http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp Just another University of Texas Libraries Blogs weblog Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:48:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From the publisher's introduction to "EI Three Preview," a booklet that arrived in my mail today: "In the spring of 2007 the first instalment of EI3 will appear, exactly 100 years after the first printed articles of EI1 were presented to the international scholarly community. ... The question of why EI3 starts ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=13 A U.S. government compilation of interviews and other public statements issued by Usama bin Laden between 1994 and 2004 is now publicly available (pdf). The texts were translated by the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (which has since been succeeded by the Open Source Center). The 289-page collection has not been approved ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=12 "Western books: the Middle East from the rise of Islam" is a collection of 10,000 microfiche containing over 2,500 pre-1921 Western-language titles, selected from the collections of the Harvard University library.  I did some spot checking and found that the collection is partially but by no means completely duplicated by titles available ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=11 For the next few months (until 31 March), the first volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica (containing articles from "A" to "Abu Hanifah") is available in online format. During this period of trial access, you can get to the text by choosing "Encyclopedia of Islam" from the list of articles and databases on the ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=10 I am pleased to announce that a trial of full-text Arabic e-books is available for faculty & students at UT to try. The database on trial, http://kotobarabia.eastview.com/, can be accessed through an on-campus computer (let me know if you have access problems & I’ll try to help out). Please have ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=9 http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-080605-wade.shtml David Wade has partnered with ARTstor to distribute approximately 1,500 images of Islamic art in the Digital Library. These images illustrate patterns and design features found throughout the Islamic world, from the Middle East and Europe to Central and South Asia. The collection has been drawn from Wade's photographic archive ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=8 Empire Online provides full text access to primary source documents from the British Empire (the Empire encompassed Africa, the Americas, Australia, Oceania, and South Asia).  The documents include travel accounts, the literature of Empire, photography and illustration, religious material, and records on issues of race and class in the colonial ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=7 On Monday, June 23, we will be adding content from LibraryThing for Libraries into the Library Catalog.  In a nutshell, when you look at the full record for an item which is also a part of LibraryThing, you will see tags generated by LibraryThing users and "recommended books" in a ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=6 (re-posted from the Adabiyat list) From: <whassan@uiuc.edu> To: adabiyat@listhost.uchicago.edu Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:12:47 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Adabiyat] CFP: Arabic Literature Now Arabic Literature Now: Between Area Studies and the New Comparatism A Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies Edited by Amal Amireh and Waïl S. Hassan Interest in Arabic literature in the United States has been sparked ... http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/melp/?p=5