Menalib
Menalib (own spelling also: MENALIB ; English Middle East North Africa LIBrary ) is the virtual library for the Middle East , which has been available online since 2001 . It provides digital information on research in the Middle East, including North Africa and Islamic Studies. Menalib is technically implemented at the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale).
history
Inventories carried out from 1997 to 1999 came to the conclusion that the then special collection area of the Middle East including North Africa did not have sufficient information available. The Menalib project was then funded from 2000 to 2005 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with human and material resources and in cooperation with the German Oriental Society (DMG), the German Association of the Middle East (DAVO) and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and international partners expanded.
The aim was to use the Menalib portal to guide Middle East and Islamic studies research in Germany to distributed subject-relevant resources: both print and digital information that was freely accessible on the Internet as well as information acquired as part of a collective order by the SSG or partner institutions and made available nationwide Shape.
In 2016, Menalib was redesigned in terms of technology and content with the establishment of the specialist information service for Middle East, North Africa and Islamic Studies in order to serve as an information platform for the specialist area and a portal for the services of the FID.
Functions
Menalib offers access to the services of the FID Middle East and thus acts as a central point of contact.
- The core of the online offer is Menalib as the central information platform. Reports on conferences, workshops and other events are offered as well as references to Open Access publications and projects and job postings in the department
- Menalib also provides information on these topics via Twitter
- Cross-library search in subject-relevant collections
- A subject-specific search entry into the printed and digital holdings of the FID takes place via the FID system
- Monthly, systematically structured new acquisition lists of the FID
- Notes on interlibrary loan and subito ordering functions
- Access to the specialist repository MENAdoc with the associated publication server
- Digitization orders and acquisition suggestions from the specialist field are accepted and implemented where possible
- Conversion between Gregorian and Hiǧra calendar
MENAdoc
The MENAdoc specialist repository is an important component of Menalib. In addition to the retro-digitized holdings of the library of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft and the former SSG Vorderer Orient including North Africa, MENAdoc offers access to the Islamic studies digital of the Klaus Schwarz-Verlag , the journals of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, the Turkish Research Library Jacob M. Landau and the series the Bibliotheca Islamica , Beirut texts and studies and Istanbul texts and studies. In addition to these digital copies, the Menalib Digital Publications also contain Born Digital titles. All of these materials are available open access and can be accessed over the long term with URNs .
MENAdoc also offers an Open Access publication server, which enables specialists to publish their own articles, essays and monographs and thus make them available to the department.
Cooperations
There are cooperations with regard to digital publications with the Orient-Institut Beirut , the Orient-Institut Istanbul and the German Oriental Society .
literature
- Lutz Wiederhold: Cooperative Structures for the Collection of Internet Resources on and from the Middle East 2000 ( online ).
- Lutz Wiederhold: Electronic specialist information on Islamic studies: current situation and perspectives in the context of a virtual specialist library for the Middle East / North Africa In: Writings on libraries and libraries in Saxony-Anhalt No. 81.
- Lutz Wiederhold: Menalib: the virtual library of the Middle East / North Africa In: Library service. - Berlin: ZLB. - Volume 35.2001, No. 10, pp. 1327-1336.