Past Conferences

November 2023, Montreal, Canada (McGill University)

November 2022, 50th Anniversary, Denver, CO (University of Denver)

October 2021, Online via Zoom

October 2020, Online via Zoom

14-12 November 2019, New Orleans, LA (Loyola University, New Orleans)

  • Conference Program 2019
  • Özge Calafato: Akkasah: A New model for Preserving Photographic Heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.
  • Peter Magierski and Kelly Tuttle: Unhiding Muslim World Manuscripts from Columbia University Libraries – a cataloging and digitization project.
  • Joan Weeks, Hirad Dinavari and Nawal Kawar: Newly Launched Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish Digital Collections.
  • Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg & Gwen Collaço: Organization, Openness, and Offense: Lessons Learned from an Art History Digital Crowdsourcing Project.
  • Ryan Perkins: Poisonous Powder and a Rare Collection in Pakistan.
  • Akram Habibulla: Arabic script rare books: Central Library at the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic.
  • Connie Lamb: Arab American Book Collecting
  • Mohamed Hamed: Area Studies Faculty teaching and research practices at Berkeley: Ithaca survey analysis
  • Mohammed A. Abdulla and Elvira A. Zingapan: Access to and Use of Electronic Resources in SDL (Saudi Digital Library): From the Faculty Members’ Perspectives
  • Magda El-Sherbini: Development of Open Access Multilanguage Thesaurus Based on the Linked-Data Approach
  • Emily Witsell: Creating an Information Literacy Curriculum for a MENA Program
  • Anais Salamon: Evaluating and improving the Middle East Librarians Association’s Mentorship Program
  • Ryder Kouba, 404: Archiving the Web
  • Rian Thum (Keynote speaker): Alternative Archives in Muslim Asia: The View from China (via Skype)

13-15 November 2018, San Antonio, TX (Grant Hyatt San Antonio)

  • Conference Program 2018
  • Mariette Atallah (AUB) & Anaïs Salamon (McGill U), “Adapting Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarianship to Changing Users’ Needs”
  • Ali Boutaqmanti (Harvard U), “The Changing Role of Middle East Studies Librarians”
  • Justin Parrott (NYUAD), “Being a Middle East Studies Librarian in the Middle East”
  • Waseem Farooq (Aga Khan Library), “Middle East Studies Librarianship in the UK”
  • Mohamed Hamed (UC Berkeley), “The Library Metrics and Impact of Area Studies Materials in Academic Libraries”
  • Robin Dougherty (Yale U), “Redacted Images in Gale’s EAPB and the marketing of historical European imprints in the Middle East”

16-18 November 2017, Washington DC (George Washington University)

15-17 November 2016, Cambridge, MA (MIT campus)

19-21 November 2015, Denver, CO (Sheraton Downtown)

20-21 November 2014, Washington DC (George Washington University)

8-10 October 2013, New Orleans, LA (Loyola University)

15-17 November 2012, Denver, CO (St. Cajetans Conference Center, Auraria Campus)

29-30 November 2011, Washington D.C. (National Museum of Natural History)

15-16 November 2010, San Diego (Manchester Grand Hyatt)

Previous conferences (2009 and before)

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