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Hi Asma,
I'm Simona, Italian teacher and librarian in Catania and Siracusa; I always see your blog and I have written a paper published in may 2006 (BiblioWeblog - p. 55 LIS Café: un weblog dal mondo arabo) on "Biblioteche Oggi" (translation: libraries today) an Italian magazin on librarianship (www.bibliotecheoggi.it).
On my blog you can find a link to lIS cafè!
I'm interested on librarianship in arabic world, my husband studies arabic and he teaches Arabic language at the University in Catania!

ciao!
Simona Inserra,Università di Catania - Facoltà di Lettere
simona.inserra@unict.it - simoins@libero.it
http://www.simonainserra.splinder.com
http://www.bisiblog.splinder.com



LIS Cafe is a *wonderful* blog--great content, good graphics, good coveage of events. Congratulations on your 1 year anniversary.You may want to link to my blog, OPL Plus--check it out at http://opls.blogspot.com

Judith Siess
Judith A. Siess, B.A., M.A., M.S.L.I.S.
Cleveland, Ohio,USA
Email: jsiess@ibi-opl.com,
On the web at http://www.ibi-opl.com blogging at http://opls.blogspot.com/
Publisher and Editor of :

• One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management
• The New OPL Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo and Small Libraries, Information Today, Inc., 2006, ISBN 1-57387-241-5
• The Essential OPL, 1998-2004: The Best of Seven Years of The One-Person Library: A Newsletter for Librarians and Management, Scarecrow Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8108-5429-5
• The Visible Librarian: Asserting Your Value With Marketing and Advocacy, ALA Editions, 2003, ISBN 0-8389-0848-9
• Time Management, Planning and Prioritization for Librarians, Scarecrow Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8108-4438-9

Dear Asma and friends in Kuwait:
Thank you for sharing the information and the SLA photos. I am glad you continue to be active professionally and socially and I wish all the very best. All is well her, just finished my paper on Libraries and Democracy to e presented at the Standing Conference on African Libraries to be held in dare s Salaam, from July 10 to 14, 2006, as well as finishing editing volume 15. no. 2 of the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES). This issue includes four articles written by Kuwaiti professors in the College of Arts and Sciences and Education. They are excellent articles based on funded research from KU or KFAS, and more will be published in the next issue. I continue to enjoy my daily swim and will be going to Minnesota to visit my two grandchildren there. Best wishes to all of you and keep in touch.

Mohammed M. Aman, Ph.D.
Dean Emeritus and Professor
Editor-in-Chief, DOMES
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
School of Information Studies
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201

Good job and I wish you the best
Hassan A. Alsereihy, Professor
Vice Dean of Library Affairs (KAU)
P.O. Box 80202Jeddah, 21589

thanks for this - you are actually the first "media" outside the Netherlands (my home country) to dedicate an article to my book. Much appreciated!
I browsed the blog and learned a lot about LIS in Kuwait. Seeing the community you have gathered, there is a lot going on. Do librarians in Kuwait work in "traditional" libraries, or do they also work in related areas like web-design, taxonomy design, etc. I was just curious how this is in your country.
Best Regards,
Dennie Heye

Hello
I have just visited your blog - congratulations - it is an impressive outcome of a group activity. As Editor of the LIS journal Program I clicked on that link - and found that the link led to the previous publisher (Aslib). The journal is now published by Emerald - and the link should be http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/prog/prog.jsp
Good luck!
Lucy Tedd, Lecturer, Department of Information Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth and Editor of Program: electronic library and information systems.

As-Salamu Alaikum
Thanks for inviting me to join this blog. I hope to see more and more librarians and information specialists from the GCC libraries participate in this informative blog. My best wishes to each and every member of the blog.

Sincerely yours,
SYED SAJJAD AHMED
Senior Cataloger
Box 1910, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia