The library of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) is a small, highly specialized research library in the old medina of Tangier. Though the library contains specialized, often unique materials on Morocco, the Maghrib, and US-Morocco relations, it has not been well known among academics and researchers, and consequently is underutilized. This article surveys efforts by the TALIM Director and Board to rectify that by making the library catalog available online, and to make unique visual, textual, and audio materials available through Archnet. As a small nonprofit, TALIM faced unique challenges that it met by building collaborative networks. The article briefly outlines prior efforts of TALIM to facilitate access for scholars and academics worldwide. It then focuses on an inter-institutional effort involving the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, Wellesley College, and other institutions in Morocco and the United States to simultaneously conserve a collection of glass negatives, and to make the images more widely available to scholars and researchers. Finally, the article will assess these efforts, and chart future directions.
Toler, Michael A. "From Tangier’s Old Medina to the World: Efforts to Make the Visual Resources in the Collection of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies More Widely Available. in MELA Notes 2016 89 (2017): 15-22. https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.
