41st Conference - 18th to 20th June 2019

• Date: 18th to 20th June 2019
• Venue :     Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"    National Library of Naples "Vittorio Emanuele III"  
• Organiser(s): Michele Bernardini and Antonella Muratgia
• Program
• Abstracts
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• PAPERS :


• United Arab Emirates National Archives: Prospects and Challenges and the Role of Zayed University in Filling the Gap
  Muneer Abu Baker



• The Library of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG): Emergence, Growth and Future Challenges
  Volker Adam



• Adding Arabic script to old records
  Tijmen Baarda



• La recotation des collections de la Bibliothèque Orient - Monde arabe
  Anne CATHELINEAU



• Middle East manuscripts of the National Library of Naples: new models of fruition and interoperability using DSpace GLAM
  Claudio Cortese, Gennaro Alifuoco



• Moftah Coptic Collections at The American University In Cairo
  Philip Croom



• A short history of the IsIAO library and its Middle East and North Africa collections
  Lorenzo Declich



• Buying Books in Teheran: Revolution street April 2019
  Andreas Drechsler



• The new FIHRIST
  Yasmin Faghihi



• The AlKindi catalog and RDA description of manuscripts
  René-Vincent du Grandlaunay



• Des histoires en langues diverses, en caractères arabes, collectées par Jean-Louis Asselin de Cherville et conservées à la BnF
  Marie-Geneviève Guesdon, Khalid Chakor-Alami



• MELA Survey on Digital Scholarship
  Evyn Kropf, Heather Hughes



• The heritage collection of Qatar national library: the future of the past
  Maria Begoña Ibarra, Wassilena Sekulova



• The Accidental Middle East Librarians
  Shahrzad Khosrowpour, Essraa Nawar



• Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Librarianship at Oxford
  MariaLuisa Langella, Lydia Wright



• Music at the library of the Orient‐Institut Istanbul
  Astrid Menz



• Islamic Library’s Ibn Arabi – Hikma award (2019): new perspectives
  Luisa Mora Villarejo



• Manus Online and the cataloguing of Arabic manuscripts
  Lucia Negrini



• Manuscript acquisitions of the Oriental Department at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin since 2015
  Meliné Pehlivanian



• The Oriental Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506-1557): Orientalist, Diplomat and Book Collector
  Helga Rebhan



• The Zaydi Manuscript Tradition (ZMT) Project: Digitizing the Collections of Yemeni Manuscripts in Italian Libraries
  Valentina Sagaria-Rossi, Sabine Schmidtke



• The Florence Shahnama conservation project
  Alessandro Sidoti, Mario Vitalone



• Persian incunabula and early lithographs : Historical overview and holdings
  Mirja Wachter



• Written and Printed Cultural Heritage Items and Their Digitization Works in Turkish Libraries
  Selçuk AYDIN, Cihan KALIN



• Multilingual person names and Arabic script in authority files and research databases : the Mistara Project
  Olga Andriyanova, Asyeh Ghafourian, Benjamin Guichard



• Changing Management Structures : the impact on subject specialists, and how to remain relevant
  Waseem Farooq



• Advocating the role & worth of languages & cultures specialist librarians
  Dominique Akhoun-Schwarb



• Collecting Arab 'Comics' at the British Library
  Daniel Lowe