A New Plan to Develop Saudi Libraries

Saudi Gazette – Riyadh,Saudi Arabia – Iyad Ameen Madani, Minister of Culture and Information, has revealed a comprehensive plan to improve public libraries in the Kingdom

October 8, 2008 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Lee Hadden says:
    October 8, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    Arab Books on OCLC
    One of the best tings the Saudis can do is to catalog their library books and journals on OCLC. This not only will add the main entry of many Arab materials into the databse for copy cataloging, but also would open up the Arab libraries for mutual exchange and inter-library loans within Saudi Arabia. One of the biggest impediments to Arab scholarship is the lack of communication and exchange of materials between Arab countries- Iraq has few Morrocan publications in their libraries, Tunis has few materials from other countries except for Egyptian books, and all countries would benefit from cross-fertilization of intellectual enrichment.

    In Saudi Arabia, many libraries compete with each other rather than cooperate, and there is no over-all system of exchanging information outside of the separate library worlds. Also, each system is on it’s own, and their computers often cannot communicate with other systems.

    R. Lee Hadden (These are my own opinions!)

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  2. mdoneil says:
    October 8, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    There are arab books, but most not included in union catalogs
    Just searching ???? (lunch in Arabic – it is time for lunch as I type) I find several hits in worldcat, but most of the libraries are in the US for the titles I find. US, Canada, but the only library not in North America is in Cairo.

    Apparently Arabic characters don’t work, but a rough translliteration f the title is:
    al-Ghada?? ma?a a?lihat al-s?ayd : rih?lata?n fi? al-Yu?na?n wa-Ba?ri?s by Mu?sa?, S?abri?.

    Lunch with the Gods of huntung: two journeys in Greece and Paris in English – well the book is not available in English, but that is the title translated into English. Unless someone speaks Arabic better than I do.

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