AUB Libraries Digital Collections is a gateway to our digitized and preserved collections featuring manuscripts, maps, photos, posters, books, multimedia and other resources. This online growing repository aims to continuously disseminate knowledge about AUB, the region, our history and cultural heritage for the purpose of research, teaching and education. It is also a hub for collaboration with other departments, faculties, scholars in addition to external partners libraries and institutions to support digital scholarship initiatives.

Lebanese Newspapers Digital Archive

Lebanese Newspapers Digital Archive periodical collection

The Lebanese Newspapers' Digital Archive collection offers a rich and diverse archive of local newspapers. This collection serves as a valuable resource for research and academic inquiry, offering invaluable insights into Lebanon's modern history.

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Arabic Cinema & Theatre

Arabic Cinema & Theatre image collection

The Egyptian Cinema and Theater Photographs Collection consists of 21 albums featuring 784 black-and-white photographs of films and plays produced between 1913 and 1952. It also includes press clippings, 36 personal photographs of prominent actors of the era, a gift from Al Kawakeb magazine, and 20 autographs of Egyptian actors.

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Al-Ādāb

Al-Ādāb periodical collection

The AUB Libraries, in collaboration with "Dar al-Ādāb", are building al-Ādāb Digital Archives. The project includes the digitization, Arabic Text OCRing (recognizing printed text within a digital image), indexing, adding descriptive metadata, and preservation of the entire run of al-Ādāb magazine (1953-2012).

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Arabic Collections Online

Arabic Collections Online book collection

The AUB Libraries have joined the Arabic Collections Online Project, a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic Language Content. Established with support from NYU Abu Dhabi, and currently supported by major grants from Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and Carnegie ...

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al-Tabib

al-Tabib periodical collection

"Al-Tabib" or "The Doctor" or "The Physician" was the first Arabic medical journal in the Middle East, established by Dr. George Edward Post, a surgeon and one of the founding fathers of the Syrian Protestant College (SPC), now known as the American University of Beirut.

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Børre Ludvigsen Archive

Børre Ludvigsen Archive webarchive collection

Børre Ludvigsen’s Digital Archive consists mainly in preserving the work done by Professor Ludvigsen especially the digital repositories related to the Levant and the region. This valuable information which is made available for researchers and the public is preserved and presented as a web archive.

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Kamal Joumblatt

Kamal Joumblatt collection collection

The University Libraries developed the Kamal Joumblatt Digital Library in order to make primary and secondary resources on Joumblatt freely and conveniently accessible to scholars, students and general readers. The digital library includes books, manuscripts and all the material donated to the University Libraries.

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Manuscripts

Manuscripts manuscript collection

The University Libraries own approximately 1,800 manuscripts in several languages, the majority of which are in Arabic. The core clusters were acquired as early as the late 19th century from the prestigious private libraries of the Syrian Society for the Arts and Sciences; Nawfal Nawfal's (1811-1887) and later the distinguished Lebanese historian 'Īsá Iskandar al-Ma'luf (1869-1956).

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POHA

POHA oralhistory collection

The Palestinian Oral History Archive is an archival collection that contains more than 1,000 hours of testimonies with first generation Palestinians and other Palestinian communities in Lebanon. The project will digitize, index, catalog, preserve, and provide access to the digitized interviews.

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Posters

Posters image collection

The art posters collection was donated to the Libraries of the American University of Beirut (AUB) after the "Exhibition on Art Posters in Lebanon", organized by the Steering Committee of AUB Arts Center, March 2001. The AUB collection of 165 art posters dates between early sixties until the late twentieth century.

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