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MELA NOTES Journal of Middle Eastern Librarianship Number 84 (2012) ISSN 0364-2410 PUBLISHED by the MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION MELA NOTES Journal of Middle Eastern Librarianship Number 84 (2012) ISSN 0364-2410 PUBLISHED BY THE MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION EDITOR REVIEW EDITOR Marlis J. Saleh Rachel Simon University of Chicago Princeton University OFFICERS OF THE MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION Christof Galli, Duke University President, 2012-2013 David G. Hirsch, UCLA Past-President, 2012–2014 Michael Hopper, Harvard University Past-President, 2012-2013 Sean Swanick, McGill University Vice-Pres./Program Chair, 2012-2013 William Kopycki, Lib. of Congress, Cairo Sec.-Treasurer, 2010-2013 Marlis J. Saleh, University of Chicago Editor, 2010-2013 Anaïs Salamon, McGill University Webmaster, 2012-2015 Kristen Wilson MELANET-L List Manager, 2010-2013 Shayee Khanaka, UC Berkeley Member-at-large, 2012-2014 Sharon C. Smith, MIT Member-at-large, 2011-2013 MELA Notes is published once a year. It is distributed to members of the Association and subscribers. Membership dues of US $30.00 bring the Notes and other mailings. Subscriptions are US $30.00 per calendar year, or US $16.00 per issue for most back numbers. Address correspondence regarding subscriptions, dues, or membership information to: William Kopycki, Secretary-Treasurer MELA Unit 64900 Box 26 APO AE 09839 United States of America Address articles and other notices to: Address books for review to: Marlis J. Saleh Rachel Simon Editor, MELA Notes Review Editor, MELA Notes University of Chicago Library Catalog Division 1100 East 57th Street Princeton Univ. Library Chicago, IL 60637 1 Washington Road E-mail: [email protected] Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (773) 702-8425 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (773) 753-0569 http://www.mela.us/MELANotes/MELANotesIntro.html Articles and reviews must be submitted in electronic format by email attachment or disk. MELA NOTES Number 85 2012 CONTENTS ARTICLES CONNIE LAMB Selective Outsourcing: A Case Study of BYU’s Arabic Collection ..................................................................................... 1 ABDUL AHAD HANNAWI The Role of the Arabs in the Introduction of Paper into Europe ................................................................................. 14 RIFAT BALI The Turkish Book Publishing Market at the End of 2009 .......... 30 AMANDA CLICK Issues of Plagiarism and Academic Integrity for Second-Language Students ........................................................ 44 CODY BEHLES Political and Identity Development in Kyrgyzstan: 2001–2011: Annotated Bibliography of Publications in English ................... 54 PAUL CREGO An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Literature Obtained in Abkhazia 6–11 June 2008 .......................................................... 66 ii REVIEWS BRUSTAD ET AL.: Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds (Gregory J. Bell) ......................................................................... 76 DAHLGREN: Contesting Realities: the Public Sphere and Morality in Southern Yemen (Katherine Sydenham) ................................................................ 79 LIPPMAN: Arabian Knight: Colonel Bill Eddy USMC and the Rise of American Power in the Middle East (Judy Alspach) ............................................................................ 81 ALTOMA: Iraq’s Modern Arabic Literature: A Guide to English Translations since 1950 (Akram Khabibullaev) ................................................................ 83 CHEKAYRI: An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture (Anaïs Salamon) ......................................................................... 84 ARMES: Arab Filmmakers: A Dictionary (David Giovacchini) ................................................................... 86 GALLEGO: Bibliography of Jews in the Islamic World (Rachel Simon) ........................................................................... 89 WARD: Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces (Nancy Beygijanian)................................................................... 92 Books Received for Review in MELA Notes .................................... 95 ANNOUNCEMENTS Partington Award .............................................................................. 96 Atiyeh Award .................................................................................... 98 Atiyeh Award Essay ......................................................................... 99 ANNUAL MEETING 2011 Minutes and Reports ....................................................................... 102 Selective Outsourcing: A Case Study of BYU’s Arabic Collection CONNIE LAMB BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY Introduction To outsource or not to outsource—that is the question. At least that is a question many libraries and cataloging departments have considered in recent years. Outsourcing is defined as “accessing expertise and resources from an external organization to supplement or take full responsibility for a function that was previously accomplished inhouse” (Dunkle 33). Outsourcing has been used by libraries for many years in the form of buying books with cards, ordering cards from LC, book approval plans, retro-conversion projects, and cataloging operations including authority records (Harken 67; Block 73; Marcum 19; Johnston 129). Outsourcing is a possible solution to heavy cataloging workloads, including backlogs, unfinished projects, reclassification, and other processes. In making decisions about outsourcing, the risks and advantages must be considered, and the decision-making process can be as simple as asking a few questions or as complex as using a matrix. Selective outsourcing can be used to accomplish a specific task or to deal with a particular set of items for which a library does not have the expertise or resources to catalog, and according to Dunkle, it can provide an answer to the problems of catalog departments (abstract). Johnston states that, “I see outsourcing as particularly beneficial in completing specific activities or projects, rather than eliminating whole departments or libraries” (1996 128). This was the case for the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University (BYU) in dealing with a group of Arabic-language 2 MELA Notes 85 (2012) books. In 2004, BYU contracted with a local vendor to reclassify and fully catalog about 450 Arabic books that had been skipped when the rest of the library collection was moved from Dewey into Library of Congress classification. This case study demonstrates how foreign- language items can be possible candidates for selective outsourcing of cataloging processes. Literature Review Literature research shows the variety of applications for outsourcing as well as how to go about deciding its use. A main target for outsourcing is cataloging and its various operations (see Abel-Kops, Anyomi, Cline, Jiang, and Libby). Literature reports range from outsourcing whole catalog departments (Wright State University— see Hirshon; Miller; Wilhoit; Winters) to the cataloging of particular formats or sections of material such as microforms, government documents (Stomberg), rare books (University of Dayton—see Tsui), Slavic language (Ohio State University—see El-Sherbini), and other foreign languages (Louisiana State University—see Brown) to book vendor cataloging (Stanford University—see Wilson) and copy cataloging (Adelphi University—see Horenstein, and Stanford University—see Wilson). Outsourcing of other library tasks includes authority control (University of Dayton—see Tsui, and University of Saskatchewan—see Lam), purchasing record sets (Banerjee), and book selection in Hawaii (Cline). Riverside County Public Library outsourced their entire library operations (Baker; Glick). Library literature includes books and articles on decision-making criteria and models, pros and cons, costs, what to outsource, vendor relations, and various outsourcing ventures as noted above. Bush et. al. discuss the capability of vendors to perform library functions such as collection development and acquisition in addition to cataloging, and Walker looks at the customer’s perspective. Library literature contains little about outsourcing foreign- language material. The major contributor in this area is Magda El- Sherbini who wrote two articles about contract cataloging of Slavic- language books at Ohio State University. When the Slavic-language cataloger at Ohio State resigned, administrators decided to try a pilot project to outsource part of the Slavic backlog. The library was anxious to make the materials, which required original cataloging, available to researchers and scholars. When the staff evaluated the pilot project, they determined that the cataloging was cost effective LAMB: Selective Outsourcing 3 and of acceptable quality (see El-Sherbini 1995). In 2002, El- Sherbini published another article explaining that after six years of outsourcing, the library staff evaluated the process and determined that costs became lower in-house over time while vender costs increased slightly. Also, with technology and data sharing contract cataloging became less attractive. El-Sherbini discusses the cost analysis and the advantages vs. disadvantages of outsourcing and in doing so, provides some useful guidelines. Stanley Wilder of Louisiana State University makes the comment that with a small staff, his library cannot maintain foreign language expertise for the full range of materials they want to add to their collection. Possible solutions to this problem include centralized cataloging or commercial ventures (Brown 4). Hill suggests that if a library receives a small number of Arabic materials
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