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but afternoon my name is Ali Barrett and

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I'm the director of the Center for Near

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Eastern Studies at UCLA and on behalf of

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my colleagues I would like to welcome

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you to this forum on remote research it

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is difficult to recall a time when doing

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research in the Middle East has been

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more challenging whether as a result of

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the corona virus epidemic officially

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sanctioned restrictions on research or

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political violence in light of these

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challenges we at the Center for Near

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Eastern Studies have organized this

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two-part forum for scholars and students

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who need or wish to undertake research

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on Middle Eastern topics in various

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fields of humanities and Social Sciences

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at least in the near future if not

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longer I'm pleased to introduced and to

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distinguished scholars in this panel who

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will share their knowledge of online

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resources and offer advice for doing

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research during these difficult times

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our first speaker is dr. Charles a

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course man who is professor of sociology

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and co-director of the center for Middle

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East and Islamic Studies at the

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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

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professors course man who received his

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PhD from UC Berkeley is the author of

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numerous works including the book the

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missing martyrs 2011 which was reprinted

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in 2019 democracy denied 1905 1915 which

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was published in 2008 and unthinkable

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revolution in Iran which was published

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in 2004 as well he is the editor of the

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anthologies liberal Islam 98 and

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modernist Islam 1840 to 1940 which was

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published in 2002

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our second speaker is dr. del Correa who

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is Middle Eastern Studies librarian and

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history coordinator for the University

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of Texas libraries she received her PhD

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from NYU and is an expert on archival

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research domestic and international with

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a focus on the MENA region as well as

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strategies for making scholarship more

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open and discoverable she's past

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president of the Middle East librarians

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Association having served as president

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of the organization during 2018-2019 dr.

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Korea has also served on the Executive

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Board of the Middle East materials

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project and the center for research

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libraries her research interests include

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the development and theory and

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methodology for the academic study of

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Islam and religion social communitarian

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epistemology manuscripts history and

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multilingualism in the pre-modern

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islamic aid intellectual tradition

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dr. cordesman and dr. korea will speak

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for about 20 minutes each followed by

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20-minute q and answer session thank you

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both of you for joining us professor

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cordesman we'll start with you

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Thank You professor Dodd it's a pleasure

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to be meeting with you all under these

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virtual circumstances tough times of

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course in the world and also for for for

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research I've prepared a few comments

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primarily for graduate students work in

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Middle East Studies I can't help you

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with your financial difficulties I can't

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help you with the health challenges what

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I can offer is a bit of historical

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perspective and perhaps some thoughts on

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ways forward paths forward that we might

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be thinking about in this unprecedented

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era the corona fire

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pandemic is unprecedented in its

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particular form but the idea of a crisis

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in the Middle East is not unprecedented

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in fact there's been many crises in the

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Middle East that have disrupted both the

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everyday life in the region as well as

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research the region I mean if we look

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back just over a century to to World War

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one you had the mobilization of the

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Ottoman army the largest army the

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Ottomans had ever feel that they were

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fighting battles pretty much across the

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region there was widespread displacement

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civilian suffering of course academics

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were affected by this as well and the

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and in world war ii and during various

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other Wars and other crises in the

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region there have been numerous times

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over the last century when research was

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not possible in the region we're not the

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first people ever to experience this and

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even in recent years these challenges

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have have multiplied so one indicator of

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this is the number of students from the

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United States studying abroad in the

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Middle East region this data is from the

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Institute for International Education

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their annual open doors report and you

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can see that the numbers of the past

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decade since about 2009 have been

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declining they've declined by about a

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third after wrapping up hugely in the

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previous decade now these are mainly

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other graduates not graduate students

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and it's only one indicator of course of

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research in the region but even this

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decline over the last 10 years really

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doesn't show the full story the decline

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is even steeper in many parts of the

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Middle East if we break out three

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countries that are the largest sites for

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study abroad in the region for American

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students in the blue you see Israel has

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number of study abroad students and is

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now about half of all students in the

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region are studying abroad in Israel in

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green you see Egypt and the numbers

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which were a couple thousand dozen years

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dropped off substantially in 2010-2011

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and then with the coup in 2013 the

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numbers have been close to zero and I

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find it very hard given the repression

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of academics especially foreign

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academics in Egypt I find it hard to

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recommend that students go there in red

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we see Turkey where it should also had a

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couple thousand students studying abroad

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there American students and then during

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the attempted coup and the backlash and

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the repression of academics there then

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those numbers have have declined since

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2015 so there's been all sorts of things

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challenges to research in the region of

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course there's a a political repression

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in a number of countries I'm sure you're

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familiar with the Middle East Studies

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Association Committee for academic

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freedom CAF Mena the Middle East in

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North Africa region and another one for

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North America and that committee is

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issuing dozens and dozens of letters

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about the repression and mistreatment of

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academics in the region so even before

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the corona virus it was tough to do

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research in many parts at least and then

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of course the corona virus comes and we

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see here in this chart I just thought

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was an interesting graphic the air

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travel the number of flights drops

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dramatically over several weeks the end

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of January and into the middle of

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February this is globally and has been

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climbing up since then so it's now about

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two-thirds and where was the

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January but most of those flights are

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flying almost empty and even if you were

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able to get a flight once you get off

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there's now travel restrictions almost

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everywhere in the world so you wouldn't

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be allowed and not allowed to go into to

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cross borders in the way that you might

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have been several months ago so we have

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a huge problem how do we continue to do

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our research how do we continue to keep

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this enterprise going I'd like to give

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two examples of people who faced travel

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restrictions in the past and how they

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kept going these examples are going to

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come from the field of sociology my home

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discipline but of course there's many

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other examples that could be taken from

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other fields the first one I want to

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mention is WI Thomas is a famous in

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sociology in the history of sociology

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the lead author of a classic book called

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the Polish peasant in Europe and America

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that was published in 1918 so Thomas was

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teaching at the University of Chicago

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and was going travelling to Poland each

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year for part of the year for for

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several years to collect material and do

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field research on the peasantry in

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Poland and then World War one breaks out

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and he can't go back to Europe and in

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fact many of his notes about a third of

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his notes and materials that he gathered

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were lost in the war and so he had to

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reconfigure his project and the story he

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apparently would tell about how he did

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this was to was that one day he was

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walking in Chicago in the alleys of

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Chicago and somebody threw a bag of

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trash out of a window and it landed

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almost hit him and landed in front of

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him and broke open and he sees there on

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the ground a handwritten letter in

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Polish that was a letter from somebody's

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family in Poland or two

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somebody you know isn't polish it was

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his topic of study and he gets the idea

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or so he said that using letters as a

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source of material for research could be

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the replacement for the field research

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that he had been doing so he puts an ad

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in the Chicago Polish language newspaper

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and asked people to send letters to his

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office and get thousands and thousands

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of letters and uses those as the basis

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then for his for a large chunk of the

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research that he gets published in this

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masterpiece this five volume set Polish

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peasant in Europe and America and takes

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on a research assistant who had fled

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Poland because of the because of the war

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as a co-author florins Nanaki who goes

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through and helps him with all of this

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and helps to write up the results so

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here's a case where worldwide disaster

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travel restrictions lead to a novel

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source of of data of evidence of

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research materials the second example I

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want to give is more recent this is my

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colleague and friend and former student

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Ally caviar at Boston College who can't

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go back to Iran his home country and so

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instead of doing the field work that he

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might otherwise have done it decides to

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use online news sources as data and go

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systematically through all sorts of news

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reports that are collected websites or

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in very subscription services for

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Iranian newspapers and we see here quote

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from the his method from an article he

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just published using this sort of data

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they just published with co-author in

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the journal comparative politics so work

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can continue it forces us when we can't

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go to our original plans to come up with

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Plan B's and to think of novel ways then

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of of doing our research

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so I have a few ideas how pads you might

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follow for doing research in the current

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era when we can't travel and and reach

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the the materials that or that we had

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hoped to originally the first point I'm

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gonna make five points are but the first

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one is to keep reading if you can that

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this is a moment where we're stuck but

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we if we can manage the motivational

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side there is a lot of material out

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there

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dr. Correa is going to present some of

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that material in ways you can access it

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I'm sure Ruston's our car who's our

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Middle East librarian here at the

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University of North Carolina has also

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given a talk where he lays out a bunch

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of resources that are available the

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address is on there I'll put these

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slides that I'm showing on my website

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and they have links so you can follow

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you want and another source that I want

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to mention dr. Graham may be mentioned

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in this already is archive.org which has

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a new policy during the pandemic of

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allowing easier checkout policies where

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you can check out a book that they've

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digitized it even if it's under

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copyright many of them can be checked

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out during this time so continue keep

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reading if you can the next thing I want

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to suggest is thinking about new forms

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of evidence new forms new new types of

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research in fact news sometimes it might

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involve learning new tricks I'm trying

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to learn these tricks myself there's a

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group called the Islamic at digital

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humanities network ID h n dot org that

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is people who know these big data skills

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they are proficient in r and other

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programming languages and they are

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trying to think about how you can use

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the massive amount of digital text

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that's out there for new sorts of

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research projects we had a panel in that

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a conversation at the Middle East

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Studies Association last year we're

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planning to do another this year

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unlikely chance that we actually get to

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me but there's an ongoing conversation

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and these skills especially learning are

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which is extremely helpful for wrangling

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large amounts of text for scraping it

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from the web sources and then analyzing

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and presenting it graphically

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trying to learn these new skills I think

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many of us would do well to add these to

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our toolkits for research another Avenue

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is to use new forms of data so the ACS s

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the Arab Council for the social sciences

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has a data archive it just went live

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last year it's called the ACS s

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dataverse dataverse like universe but

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for data there's a network of these data

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verses it's open source interface

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software and so the ACS data versus at

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dataverse dot a CSS org and there is a

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network of all of these data archives

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around the world this one focuses on

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data sets from the Arab region there's

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there's more data out there than you

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might imagine so if you're willing or

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interested in doing quantitative data

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analysis there's quite a bit of material

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growing amout of material and if you

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know of people who have research who

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have data sets that they'd be willing to

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contribute they're taking deposits as

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well at the data verse and I'm honored

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to be working with them on getting this

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thing up and going there's also

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qualitative research in the data verse

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it can take data into all forms but most

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of it is primarily quantitative data

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another path forward is online

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interviews so for those of you who are

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used to doing fieldwork and ethnography

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and interviews person and that was all

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your training and that's what you expect

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it to do it is a weak substitute but it

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is still possible and you can keep your

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momentum going for a research project by

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arranging online interviews it will keep

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you your head in the project it'll keep

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you keep you moving forward to get in

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touch with the various organizations or

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through social media meeting people and

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arranging online interviews the one

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thing I want to mention here is that if

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you have gone through your institutional

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review board your Human Subjects

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protection folks and that and all of

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your material was that in-person stuff

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and getting consent in person you may

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need to get in touch

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in advance with your IRB or

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institutional officials in order to make

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sure that your stuff can be adapted to

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get consent online a final approach I

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want to mention is international

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collaboration so international

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collaboration has been a watchword in

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Sciences and the social sciences for

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many years less so frankly in the social

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sciences than in the Natural Sciences

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and less so in the humanities I think

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than in the social sciences but perhaps

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this is the moment this is the crisis

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that's going to generate force us to

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create more international collaborations

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where you have some books and access to

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some materials but someone somewhere

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else doesn't may have access to stuff

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that you don't have access to and

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perhaps through sharing we can get

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through a sharing economy and move our

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research forward through new forms of

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collaboration it would be lovely if that

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were a side effect of pandemic that we

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reach out to people and we rely on them

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more I think that would be a lovely

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outcome so in summary you know the

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graduate students today and the midst of

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this pandemic face you may face health

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problems financial problems travel

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problems - political problems all sorts

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of problems and one of the problems you

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may be facing is sort of a motivational

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problem and I know I'm facing that -

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it's hard to focus it's hard to keep the

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work going make time in the day to

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actually get back to the kinds of

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thoughts the kinds of research the kinds

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of creativity that we expect of

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ourselves and try to overcome this

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feeling that your life is sort of on

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hold and what I'd like to suggest is

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both the sense of historical perspective

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that this you know previous generations

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researchers have faced their own

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challenges their own problems of travel

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restrictions and difficult

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piece of political and all sorts of

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other problems this is a set of

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challenges we face and maybe that

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historical perspective helps and also

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these new avenues of thinking creatively

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about new forms of data new ways of

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accessing materials will help us get

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over this hump as well and get us back

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to doing the kind of creative

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substantive research that we're capable

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about despite the challenges today thank

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you very much thank you very much for

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that incredibly inspiring and

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informative presentation

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professor Guzman I'm sure there will be

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some questions from the students

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afterward I would like to now ask dr.

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Correa to present her talk thank you all

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very much and thank you Ali for that

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wonderful introduction and thank you

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Charlie for fantastic beginning to this

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conversation I was all extremely useful

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and I was taking notes myself too except

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for me as well so everyone's going to

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have a different approach to dealing

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with research during as we've said these

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very unprecedented times of an

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international pandemic my approach is

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informed by my work as a librarian as

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well as key experiences that I've had in

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my scholarly life notably living in

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Uzbekistan for about six months during

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my dissertation research and not having

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access to reliable internet or my Tier

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one research library and having to do

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fieldwork without all those resources

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which is actually fairly normal for

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fieldwork in the Middle East and Central

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Asia in my case but that was when my

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researcher creativity was really tested

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and so reflecting on those experiences

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and lessons learned there and also what

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I've seen has worked for graduate

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students and faculty recently and

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applying that to this situation where

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you know we can't travel and we know we

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and access my prison archives the main a

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region I'm gonna take us through a

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number of resources and I'm glad this is

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recorded because there's a whole bunch

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I'm going to go through but they are all

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referenced in various places

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I'm very important websites that I'll

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talk about where that we have lists of

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online archives my appraise consult or

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on research guides where they've been

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linked and I will show you where those

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are so you have those reference points

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I'm to start with again so as Professor

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Chrisman said this is a pandemic you

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need to go easy on yourself okay all is

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not lost

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there is a lot that you still can do and

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there will be a lot more that you can do

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in the future once way for those their

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conditions to come to pass so I want to

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start us with questions what can you

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focus on now what's possible now perhaps

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research at North American libraries

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checking catalogs of libraries and

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archives in the Middle East to plan for

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future locating digitized fully

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accessible online collections that do

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actually the research that you need to

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be doing that may or may not be useful

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for you depending on the kind of

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research you're doing if feeding me

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basically the information from a given

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manuscript or document but not the

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document or manuscript itself if the the

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physicality of the item is not as

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important to you because you get access

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to all of that if you need to interact

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with the actual object at least this is

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a starting point okay and then you can

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go from there so I'm going to break down

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these questions into nerium and

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long-term goals although there's much

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overlap amongst them all so the near

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term goals might be research in North

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American libraries this does not

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necessarily mean only secondary sources

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and on print works but it does lean

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heavily that way I'm going to talk about

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hockey trust emergency temporary access

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service the national emergency library

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at archive.org

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Arabic collections online and the

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library of Arabic literature next

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looking at the medium-term goals we

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might think about locating digitized

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primary source collections for your

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research okay things that we can find

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online that will work for you this is

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where we will gather sources from lists

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resources like research guides access to

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middle-east resources that's a guy blog

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sorry and pause danette which is another

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blog all these guys will come very much

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in handy those are your starting

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reference points for any of these kind

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of questions

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we'll look at some of the highlights

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from these including the color digital

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librarian or lab digital archive for the

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study of pre-islamic Arabic inscriptions

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and arch net and then in terms of long

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term goals

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so we're thinking about planning maybe

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even grant writing for the future

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because what really helps the grants is

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being able spell it exactly where you

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need to go who you're going to talk to

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them what you're going to look at and so

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that's checking the catalogs of

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libraries archives in the Middle East to

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plan for your fieldwork and there's also

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the possibility of ordering copies

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without traveling either officially

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through web sites or unofficially

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through contacts that you may have or

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you can possibly through your library

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through the interlibrary loan service

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okay so we'll talk about that well look

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at Yas Malhar which is a Turkish

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national search engine search engine in

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Egypt for the Dominican Institute the

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Iranian national library if it's

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cooperating youth center for Islamic

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study in Istanbul and Union catalog of

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manuscripts located in the UK called

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forest so getting started to give you

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these reference points let me share my

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screen with you so that we can start

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getting into these alright that's a

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preview of what's to come

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okay so this should be familiar to you

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the UCLA Middle Eastern Studies Research

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good it's

555

00:26:22,620 --> 00:26:27,330

weird to me unfortunately I didn't write

556

00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:29,190

this one it's not mine but I have made

557

00:26:27,330 --> 00:26:30,870

reference to it the past and this is

558

00:26:29,190 --> 00:26:32,790

always a place where you can start with

559

00:26:30,870 --> 00:26:35,760

your research okay

560

00:26:32,790 --> 00:26:39,420

there will be digital collections linked

561

00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:41,250

here you will be able to recommend

562

00:26:39,420 --> 00:26:43,020

reference sources that are both

563

00:26:41,250 --> 00:26:46,230

subscription through the library like

564

00:26:43,020 --> 00:26:49,830

index of la Magus and things that are

565

00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:55,679

more open access you'll even be able to

566

00:26:49,830 --> 00:26:57,630

find dictionaries so literally you have

567

00:26:55,679 --> 00:27:05,100

all these things already in your pocket

568

00:26:57,630 --> 00:27:07,320

you can probably take these so I

569

00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:10,410

strongly recommend taking a look at your

570

00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:14,820

research guide and getting a sense of

571

00:27:10,410 --> 00:27:16,860

where you can start there usefully you

572

00:27:14,820 --> 00:27:19,710

say you sell a library also has put

573

00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:23,100

together a guide on temporary expanded

574

00:27:19,710 --> 00:27:28,679

access this is very important have been

575

00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:32,910

able to do is get free trials they would

576

00:27:28,679 --> 00:27:34,320

not normally be able to afford and they

577

00:27:32,910 --> 00:27:36,350

are usually good through this summer

578

00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,429

that's been my experience with

579

00:27:36,350 --> 00:27:40,710

subscriptions or the trials that we've

580

00:27:38,429 --> 00:27:42,990

been able to get at you team this is my

581

00:27:40,710 --> 00:27:45,510

guarantee that the library will be able

582

00:27:42,990 --> 00:27:48,350

to acquire any of these resources in the

583

00:27:45,510 --> 00:27:50,820

future they are quite expensive

584

00:27:48,350 --> 00:27:52,830

resources especially anything that

585

00:27:50,820 --> 00:27:56,280

requires a subscription rather than just

586

00:27:52,830 --> 00:27:58,860

a one-time payment but with this

587

00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:03,780

temporary access you can benefit from

588

00:27:58,860 --> 00:28:06,600

these now okay and if you need to return

589

00:28:03,780 --> 00:28:08,670

to it later you can always request that

590

00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,440

from the library maybe you can get a

591

00:28:08,670 --> 00:28:11,910

second trial because again these are

592

00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,380

interesting and circumstances that maybe

593

00:28:11,910 --> 00:28:15,450

people need to take a second look so

594

00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:18,150

publishers are going to be very

595

00:28:15,450 --> 00:28:21,690

interested in letting you these

596

00:28:18,150 --> 00:28:23,970

materials so I would take a look at the

597

00:28:21,690 --> 00:28:26,250

things that are offered here as

598

00:28:23,970 --> 00:28:29,700

temporary resources the things that you

599

00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:31,170

can still exploit for your research also

600

00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:33,120

linked here are haughty trust and the

601

00:28:31,170 --> 00:28:35,460

national emergency and a national

602

00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,450

emergency library which I will speak

603

00:28:35,460 --> 00:28:38,580

about shortly

604

00:28:36,450 --> 00:28:45,210

but I just want you to know that you can

605

00:28:38,580 --> 00:28:47,970

also use you can also use my guide at

606

00:28:45,210 --> 00:28:51,179

ut-austin it's publicly available it's

607

00:28:47,970 --> 00:28:53,309

perfectly fine to use mine as well be

608

00:28:51,179 --> 00:28:55,830

aware that any links for example in

609

00:28:53,309 --> 00:28:58,590

databases indexes

610

00:28:55,830 --> 00:29:00,480

these are all going to be UT links so

611

00:28:58,590 --> 00:29:03,899

you don't want to take that back to UCLA

612

00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:07,019

library website and find your way to the

613

00:29:03,899 --> 00:29:08,580

databases through there but I do have a

614

00:29:07,019 --> 00:29:12,179

tab on open access and freely available

615

00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:15,779

resources and reference sources over

616

00:29:12,179 --> 00:29:18,419

here on the right I try not to privilege

617

00:29:15,779 --> 00:29:20,369

one language over another so I try to

618

00:29:18,419 --> 00:29:23,389

have representation from the pain

619

00:29:20,369 --> 00:29:26,190

languages and we'll be talking

620

00:29:23,389 --> 00:29:31,519

particularly about this guy right here

621

00:29:26,190 --> 00:29:35,879

has in his guide to online archives and

622

00:29:31,519 --> 00:29:41,509

resources today so you can find that on

623

00:29:35,879 --> 00:29:45,119

my guide a reference point in the future

624

00:29:41,509 --> 00:29:48,350

on my guide as well I like to link to

625

00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:52,109

other major collections so for example

626

00:29:48,350 --> 00:29:56,039

Michigan's collections and Michigan in

627

00:29:52,109 --> 00:29:59,340

particular this libguide it's very

628

00:29:56,039 --> 00:30:02,039

useful for manuscript research if you're

629

00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:04,049

doing any kind of manuscript research in

630

00:30:02,039 --> 00:30:06,600

any of the languages in at least this is

631

00:30:04,049 --> 00:30:08,070

a wonderful guide to go to and I did not

632

00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:10,230

recreate this or attempt to do this at

633

00:30:08,070 --> 00:30:13,259

UT my research guide because there's no

634

00:30:10,230 --> 00:30:14,549

reason to reinvent the wheel my

635

00:30:13,259 --> 00:30:14,999

colleague Evan crops has done an amazing

636

00:30:14,549 --> 00:30:16,850

job

637

00:30:14,999 --> 00:30:18,950

Michigan played this together so I

638

00:30:16,850 --> 00:30:26,600

strongly recommend checking that out

639

00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:28,009

if that is an area for you alright so

640

00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:34,169

how's that

641

00:30:28,009 --> 00:30:37,379

hosannah is a blog that is currently by

642

00:30:34,169 --> 00:30:39,840

a graduate student at Princeton

643

00:30:37,379 --> 00:30:43,200

University and fellow librarian

644

00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:45,299

colleague of mine and so they collect

645

00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,309

experiences at libraries and archives

646

00:30:45,299 --> 00:30:49,409

throughout the Middle East and they like

647

00:30:47,309 --> 00:30:49,950

to make lists they have a lot of great

648

00:30:49,409 --> 00:30:51,960

lists

649

00:30:49,950 --> 00:30:54,059

and the two that I want to highlight

650

00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,730

today are the online archives digital

651

00:30:54,059 --> 00:30:58,649

collections collections and resources

652

00:30:55,730 --> 00:31:01,889

for Middle East North African Islamic

653

00:30:58,649 --> 00:31:04,440

studies and the guide to online visual

654

00:31:01,889 --> 00:31:08,669

sources in Middle East and Islamic

655

00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:11,100

cities and so these will be very useful

656

00:31:08,669 --> 00:31:14,480

for you during this time but also in

657

00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:14,480

general to get your research done

658

00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:20,059

professor Christmas said it's not just

659

00:31:17,789 --> 00:31:22,740

right now that we have these troubles

660

00:31:20,059 --> 00:31:24,480

without throughout research in the

661

00:31:22,740 --> 00:31:26,690

Middle East we have temporary to

662

00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:29,490

permanent closures of libraries archives

663

00:31:26,690 --> 00:31:32,190

we have travel restrictions we have bad

664

00:31:29,490 --> 00:31:35,909

politics that don't let us get visas to

665

00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:39,450

go to different places so there are

666

00:31:35,909 --> 00:31:42,690

always obstacles that we're going to

667

00:31:39,450 --> 00:31:46,260

encounter and so these digital resources

668

00:31:42,690 --> 00:31:48,480

are always going to be key to that so

669

00:31:46,260 --> 00:31:51,630

this is good training basically for

670

00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:57,779

having a backup and a very full research

671

00:31:51,630 --> 00:32:00,840

profile for your work um so housing I

672

00:31:57,779 --> 00:32:03,090

mentioned a couple of the broad sources

673

00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:05,190

that I'm going to be talking about but

674

00:32:03,090 --> 00:32:07,649

I'll let you all peruse this is a huge

675

00:32:05,190 --> 00:32:11,490

list it's fantastic it's broken down by

676

00:32:07,649 --> 00:32:17,820

subject and area of study and format so

677

00:32:11,490 --> 00:32:21,210

it's definitely worth a read the visual

678

00:32:17,820 --> 00:32:22,889

resources guide it's similar put

679

00:32:21,210 --> 00:32:27,080

together by another librarian colleague

680

00:32:22,889 --> 00:32:29,730

of mine and we'll be looking at a couple

681

00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,409

here some of these are open access some

682

00:32:29,730 --> 00:32:33,179

of them are not it's kind of a mixture

683

00:32:31,409 --> 00:32:34,889

but you feel they shouldn't be

684

00:32:33,179 --> 00:32:39,570

subscribed to those that are not open

685

00:32:34,889 --> 00:32:42,690

access is a very common one soon all

686

00:32:39,570 --> 00:32:44,669

right those are the areas for getting

687

00:32:42,690 --> 00:32:48,740

started these are your reference points

688

00:32:44,669 --> 00:32:53,159

okay now let's go and look at some more

689

00:32:48,740 --> 00:32:54,389

specific what are all of these things

690

00:32:53,159 --> 00:32:57,409

that have talked about I've mentioned in

691

00:32:54,389 --> 00:32:59,730

passing here so far cause he trusts

692

00:32:57,409 --> 00:33:03,630

you've probably encountered hot you

693

00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:06,150

trust in Google searches maybe not

694

00:33:03,630 --> 00:33:08,370

so much through your library but if you

695

00:33:06,150 --> 00:33:10,560

put titles or authors into a Google

696

00:33:08,370 --> 00:33:13,290

search you've likely been redirected to

697

00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:17,190

Heidi dress at some point I can tell you

698

00:33:13,290 --> 00:33:19,410

that in general it is better to sign in

699

00:33:17,190 --> 00:33:22,410

to hottie trust with your university

700

00:33:19,410 --> 00:33:25,140

account because that log should get you

701

00:33:22,410 --> 00:33:27,630

access to more material you can login

702

00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:32,790

with a bright yellow login button up

703

00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:37,650

here you just select UCLA from the user

704

00:33:32,790 --> 00:33:39,360

can password information what hottie

705

00:33:37,650 --> 00:33:42,240

cuts between right now is running an

706

00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:44,070

emergency temporary access service feel

707

00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,560

free to read this if you'd like with a

708

00:33:44,070 --> 00:33:48,270

lot of library speak but what's

709

00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:52,770

important is that they have a how-to and

710

00:33:48,270 --> 00:33:55,020

what it means to use this service ok so

711

00:33:52,770 --> 00:33:56,970

what they've done is they have all these

712

00:33:55,020 --> 00:33:59,990

digitized works from many different

713

00:33:56,970 --> 00:34:06,300

collections throughout North America

714

00:33:59,990 --> 00:34:10,919

and they've been able to say for example

715

00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:14,250

UT Austin you have one copy of Terrell

716

00:34:10,919 --> 00:34:16,710

Cortland B so if you want to access that

717

00:34:14,250 --> 00:34:18,149

their hottie trusts only one person can

718

00:34:16,710 --> 00:34:19,470

check it out at a time because that

719

00:34:18,149 --> 00:34:22,379

would be the equivalent of the print

720

00:34:19,470 --> 00:34:24,030

experience in your library let's say you

721

00:34:22,379 --> 00:34:25,860

have two copies of tests here could be

722

00:34:24,030 --> 00:34:28,860

okay and that two people can check it

723

00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:33,810

out at the same time so essentially

724

00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:36,260

you're checking out ebooks stands of

725

00:34:33,810 --> 00:34:40,440

print materials that are in your library

726

00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:41,669

and they are still in copyright okay

727

00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,440

this is what's really important how do

728

00:34:41,669 --> 00:34:45,179

you trust before this you can only

729

00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,310

access out of copyright materials in

730

00:34:45,179 --> 00:34:48,840

full text now you can access in

731

00:34:47,310 --> 00:34:51,629

copyright materials as well through this

732

00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:53,879

check out emergency access service okay

733

00:34:51,629 --> 00:34:55,379

so what that means so that if you're

734

00:34:53,879 --> 00:34:57,240

trying to get to a text that you think

735

00:34:55,379 --> 00:35:01,050

might be popular with your fellow

736

00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:01,910

students just like you would at the

737

00:35:01,050 --> 00:35:05,370

library

738

00:35:01,910 --> 00:35:07,470

it might not be available when you need

739

00:35:05,370 --> 00:35:10,650

it because somebody might have a checked

740

00:35:07,470 --> 00:35:12,240

out okay so there are pluses and minuses

741

00:35:10,650 --> 00:35:14,400

to this but it's really great because

742

00:35:12,240 --> 00:35:17,310

for example in the case of UT you cannot

743

00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,170

speak for UCLA but for UT 40%

744

00:35:17,310 --> 00:35:22,620

our collection has been digitized

745

00:35:19,170 --> 00:35:24,420

contrast so that means 40% of our print

746

00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:26,610

materials we can still access the

747

00:35:24,420 --> 00:35:29,910

library is closed up and we don't have

748

00:35:26,610 --> 00:35:32,640

in your library loan service so that's

749

00:35:29,910 --> 00:35:35,130

really cool and so especially if you're

750

00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:38,340

working on these near term goals of

751

00:35:35,130 --> 00:35:42,410

North American libraries or just UCLA's

752

00:35:38,340 --> 00:35:42,410

library you want to make your coms list

753

00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:47,970

quasi trust expands your ability to do

754

00:35:45,570 --> 00:35:49,110

that by giving you access to print

755

00:35:47,970 --> 00:35:53,820

materials that are in your library

756

00:35:49,110 --> 00:35:56,630

anyway all right okay so the national

757

00:35:53,820 --> 00:36:00,360

emergency' library is a bit more general

758

00:35:56,630 --> 00:36:01,980

this is through archive.org and by the

759

00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,080

way at any point if you cannot see what

760

00:36:01,980 --> 00:36:07,590

I'm talking about because screen sharing

761

00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:15,630

is usually pretty good but you can't

762

00:36:07,590 --> 00:36:19,410

just shout expands our access to in

763

00:36:15,630 --> 00:36:24,510

copyright materials as well okay doesn't

764

00:36:19,410 --> 00:36:30,740

archive.org is a huge unending infinite

765

00:36:24,510 --> 00:36:33,810

resource that many institutions use the

766

00:36:30,740 --> 00:36:36,000

platform for their collections so you'll

767

00:36:33,810 --> 00:36:38,460

find for example one of the Ottoman

768

00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,980

collections from Duke University is on

769

00:36:38,460 --> 00:36:42,930

here and that one's a copyright is fully

770

00:36:40,980 --> 00:36:44,010

available it's all good

771

00:36:42,930 --> 00:36:47,720

but now what they've done is they've

772

00:36:44,010 --> 00:36:50,790

made more in the material on their

773

00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:57,660

collections available that are still in

774

00:36:50,790 --> 00:36:58,890

copyright okay and so what I did what

775

00:36:57,660 --> 00:37:02,580

you can do with this I just went to the

776

00:36:58,890 --> 00:37:04,470

Browse with this one but you can limit

777

00:37:02,580 --> 00:37:06,000

by language because I just want to see

778

00:37:04,470 --> 00:37:08,280

how much representation from Middle

779

00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,840

Eastern languages might there be and for

780

00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,920

the three main languages Persian Turkish

781

00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:17,190

Arabic there's almost 100 items like 85

782

00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:20,610

items or so and so that was better than

783

00:37:17,190 --> 00:37:23,790

I thought honestly for this emergency

784

00:37:20,610 --> 00:37:29,850

collection Persian actually had the most

785

00:37:23,790 --> 00:37:31,740

more than Arabic so gives you a sense of

786

00:37:29,850 --> 00:37:35,520

what you might find

787

00:37:31,740 --> 00:37:37,440

in the emergency collection but as I

788

00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:40,380

said archive.org is a much larger

789

00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:42,180

resource in general and it contains all

790

00:37:40,380 --> 00:37:44,280

kinds of resources you can find all of

791

00:37:42,180 --> 00:37:46,680

your Arabic dictionaries for example in

792

00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:50,369

archive downward if you want to see the

793

00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:57,119

printing experience it and sort of a

794

00:37:50,369 --> 00:37:58,680

print like environment okay so next are

795

00:37:57,119 --> 00:38:00,750

some things that you should probably

796

00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:05,640

already know about if you're working in

797

00:38:00,750 --> 00:38:07,829

Arabic but maybe you're just starting

798

00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:10,579

out or have a chance to look at them yet

799

00:38:07,829 --> 00:38:15,799

one of them is Arabic collections online

800

00:38:10,579 --> 00:38:20,930

this is a project of NYU and some other

801

00:38:15,799 --> 00:38:23,640

organizations and it has full text of

802

00:38:20,930 --> 00:38:27,960

Arabic works at a number of institutions

803

00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:30,119

that are out of copyright and so this

804

00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,940

can be very useful if you're working on

805

00:38:30,119 --> 00:38:35,839

things that are older print materials

806

00:38:32,940 --> 00:38:37,559

especially anything from for example

807

00:38:35,839 --> 00:38:39,480

you're gonna find a good amount of

808

00:38:37,559 --> 00:38:42,270

material here

809

00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:49,290

the only issue from my perspective as a

810

00:38:42,270 --> 00:38:50,790

librarian the only issue from my

811

00:38:49,290 --> 00:38:53,700

perspective is that this is not a

812

00:38:50,790 --> 00:38:59,059

full-text searchable it has not been

813

00:38:53,700 --> 00:39:04,490

ocr'd so you have to read it like a book

814

00:38:59,059 --> 00:39:04,490

unfortunately that should be the benefit

815

00:39:08,569 --> 00:39:17,640

we can then do full-text searching you

816

00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:23,609

can mostly do that antitrust for example

817

00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:27,270

and some things on archive.org what they

818

00:39:23,609 --> 00:39:29,700

did to it but unfortunately it's going

819

00:39:27,270 --> 00:39:32,359

to be a drawback here but there's some

820

00:39:29,700 --> 00:39:37,230

really classic standard pieces here like

821

00:39:32,359 --> 00:39:39,299

for example right so this is a great

822

00:39:37,230 --> 00:39:41,040

resource if you're doing Arabic it's

823

00:39:39,299 --> 00:39:44,099

obviously that link on the interface as

824

00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:45,240

well which is just really cool a great

825

00:39:44,099 --> 00:39:47,130

feature

826

00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:52,970

second one is a library of Arabic

827

00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:56,220

literature this is another NYU project

828

00:39:52,970 --> 00:40:00,540

and this one's a little bit funky

829

00:39:56,220 --> 00:40:06,090

because you have so it's also Arabic

830

00:40:00,540 --> 00:40:09,360

English interface and the books are also

831

00:40:06,090 --> 00:40:15,780

Arabic English usually facing translator

832

00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:19,350

translation so the Arabic is all freely

833

00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:21,270

available online in PDF okay if you want

834

00:40:19,350 --> 00:40:22,500

just the Arabic editions they're all

835

00:40:21,270 --> 00:40:23,610

here all the ones that have been

836

00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:27,660

published for them

837

00:40:23,610 --> 00:40:31,080

now if you want the translations you

838

00:40:27,660 --> 00:40:32,580

have to go to JSTOR and to be honest I

839

00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:34,200

didn't check for UCLA I'm going to

840

00:40:32,580 --> 00:40:36,360

assume you have this that you might not

841

00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:40,500

because it's a separate product that you

842

00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:43,350

have to buy within JSTOR but these are

843

00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:45,060

also available in JSTOR that are the

844

00:40:43,350 --> 00:40:46,710

translations okay so you kind of if you

845

00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:48,450

want to have both the Arabic and English

846

00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:51,120

together you're gonna have to have these

847

00:40:48,450 --> 00:40:54,870

two tabs open come with the Arabic PDFs

848

00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:58,410

on one side and the JSTOR PDFs of the

849

00:40:54,870 --> 00:41:01,740

English on the other but that is all

850

00:40:58,410 --> 00:41:04,560

accessible online because again these

851

00:41:01,740 --> 00:41:07,290

are some real classics on a variety of

852

00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:11,010

topics between law history and

853

00:41:07,290 --> 00:41:13,710

literature alright so those are the near

854

00:41:11,010 --> 00:41:16,140

term goals you know if you need kind of

855

00:41:13,710 --> 00:41:20,390

standard literature that you would use a

856

00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:23,100

library anyway or for those who are not

857

00:41:20,390 --> 00:41:25,290

at your institution they would have

858

00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:26,730

expected to find on the shelf those are

859

00:41:25,290 --> 00:41:30,360

some ways that you can still get to some

860

00:41:26,730 --> 00:41:33,000

of that material it may be in the future

861

00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:35,940

that libraries

862

00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:39,240

North America will start for example a

863

00:41:35,940 --> 00:41:40,980

pickup service you can order them up

864

00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,950

that's a possibility I'm not saying it's

865

00:41:40,980 --> 00:41:47,520

happening anymore but it's a possibility

866

00:41:42,950 --> 00:41:49,140

or scanning for interlibrary loan

867

00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:53,250

requests or scanning from the collection

868

00:41:49,140 --> 00:41:55,410

itself may resume but all of that is

869

00:41:53,250 --> 00:41:57,360

negotiation of safety for library

870

00:41:55,410 --> 00:41:58,390

employments of course who would have to

871

00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,370

be that work

872

00:41:58,390 --> 00:42:04,270

and we obviously don't want to put

873

00:42:00,370 --> 00:42:07,350

anyone in unnecessary danger by starting

874

00:42:04,270 --> 00:42:09,760

out those services too early too soon so

875

00:42:07,350 --> 00:42:12,280

those are things to keep in mind that

876

00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:15,310

might be possible in the future all

877

00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,900

right so the medium-term goals we're

878

00:42:15,310 --> 00:42:19,420

just gonna look at some of these they're

879

00:42:16,900 --> 00:42:21,220

probably familiar to you but let's take

880

00:42:19,420 --> 00:42:35,520

a look anyway the culture digital

881

00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:35,520

library this has been a partnership and

882

00:43:10,350 --> 00:43:17,200

so this is much like every collections

883

00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:20,680

online but a lot of it is handwritten

884

00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:23,620

some early print it's going to skew

885

00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,450

towards Gulf Studies but you might be

886

00:43:23,620 --> 00:43:29,530

surprised as well what you'd find in

887

00:43:25,450 --> 00:43:31,120

here so I would not rule it out I just

888

00:43:29,530 --> 00:43:34,480

did a search for nests if it was one of

889

00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,770

my favorite scholars and it's got some

890

00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:38,980

interesting things that aren't quite

891

00:43:35,770 --> 00:43:42,150

related to him not the nests of you that

892

00:43:38,980 --> 00:43:47,680

I was looking for Oh mark 10:18

893

00:43:42,150 --> 00:43:51,100

that Mississippi I was looking for so

894

00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:53,410

just bear that in mind that these might

895

00:43:51,100 --> 00:44:02,790

offer some aspect of your research but

896

00:43:53,410 --> 00:44:11,450

not entirely okay then noir lib is and

897

00:44:02,790 --> 00:44:17,920

Iranian resource and you can search

898

00:44:11,450 --> 00:44:20,300

by title throughout full-text etc and

899

00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:23,630

even but it's best if you make an

900

00:44:20,300 --> 00:44:27,620

account to be able to actually view the

901

00:44:23,630 --> 00:44:29,980

items I've had varying since that

902

00:44:27,620 --> 00:44:34,490

success with items being either open or

903

00:44:29,980 --> 00:44:36,470

paid to view them so it's kind of here

904

00:44:34,490 --> 00:44:37,940

and there some institutions have been

905

00:44:36,470 --> 00:44:41,990

able to work out subscriptions to this

906

00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:48,370

which is great but it is a wonderful

907

00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:50,990

resource for Iran based or Persian

908

00:44:48,370 --> 00:44:53,450

language materials so for example cap

909

00:44:50,990 --> 00:45:00,040

CMS if you sorry you're gonna see Nessa

910

00:44:53,450 --> 00:45:03,190

pee a lot in this obviously this one is

911

00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:07,100

at least partially available usually you

912

00:45:03,190 --> 00:45:08,870

have to sign in and you can see there

913

00:45:07,100 --> 00:45:12,770

multiple volumes here that they've

914

00:45:08,870 --> 00:45:16,870

scanned so it's kind of similar to

915

00:45:12,770 --> 00:45:24,800

Arabic collections online but also

916

00:45:16,870 --> 00:45:26,570

adding the Persian element then for

917

00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,800

those who are doing ancient Near East I

918

00:45:26,570 --> 00:45:29,800

don't know if any of you on the column

919

00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,940

right now are doing engine serious but

920

00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,550

the digital archive foreign study of

921

00:45:31,940 --> 00:45:36,980

pre-islamic Arabia inscriptions is

922

00:45:33,550 --> 00:45:41,170

incredible online resource if you're

923

00:45:36,980 --> 00:45:46,060

doing anything pre-islamic a pig Rafi

924

00:45:41,170 --> 00:45:49,400

etc and so these are mostly browsable

925

00:45:46,060 --> 00:45:55,630

you just click through to you know which

926

00:45:49,400 --> 00:46:00,110

area language you want to be looking at

927

00:45:55,630 --> 00:46:02,210

and because these are corpora they've

928

00:46:00,110 --> 00:46:03,680

built it into a corporate analysis tool

929

00:46:02,210 --> 00:46:06,710

essentially so you can start doing

930

00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:09,920

searches and building your data but you

931

00:46:06,710 --> 00:46:13,610

can also look at the objects as well if

932

00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:19,930

you need the images this is a very

933

00:46:13,610 --> 00:46:19,930

useful resource for that as well

934

00:46:21,670 --> 00:46:24,970

and then last but not least with these

935

00:46:23,140 --> 00:46:29,769

medium-term goals looking for digital

936

00:46:24,970 --> 00:46:34,029

materials is arch debt and this is

937

00:46:29,769 --> 00:46:38,739

obviously arc about architecture in the

938

00:46:34,029 --> 00:46:44,109

Middle East and I distance in Istanbul

939

00:46:38,739 --> 00:46:46,329

and it's pulled up a number of images of

940

00:46:44,109 --> 00:46:52,710

the mosque of the Saudi money and other

941

00:46:46,329 --> 00:46:56,170

related mosques and then also documents

942

00:46:52,710 --> 00:47:04,440

related to the mosque itself this is I

943

00:46:56,170 --> 00:47:08,259

need to mask assume so magazine articles

944

00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:10,599

images but also architectural and

945

00:47:08,259 --> 00:47:21,819

drawings and information as well as

946

00:47:10,599 --> 00:47:25,690

related text no and that's all open so

947

00:47:21,819 --> 00:47:28,299

thinking of long term goals which kind

948

00:47:25,690 --> 00:47:31,930

of in some cases it combines with the

949

00:47:28,299 --> 00:47:33,849

medium-term goals we want to be able to

950

00:47:31,930 --> 00:47:35,859

plan for our fieldwork in the future if

951

00:47:33,849 --> 00:47:37,779

we can't do it this summer maybe do it X

952

00:47:35,859 --> 00:47:40,390

summer or perhaps during the year if

953

00:47:37,779 --> 00:47:42,630

things get better but I don't want to be

954

00:47:40,390 --> 00:47:45,210

prepared and there are a number of

955

00:47:42,630 --> 00:47:50,640

resources that'll help you with that

956

00:47:45,210 --> 00:47:50,640

yaws Millar is the Turkish national

957

00:47:54,900 --> 00:48:02,170

national heritage collection search

958

00:47:57,519 --> 00:48:04,509

engine and you can see it's all first of

959

00:48:02,170 --> 00:48:07,329

all you can put it in English and this

960

00:48:04,509 --> 00:48:10,150

is something a caveat I have to get from

961

00:48:07,329 --> 00:48:11,349

most of the Turkish websites you can

962

00:48:10,150 --> 00:48:13,119

maybe put it in English but not

963

00:48:11,349 --> 00:48:14,349

everything will convert English so

964

00:48:13,119 --> 00:48:17,230

you're still going to have to either

965

00:48:14,349 --> 00:48:18,339

know Turkish or you translate to get

966

00:48:17,230 --> 00:48:19,720

through this but you can't get through

967

00:48:18,339 --> 00:48:22,079

it

968

00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:25,289

the second thing you need to know about

969

00:48:22,079 --> 00:48:28,599

most all of them right now

970

00:48:25,289 --> 00:48:31,690

Turkish search engines you need to do

971

00:48:28,599 --> 00:48:33,580

the spelling the transliteration in the

972

00:48:31,690 --> 00:48:35,980

Turkish

973

00:48:33,580 --> 00:48:39,100

and there may be of a difference of

974

00:48:35,980 --> 00:48:41,830

opinion in Turkish how to transliterate

975

00:48:39,100 --> 00:48:44,190

various names especially if there are

976

00:48:41,830 --> 00:48:48,670

any bubbles involved that can be change

977

00:48:44,190 --> 00:48:51,030

there changing at all on that so you

978

00:48:48,670 --> 00:48:55,270

want to search multiple times with your

979

00:48:51,030 --> 00:48:58,360

keywords in different permutations of

980

00:48:55,270 --> 00:49:01,110

what they could be okay thankfully Meza

981

00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:03,600

fee is pretty straightforward

982

00:49:01,110 --> 00:49:08,910

general agreement on what the vowels are

983

00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:12,030

and sure enough I was interested in and

984

00:49:08,910 --> 00:49:16,390

you can click through to see the record

985

00:49:12,030 --> 00:49:20,140

for the material including any notes

986

00:49:16,390 --> 00:49:22,270

about its size and type and you'll see

987

00:49:20,140 --> 00:49:24,670

again this is this was not translated

988

00:49:22,270 --> 00:49:26,470

into English so you all need to take

989

00:49:24,670 --> 00:49:30,130

this to Google Translate if you don't

990

00:49:26,470 --> 00:49:37,890

know Turkish but it is where you can get

991

00:49:30,130 --> 00:49:42,010

some references and instead skin

992

00:49:37,890 --> 00:49:46,360

references here to those to manuscript

993

00:49:42,010 --> 00:49:48,640

catalogs theoretically you should be

994

00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:51,580

able to see the images here I always

995

00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:53,230

have this like mixed results with that

996

00:49:51,580 --> 00:49:56,890

if it says display you should be able to

997

00:49:53,230 --> 00:49:58,090

see it sometimes when you have an

998

00:49:56,890 --> 00:49:59,860

account with them it works a little bit

999

00:49:58,090 --> 00:50:00,880

better and you can order things and I

1000

00:49:59,860 --> 00:50:03,400

know people who have successfully

1001

00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:10,410

ordered materials to be fed to them in

1002

00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:13,320

the US right you know or on a CD so

1003

00:50:10,410 --> 00:50:15,520

that's worth checking out and trying

1004

00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:18,070

it's also something that once those

1005

00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,750

libraries open up again in Turkey you

1006

00:50:18,070 --> 00:50:21,580

might be able to ask friends who are in

1007

00:50:19,750 --> 00:50:25,330

Turkey to help you out if you can

1008

00:50:21,580 --> 00:50:28,270

identify the Shelf number right right

1009

00:50:25,330 --> 00:50:29,950

here like these for the manuscript then

1010

00:50:28,270 --> 00:50:33,910

you can have to go and request for you

1011

00:50:29,950 --> 00:50:39,250

and send it to you and compensate them

1012

00:50:33,910 --> 00:50:41,320

accordingly but another useful search

1013

00:50:39,250 --> 00:50:44,230

engine is a library the de- to foreign

1014

00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:47,500

entities in Egypt and this is a

1015

00:50:44,230 --> 00:50:52,420

relatively new catalog

1016

00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:54,369

I'm going to do something more modern so

1017

00:50:52,420 --> 00:50:57,910

you can see more employed on this

1018

00:50:54,369 --> 00:50:59,740

resource offers and this again is for

1019

00:50:57,910 --> 00:51:03,060

planning purposes to let you know what's

1020

00:50:59,740 --> 00:51:06,460

in the Dominican Library in Cairo and

1021

00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:12,790

what could you possibly do there if you

1022

00:51:06,460 --> 00:51:15,359

were able to go there in person so here

1023

00:51:12,790 --> 00:51:20,080

we're talking about passion ality

1024

00:51:15,359 --> 00:51:22,210

nationalism lots of French works

1025

00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:32,349

obviously you can choose a language we

1026

00:51:22,210 --> 00:51:33,369

can limit to Arabic if we wanted and

1027

00:51:32,349 --> 00:51:36,490

with all these websites that you have to

1028

00:51:33,369 --> 00:51:38,470

give them a second you're travelling of

1029

00:51:36,490 --> 00:51:44,290

a long distance to get to you thank you

1030

00:51:38,470 --> 00:51:47,349

your information us to anything that has

1031

00:51:44,290 --> 00:51:48,609

Arabic content in it so it's very

1032

00:51:47,349 --> 00:51:51,430

similar to what you'll find

1033

00:51:48,609 --> 00:51:54,240

and your UCLA and other North American

1034

00:51:51,430 --> 00:51:54,240

libraries as well

1035

00:51:54,750 --> 00:52:00,369

these are mostly just records I think

1036

00:51:57,940 --> 00:52:01,960

it's very just very limited online

1037

00:52:00,369 --> 00:52:03,849

availability in my experience with this

1038

00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:06,760

one it's mostly just records this is a

1039

00:52:03,849 --> 00:52:08,230

planning catalog okay to be able to see

1040

00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:12,099

what could you access if you were able

1041

00:52:08,230 --> 00:52:13,480

to go there all right I've got a few

1042

00:52:12,099 --> 00:52:17,140

more left but these are all important to

1043

00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:18,880

you to see the Iranian national library

1044

00:52:17,140 --> 00:52:20,740

I think this is one that many people

1045

00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:24,640

don't think to go to especially if they

1046

00:52:20,740 --> 00:52:26,380

do Arabic Ronnie National Library ously

1047

00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,890

has a lot of personal materials but also

1048

00:52:26,380 --> 00:52:32,220

has a lot of theater classics and

1049

00:52:28,890 --> 00:52:35,050

fantastic editions of them as well and

1050

00:52:32,220 --> 00:52:36,070

they're often fully available online so

1051

00:52:35,050 --> 00:52:38,589

this one could actually fall under

1052

00:52:36,070 --> 00:52:41,740

medium term goals too in case you can't

1053

00:52:38,589 --> 00:52:44,640

get a visa to Iran in the future I've

1054

00:52:41,740 --> 00:52:47,830

done my search for NASA key again here

1055

00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:50,740

and you'll see I was able to get some

1056

00:52:47,830 --> 00:52:53,160

good results with that just to give you

1057

00:52:50,740 --> 00:52:53,160

an example

1058

00:53:03,210 --> 00:53:08,020

that's gonna ask me to sign in okay so

1059

00:53:05,830 --> 00:53:15,040

this is another one like Norway where

1060

00:53:08,020 --> 00:53:17,260

you're gonna want an account but this

1061

00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:19,230

fun is excellent because there is they

1062

00:53:17,260 --> 00:53:22,150

just have so much I'll show you the

1063

00:53:19,230 --> 00:53:24,040

Turkish as Islamic state Center and

1064

00:53:22,150 --> 00:53:25,810

Istanbul - it's simpler it's so

1065

00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:28,450

impressive how much is a lot of get

1066

00:53:25,810 --> 00:53:30,340

material they have so the very least you

1067

00:53:28,450 --> 00:53:32,350

can get the catalog record if you sign

1068

00:53:30,340 --> 00:53:35,410

in and make an account I won't show you

1069

00:53:32,350 --> 00:53:37,600

right now you can also access the full

1070

00:53:35,410 --> 00:53:39,850

text materials some of them are open ads

1071

00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:47,670

that some of them are not so it's kind

1072

00:53:39,850 --> 00:53:51,340

of expect alright this is the Turkish I

1073

00:53:47,670 --> 00:53:53,020

studied Centre in Istanbul it's also now

1074

00:53:51,340 --> 00:53:56,770

a university called 29th of May

1075

00:53:53,020 --> 00:53:58,270

University and it used to be much

1076

00:53:56,770 --> 00:54:00,090

simpler but they've really expanded

1077

00:53:58,270 --> 00:54:05,140

their offerings it's incredible here

1078

00:54:00,090 --> 00:54:07,330

they have you can search across all the

1079

00:54:05,140 --> 00:54:09,340

manuscript libraries much like josmell

1080

00:54:07,330 --> 00:54:10,960

heart but I think more accurate in some

1081

00:54:09,340 --> 00:54:14,590

ways and yelled Miller I prefer using

1082

00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:19,920

this search engine and you can also

1083

00:54:14,590 --> 00:54:24,070

search in their collections of articles

1084

00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:27,490

documents all sorts of other articles on

1085

00:54:24,070 --> 00:54:31,270

Turkish history literature culture and

1086

00:54:27,490 --> 00:54:33,340

arts and then private papers and private

1087

00:54:31,270 --> 00:54:37,000

archives various important figures as

1088

00:54:33,340 --> 00:54:38,260

well and then this one I think is

1089

00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:42,690

important for secondary research if you

1090

00:54:38,260 --> 00:54:50,380

do read Turkish the Divinity School

1091

00:54:42,690 --> 00:54:52,120

journals articles so let's do this one

1092

00:54:50,380 --> 00:54:54,790

so what it'll do it will take you to a

1093

00:54:52,120 --> 00:55:00,520

page where you can you can choose any of

1094

00:54:54,790 --> 00:55:03,640

those differents search areas so turkey

1095

00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:06,490

turkey Japan Larry okay then we'll let

1096

00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:15,780

you search across all the manuscript

1097

00:55:06,490 --> 00:55:15,780

libraries recipe

1098

00:55:17,070 --> 00:55:22,720

and so this is again eventually gasps my

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lawyer it's telling you which library

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collection is located in these are all

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manuscripts and you'll be able to at

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least take down that information if not

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also find a way to request that

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manuscript if you need it it's an

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incredible nationalised resource of

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material that all this has been

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centralized because these manuscripts

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may not all be located in Istanbul they

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look at all over the country that you

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could search across all of the national

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libraries locations all right last one

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is fittest so this is all located in the

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UK I did - if you search again here it's

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automatically went to the people

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category and so here I'm able to see

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what titles they have under his name

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subjects associated with him and then

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specific manuscripts that are attributed

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to him and where they are located these

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do not link to full-text or the images

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this is a union catalog so it's just

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going to be the record information but

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you can use this to plan if you ever do

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need to go to the UK to do manuscript

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research research or if you're able to

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request them from these UK libraries

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request copies which should be possible

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possibly even through interlibrary loan

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services you at least have all of the

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billy-oh graphic information that you

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00:56:56,980 --> 00:57:01,930

need to do that it's extremely important

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because a lot of the important

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manuscripts and editions are located in

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the UK so on that note there just a few

1135

00:57:11,020 --> 00:57:14,609

more general tips one you're going to

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have a lot of bibliographic information

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especially if you're doing a lot of

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planning for fieldwork I recommend using

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a citation manager like Zotero to

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00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:26,320

organize all that information Zotero

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00:57:24,430 --> 00:57:27,770

would be able to take this website and

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00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,870

just scrape all the

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nation and produce a record for you

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eight years of terror library so you

1145

00:57:32,030 --> 00:57:34,640

don't even have to like enter it and

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00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,380

painfully or anything like that

1147

00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:38,060

I'm happy to consult with you if you

1148

00:57:36,380 --> 00:57:39,740

want to get started with cetera but it's

1149

00:57:38,060 --> 00:57:43,760

also very easy to learn from the website

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00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:45,950

zotero.org secondly if all of this is

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00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:49,370

failing for you and you really just want

1152

00:57:45,950 --> 00:57:53,500

a PDF of text that you know should be

1153

00:57:49,370 --> 00:57:56,900

available and may be fairly common no to

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00:57:53,500 --> 00:58:00,170

put the text title in in the original

1155

00:57:56,900 --> 00:58:03,980

language with PDFs in English after it

1156

00:58:00,170 --> 00:58:06,470

and hit search and you will likely find

1157

00:58:03,980 --> 00:58:08,630

what you're looking for it may not be

1158

00:58:06,470 --> 00:58:10,720

the exact Edition that you want but

1159

00:58:08,630 --> 00:58:12,590

somebody's probably put it up somewhere

1160

00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:14,510

when you see those our search results

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00:58:12,590 --> 00:58:16,610

pay attention to the message boards

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00:58:14,510 --> 00:58:19,400

where people discuss the editions

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00:58:16,610 --> 00:58:26,630

discuss the different links to PDFs of

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00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:30,140

these works online and posting and then

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00:58:26,630 --> 00:58:34,930

lastly don't hesitate to check out

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00:58:30,140 --> 00:58:38,720

Facebook and academia.edu these informal

1167

00:58:34,930 --> 00:58:41,230

networks of sharing information can be

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00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:45,040

crucial for finding these very rare

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00:58:41,230 --> 00:58:47,360

tidbits of information for example I

1170

00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,970

have a faculty member who's working on

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00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:52,400

Jews in Egypt and there is a Jews in

1172

00:58:49,970 --> 00:58:54,740

Egypt Facebook page and it's an Arabic

1173

00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:56,660

and it's primarily Egyptian Muslim

1174

00:58:54,740 --> 00:58:58,730

scholars who are working on the Jewish

1175

00:58:56,660 --> 00:59:01,730

community in Egypt but they have access

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00:58:58,730 --> 00:59:03,020

to incredible private archives and they

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00:59:01,730 --> 00:59:04,700

post these things and they will answer

1178

00:59:03,020 --> 00:59:06,950

your questions and they will get things

1179

00:59:04,700 --> 00:59:09,770

for you and share materials with you so

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00:59:06,950 --> 00:59:12,860

it's worth trying to find these groups

1181

00:59:09,770 --> 00:59:14,870

and entering that kind of collaborative

1182

00:59:12,860 --> 00:59:18,440

collegial atmosphere internationally

1183

00:59:14,870 --> 00:59:19,520

online to find your resources alright so

1184

00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,310

I know we've been through a lot and I'm

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00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:23,570

way over time I apologize for that but I

1186

00:59:22,310 --> 00:59:27,110

really wanted to give you guys some good

1187

00:59:23,570 --> 00:59:29,620

highlights all this is available and you

1188

00:59:27,110 --> 00:59:31,930

see a research guide husband his blog

1189

00:59:29,620 --> 00:59:35,090

fund all of these different links again

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00:59:31,930 --> 00:59:36,380

and I am available to you my other

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00:59:35,090 --> 00:59:39,110

Middle East librarian colleagues are

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00:59:36,380 --> 00:59:40,610

available to you we don't just work for

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the people at our universities we help

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00:59:40,610 --> 00:59:43,910

anybody

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00:59:41,420 --> 00:59:47,799

so thank you very much thank you very

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00:59:43,910 --> 00:59:50,930

much this have been incredibly wonderful

1197

00:59:47,799 --> 00:59:53,510

presentations very not only informative

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00:59:50,930 --> 00:59:56,720

but inspiring and so we're very grateful

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to both of you for for accepting our

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invitation and and providing us with

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00:59:58,730 --> 01:00:04,599

these inspiring talks thank you very

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much