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Show if'ifi ANSWERS TO QUESTIONNAIRE Answer may be best expressed in President Oipin's letter to me on behalf of the Board of Regents. A copy of the letter is herewith enclosed and its terms may be quoted of course. The answer is in the negative. Yes! Many, in numerous parts of the world. See Curriculum Vitae for relevant details. When the new central library is completed, the IC Library will be housed in its special quarters within the building, but as an independent entity with its own branch assistant librarian. England, Germany, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Igypt. a. Unique collections of journals long out of print. b. Some fifty Arabic manuscripts including a wide variety of Quran texts from varied sources. *« Publications of learned institutions such as the American University at Beirut, the Catholic University of St. Joseph, the Damascus Arab Institute, the Baghdad Arab Aeademy, the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo, the Arab Academy, etc. d. Rare catalogues of the Alexandrian Library, the Arab League Institute of Arabic Manuscripts, and ©th@r centers. e. Perhaps the most massive collection of Arabic incunabula, known in Arabic as stone impressions, to come to the United States of America* f. A more or less complete collection of first editions printed by the first Arabic printing press known as the Bulaq Press established in the early decades of the 19th century. Older European Arabic publications have also been acquired such as the Rome 1593 Avicenna codex. |