MEMP 2012 Business Meeting

Event Logistics

Date: 
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Time: 
4:00–6:00 p.m. Mountain Time
Location: 
Denver, Colorado
Contact: 
Judy Alspach - jalspach@crl.edu
Program: 

MEMP (Middle East Microform Project) will hold its annual business meeting on Thursday, November 15, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Denver, Colorado. The meeting will take place in the Main Hall of the St. Cajetans Conference Center at the Metropolitan State University (1190 Ninth Street). All are welcome at this open meeting.

MEMP member libraries fund projects and acquisition of research materials related to the study of the Middle East and related regions through an annual membership fee. Representatives of member institutions meet annually to discuss current and future projects and set priorities for additional acquisitions.

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

Unique Arab Diaspora Materials Saved for Future Scholars

The Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) microfilmed Arab-language publications from several diaspora communities in non-Arab countries, continuing to affirm MEMP’s role as a provider of rare and distinctive documentation.

Insights on Israel’s Palestinians from a Rare Arab-language Newspaper

CRL's newspaper collection played a critical role in shaping Brothers Apart, a study of Arab Israeli citizens in the 1950s-1960s by University of Arizona professor, Maha Nassar.