1. Simon Samoeil Curator, Near East Collection & AMEEL Project Outreach Director Yale University Library AMEEL: From Theory To Delivery MELA Annual Meeting, Boston, 2009

2. Full Text searching Browsing or Searching views of the journals now in the repository 215,000 + pages of full text in Arabic, English, French, German, and other languages http://sesame.library.yale.edu:8080/fedoragsearch/ameeltreeresult

3. Full text access restricted to Yale Campus users due to copyright permission (Iraqi Journals only)

4. Browse the list of available journals (“Y” : Access restricted to Yale Campus users due to copyright)

5. Search for text, here “ ابن سينا ” Results list will display the journals, issues, and page numbers.

6. Clicking on the + and – icons will open the results list to show details.

7. Links from the results will take the patron to the page having the searched text.

8. Navigate and Resize Search again Go to a specific page Review metadata Open and view MARC, And Print

9. Or, open the page turner and read through the journal.

10. Preserve & Retain Full Color, etc. of The Item

11. Integrating resources In development: Permitting cross-collection searches with integrated digital resources, e.g. abstracts from Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam and Halle’s MENALib http://ameeldev.library.yale.edu:8080/fedoragsearch/ameeltreeresult

12. The development site: Showing the progress being made to integrate other digital resources Here we have added Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam, Halle’s MENALib database, and Yale’s metadata directory of Internet resources

13. Searching now looks at all integrated resources. Here Yale’s metadata directory shows results for a test of “Arabic” This helps new students find resources related to the Middle East.

14. Clicking on the results list takes the patron to the Internet resource.

15. AMEEL’s New One-Year Project Funded by NEH / JISC

22. Yale Library & School of Oriental & African Studies Project 16 Manuscripts Catalogs, 6 Dictionaries & 16 Manuscripts Yale part: 9 Manuscripts Catalogs & 3 Dictionaries: 16,800 pages 10 Manuscripts: 5,478 leaves Total: 22,278 pages Challenges: a. The presence of vowels in the text (Lane’s Arabic English Lexicon) b. Multi Language text ex. Arabic & Latin c. Different transliteration systems d. Metadata e. Names & Subjects Authorities

23. AMEEL’s New Four-Year Project Funded by NEH Syrian & Palestinian Gazettes Project, from 1919 to 1948 1. Palestinian Gazette: 40 reels and 5 supplemental vols.: 40,000 pages (rough estimate) 2. Syrian Gazette: 75 vols., 50,000 pages approximately Challenges: a. Paper conditions b. Creation of Metadata. c. OCR from Microfilm Ground total: around 110, 000 to 120,000 pages (Preliminarily count, Yale part only)