Digitizing the Historical Periodical Collection at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem

Matusiak, Krystyna and Abu Harb, Qasem Digitizing the Historical Periodical Collection at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem., 2009 . In IFLA World Library and Information Congress , Milan, Italy, August 24, 2009. [Conference paper]

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The Arab Press in Palestine developed at the turn of the twentieth century and proliferated for several decades despite restrictions imposed under the Ottoman Empire and during the British Mandate Period (1917-1948). Hardcopies of the early newspapers and periodicals are rare and access to them at a few Palestinian municipal or private libraries is limited. The Al-Aqsa Mosque Library holds one of the largest collections of Palestinian historical newspapers and periodicals. The collection provides a unique and rich source of information about the history of Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Access to the collection is limited and brittle paper copies have been rapidly deteriorating. This paper provides an overview of the digitization project aimed at preserving the historical periodical collection located at the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Digitization, Newspapers, Preservation
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HA. Periodicals, Newspapers.
I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JH. Digital preservation.
Depositing user: Krystyna Matusiak
Date deposited: 22 Oct 2013 23:51
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:28
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/20444

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