Dear Colleagues,
please find the final agenda of the business meeting attached. There
have been a couple of changes since the preliminary agenda. Most
importantly, Rhea has managed to get representatives from the Global
Resources Network (GRN) of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in
Chicago to participate. Please see my brief description of this project
under item no. 3 on the agenda. Thanks Rhea! This is exciting.
Gonda Van Steen, Chair of the MGSA Program Committee, the committee
responsible for the program at the Symposium, has informed me that we
can have the room until 5 p.m., so if anyone wishes to stay and continue
the interesting discussions the GRN and the morning's panel will most
likely generate, please feel free to do so.
Have a safe trip and see you all very soon!
All the best,
Rebecka
A new group affiliated with the American Philological Association, “the
Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication,” was
recently formed. Its second annual meeting will take place at the APA
conference in Montreal, Canada, on 7 January 2006 from 12:00 to 2:00
p.m. in room 513A of the Palais des Congrès.
The Forum’s purpose is to bring together librarians, scholars, and
others interested in the intersection of classical studies, libraries,
and scholarly communication, in order to exchange ideas and collaborate
on projects of mutual interest.
Topics for discussion at meetings and online may, for example, include
collection building and funding, partnerships between publishers,
scholars, and librarians, access to digital resources, and the
preservation of library materials, including those in electronic form.
Current projects include creating a searchable database for locating the
archives of American classicists and classical archaeologists and
developing model outreach programs to promote classics in public libraries.
More information about the Forum can be found on its web site:
http://library.nyu.edu/fclsc/. To join the listserv, please send a blank
message to fclsc(a)forums.nyu.edu. All are welcome to attend the Forum’s
meeting in Montreal.
Rebecka Lindau, Chair
“Forum for Classics, Libraries, and Scholarly Communication”
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Princeton University Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-5811
rlindau(a)princeton.edu
Dear all,
I hope you are planning to attend this year's Symposium of the Modern Greek
Studies Association, especially since the library community will be so
nicely represented with a panel and a separate meeting. Please come and meet
colleagues from the United States and Greece. The latest preliminary program
of the Symposium is listed at the MGSA Web site:
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/classics/MGSA/chisymp.html.
The panel "Research Collections (in Hellenic Studies): Challenges and
Possibilities" is scheduled for Saturday, November 5, 8:00-10:30 am, in
LaSalle 5 at the Palmer House in Chicago. If you have not yet registered,
please find the information at the MGSA site
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/classics/MGSA/chicago.htm .
I am further attaching a preliminary agenda for the business meeting, which
will take place on Saturday as well between 1:00-3:00 pm in LaSalle 5. I
have in addition added the agenda to this text in case you have difficulty
opening attachments. If there are additional items you wish to include,
please let me know as soon as possible.
I would also appreciate if you have working documents and the like that you
wish to share with everyone to please let me know so that I can add them to
our Web site http://www.cohsl.net <http://www.cohsl.net/> . I have still
not received a description from everyone of the collection strengths at your
respective institutions to be posted on the Web.
I am very much looking forward to seeing you all in just a couple of weeks!
Please note: The agenda for the business meeting is attached and below.
All the best,
Rebecka
Rebecka Lindau
Chair, MGSA Library Committee
(609) 258-5811
MGSA LIBRARY COMMITTEE
Agenda
November 5, 2005
1:00-3:00 p.m.
1. Rebecka Lindau, Princeton University, Chair of the MGSA Library
Committee, will open the business meeting with introductions and
announcements.
2. Rebecka will introduce Rhea Karabelas Lesage, Harvard University,
and incoming Chair of the MGSA Library Committee.
3. Rhea will introduce James Simon, Center for Research Libraries, who
will discuss the possibility of forming a consortium for sharing microfilm
resources through the CRL.
4. Catherine deG. Vanderpool, the Gennadius Library, will inform us
about the "Greek and South East European Research Journals project" (a
project aimed at indexing scholarly journals).
5. George Paganelis, Tsakopoulos Collection, will lead a continued
dialogue about the possibility of creating an index to Modern Greek Studies
(which fits in nicely with item no. 4).
6. Rebecka will lead a discussion about the Consortium of Hellenic
Studies Librarians (CoHSL) and its continued existence and goals. This will
include a discussion about the CoHSL Web site.
7. The meeting will conclude with a follow-up to questions generated by
the morning's panel.
8. The meeting will be adjourned.
Can I get a sense of how many of you have offprint collections at your
institutions? For those who have them, where do you keep your offprint
collections (or are they integrated with your stacks?), do they
circulate, and what type of storage medium you use to house them? Thanks
George
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George I. Paganelis
Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
California State University, Sacramento Library
2000 State University Dr. East
Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
Ph: (916) 278-4361 * Fax: (916) 278-5917
paganelis(a)csus.edu
http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos
