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Show /* MIDDLE EAST CEOTR LIBRARY The University has developed one of the finest reference libraries in America on the languages and areas of the Middle East. In November 1964, the College and Research Libraries Journal (vol. 25 no. 6) made a survey of the Arabic collections of Middle East Centers, and the Utah resources of 10,000 titles were found to be at par with Harvard and fourth in the nation. Since then, our collection has doubled or even tripled* To realize the uniqueness of it, ali volumes processed in the Library have been checked ©n the Union Arabic Catalog, the Library of Congress cards and other eminent collections, and it has transpired that at least 25% of our holdings do not exist in any ef those catalogues. In other words that percentage enters Anariea for the first time in Utah, this does not include ©ur still unprocessed treasures held in a special vault for future treatment as soon as we have safer housing for the Library. These includes first, one of four Papyri Collections in America and perhaps the biggest Arabic Papyri hoard in the country for which a project of cataloguing and publishing is currently submitted to the Council on the Humanities| secondly, the biggest collection of Arabic stone impressions (Arabic incunabula) that has ever seen the light in the United |