1. Librarians Utilization of the Comprehensive Online Union Catalogue of Serials from and about the Middle East: Online Access for Consolidated Information on Serials (OACIS) Middle East Medievalists Middle East Studies Association November 17, 2007 Montreal Canada Presentation by Simon Samoeil OACIS Project Manager, Yale University

2. Project Details Collaborative database project for Middle Eastern serials. Three-year project (2003-2006); U.S. Dept. of Education Title VI grant under the “Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access” with matching funds from Yale University Library.

3. Review of goals To create a freely available, publicly accessible web site featuring a continuously updated union list of Middle Eastern serials –In all formats (including live web links) –From 24 countries (ME as defined by LC) To lay foundations for the future, delivering widest possible information access –Expanded cooperation and participation –Document delivery/ILL –Digitization and preservation To create a Union List of Middle East Serials Interns

4. Atef al-Jundi, Jordan University, Amman, Jordan. April 30, 2004 - July 30, 2004 Adib Khoury, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria July 30, 2004 - October 29, 2004 Mohammed Ismail El-Halosy, Alexandrina Library, Alexandria, Egypt April 29, 2005 - June 3, 2005 Shenoda Guirguis, Alexandrina Library, Alexandria, Egypt May 31, 2005 - June 30, 2005 Randa al-Chidiac, Balamand University, Balamand, Lebanon June 29, 2005 - July 29, 2005

5. OACIS Advisory Board Alexandrina Library, Alexandria, Egypt Cornell University Ohio State University Universitaets-und Landesbibliothek of Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle, Germany University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan University of Texas University of Washington Yale University

6. Universities Participating in OACIS New York Public Library New York University Princeton University Stanford University University of Arizona, Tucson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Harvard University Library University of Utah University of California, Los Angeles Yale Law School American University of Beirut Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria Jordan University, Amman, Jordan American University in Cairo School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK University of Balamand, Lebanon

7. OACIS for the Middle East Mirror Sites

8. Basic Search by Title

9. Search By Title

10. Libraries ’ Holdings of the Title

11. Brief Record

12. Long View

13. Library View

14. Advanced Search (1)

15. Advanced Search (2)

16. Search by Different Languages Option

17. Search in Arabic Language (1)

18. Search in Arabic Language (2) by Title

19. Search in Arabic Language (3) Results

20. Search in Arabic Language (4) Results

21. Search in Arabic Language (5) Results Library View

22. Place of Publication by Selected Library Search

23. Additional Benefits of OACIS for Librarians and Researchers Collection development. Librarians can evaluate the ME serials collection in their own libraries: what they have and what they don’t in comparison to other libraries Making sound acquisition decisions Knowing of certain serials are current or have ceased publication Cataloging using the “Library View Format”

24. Place of Publication by Selected Library Result

25. Al- ’ Usur al-Wusta

26. Libraries ’ Holdings of the Title

27. Brief Record

28. OACIS Data Delivery Activity August 2007 LibraryTitles 1 Holdings 2 Last Activity 1American University of Beirut1799103911/24/2006 2Bibliotheca Alexandriana11107538/20/2007 3Cornell149015568/4/2007 4Harvard Univerity14806269728/22/2007 5Michigan406541038/12/2007 6New York Public Library13644507/19/2006 7New York University139116298/9/2007 8Ohio State5686998/3/2007 9Pennsylvania165517387/31/2007 10Princeton475051205/15/2007 11SOAS22023212/1/2006 1 = count of 245 fields; 2 = count of 852 fields

29. OACIS Data Delivery Activity August 2007 (continued) LibraryTitlesHoldingsLast Activity 12Stanford University346633628/13/2007 13Texas at Austin251825112/28/2006 14Tishreen University38229210/1/2006 15Tuebingen5 16UCLA902210297 17ULB Sachsen-Anhalt Halle166224318/22/2007 18University of Arizona815011/17/2005 19University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign346942088/11/2007 20University of Jordan207819996/1/2004 21University of Utah2304488411/30/2006 22Washington251438968/9/2007 23Yale412947788/13/2007 24Yale Law School12 5/15/2007 Total6508083185

30. AMEEL (Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library Middle East Medievalists Middle East Studies Association November 17, 2007 Montreal Canada Presentation by Simon Samoeil Project Outreach Director

31. Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library (AMEEL ) Project AMEEL is a four-year cost-sharing project funded by the Department of Education and Yale University Library. The project will create a web-based portal and electronic library for Middle Eastern Studies. Project AMEEL plans to be free and accessible to all patrons.

32. Goals of the project To create an infrastructure for the integration of major Middle Eastern information databases To digitize selected academic journals from and about the Arab world, pending the approval of the copyright holders To develop Interlibrary Loan networks between libraries within the Arab world on a national and regional level To develop Interlibrary Loan networks between American academic libraries and their Arab counterparts

33. Partners of the Project AMEEL Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Alexandria, Egypt) Universitaets-und-Landesbibliothek of Sachsen- Anhalt (Halle, Germany) JSTOR (New York, USA) Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden, the Netherlands) Oxford University Press (Oxford, United Kingdom) OCAR (American Center of Oriental Research ) Additional Advisory Members: University of Pennsylvania and University of Utah libraries

34. Challenges of the project Gain permission of copyright holders for digitization of important materials To develop Interlibrary Loan networks between libraries within the Arab world on a national and regional level Reach successful agreements on access to digitized content provided by important commercial publishers Introduce Arabic OCR software and relevant skills into American academic institutions Solve infrastructure and connectivity challenges to: 1.enable the addition of new digital materials to a repository connected to other relevant databases, such as those held by Oxford and Brill 2.make it possible for scholars to search in Arabic and English across many different databases

35. AMEEL Journal Digitization and Optical Character Recognition Journal TitleCountry 1 al-Abhāth [Researches]. American University of Beirut.Lebanon 2 Dirāsāt. al-‘Ulūm al-Insānīyah wa-al-Ijtimā‘īyah / Research in the Humanities and Social Scienes. University of Jordan. Jordan 3 Études internationals / Dirāsāt Dawlīyah. Association des études internationales Tunisia 4 al-Lughah wa-al-Adab / Language and Literature. Jāmi‘at al-Jazā'ir. Ma‘had al- Lughah al-‘Arabīyah wa-Ādābihā Algeria 5 Majallat Jāmi‘at al-Malik ‘Abd al-‘Azīz / Journal of King ‘Abd al-‘Azīz UniversitySaudi Arabia 6 Majallat Jāmi‘at Dimashq lil-Ādāb wa-al-‘Ulūm al-Insānīyah / Damascus University Journal for the Arts and Human and Educational Sciences Syria

36. Journal TitleCountry 7Majallat Tārīkh al-‘Ulūm al-‘Arabīyah / Journal for the History of Arabic Science. Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo. Syria 8al-Mu'arrikh al-Misrī / Egyptian Historian. Qism al-Tārīkh, Jāmi‘t al-Qāhirah.Egypt 9 Revue Tunisienne de Sciences Sociales / al-Majallah al-Tu ̄ nisi ̄ yah lil- ʻ Ulum al- Ijtama ̄ʻ i ̄ yah. Centre d’études et de recherches économiques et sociales, Université de Tunis Tunisia 10Research Journal of Aleppo University, Arts and Humanities Sciences Series / Majallat Buḥu ̄ th Ja ̄ mi ʻ at Ḥalab. Silsilat al-Āda ̄ b wa-al- ʻ Ulu ̄ m al-Insa ̄ ni ̄ yah. Syria 11 Awra ̄ q al-Dha ̄ kirah: al-Junu ̄ n wa-al-Mar'ah fi Misr Niha ̄ yat al-Qarn al-Tasi‘ ‘Ashar [Memory Papers Series: Insanity and Woman in Egypt at the End of the Nineteenth Century] / Multaqá al-Mar ʾ ah wa-al-Dha ̄ kirah. Egypt 12 Awra ̄ q al-Dha ̄ kirah: al-Mar'ah wa-al-Haya ̄ h al-Di ̄ ni ̄ yah fi al-‘Usur al-Wusta Bayana al-Isla ̄ m wa-al-Gharb / [Memory Papers Series: Woman and the Religious Life in the Middle Ages] / Multaqá al-Mar ʾ ah wa-al-Dha ̄ kirah. Egypt 13 Awra ̄ q al-Dha ̄ kirah: al-Nisa ̄ ’ wa-Mihnat al-Tibb fi al-Mujtama‘a ̄ t al-Isla ̄ mi ̄ yah / [Memory Papers Series: Women and the Medical Profession in the Islamic Societies] / Multaqá al-Mar ʾ ah wa-al-Dha ̄ kirah. Egypt AMEEL Journal Digitization and Optical Character Recognition (continued)

37. AMEEL - ILL Interlibrary Loan Workshop University of Jordan Amman, Jordan 5-7 March 2007 Instructors Simon Samoeil Carol L. Jones

38. AMEEL - ILL Develop an ILL framework for Middle East libraries to foster sharing of scholarly information Introduce ILL concepts to Middle Eastern librarians Consider institutional policies and workflows Discuss how to accommodate differing needs of and constraints on libraries in the Middle East Focus on the provision of journal articles

39. Digitization Workshop: Bibliotheca Alexandria December 3-7, 2007 15 trainees from US, European and Middle Eastern libraries will participate. Topics include: basic to advanced training in digitizing, OCR (Optical Character Recognition), and workflow techniques for Arabic materials. Participants expected to contribute digitized content to AMEEL.