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The purpose of the Middle East Microform Project (MEMP) is
to cooperatively acquire microform copies of unique, scarce,
rare and unusually bulky and expensive research material pertaining
to the field of Middle Eastern studies; and to preserve deteriorating
printed and manuscript materials of scholarly value.
The geographic coverage of MEMP includes materials from
or on the Arab countries, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan,
Central Asia and other related areas not covered in other
cooperative microform projects.
MEMP was established in 1987 by the Middle
East Librarians Association.
Since its inception, MEMP has acquired approximately 100
newspaper titles in Arabic, Turkish, and English, including
a large collection of Sudanese and Turkish papers. Other
projects include the microfilming of a large pamphlet file
of materials on the Middle East at the Library of Congress
and the microfilming of the Cosro Chaqeri Collection of
Iranian Left-wing Materials. In cooperation with MEMP, Fawzy
W. Khoury and Michelle Bates compiled the "Middle East
in Microform: a Union List of Middle Eastern Microforms
in North American Libraries" (University of Washington
Libraries, 1992), a revised and expanded version of "National
Union Catalog of Middle Eastern Microforms" (University
of Washington Libraries, 1989).
Currently, MEMP has 27 members.
For questions about membership in MEMP, please contact:
James Simon
Director of International Resources
Center for Research Libraries
6050 S. Kenwood
Chicago, IL 60637
USA
(tel) 773 955-4545 ext. 324
(fax) 773 955-4339
email: jsimon at crl.edu
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