Membership & Officers

Membership

Membership and participation in MELCOM (UK) are open without formality to all who are interested in the committee’s aims and activities. The following are especially encouraged to join:-

  • librarians
  • information officers
  • archivists
  • bibliographers
  • codicologists
  • academics, scholars and students of the Middle East
  • information scientists
  • booksellers
  • bibliophiles
  • students of Middle Eastern librarianship
  • academics and scholars with a particular interest in libraries and/or bibliography

There is no membership fee, and meetings are held twice a year (December/January and July). For further details contact the Secretary.

Officers

Chair:
Dr Michael Erdman
Head, Middle East and Central Asia
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London, NW1 2DB

email: michael.erdman@bl.uk

Secretary:
Anne Watson
Librarian (Egypt & Sudan, Middle East, Greece & Rome)
The British Museum
Great Russell Street
London, WC1B 3DG

email: AWatson@britishmuseum.org

Treasurer:
Waseem Farooq
Reference and Instructional Librarian
Aga Khan Library
10 Handyside Street
London, N1C 4DN

email: waseem.farooq@aku.edu