The WMLDC is proud to announce its partnership with the following reputed institutions:
 

1. Egyptian Universities' Library Consortium

The major goal of the consortia is to provide interactive information services to the Egyptian scholars and students. All the consortia services are electronically available through the EULC portal. Accessing information resources and services through one unified portal would help the Egyptian universities' libraries to eliminate the overlap and duplication of resources and efforts, which would facilitate optimum methods for effectively and efficiently using the allocated resources

http://eulc.edu.eg/eulc/libraries/start.aspx?fn=ChangeLang&Applang=E&ScopeID=1

http://www.eul.edu.eg (Arabic) http://demo.ovid.com/demo/EUL/

EULC Projects

1. Digital Library Consortia — The main objective of this project is providing access to the international electronic resources including citations, abstracts and full text database; beside E-journals, books, transactions and engineering standards. All these E-resources are searchable through one unified portal and individually through their interfaces.
2. Egyptian University Libraries Automation — The objective of this project is automating the Egyptian universities' libraries, (EUL) through building a union catalog for their holdings. The union catalog will facilitate achieving more cooperation and resources sharing among all the members of the EULC.
3. Future Library System Development — The ICTC in EL-Mansoura and EL-Zagazig Universities have built and implemented a library automation system. The EULC cooperates with the ICTC to enhance and develop the system using an international list of specifications. The project objective is to standardize the system to cope with the international standards of library automated system and to generalize it in the automation of the EULC.
4. The Electronic Theses and Dissertation Database — The objective of this project is building a national database for the awarded theses and dissertation from the Egyptian universities, besides building a task force for the electronic theses and dissertations metadata standard (ETDMS) which would allow the higher education researchers a full submission of their theses to the system using an international electronic standard format.

2. Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library

The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library (MPDL) makes widely available a repository of the world's knowledge on all forms of philanthropy as expressed through original documents, reports, graphics, waqf registrations, scholarly analysis in Muslim-majority countries and Muslim communities worldwide. It also houses video and sound recorded interviews in its Voices of Philanthropy section and visual representations of philanthropy in its Visual Exhibition. MPDL covers material from 1900 to the present in English and Arabic [more languages will be included in the second phase of the project]. It encompasses the diverse cultural, political and social factors influencing the practice of philanthropy as well as the significant contributions from across Muslim-majority countries to contemporary global philanthropic practice.
 

This section features documents covering the various dimensions of philanthropic practices within the Muslim world under the following categories [arranged alphabetically]: arts and architecture, cultures of giving, diaspora, economics, history, law, philanthropic institutions and religion.

Special Collection "Bint Al Nil" Journal

This partnership primed the WMLDC periodical "Bint al Nil" in digital format through the skillful scanning provided by MPDL, and thus made it accessible to the general public, through both sites (MPDL & WMLDC). In 1948, Doria Shafik created the Bint al-Nil [Daughter of the Nile] association and journal funded by a generous donation from Princess Chevikar to fuse new energy in the Egyptian feminist movement. The journal chronicles an important period in Egyptian history; before and after the 1952 Revolution and underscores the role played by women as an integral part of the nation. It features articles on literacy programs, cultural, political and social campaigns led by women, and testimonies on women philanthropic activities in Egypt and the world at the time.