Head Librarian / Islamic Studies Library
Morrice Hall, Room 109
3485 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E1
Subjects
- African Studies
- Islamic Manuscripts, Codicology, Palaeography History of the Islamic book
- Islamic Studies
- Middle East Studies
- South Asia Studies
- Turkish and Ottoman Studies
Education
- Maîtrise en sciences de l'information et de la documentation, , 2004
- Maîtrise d'arabe moderne, , 1999
- Licence d'arabe moderne, , 1997
Areas of interest
- African, Islamic, Middle East & South Asia studies librarianship
- Academic librarianship in the Middle East
- Islamic rare books & manuscripts
Professional activities
- Past-Past-President of the Middle East Librarians Association () [2023-2024]
- Member of the European Association of Middle East Librarians () [2004-present]
- Co-owner of the listserv [2014-present]
Editorship
- Associate Editor of 2008-2020
Awards, honours, and fellowships
- Scholarship Award from the French Foreign Affairs Ministry for advanced study at the , Damascus, Syria (1999)
Selected publications
Salamon, A. (2022). Casey A. Wood’s Islamic manuscripts in the ƬƵ Libraries. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada: Rare Birds and Rare Books: Casey Albert Wood and the ƬƵ Libraries, 59(2022), 43-64.
Hussein Moustafa, L. & Salamon, A. (2022). In the Bubble: The Case of The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Research in the Time of COVID-19, Journal of Library Administration, 62(3).
Atallah, M. & Salamon, A. (2020). Adapting Middle Eastern and Islamic studies librarianship to users’ changing needs. MELA Notes, 93, 12-31. Retrieved from
Ginouvès, V. Peyssard, J.-C., Richard, A. & Salamon, A. (2019). La sélection d'é, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 145(septembre), 171-176. Retrieved from:
Richard, A. & Salamon, A. (2018). La sélection d'é, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 143(octobre). Retrieved from
Ginouvès. V. & Salamon, A. (2017). La sélection d'é, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 142(décembre). Retrieved from:
Salamon, A. (2016). Academic librarianship and coercion: a case study in the occupied Palestinian Territories. In Amanda Click and Sarah Ramdeen (Eds.), Librarianship and Information Sciences in the Middle-East and North Africa (pp. 62-85). Landsberg : IFLA De Gruyter Saur Verlag. Retrieved from
Salamon, A. (2015). Middle Eastern Studies Librarians: an ambivalent professional identity. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 41:5(September), 644-652.
Salamon, A. (2014). ƬƵ’s Islamic lithographed books. In Jillian Tomm and Richard Virr (Eds.), Meetings with Books: Symposium on special collections in the 21st century. With a tribute to Raymond Klibansky & an illustrated survey of ƬƵ Library special collections (pp. 122-123). Montreal, QC: ƬƵ University Library.
Salamon, A. (2014). ƬƵ’s Islamic early printed books. In Jillian Tomm and Richard Virr (Eds.), Meetings with Books: Symposium on special collections in the 21st century. With a tribute to Raymond Klibansky & an illustrated survey of ƬƵ Library special collections (pp. 170-171). Montreal, QC: ƬƵ University Library.
Salamon, A. (2012). Satisfaire un public hétérogène en bibliothèque de recherche. Argus (Montréal, Quebec), 40(3), 35-37.
Selected talks and presentations
Salamon, A. (2021, March 26). La gestion des fonds anciens « islamiques » à l’Université ƬƵ (Montréal, QC, Canada) : entre pratiques traditionnelles et nouveaux défis. Paper presented at a research seminaroffered by the Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds (IREMAM), Aix-en-Provence, France.
Salamon, A. (2019, November 13). Evaluating & improving the Middle East Librarians Association’s Mentorship Program. Paper presented at the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Salamon, A. (2018, September 10). An Introduction to the Arts of Bookmaking. Paper presented at the “” co-organized by the Institute of Islamic Studies, the ƬƵ Islamic Studies Students Council, and the Islamic Studies Library, Montreal, QC.
Salamon, A. (2017, April 20). Islamic manuscripts: The Ivanov Collection. Paper presented at “The Eyes Have It: An Appreciation of Casey Wood’s Contribution to Ophthalmology, Ornithology & ƬƵ Library” Symposium, ƬƵ Rare Books and Special Collections, Montreal, QC.
Salamon, A. (2016, October 31). Transformer une bibliothèque de recherche en espace public et inclusif. Paper presented at the Congrès des Professionnels de l'Information, Montréal (Canada).
Salamon, A. (2015, July 9). Le Moyen-Orient en bibliothèque(s): collecter comment et pour qui?. Paper presented at the Groupement d’intérêt scientifique (GIS) Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Paris, France.
Salamon, A. (2014, March 14). What is an Islamic Studies Library?. Paper presented at the ƬƵ Institute of Islamic Studies 60th Anniversary workshop “New approaches to World Islamic and Middle East Studies”.
Salamon, A. & Swanick, S. (2013, May 21). The Art of Writing in the Islamic World. Workshop hosted for the PACE (Personal and Cultural Enrichment Program), ƬƵ University School of continuing Studies.
Salamon, A. (2012, June 5). 60 ans au service de la recherche en études islamiques : la bibliothèque d’études islamiques de ƬƵ. Paper presented at the MELCom International (European Association of Middle East Librarians) conference, Paris, France.
Digitization projects, exhibitions, etc.
- , ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- , ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- , ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Institute of Islamic Studies Tehran Branch Publications, ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- , ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- , ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- , ƬƵ University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- , Open Collections Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- , Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt