{"id":336,"date":"2022-11-09T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:29:57","slug":"professional-associations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/professional-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional associations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-71865aa0\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-903dfcdb\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h1 class=\"has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#009080\">Professional Associations<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efebeb\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mela.us\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mela.us\/\">MELA, Middle East Librarians Association<\/a><\/strong><br><br>It is the purpose of the Middle East Librarians\u2019 Association to facilitate communication among members through meetings and publications; to improve the quality of area librarianship through the development of standards for the profession and education of Middle East library specialists; to compile and disseminate information concerning Middle East libraries and collections and to represent the judgment of the members in matters affecting them; to encourage cooperation among members and Middle East libraries, especially in the acquisition of materials and the development of bibliographic control; to cooperate with other library and area organizations in projects of mutual concern and benefit; to promote research in and development of indexing and automated techniques as applied to Middle East materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#efebeb\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamicmanuscript.org\/home.aspx\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.islamicmanuscript.org\/home.aspx\">TIMA, The Islamic Manuscript Association<\/a><\/strong><br><br>The Islamic Manuscript Association is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting Islamic manuscript collections and supporting those who work with them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-336","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melcominternational.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}