. fo cus , and had this periodical hewed more closely t o t he aims v. 1, no . 1 (1984)- Biennial. of its parent instituttion, it might have filled a useful ni che. Furthermore, five of the art icles, and apparently a l l

The International Journal Q.f Islamic and Arabic Studies is four book r eviews, are written by scholars at four published by the International Institute of Islamic and institutions within a 100 mile radius of Bloomington (the Arabic studies, headquartered in Bloomington, Indiana. The other contributions came from Yarmouk Un i versity in Irbid, I: !i Institute was established: Jordan, and Geneva) . In adopting the name i t has, the journal is cha llenging comparison with others such as to serve as a forum for better understanding among nearly one billion Musl ims of the world and people of the United International Journal lltl Studies, whose States.. It is set out as a vehicle of inter-cultural I communication... Its editorial thinking emanates from the contributors and readers are generally world-wide. universal teachings of the Quran and the Sunnah ... (p.(2] of cover). .i The reviewer has limited expertise in some of t he areas covered by the articles and reviewing, and hence cannot make I While no one would quarrel with such lofty, if vague, well-informed judgements on them. The a r ticle on "Muslims i n sentiments, (though are there really a billion Muslims?) it Vietnam" contains much interesting information and the is unclear how four of the seven articles in this first Journal could provide a valuable service by conunissioning a number, on such topics as "Israeli involvement in inter-Arab series of articles on small Muslim minorities in many other !i 1' politics," Arabic grammar, Ibo Sina and Ottoman periodization countries of the world, e.g. Britai n, Germany , Brazil, etc. serve these ends (the other three on "Islam and the West" The article on "Islam and the West" says little new or " •.• Women in Early Christianity and Islam" and "Muslims of I) important and takes a great deal of time to say it. The Vietnam" arguably do so). What we really seem to have is article on Ottoman periodizati on is also rather inadequate; another journal on Islamic Studies. 26 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 27 the subject needs to be placed in a much wider framework, Bar, Erika. Bibliographie deutschsprachigen both geographically and historically. Similarly the Islamwissenschaft .Yfil!. Semi ti stik comparative article on women discusses in very few pages a Jahrhunderts Qi.£~. Band 1. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 1985. 1, large and important theme, which requires much more extended 572 p. and sophisticated discussion. This is a documentation of the publ ications of 139

The general standard of production leaves something to be contemporary German Islamicists wi th an appended subject desired. It is disappointing that indented quoted materials index rather than a proper subject bibliography. The work, ·I ~ I cannot be rendered in a smaller type-face and footnotes which is the result of a questionnaire. lists the authors in , I placed at t he bottom of the page; and there are also problems alphabetical order together with their publ ished r e search as with punctuation and capitalization and some inconsistencies well as forthcoming publications. When completed, the work in transliteration (in fact, no guide to transliteration is will consist of two volumes covering the period from the provided). early nineteenth century to t he present. Contemporary and past scholars will be listed in separate volumes. By doing It may be that this new journal was born out of the current bibliography first, the compiler missed a chance frustration with publication delays at other periodicals, or to do last minute updating. i t may be that it is to serve as the publication vehicle of members of a few institutions in a small part of the Middle Though the bibliography purports to list German-speaking ;I West , together with some of their acquaintances; or for some scholars, the compiler states i n the introduction "that as a other reason . Whichever is really the case, it needs to cast matter of principle (grundsatzlich), the l ist does not iclude

its net for contributors more widely, accept in general all writers", without defining the exact terms of reference.

better articles or more limited and more carefully More Islamicists publishing in German are omitted than thought-out topics, and attempt to find a more specialized included. Conspicuously missing are: M.. S. Ahmed, B. Alavi, G. niche for itself (perhaps changing its name in the process). Barthel, J. Blaschke, P. Bucherer-Dietschi, F. Buttner, C. Colpe, D. Duda, H.M. Dudin, J. Duster, M. Farhumand, K. Fuad, John Emerson U. Gehrke, k. Greussing, J.-H. Grevemeyer, G. Hazai, W. Harvard College Library I 29 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 I' 28 MELA NOTES 39, Fall , 1986 ANNOUNCEMENTS Lentz, A. Mahrad. M. Massarat, J. Nebez, B. Nirumand, s. Ravasani , A. Schirazi, E. Werne r, F. W. Zimmermann. One could go on and on. UNION !..lS.I OF ~ SCRIPT MANUSCRIPTS IN NORTH AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS (ULASMA I ) It is regrettable that the compiler purposely excluded ..1. recent German thes es, particularly since t he last bi bliogr aphy on the subject is ten years out of date with no provision for updating. The only unique entries are some Fund ing is currently being sought f or work in progress on twenty odd monographs not listed in Index Islamicus or a compilation of a list which wi l l enabl e r esea r chers to find e lsewhere. The reason why articles on French sentence manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other l anguages structure, the translation of Schiller' s poetry into using the Arabic medium deposited in the libraries and

Slovenian , etc., are included, is stated nowhere. The museums in Nor t h Ame rica . compiler probably copied thoughtlessly from the The computerized compilation of the estimated 35,000 to questionnaires. 40,000 i tems will take between t hree and four years to I

Bu t not only the content, also the presentation of the complete and is planned to bring together i nforma tion on f I material leaves much to be desired . The discrepancy of the holdings from printed catalogs, the widely scattered I I. typescript lay-out and the sales prices is horrendous. The periodical art i cles, and in-house lists . In addition, a I author barely managed to get forty lines to the page (9.3 by serious effort is being made t o locate as yet unrecorded 6 .5 inches) , when without false economy she could have collections and to i dentify as yet unidentified manuscripts. accommodated twice as much, thus reducing the cost The list permits access to author and title i n Arabic proportionally. script to avoid the ambiguities ari sing from transliteration.

Looking at this bibliographical project, you wonder who is Other data, given in the Roman s cript, consist of: 11 prepared to pay DM 360 from two paperback volumes of a ./. 1. References to pert inent s t andard bibliographies. 2. Locations where the i tems can be found wi t h references 11 unilingual bibliography. I to printed catalogs where these exist. I Wolfgang Behn I ~ I I :

31 30 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 3. Differing variants in title and author's name with tllJHAMMAD

cross-references. 4. Degree of comp leteness of the manuscr i pt. During t he ALA Annual Conference in J une/Jul y 1986, t he

Institutions having such Arabic script manuscripts either Library of Congress proposed to the Committee on Cataloging: heading from ' unidentified or inadequately cataloged are urged to write to Asian and African Materia l s that the AACR2 d. 632, to Muhammad, Ii the address below. Institutions with in-house lists are Mu~amma d be changed from Mu~amrnad , requested to submit same for abstracting. Prophet, Q. 632. the Commi t ttee agreed t o this change, which has since been implemented by the Library of Congress. Some three thousand entries ar e now on file together with and a substantial archive of incipits, copyists calligraphers. Researchers wishing to consult the files and NEW PUBLICATIONS I potential sponsors of the project are encouraged to write to: The Library of Congress Near East Series has publ ished: !1

An American Perspective, A Guide to U.S. ULASMAI Afghanistan: Of ficial Documents and Government-Sponsored Publicati ons , by c/o M. Krek Julian W. Witherell. It is for sale by the Superintendent of 805 Boston Post Road Weston, MA 02193 (USA) Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402 for $5.00 , stock no. 030-000-00174-5 •

..!.u.filll:: I.hf lJ..C.1A Jour nal o..f. Middl e Eastern Studies, is a new journal which will be published annually. It encourages

contributions from graduate students as we ll as established

scholars. For more information contact William Young,

Circulation Editor, ~. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, Los An geles, CA 90024. MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 33

32 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 to a ll t hose who indicate they wish to a ttend. Acceptance of CONFERENCES this invitat ion, even if provisional, should reach me by Feb r uary 28th, 1987.

9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE QE MIDDLE Mil LIBRARIANS Anyone who wishes to of fer a paper should also contact me by February 28th. Papers should be in En gl ish or French and shoul d last between 10 and 30 mi nutes . I t is proposed that The Midd le East Librari es Conuni ttee (MELCOM) is pleased to all t hose who give a paper should provide an abstract of not invite you to attend t he ninth International Conference of mo r e t h a~ 500 wor ds in mu l tiple copies for di stribution to Middle East Librarians , which will be held in Tunis from t he de legates . Anyone requ iring special facilit ies for giving 13th-15th Apr il 1987. a paper, e . g. slide projector and ~creen , should let me know

Since 1979 , the MELCOM international conferences have in advance . brought together librarians from Europe, North America, and As MELCOM di sposes of no fund s of i t s own, no f inancial the Middle East to meet, discuss questions of mu t ua l assistance can be offered to any delega te for travel, importance, and hear a variety of papers. The 1987 accomoda tion or subsistence. As usual, participants will be conference will be held at ALESCO in Tunis. At t he moment, responsible for making t heir own arrangements for t r avel l ing negotiations are i n train with the Tunisian Fo reign Ministry. of reasonably priced hotels and and accomodation. A list I·! If definte arrangements cannot be made with the Tunisians by pensiones as well as ot her information wi l l be mailed in late Augus t , the conference would be held in Durham . January, 1987. Al l inquiries regarding the conference should All librarians, archivists and scholars dealing with t he be addressed t o Wol fgang Behn , Permane nt Secretary, Middle Ea st are entitled to attend and we welcome in Conference of Middle East Librarians, staatsbibliothek , particular participation by librarians and academics from the Postfach 1407, D-1000 Berlin 30. Middle East and North Africa itself. . sessions suggested for

the 1987 confer ence a re: union catalogues, MELCOM ' s bibliographical projects, acquisitions, catalogues and bookseller s. A prelimi nary program will be sent in mid-March MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 35 34 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 a) Working session on Union Catalogues MINUTES OF I.HE FINAL SESSION OF I.li1 8TH INTERNATIONAL MIDDLE b) Working session on MELCOM's bi bliographical projects. EAST LI BRARIANS CONFERENCE HELD IN MADRID AT THE UNIVERSIDAD c ) Working session on Acquisitions, Catal ogues , COMPLUTENSE ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH 1986 Booksellers. d ) The demon stration of a data-base in action. 1. The University Library Durham, the University Library 4. The distribution of abstracts at this year's conference Exeter, the Institut du Mende Arabe Paris, the was welcomed. Th e con ference agreed that t his should become Universitatsbibliothek Tubingen and ALESCO in Tunis were the policy of future conferences. suggested as venues for future conferences. It was proposed

that next years conference should be held either in Durham or 5. Various members suggested the publication of an Tunis, although difficulties were foreseen in obtaining the i nternational mailing l ist of MELCOM international members. agreement of ALESCO by Octoberl986. The chairman and other The Secretary und ert ook to investigate the possibil i ty of members emphasized the importance of having Middle Eastern issuing such a list. participants at our conference and of holding a meeting in 6. I t was recommended that the papers presented at this the Middle East . The use of European institutes in Egypt, year's conference should be published, preferably in Spanish , Turkey, Syria and Lebanon was suggested, as an alternative to in the journal ~ al-Andalus. All contributions should be the involvement of a Middle Eastern institution or library. sent to Dr. Marin at the Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura It was hoped that it would be possible to hold a meeting in by January 1987. I taly at some future date; so far, MELCOM International had

been unsuccessful in its attempts to secure Italian representation.

2. Several members advocated the issue of invitations in the autumn (October) rather than winter (January). The Secretary

undertook to change the existing arrangements.

3. Sessions suggested for next year's conference were: 36 MELA NOTES 39, Fall, 1986 MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTORS TO MELA NOTES MEMBERSHIP ROSTER

Profess i onal Ruth Baacke 118 So uth Adams Street Fawzi Abd u l razak Rockville, MD 20850 Arabic Specialist 202-785-0182 Middle Eastern Dept. Widener Library Wo l fgang Behn Al l contributions related to Middle Eastern Librarianship Harvard University Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Cambridge, MA 02138 Kulturbesi tz are welcome. Because of space limitations we ask that 617- 495 2437 Postfach 1407 1000 Berl i n 30 articles be limited to a maximum of 7 double spaced pages. Midhat D. Abraham Wes t Ge rmany USR EP /JECOR/NCFEI (Box003) 030-266-2413 Book reviews should be no longer than 500-700 words, or 2-3 APO New York 09038 405-9638 ext. 109 Bas ima Bezirgan double spaced pages. All submissions should be complete and 5000 s. Cornell, Apt. 7B A. Gia Aivazian Chicago, IL. 60615 ready for publication in a standard journal format, with Technical Services Dept. 312-962-8726 Re search Li brary footnotes clearly indicated. University of California Brenda Bickett Los angeles , CA 90024 Arabic Material s Specialist 213-825-7893 Ge orgetown University Library Mela ~ is issued three times per year (Winter , Spring, PO Box 37445 Michael W. Albin Washington D.C. 20013 and Fall issues). Contributions should be received by 5603 Ventnor Lane 202- 625-417 5 Springfield, VA 22151 January for the Winter issue, April for the Spring issue, and 202-287-5361 Joan C. Bi ella 20 N. Stanworth Dr . August for the Fall issue. George N. Atiyeh Princeton, NJ 08540 Head , Near Eas t Section 609-452-5681 Orientalia Division Please be sure to send all meeting notices well in advance Li brary of Cong ress Palmira Brummett Washington, D.C. 20540 Middle East Section Room 560 so that MELA members can be informed in a timely fashion. 202-287-5407 University of Chicago Libraries 1100 E. 57th St. J. Paul Auchterlonie Chicago , IL 60637 Asst. Li brarian for Arabic 312-962-8425 and Islamic Studies Un ivers ityy of Exeter Library El i ezer Chammou Stocker Road Technical Services Dept . Exeter EX4 4PT Un iversity Research Library England, U.K. University of California 0392-77911 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024 213-825-4019 PAGE 3

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