Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:15:43 -0400
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Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well! As part of the celebration of the public re-opening of MEI's Oman Library, we will be hosting a Zoom panel titled *Area Studies, the Cold War, and the History of the US Academic Library Collections*. [image: final_panelflyer_smaller.jpg] The panel will take place on Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT on Zoom. Here is the link to the registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hNnBRBwuSX27JG3cgzROAw This panel brings together Middle East Studies librarians to discuss how Public Law 480, the Cold War-era program whose revenues supported the acquisitions of materials from overseas, functioned and contributed to the building of U.S. academic library collections and how it continues to shape knowledge production on the region within American academia today. *Speakers * *Joan Weeks * *Head, Near East Section & Turkic Area Specialist, Library of Congress * *Michael Albin* *Former Field Director, Library of Congress, Cairo, 1975–1985 * *William Kopycki * *Field Director, Library of Congress, Nairobi and Cairo * *Ryan Zohar (moderator)* *Librarian, Oman Library at the Middle East Institute* Please see the flyer attached for additional information about the event. We hope to see many of you there. Feel free to distribute amongst your networks. All the best, Ryan *Ryan Zohar* *Librarian, Oman Library* rzohar_at_mei.edu 202-785-1141 ext.229 or 222 *Inspiring Dialogue. Empowering Change.* 1763 N ST. NW, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 | www.mei.edu ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ACQNET list, click the following link: http://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM4MzUxIHNlcmlhbHNASU5GT01PVElPTlMuQ09NIEFDUU5FVCRH5PCEBG%2F2&c=SIGNOFF If the link above doesn't work, contact acqnet-request_at_lists.clir.org to unsubscribe.
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