middle eastern collection development opportunities and challenges
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Middle Eastern Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges
فرص وتحديات: تنمية المجموعات الشرق اوسطية
David Hirsch – Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies
Charles E. Young Research Library-UCLA
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair May 7, 2015
http://minasian.library.ucla.edu/
Qajar Lacquer Bindings
From the Exhibit collection of
Near Eastern manuscripts, 1492-
1848
Collection 1656
Arab-American Press Project
Periodicals of Middle Eastern Émigré
Groups in Australia
Publications of Middle Eastern Émigré
Groups in Western Europe
Unique Opportunities and Challenge
Opportunities:
- To collect difficult-to-find materials
- Old, rare, unique materials
- Develop relationships with scholars
and booksellers – different in the
Middle East
- Provides access to tips on materials
that others might overlook
- Make the university library a
repository for ephemera (bulletins,
posters, calendars, material on local
initiatives) which is critical to scholars
Challenges:
- Determining what is available
- Few websites and searchable catalogs
- Various, inconsistent levels of physical
processing, descriptive cataloging or full
MARC records
- Postage and freight charges can be
prohibitive
- Online capabilities dependent upon the
region
- Payment options : wire transfers. EFT
- Print based, Ebooks not yet major factor
- Language expertise – selector and
processing staff
- Cooperative technical processing to
handle language deficiencies, particularly
related to cataloging. If we’re going to
select something how are we going to
process?
UCLA Library
International
Acquisitions Scope
-An International Team will provide shared
expertise for monographs and serials for
non-mainstream materials received from
Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East,
Eastern Europe, Slavic countries, and Latin
America.-
-Typically these materials are in Arabic,
Persian, Hebrew, Thai, Amharic, Russian,
Ukranian, Spanish, Armenian, Portuguese,
Hungarian, and English
-Team provides shared expertise among
selectors, acquisitions, cataloging, and
vendors
-Develops processes for improvement of
workflows for non-mainstream acquisitions
to achieve maximum productivity and
efficiency in operations to encourage
ongoing process improvement and user
satisfaction
Vendors for Middle Eastern materials used by UCLA
• Egypt-Leila Books
• Syria-Palmyra Books in Lattakia
• Lebanon-Sulaiman’s Bookshop
• Tunisia-Espace Carthage
• Morocco-Center for Cross-Cultural Learning
• Saudi Arabia-Ali al-Ghadban
• Iran-Vardeh Books and others
• Turkey-Libra Books and others
• Sweden-Ferdosi
• West Bank/Palestine
• Jordan Leila Books
• USA-Buraimi Books
• Library of Congress field offices in Cairo, Islamabad and New Delhi
Gift and Exchange Partners
• TCA Abu Dhabi
• Sharjah Dept of Information and Culture
• Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
• Al-Misbar
• Turk Tarih Kurumu among others!
• Istanbul Sehir Universitesi
• Many others!
Once Selections have been made … • Selectors may need to review
materials
• Location decisions
• Subscription decisions –
samples!
• What language is it?
• Who bought it?
• Where does it go now?
• Will cataloging expertise be
adequate or is selector language
expertise needed
• May or may not have an invoice
• Shipment may not be complete
• Shipment may be “stuck” in
customs!
And we now need to pay for it … 1001 Tunis Account#: UCLA #LA 88
TUNISIE Date: 05-10-2012
Ship to: Pay to:
UCLA University Research Library Espace Carthage
Acquisitions Dept. 24, Rue Saïd Abou Baker, Appt. B-5
BOX 951575 1001 Tunis TUNISIA
Los Angeles, CA 90095 – 1575 Tel. & Fax : 00216 71 333740
USA
Unit
C O S T
1Au nom du temps,Je vous arrête Slaheddine Haddad
42.00 42.00 C1
1Dernier voyage à Kyrannis Ahmed Mahfoudh
18.00 18.00 C1
1Ecrits de femmes collectif
18.00 18.00 C1
1Espace et Enonciation collectif
18.00 18.00 C1
1La Deuxième Fatiha Yadh Bn Achour
22.50 22.50 C1
1La femme chez Voltaire Halima Ouanada
30.00 30.00 C1
1La Valse des Beignets Yesmine Karray
15.00 15.00 C1
1La vie de Muhammad Hichem Djait
25.50 25.50 C1
1Le mur des souvenirs Ouled Kesmi
12.00 12.00 C1
1Orphelins de Bourguiba et héritiers du Prophète Samy Ghorbal
21.00 21.00 C1
1االسم واالسميّة واإلسماء في اللغة العربيّة توفيق قريرة
22.50 22.50 C1
1اإلعالم الجديد النظام و الفوضى عبد هللا الزين الحيدري
14.70 14.70 C1
1اإلنسان و المكان في الثقافة العربية اإلسالمية لطفي دبيش
34.50 34.50 C1
1 بحّارة الساحل التونسيعادل بالكحلة
21.00 21.00 C1
1التبرع باألعضاء بين السائل و الفقيه إبراهيم الشايبي
18.00 18.00 C1
1
تونس في القرن السابع عشر وثائق األوقاف في عهد
الدايات و البايات المراديين
أحمد السعداوي
22.50 22.50 C1
1الجسد و الثقافات نور الدين الشابي / أحمد
المرواني 18.00 18.00 C1
1الجمالية واانقد في فكر هابرماس )الوسيطي( منيرة بن مصطفى حشانة
10.50 10.50 C1
1الحركات اإلجتماعية في العالم العربي اإلسالمي
)9avril(
عمل جماعي27.00 27.00 C1
1
خصائص الشخصية في الرواية الفلسطينية : الوقائع
الغريبة في اختفاء سعيد أبي النحس المتشائل إلميل
حبيبي نموذجا
رضا بن سعيد
12.00 12.00 C1
1الخطيئة الكبرى سالم الزريبي
22.50 22.50 C1
1
ديوان الثورة : مختارات مما قاله الشعراء التونسيون
في ثورة الحرية والكرامة
اتحاد الكتاب التونسيين
12.00 12.00 C1
1ظاهرة اإلنحاء اللغوي في اللغة العربيّة ثريا السكري عامر
12.00 12.00 C1
1 الفاعل و الشاهد محمد الصياح / المولدي
األحمر 22.50 22.50 C1
1الكتابة التاريخية في العصر الوسطي أشغال ملتقى
27.00 27.00 C1
1للصمت معنى... و للحياة بقيّة... محمد الهادي بن صالح
16.50 16.50 C1
1المطولة في الشعر العربي الحديث أحمد الجوة
22.50 22.50 C1
1من ذاكرة مجاهد العربي العكرمي
18.00 18.00 C1
1موعد مع الفجر الجليل البشير العباسي
15.00 15.00 C1
1نفخات من تراثنا العلمي المجيد د.أبو بكر خالد
15.00 15.00 C1
BoxT I T L ES A U T H O RS Total CostQTY
This is an Invoice
Whether mainstream or not, we still strive to following these
guiding principles
• Respond to the needs of various stakeholders (selectors, cataloging, vendors, users, public services, business services, IT)
• Define formal and informal lines of communication
• Commit necessary resources to end workarounds
• Take advantage of existing strengths
• Bring everyone up to the same level of understanding of processes (e.g. technology, new developments in publishing, distribution,
local procedures, etc.)
• Bring old procedures up to date vis-à-vis current technology
• Adequate time and staffing dedicated to problem solving
• Eliminate unnecessary steps & handoffs in workflows
• Define goals for optimal throughput times for process
• Promote better communication with relevant selectors and curators to increase awareness of cataloging and acquisitions options for
these collections in order to work together to expedite faculty, student and researcher discovery, access and use of these resources
• Develop processes for improvement of workflows for non-mainstream international acquisitions and adjust in response to changing
requirements to achieve maximum productivity and efficiency
• Provide a service point for selectors, curators, staff, and faculty in the library and on the campus for issues directly related to foreign
and non-Latin materials
• Provide consultation services related to acquisitions, discovery, description and delivery of non-mainstream international resources,
material and collections including published materials as well as manuscript, special collections and ephemera
• International Team to serve as the UCLA Library’s expert team related to non-mainstream international collections.
Selector contacts in region are extremely important
• These contacts can prove invaluable to
selectors when responding to research needs of
the faculty, graduate students and researchers
Methods of acquiring
materials
• Gift
• Purchase
• Exchange
• LC Cooperative Acquisitions Program
• Selector buying trip
Statistics July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Arabic books - purchased:
2614 approval –$45,233
376 firm order - $16,941
Arabic serials:
559 paid subscriptions -
$99,288
Arabic books – Gifts:
532
International Acquisitions yield unique and valuable collections. The process can
be as routine as having choices of vanilla, chocolate or strawberry ice cream. But
from the Middle East it is more like rocky road!