UCLA Library's Center for Primary Research and Training

subject: post-doctoral fellowship post-doctoral fellowship in scholarly information resources Ali Anooshahr Janet Kaaya UCLA Library UCLA Library's Center for Primary Research and Training.

In collaboration with UCLA Library Special Collections staff, award-winning filmmaker Erin Flannery has created a series of short documentary films about the UCLA Library's Center for Primary Research and Training.

Two of the films feature CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows.

The first film features Ali Anooshahr. While in graduate school at UCLA and working in the Center for Primary Research and Training, Ali Anooshahr brought paleographic training and language proficiency in Persian, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish to the task of describing and processing the UCLA Library's collection of Near Eastern Manuscripts. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at UC Davis.

In the second film, Janet Kaaya appears with UCLA Politics Professor Michael Lofchie, whose Tanzanian papers Janet processed while working at the Center for Primary Research and Training.