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Show INTRODUCTION T H E P R E F A C E to Volume I of the Middle East Catalogue Series, issued jointly by the University of Utah Libraries and the Middle East Center, announced intention to publish supplements and further volumes when justified by the Library's acquisitions. This volume is presented as a supplement to Volume I: Arabic Collection, Aziz S. Atiya Library for Middle East Studies. It contains facsimile main entry cards for the monographic works cataloged at the University of Utah since the publication of Volume I early in 1968, and a list of the Middle East Library's periodical holdings. Separate author and title indexes to both the earlier volume and this supplement have been added, which should make both publications more useful. Special effort has been made to round up the periodical material in our possession, of which w e can trace numerous runs, some of them defunct and discontinued. W e apologize for the sundry sets that are at present incomplete, but the search is continuing and will continue in the future to fill existing lacunae. Although w e have included some incomplete periodicals in our listing, owing to their age, scarcity and importance - in a few cases only a single volume one - we have avoided the inclusion of stray volumes or numbers of journals of secondary importance in order to avoid overloading the present publication with material whose relative usefulness is in doubt. Especially, meager and discontinued runs of the 1960's have been omitted, their being all PL-480 titles. Since emphasis in this collection is on social sciences and humanities, little will be found in the periodicals listing in the areas of agriculture, law, science and technology. Filing of names in the author index follows the rules of the Library of Congress in the early 1960's, that is, first name arrangement, that name as surname, then the extended form of the family name. These are the rules by which the first volume was set up and it seemed wise to continue with them. Designations such as editor and compiler have been omitted. In the early years of cataloging at the University of Utah the possibility of ever issuing a list of our holdings was never dreamed of, so that errors made in romanization at the bottom of the cards were passed over as long as corrections were made on the title cards and filing was not affected. Thus it will be noticed that title romanization in the index, where w e could make corrections as w e could catch them, including extending titles to some meaningful form, does not always match that at the bottom of the card. W e assume that anyone making use of these volumes will be more apt to read the Arabic titles than the romanized ones on the cards. Our inconsistencies will, w e hope, be accepted with some sympathetic indulgence by those w h o are familiar with ix |