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Show tr,?>)^ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SALT LAKE CITY, U T A H 8 4112 MIDDLE EAST CENTER BXJI-DING 41 May 15, 1968 Dr. David H. Partington Near East Bibliographer The University of Michigan Library Ann Arbor, Michigan Dear Davidj It was such a pleasure t© hear froa you and I must thank you for your good letter of May 8 concerning your enquiry about Miss Harlan Sheets who has been closely In contact with me since she became our Middle Eastern Librarian In the year 1960. I have come to know her very well and appreciate the great work she has done for our rapidly expanding Middle East Collection, Hiss Sheets formally holds the title of Assistant Professor in Librarianship in charge of this section of our Library. Thanks to her indefatigable industry, her unfailing dedication and her roost unusual intelligence, we have been able to do a tremendous organizational and processing task which we could have never accomplished without her great qualities. She has a masterly command of all the technical processes of Library work and I have grown to depend on her implicitly. She is a most cooperative person with students, colleagues and supervisors. She has handled all our inter-Library affairs efficiently and without faultering in matters of procedure. Her ability in the surveillance of our cataloguing of books both In European and Middle Eastern languages has proved to be unusually remarkable. She has a working knowledge of several European languages. Regarding the languages of the Middle East which she did not know prior to her employment with us, she has become so conversant with names and titles of books In Arabic, Persian and Turkish to the extent ©f sometimes correcting errors by natives. Her exacting and scholarly approach to such literature is occasionally bewildering, though I feel that she must depend on the native helper In the preparation of cards in a Middle Eastern language. Personally, I feel that we shall lose a very potential person that is extremely hard to replace, should she be nominated for another position elsewhere. On the other hand, I can in n© way |