id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-11728 Matta, Seoud Arabic Resources in American Research libraries and PL 480 1964-11-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1511 98 59 As of January 1963, after a year of actual operation, the Cairo office had shipped more than one hundred twenty thousand items to participant li- braries .... 5 CENTRALIZED OR COOPERATIVE CATALOGING OF ARABIC MATERIALS To overcome the difficulties in technical processing of Arabic materials, Harry W. Hazzard6 and David Wilder7 proposed the establishment of a fully centralized national cataloging system for Arabic or Middle Eastern publications. PL 480 Perhaps the most significant single de- velopment for the United States in the acquisition of Arabic materials since the mid-nineteenth century is the United States Public Law 480. cache/crl-11728.pdf txt/crl-11728.txt