Libraries and Information in the Arab World
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- ISBN 9780313310980
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 1999
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Libraries in the Arab world are numerous and have a long and distingished history. Today, they serve over 250 million people. To provide good service to this large population and improve other areas of librarianship and information services, the evaluation of library and information services becomes a necessity. This is particularly true in the case of libraries in the Arab world, because locating such materials is not an easy task, given the lack of comprehensive and current bibliographies that cover Arab-related Library and Information Science literature.
This bibliography fills this significant gap and provides an indispensable guide for any research in the field with over 1,000 entries covering books, scholarly and professional journal articles, chapters in books, doctoral dissertations, and conference papers. Items included are mainly in Arabic, English, and French; but some German, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Italian works are also covered. The bibliography includes author, title, and subject indexes.
LOKMAN I. MEHO is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Policy of the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Meho is the author of two earlier bibliographies, The Kurds and Kurdistan: A Selective and Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1997) and Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 2001).
MONA A. NSOULI is Head Librarian, Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, Lebanon.
