Egypt
- Egypt Library Czar Calls For New Archives Law
Ahram Online In an interview this week with Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency, Zein Abdel-Hadi, recently appointed head of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, laid out an ambitious plan to revamp Egypt’s National Library, restructure...
- World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/ Thanks to David Petersen for pointing me at this website. I could have sworn that I had featured it before but I cannot find it in any searches made on the blog, but apologies if this is a duplicated post. Mission The World Digital...
- Wellcome Library's Medical Collection Goes Digital In Egypt
24 Hour MuseumA pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be universally accessible for the...
- Online Library Offers 1.5 Million Works So Far
CNET News The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available. The online library offers...
- Development Of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
http://www.strategiy.com/realestatenew.asp?id=20060521110422 Plans for development of the waterfront area around the Alexandria library have been announced: "Emaar Misr for Development S.A.E., a subsidiary of the UAE-based Emaar Properties and Artoc Group...
Egypt
Project to digitize materials of Middle Eastern libraries
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7091
"Since the 1960s and ‘70s, libraries in the West have been digitizing their catalogues and even the contents of their shelves, but a lack of resources has kept all but the most well funded Middle Eastern libraries from doing the same. The Yale University Library hopes to correct this situation, bringing the fruits of Middle Eastern scholars’ labors into the digital age." The Library is also looking at working with the Egyptian National Library and Archives (ENLA) to bring its materials into the first phase of the project, the Online Access for Consolidated Information about Serials (OACIS) - a searchable list of catalogue information compiled from the 20 participating libraries around the world, including the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and that of the American University in Cairo.
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- Egypt Library Czar Calls For New Archives Law
Ahram Online In an interview this week with Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency, Zein Abdel-Hadi, recently appointed head of the Egyptian National Library and Archives, laid out an ambitious plan to revamp Egypt’s National Library, restructure...
- World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org/en/ Thanks to David Petersen for pointing me at this website. I could have sworn that I had featured it before but I cannot find it in any searches made on the blog, but apologies if this is a duplicated post. Mission The World Digital...
- Wellcome Library's Medical Collection Goes Digital In Egypt
24 Hour MuseumA pioneering new partnership between the Wellcome Library in London and Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) will help reveal the story of early medicine in the Eastern world and enable rare materials to be universally accessible for the...
- Online Library Offers 1.5 Million Works So Far
CNET News The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available. The online library offers...
- Development Of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
http://www.strategiy.com/realestatenew.asp?id=20060521110422 Plans for development of the waterfront area around the Alexandria library have been announced: "Emaar Misr for Development S.A.E., a subsidiary of the UAE-based Emaar Properties and Artoc Group...