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CDIRM project partners Collaborating entities include participating American Overseas Research Centers and their local partner networks, listed below; the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and its Digital Library for International Research; the Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL) of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; Princeton University Library, and the Center for Research Libraries. American Overseas Research Centers participating in the Local Libraries and Archives Project are located in the Mediterranean basin; the Middle East and North Africa; and Inner Asia. A large collection of materials from Guatemala now held by Princeton University Library is also part of the project. As the project work is initiated in each country, we will add a description of the local project and the names of collaborating local institutions, keyed to the alphabetical list of centers immediately below. American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines a Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt Palestinian American Research Center, Ramallah, West Bank W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR), Jerusalem, Israel top of page The section below gives descriptions of the local components of the LALORC projects sponsored by the participating AORC centers, their local partner organizations, and other collaborating institutions. They are alphabetized by country. This information will be updated as new projects are started serially over the first three years of the project. For those interested in finding out more about the individual centers and their programs, the ORC names below are linked to the centers' own websites. Egypt AORC: The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) Project: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago) Guatemala Partner: Princeton University Libraries Project: Collections produced by the Guatemalan News and Information Bureau on deposit at the Princeton University Library. Israel AORC: W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR), Jerusalem, Israel Project: Participant in the map digitization project coordinated by CAMEL (University of Chicago) Mongolia AORC: American Center for Mongolian Studies Project: D-space project for Mongolian sutras Partners: Mongolian University of Science and Technology, local library partners Palestinian Authority AORC: Palestinian American Research Center Project: Family papers in Palestine Partner: Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Ramallah Tunisia AORC: Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia Project: Digitization of selected materials from the libraries of the Diocese of Tunis (the long-established Institut de Belles Lettres Arabes (IBLA) and the much newer Bibliothèque de la Medina), and the private Benanni library Partners: Libraries of the Diocese of Tunis, Benanni Library Yemen AORC: American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen Project: Selective digitization of manuscripts held by the Dar al-Makhtutat, Ministry of Culture Partner: Dar al-Makhtutat, Ministry of Culture top of page The CDIRM project is part of the on-line Digital Library for International Research Last updated: August 13, 2009 Please direct any feedback regarding this website to: cdirm@aiys.org.