Ali Houissa is the Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian / Bibliographer at Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York since 1988. A graduate of the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington in 1988 & Fachhochschule für Bibilotheks- und Dokumentationswesen, Cologne, West Germany, 1986. Served as President of the Middle East Librarians’ Association of North America (MELA), 2005-2007. Elected Councilor-at-Large of the American Library Association (ALA), 2003-2006.