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Show University of Utah Library Bulletin Page 2 December 1, 1967 Foreign Doctoral Dissertations. About 600,000 foreign doctoral disser-tations, mostly European, from 1890 to the present are now held. Printed doctoral dissertations from major European Universities are received currently. Foreign Government Documents. The Center collects official documents of foreign governments selectively upon advice of the participating institutions. The aim is to collect those documents of valué that are not now collected by participating institutions. Publications of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The Center acquires currently, by direct exchange with the Academy, one copy of each of its publications, monographic or serial, as published, and has done so since 1958. It also has a nearly complete collection of all publications of the Academy from its first in 1725 through 1957, acquired directly from the Academy. Hitherto, interlibrary loans have been available from other insitutions of higher learning for faculty and gradúate students only. The A.L.A. Interlibrary Loan Code followed generally by most institutions of higher learning denies the use of their service to undergraduates. This is not the case with Center for Research Libraries. Undergraduates, honor students and all scholars at the University of Utah may draw upon all the resources of the Center. It is recognized that undergraduate students are not likely to draw heavily on the kinds of materials held by the Center. To increase availability, book catalogs of the Center's holdings are in preparation and will be available at our inter-library loan counter shortly after the first of the year to assist in locating research resources. The Reference staff of the University Libraries can provide additional information to interested scholars. Middle East Center Pioneer to Record its Library's Development in Pictures and Tape One of the Library's first oral history projects will be accomplished by Dr. Aziz Atiya who figured prominently in the development of the Middle-East collection. He has been persuaded to record by means of sound tape and pictures the story of how the collection carne into being and how it has grown and developed. He will also describe the rare volumes and significant papyri which the collection holds. Hopefully, this coordinated sound picture tape will be available in the Audio Visual Center of the new library shortly after the move to be used to orient students to the Middle-East collection. A Book Catalog of our Arabic Holdings Another significant project underway in the Middle-East Library is the production of a book catalog of all processed Arabic holdings. Dr. Atiya will write the intro-duction. It will contain some 8,700 entries. It is planned to make the volume very attractive and to distribute it to the im-portant university libraries and research centers of the world. |