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Thursday, November 16, 2006
The Red House restaurant,
Cambridge, MA
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Present: David Hirsch (UCLA) chair, Jonathan Rodgers (Michigan)
sec/treas, Ali Houissa (MELA), William Kopycki (Penn), Peter
Magierski (NYU), Meryle Gaston (UCSB), Michael Hopper (Harvard),
John Eilts (Stanford), Judy Eckoff (CRL).
• Minutes distributed and approved.
• CRL Reports (Eckoff) CRL is considering a number
of options for digitizing material from AMPs and requests
feedback on digitization strategies. Comments included:
o What impact will digitization efforts have on CRL and
MEMP dues? (it is assumed that dues will be increased)
o Will increased digital access to MEMP (and other) materials
be fair to current MEMP members? (If existing collections
are digitized and therefore freely available to everyone,
what benefit will MEMP membership hold?)
o What standards will be used for storage of the digital
material?
o What user interface will be used?
• Nominations for Executive Board—candidate
list reviewed:
Brenda Bickett (Georgetown), Robin Dougherty (U Texas),
Michael Hopper (Harvard), Hossein Kamaly (Columbia), William
Kopycki (U Penn), Simon Samoeil (Yale).
Elections to be held at MEMP Business Meeting Nov. 17 (following
day).
• Old and Continuing Business
o Irani Opposition Papers—Harvard will send to CRL
in Dec.
o William Kopycki will coordinate translation of MEMP webpage
into Arabic after January 1, 2007.
o MERJ pending proposal—Will digitized journals be
freely available to all, regardless of whether MEMP approves
this proposal?
o al-Mu’tamar pending proposal—need to confirm
what LC is filming of this title.
o Waqa’I Iraqiyah proposal—law librarians are
working on filming it.
o al-Quds—What dates does CRL currently have available
for filming?
o Kamaly proposal—specific titles and dates need to
be documented.
• Newspaper Survey (Hopper)—no recent developments
• Also discussed:
o New member recruitment strategies for MEMP.
o Attempt to raise MEMP dues from $500. to $750. Vote to
be taken at MEMP Business Meeting on Nov. 17.
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