Index to Al-Rafid (2005), Eleventh Year

Abstract

This item provides a title index to Al-Rafid magazine for the year 2005, corresponding to its eleventh year, with the purpose of facilitating access to and bibliographic control of the magazine’s published content. It begins with a title page identifying the issuing body as the Libraries Department of the Department of Culture and Information in Sharjah, and presents organizational rules based on arranging materials under subject headings, filing them according to the stable title of each section, disregarding the Arabic definite article in arrangement, and recording issue, month, and page data. The item then presents a numbered title index covering cultural, literary, intellectual, and artistic materials published in Al-Rafid during 2005. Its value lies in serving as a retrieval tool for researchers and readers and in supporting bibliographic control of cultural periodicals issued in Sharjah.