Libraries with Major Middle East Collections

• Columbia University Libraries
  • About the Middle East collections
  • Middle East Studies Librarian
  • Search CLIO (Columbia's online catalog)
  • Middle East Reference Sources (at Columbia)
  • Current Information Sources (at Lehman Library, Columbia)
  
  
  
• American Research Institute in Turkey (via Dartmouth College)
  
  
• American University in Cairo
  • About American University in Cairo Library
  • Search IBIS the AUC library's catalog
  
  
  
• COPAC
  (a union catalog of British Research Libraries, including Cambridge Univ., Edinburgh Univ., Glasgow Univ., Leeds Univ., and Oxford Univ.)
  
  
• Durham University Library (UK)
  • About Durham University Library's Middle East Collections
  • Search Durham University Library's MEDUSA (Middle East Document Unit online catalog)
  
  
  
• Harvard's HOLLIS (Harvard OnLine Library Information System)
  
  
• New York Public Library's CATNYP (Catalog of the New York Public Libraries)
  
  
• New York University Library
  • About NYU's Middle East collections
  • Search NYU Library's BOBCAT
    - at the login prompt, type: bobcat
    
    
• Princeton University Library
  • About Princeton University's Middle East collections
  • Search Princeton University Library's online catalogs
    
    (Most Middle East materials will be found in the Main Catalog or the Supplementary Catalog.)
    
    
• Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
  • About Research Archives of the Oriental Institute
  • Search Oriental Institute Research Arichive's On-line Catalog
  
  
  
• School of Oriental & African Studies - SOAS (Univ. of London)
  • About SOAS's Islamic Near & Middle East Collections
  • Search SOAS online catalog
    
    - at the username prompt, type: library
    
    
• University of Exeter Library
  • About University of Exeter Documentation Unit
  • About Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Collection
  • Search University of Exeter Library Catalogue
    
    
• University of Michigan Libraries
  • About University of Michigan's Middle East collections
  • Search University of Michigan's MIRLYN (online catalog)
    
    
• University of Washington Libraries
  • About University of Washington's Middle East collections
  • Search University of Washington's Information Gateway
    
    
• Yale University Library
  • About Yale's Middle East collections
  • Search Yale University's ORBIS (online catalog)
    
    - at the terminal-type prompt, type: vt100
    
    
• Middle East Librarians Association
  
  
• MELCOM (an organization of Middle East librarians based in Britain)