Other news from the field...
The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative, ATON, has received worldwide attention with its digitized collection, on the web at aton.ttu.edu. In the first three weeks of January 2003, it received over 18,000 document requests--accessed by more patrons in three weeks than the total number of visitors to the archive premises in its forty year existence. Of the three similar programs worldwide ATON is the only collection digitized and accessible on the web. There are currently over fifty links to the ATON website from various other sites around the world. Academic and professional institutions with a link include: Stanford University, Sakarya University in the Turkish Republic, Monumenta Altaica in Russia and the American Anthropological Association. The British Library which is considered one of the finest libraries in the world, also has a link to the ATON website. There are also over two dozen search engines and other various sites that link to ATON.
Arab Artists Resource Guide Now Available
As you might recall, in last year's newsletter Kay Tarapolsi issued a "Call to Artists" to invite Arab artists to submit information about their work to the nonprofit organization Arab Artists Resources & Training. The product of that call, a directory of Arab artists from all over the world, is now available. For more information visit the website at www.aart.ws or contact Kay at info@aart.ws.
