International Visitors to This Old Library

[Graziano Kratli <graziano.kratli@YALE.EDU>]

Welcome to Mr. Mohamed El-Halosy
 
The Yale Library would like to extend a very warm welcome Mr.
Mohamed
El-Halosy, Software Engineer at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina of
Alexandria,
Egypt. Under the mentorship of Curator Simon Samoeil, Mr, El-Halosy
will
be serving as an OACIS intern in the Near East Collection and
Electronic
Collections during the month of May 2005. The OACIS project is funded
by
the US Department of Education and provides funding for interns
during
each of its 3 years. Mr. El-Halosy will be the first of three
interns
coming to the Yale Library for project work this spring and summer;
the
second intern will also be from the BA and will spend a month in June
at
the Yale Library.
 
Mr. El-Halosy graduated from the Alexandria University in July 2002 with
a
B.A in Computer Science. A month later, he began work in the
Database
Management Unit of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, where he has been
involved
in the development and investigation of various Web-based tools.
 
The interns from the Bibliotheca Alexandrina will collaborate on the
integration of the digital demonstration materials and processes
within
OACIS. Both will participate in developing a presentation prototype
that
includes search, display, and navigation for the integrated
digitized
materials. In addition, the interns will work on technical
programming
tasks with OACIS Technical Administrator, in order to more fully
automate
OACIS, making it self-reliant for ongoing record loads and related
activities.
 
We would like to give Mr. El-Halosy an opportunity to visit many of
the
departments in the Yale Library during his short stay here, for an
overview of how large research libraries function in North America.
If
your department is contacted, please help us make his visit to your area
a
memorable one.
 
If you see any of the OACIS project team (Simon Samoeil, Ann
Okerson,
Kimberly Parker, Elizabeth Beaudin) -- or me -- with an new face
accompanying us through the library, please do not hesitate to say
"hello."
 
For more information on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, please see their Web
site at:
 
<
http://www.bibalex.org/English/index.aspx>
 
For more information about the OACIS Project, please see:
 
<
http://www.library.yale.edu/oacis/>
 

Sincerely,

Graziano Krätli
International Program Support Librarian
203-432-1763
graziano.kratli@yale.edu