Kioumars Ghereghlou

As the Curator for Middle East collections at Stanford, I oversee the planning, development, processing, acquisition, management, and public service of collections covering all aspects of Middle East Studies. My primary responsibility is to collect materials that support the research, learning, and teaching needs of students and scholars working on various aspects of society and politics in Iran, Turkey, and all Arabic-speaking countries in the Middle East and North Africa. I select and acquire multiformat resources, including traditional scholarly publications (print and digitized), special collections and archival materials, and materials published through emerging forms of scholarly communication. I also provide a range of services to user communities at Stanford, including advanced reference and instruction. I promote the use of Stanford University Libraries' collections and resources through in-person and online outreach and collaborate with other curators and selectors to support and strengthen interdisciplinary collections and services. By training, I am a historian (Ph.D., 2006) and hold a Master's degree in Information Science.