Acknowledgments

We would like to thank those persons who have provided information for us.

1. Dr. Jana Bradley, Director, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA.
2. Dr. Phyllis Erdogan, Library Director, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
3. Interlibrary Loan Department, Surrey Public Library, Surrey, British Columbia
4. Reference librarians, Whalley Branch, Surrey Public Library, Surrey, British Columbia
5. Reference librarians, Walter C. Koerner Library, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

We would like to thank the following for their assistance:

1. Juan Acevedo, The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, UK, for leads to sources.
2. Phoebe Luckyn-Malone, Senior Secretary, Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, for leads to sources.
3. Ruth Barriskill, For Printed Books Librarian, Guildhall Library, City of London Libraries, London, UK, for leads to sources.
4. Taha Publishers Ltd., London, UK, for permision to quote data from the book Arabic Writing and Arab Libraries, by S. M. Imamuddin.