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Show -4- Introducinq Kristyn Kuroki Kristyn Kuroki comes to our library from northern California. A recent graduate from the University of California at Berkeley's School of Librarianship Master of Library Science program and a graduate in sociology from the University of California at Davis, her interests focus on the public service aspects of librarianship: reference service, library instruction, computer-based reference service, et al. Her background includes work as a teacher's aide, special internship with the federal government in a juvenile delinquent program, systems analysis study of a branch library at the University of California at Berkeley, and reference service and library instruction at the Santa Rosa Junior College in northern California. Her other interests include writing poetry, spending all her money in one place, and initiating the usage of new "in" words (like "festive"). THE ATIYA GIFTS TO THE MIDDLE EAST LIBRARY One of the Library's most generous patrons is Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, Distinguished Professor of History. Since he first began teaching at the University of Utah in 1959, Dr. Atiya has worked to build the Middle East collection, and his efforts have helped produce a fine collection in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, and western languages on the Middle East. In addition to his years of teaching at the University of Utah, Dr. Atiya has taught in England, Switzerland, Germany, and the Middle East. The author of some forty books, monographs, and articles in three languages published in six countries, Dr. Atiya's publications are of interest to historians, orientalists, archeologists, and Biblical scholars. Dr. Atiya's latest gifts to the Library include 1,435 rare manuscripts, papyri fragments, and scrolls which he donated in 1975. These included 180 rag paper and old paper scrolls from Egyptian excavations dating from the tenth century; four papyri scroll fragments (three Arabic and one Coptic- Arabic); 1,185 original manuscript folios for paleographical studies dating between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries; and 66 Arabic manuscript codices (tracts and treatises on a wide variety of cultural Middle Eastern subjects ranging from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries). In 1976 Dr. Atiya's thirty-one item gift of rare material included two ninth century Koran folios in Kufic on ancient rag paper; three fourteenth, fifteenth, and seventeenth century embossed leather bindings (one with gold leaf inlay); three eighteenth century views of Grand Cairo and Alexandria; eleven steel plate prints of eighteenth century views of Egypt (some dated 1803 and one water color); and twelve early Middle East maps (two dated 1803, nine seventeenth century, and one sixteenth century). The Library expresses its appreciation to Dr. Atiya for his continued interest and generosity. |