Middle East Librarians Association-2011 Meeting

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Middle East Librarians Association

2011 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

National Museum of Natural History
November 29-30, 2011

Day 1 – Tuesday, November 29, 2011

8:30 - 8:50 am Registration and light refreshments
8:50 - 8:55 am Welcoming Remarks by, Michael Hopper, MELA President

Program: Part One

Peter Magierski-Open Access resources in Middle East and Islamic Studies
John Eilts - Documenting the Middle East in the Digital Era
Rifat Bali - Electronic Journals and Open Access Sources in Turkey

Program: Part Two

Michael Neubert and Abigail Grotke- Building the “North Africa & the Middle East 2011” web archive - an international collaboration
Ali Houissa- The Arab Spring: Impact on Publishing, Scholarly Communication, Libraries and Archives: The Tunisian Revolution as Example
Accompanying Research Guide.
Anais Salamon and Sean Swanick- Challenges of Biographical Literature: a case study at McGill Islamic Studies Library

Program: Part Three

Ali Bakr Hassan- Are Book Fairs still of importance in Collection Development? Cairo-Riyadh comparative observations
Roberta L. Dougherty - Documenting revolution in the Middle East 2011

Afternoon Meetings

2:30pm - 3:30pm Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program
2:00 pm Freer Gallery Tour
3:30-5 pm Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) Meeting
6:00-8:00pm MELA Reception (Marriott Wardman Park) Lobby bar.
7:30 PM MELA Executive Board Meeting (Marriott Wardman Park) Taft Room Mezzanine Level

Day 2 - Wednesday, November 30, 2011

8:30am - 9:00am Registration and light refreshments
9:00am – 10:10am Business meeting part 1
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Approval of 2010 minutes
3. Officers’ Reports:

President: Michael Hopper
Vice President: David Hirsch
Secretary: William Kopycki
MelaNotes Editor: Marlis J. Saleh
Book Review Editor: Rachel Simon
Webmaster: Patrick Visel

4. Committee Reports

Committee on Cataloging: Mark Muehlhaeusler
Committee on Education: Ali Boutaqmanti
Mentorship Coordinator: Ali Boutaqmanti
Committee on Iraqi Libraries: Jeff Spurr
Nominating Committee: David Giovacchini
Introduction of newly elected officers
Committee on Reference & Research:
George Atiyeh Prize Committee: Sean Swanick
David H. Partington Award Committee: John Eilts

10:30am-12:00pm Business meeting part 2 5. New Business
6. Other Reports:

MEMP: Shayee Khanaka
AMEEL Yale: Elizabeth Beaudin (Abdul-Ahad Hannawi)
Library of Congress: Paul Crego/Chris Murphy

7. Announcements
8. Adjournment

12:15-3:15 pm SACO Workshop conducted by Paul Frank, Cooperative Programs Section, Library of Congress
3:15-4:15 Committee Meeting – Education Committee Meeting, Chair, Ali Boutaqmanti
4:15-5:15 pm Committee Meeting – Cataloging Committee, Chair, Mark Muehlhaeusler