Higher
Education in Iraq: Textbooks & Libraries
Higher
education in Iraq
2007 Report from International Conference on Higher Education in Iraq; Erbit, 11-13 December 2007.
Portal
Iraq -- Education
Iraqi
universities that are members of the Association
of Arab Universities -- click on Member Universities
and then on Iraq. (Don't know how current the information is.)
Some
Iraqi universities have their own Web pages, e.g., these in the Kurdish
region:
Threats
to Iraqi Academics
Iraq's
Universities Near Collapse
by Zvika Krieger, The Chronicle of Higher Education 18 May
2007.
Scholars
at Risk
calls for actions against murders of Iraqi professors, 8 November
2006
Letter
Regarding Mass Kidnapping -- from AAUP, November 2006
Letter
Regarding Murder of Two Professors -- from AAUP, November 2006
AAUP's
statements about Iraqi Academics
Iraqi
Academics are Marked for Death, 7/7/06 article from Chronicle
of Higher Education (Word doc)
AAUP
decries violence against Iraqi academics
What
is Happening to Iraqi Academics and Intellectuals?
Plight
of Iraqi academics
List
of killed, theatened or kidnapped Iraqi academics
List
of Iraqi academics
who have been harmed or threatened
Theatened
teachers fleeing the country Reuters
story 8/24/06
List
of 450 Iraqi targeted academics from May 2006
Conference
in Madrid about the plight of Iraqi academics
Guidelines
for Assisting Libraries My
little project involves sending new textbooks to Iraq for distribution
to Iraqi faculty and students. Efforts to rebuild libraries would involve
much more, e.g., arranging for OCLC records to accompany the book shipments.
Fortunately, there are some good guidelines for assisting libraries:
Iraqi
Libraries and Archives in Peril: Survival in a time of Invasion,
Chaos, and Civil Conflict, A Report -- July
2007 update by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University
Indispensable
Yet Vulnerable: The Library in Dangerous Times. Preface to a Report
on the Status of Iraqi Academic Libraries and a Survey of Efforts
to Assist Them, by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University. 2005.
Lessons
for Assistance to Iraq Libraries by Jeff Spurr, Harvard University,
June 2004
Book
Donations for Development -- excellent guidance from UNESCO (scroll
down and click on PDF)
UNESCO
Roundtable on the Revitalization of Higher Education in Iraq,
February 2005. UNESCO
Welcomes Results on the Roundtable, dated 3/9/05.
Conference
in Britain to Update Higher Education in Iraq 3/15/05
Libraries
in Iraq from IraqWho.com
Other
projects that have sent books These projects mostly happened
in 2003 and 2004; as it's gotten more dangerous in Iraq in 2005 and
2006, these types of projects have been discontinued.
Sabre
Foundation supplying books to Mosul and to universities in the
Kurdish areas
Text
Donations to Assist Iraqi Doctors -- a Daily Bruin article (5/15/07)
about a Books without Borders project at UCLA.
Americans
Donate Medical Books to Iraq Associated Press story from 1/3/05.
"To minimize shipping costs, Gifford arranged for some packages
to be delivered to stateside military posts, where they were transferred
to military cargo planes headed for Baghdad."
Books
for Baghdad began at Jacksonville State. They say "We are
very grateful to International Relief and Development, Inc. of Washington,
D.C. for handling our shipment to Baghdad, which is by far the most
difficult part of the project."
Students
Collect Textbooks for Iraqi Medical Schools University of Tennessee;
story is from 4/1/04
Book
donation program aids Iraqi universities Program at UCLA; story
is from 7/26/04.
Programs
offering assistance to libraries Again, as Iraq has gotten
more dangerous, these types of programs have been discontinued
Online
Library gives Iraqis Access to Science
from Academe
Assistance
to Iraqi libraries from ALA (American Library Association) describes
several projects
Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) has a Committee
on Iraqi Libraries. Scroll down to gain access
to the documents the committee has published.
USAID-Iraq
HEAD Higher Education and Development for Archaeology and
Environmental Health Research, SUNY at Stony Brook. "Promoting
Higher Education in Iraq" (6/04) lists partnerships between
American and Iraqi universities.
They
did a Libraries
and Facilities Assessment in a visit to Baghdad 17–22
December, 2003.
USAID
supported the Al
Sharaka Program for Higher Education in Iraq, which was a consortium
of Oklahoma and Iraqi universities committed to the rebuilding of
Iraqi higher education. Al-Sharaka and some other higher education
projects were cancelled in late 2005. See USAID-HEAD
projects cancelled by Jeff Spurr posted 10/05.
Harvard:
Harvard
To Aid Libraries In Iraq (8 Mar 2004 story) and Simmons
have a joint effort -- Harvard's focus is on rebuilding collections,
Simmons on retraining Iraqi librarians.
British
Council programs: Supporting
Education in Iraq and Books
and Journals for Iraq
UNESCO
UN
News Centre story 16 December 2004 – "Four containers
of laboratory equipment, along with supplies of up-to-date reference
and textbooks, are on their way to Iraq as part of an international
effort to revitalize the country’s universities and its higher
education system under a nearly $6 million programme jointly sponsored
by the United Nations." Organized by UNESCO and the International
Fund for Higher Education in Iraq initiated by Qatari First Lady Sheikha
Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Misnad.
Commentary
on Iraqi universities and libraries
Report
on the Central Awqaf Library and Report on the Central Library of
Baghdad University / Al-Waziriya available from the Middle East
Librarians Association
Between
Saddam and the American Occupation, by Keith Watenpaugh Academe
Sep/Oct 2004, and other articles in this issue.
Iraq
Universities and Libraries: One Year After the Occupation by Hala
Fattah Reprinted from the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin,
June 2004
Opening
the Doors: Intellectual Life and Academic Conditions in Post-War
Baghdad (pdf) -- reports the findings of a 9-day
visit to Baghdad (22-30 June 2003) by Keith Watenpaugh,
Edouard Méténier, Jens Hanssen, and Hala Fattah.
(Also available here)
URL
for this page is http://topsy.org/TextbooksIraq.html
Topsy
N. Smalley
tosmalle@cabrillo.edu
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