Towards a Comprehensive Online Union Catalogue of Serials

Towards a Comprehensive Online Union Catalogue of Serials from and about the Middle East: Online Access for Consolidated Information on Serials (OACIS) Melcom International, The European Association of Middle East Librarians, 28 th Annual Meeting 19 -21 June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey Presentation by Simon Samoeil OACIS Project Manager, Yale University

Review of goals • To create a freely available publicly accessible web site featuring a continuously updated union list of Middle Eastern serials – In all formats (including live web links) – From 20+ countries (ME as defined by LC) • To lay foundations for the future, delivering widest possible information access – Expanded cooperation and participation – Document delivery/ILL – Digitization and preservation • To create a Union List of Middle East Serials

OACIS Advisory Board Alexendrina Library, Alexandria, Egypt Cornell University Ohio State University Universitaets-und Landesbibliothek of Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle, Germany University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan University of Texas University of Washington Yale University

Universities Participating in OACIS American University of Beirut New York Public Library New York University Princeton University Stanford University Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria University of Arizona, Tucson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign American University of Cairo (Future member) University of Utah Jordan University, Amman, Jordan

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