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crln-7568	Varnet, Harvey; Cloonan, Michèle V.	Educating Iraqi librarians and library and information science educators: Risks and rewards	2006	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2125	93	57	feb06b.indd Harvey Varnet and Michèle V. Cloonan Educating Iraqi librarians and library and information science educators Risks and rewards Responding to the devastating effects of war on Iraqi libraries, the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) and the Harvard University libraries began a joint program in 2003 to train Iraqi librarians and library and information science educators, to aid in modernizing Iraqi librar- ies, and to help address the country’s serious shortage of librarians. ties scholarship to advance knowledge and understanding of Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq. The grant is part of the NEH program “Re- covering Iraq’s past to preserve and docu- ment Iraq’s cultural heritage,” which funds projects to “preserve and document cultural resources in Iraq’s archives, libraries, and museums.	cache/crln-7568.pdf	txt/crln-7568.txt