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Revolutions and libraries
Magda El-SherbiniALA Program
Dancing at the Revolution?: Libraries and the Arab Spring UprisingsALA International Relations Committee
The Near East and South Asia Subcommittee and the Africa SubcommitteeALA Annual Conference in Anaheim, California
June 24, 2012
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Magda El-Sherbini 2Bibliotheca Alexandrina web site
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What When Where Why
Alexandria 2010-2011
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To conduct research To teach and share experience To learn what others are doing To establish connections
The Grant
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Arrival Fulbright office in Cairo Apartment in Alexandria Beginning of my project Legal matters
The Beginning
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My First Stop—Fulbright Office
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How it started When it opened International funding Showcase of Egypt Continuity with the past
The New Alexandria Library
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Alexander the Great, 300 BC founder of Alexandria
The Ptolemy rulers establish library Greatest learning center of the Roman world Destruction of the library - earthquake
Ancient Library
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Much more than a library Cultural center Museum Conference center Planetarium Learning center Libraries
The Alexandria Library
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◦ General Director and six sectors: Academic and Culture affairs Sector; Director’s office sector; External relations Sector; Finance and Administration Sector; Information Communication Section and; Library Sector
Organizational Structure
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Chief Librarian◦ Main Library Department; ◦ Special Libraries Department ◦ Arabic Bibliographic Standards; ◦ Francophone Library Department; ◦ Information Services Department; ◦ Technical Service Department
The Library Sector
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The Main Library, considered the largest reading room of the world
Includes all types of materials
Main Library
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The BA Library
ALA) Annual Conference in Anaheim, California,
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The BA Library
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More Library
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Reading Rooms
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The Library
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Library for the blind “Taha Hussein Library” Young people’s Library Children’s Library Arts and Multimedia Library Francophone Library Rare Books and Special Collections The Map Library Internet Archive SuperCource Project
Special Libraries
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Taha Hussein Library
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The White Cane’s Day - Safety
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Marching by the sea
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Young People’s Library
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Children’s LibraryScience Festival
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Science FestivalActivities
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Big Read program
http://www.bibalex.org/libraries/bigread/home/default_en.aspx
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina web site
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Egypt is Changing Meeting with the Families of the 25th of
January Revolution Martyrs
Arts and Multimedia Library
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Francophone Library
Gift from the French National Library (BnF) to the BA.
A collection of 500,000 French books published between 1996 and 2006 in different fields.
The BA became the fourth largest francophone library in the world with the biggest collection of French books outside France
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A large collection of commemorative coins, maps, personal effects, stamps collections as well as significant documents
A large collection of copies of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts in the British Library numbering 14,000. It is considered the biggest collection in Europe
Rare Books and Special Collections
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One of the most significant maps in the collection is a rare facsimile of Al-Sharif Al-Idrissi’s Map of the Earth drawn for King Roger II of Sicily in 1154.
Facsimile edition of the Manuscript Chart of the Gulf and Mesopotamia
The Map Library
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Al-Sharif Al-Idrissi’s Map
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The Internet Archive (IA) is a recorded memory of the all the web pages on every website on the Internet since it started in 1996.
http://archive.bibalex.org
Internet Archive
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Internet Archive
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Internet Archive
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Is a repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to improve the teaching of prevention.
http://ssc.bibalex.org/home/list.jsf http://www.bibalex.org/supercourse/
SuperCourse
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My Cubicle
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BA Ancient Alexandria Information Architecture Project Continuing Education
◦ Online learning tools◦ Webinar
Seminar on Organization of Information Resource Description and Access: the new cataloging
code (3 days worshop-60 staff) Library of Congress Classification Library of Congress Subject Headings Resource Description and Access (RDA): Train the
Trainers Workshop (3 days) New Trends in Libraries. A general session on
librarianship
My Teaching
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Classical Arabic Names and the Bibliotheca Authority File (completed and accepted by LRTS)
Arabic subject heading and Authority control-Final draft
Research
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In my Fulbright proposal, I indicated that “I hope to establish closer ties between the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and my home institution with the hope of creating future opportunities for academic exchanges between the two institutions.” Work in progress
Cooperative Initiatives
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Life in Egypt
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Guards in front of the BA
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Life in Alexandria -the familiar
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Christmas tree
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Living in Egypt
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Shopping
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Shopping street - Video
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The View
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January 25th – the revolution begins Communications cut Orders to leave Rescuing our neighbors Safety in numbers – other Fulbright scholars Travel arrangements We are leaving
History Intervenes
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina web site
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina web site
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A Small Demonstration Starts - Video
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The Revolution
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