NYU’s Arabic Collections Online Usage Jumps 700 Percent in March
New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)
14 Apr 2020
Library Resource Management
As remote learning and self-quarantine have become the order of the day, the number of monthly users of NYU Libraries’ Arabic Collections Online (ACO) increased from 50,000 to 350,000 in March. This digital library, a partnership between NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi, is a collection of Arabic-language, public-domain content drawn from distinguished libraries around the world and available to anyone with an internet connection…
For ACO, NYU is coordinating the digitization of Arabic language books from the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and six leading academic libraries: NYU, Columbia University, Cornell University, Princeton University, American University of Beirut (AUB), and American University in Cairo (AUC)...
NYU’s Digital Library Technology Services developed and manages the on-line interface, a web portal accessible around the world.
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