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Dear
Colleagues, It
gives me great pleasure to announce the completion of the in-house
retrospective conversion of the holdings of Near East Collection, a project
that was started in November of 1999.
This was a daunting endeavor due to 1)the difficulty of finding
adequate bilingual (Arabic and English) staffing a short term employment,
2)the technical training of this staff in order to produce on-line full-level
records, both in Romanized and in vernacular forms. These
holdings included serials, monographs cataloged according to the Old Yale
Classification System and the Library of Congress System as well as an
important number of volumes which had temporary low-level records and which
were shelved according to the
accession number provided by the Library of Congress office in Cairo. A
total of 42,100 records have been converted to on-line records. A serious effort has been made to
update the records according to AACR2 rules. Retrospectively, Arabic fields
were added to all of our pre-1990 records that had already existed in RLIN . I
would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the team. They
all worked diligently to bring
this project to fruition. I want to thank them for their hard work and conscientious
effort. Their dedication made this project seem easy. These are: Abdul Ahad
Hannawi, Adiba Wahid, Majda Deeb, Sammer Karout, Abdelwhab Mustafa and Ahmed
Mohamed. I should also mention
Patrick Salmon, the former Arabic cataloger of the Near East Collection,
who was helpful with his work on the serials and occasional advice. Simon
Samoeil, Curator Near
East Collection Yale
University Library Tel:
203-432-1799
Images from the
luncheon to celebrate the completion of the recon project.
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