The Middle East Studies Library
The Middle East Studies (MES) collection at Ohio State contains over 100,000 books on the history and culture of the Middle East and North Africa from the 7th century A.D. to the present; on the religion of Islam throughout the world; and on Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages and literatures. The bulk of this collection is at the Ackerman library but we are responsible for the Middle East portion of collections in Fine Arts, Business and other libraries on campus.
MES has a non-circulating reference collection in the International Studies area at Ackerman Library. This is just a small part of the total Middle East collection. The Reading Room contains the specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries and bibliographic tools, in Western and vernacular languages, necessary for the study of the Middle East, its languages and cultures and Islamic Studies.
The MES Reading Room also contains academic and popular journals from and about the Middle East as well as newspapers from the region. Only the most recent issues are in MES; consult OSCAR for the location of older issues.
The MES office (Room 5711A Ackerman Library) manages the Middle East collection. We provide bibliographic assistance for researchers in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish as well as sources in western languages.
We are always happy to provide assistance.
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This page maintained by pvisel -last updated - 2/1/2007