MIDDLE EAST LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION Publications Committee, 1974
John A. Eilts (Michigan) — President of M. E. L. A.
Richard S. Cooper (U. C. Berkeley) — Vice President-Program Chairman
Martha Dukas (Harvard) — Secretary-Treasurer
Aida Abboud (Georgetown)
Karolyn Zierold (Utah)
Jalal Zuwiyya (SUNY Binghamton)
James W. Pollock (Indiana) — Editor
MELA Notes will be published semi-annually, April and October, and is distributed to members of the Association and to non-member subscribers. Membership dues of $4 bring the Notes and other mailings. Subscriptions now are $3 per calendar year, or $1.50 per issue for back numbers. Address dues, requests for membership information or subscriptions to Martha Dukas, Secretary-Treasurer MELA, Middle Eastern Division, Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
IN THIS NUMBER
Introducing Cooperation 1
Association Chronicle, by Martha Dukas 2
Report to the Membership, by John Eilts and Richard Cooper
4
Addresses, Essays, Lectures:
Kenneth Allan Luther, Center Program Research and the Middle East
Librarian 6
James W. Pollock, The Role of the Middle East Library/Librarian
in the University Area Studies Program 9
Wolfgang Behn, The Islamic Union Catalogue in Germany 15
Carl Petry, Some Observations on the Position of the Librarian
in the Scholarly Establishment of Cairo During the Later Middle
Ages; Data Yielded by Contemporary Biographical Sources 17
Collation from Other Library Areas Touching Middle East Interests:
Seminar on the Acquisition of Publications from the Third World,
Brighton, 1973, reported by Wolfgang Behn 22
ALA - 1973 and January, 1974, reported by John Eilts
23
International Congress of Orientaļists, Paris, 1973, and I. A.
O. L. news notes
Library Tours, Look-ins and Notices 24
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