I'd like to bring a new publication of interest to the group's
attention:
HO HELLENISMOS TOU DEUTEROU PANKOSMIOU POLEMOU MESA APO TON
ANGLOAUSTRALIANO TYPO
(Hellenism of the Second World War as perceived by the Australian Press
with an extensive and comprehensive summary in English)
By Konstantinos A. Darais
Ekdoseis Mati, 2005, ISBN: 960-8042-71-2
For a copy, contact the author directly at kdarais(a)sch.gr or the
publisher at b-mati(a)otenet.gr
Best,
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
Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached the new acquisitions list of the Gennadius Library
regards
Irini Solomonidi
Librarian
Gennadius Library
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
61, Souidias Street, GR 106 76 Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210-721-0536
e-mail: isolomonidi(a)ascsa.edu.gr
>From another list :
S. Hassid <cvrhasd(a)techunix.technion.ac.il> Mailed-By:
techunix.technion.ac.il
To: June Samaras <june.samaras(a)gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2006 2:27 AM
Subject: Digital Newspapers from the National Library
A very useful piece of advice for those who want to see old greek
newspapers on their displays, even if this is limited to Eleytheria,
Empros, Rizospastis,Skrip and Tahydromos.
can be done by clicking www.nlg.gr and then "efimerides" or even
better directly http://www.nlg.gr/digitalnewspapers/ns/main.html
Mr. Apostolou, who sent this usefull piece of information in the
civil war list, took the oportunity to ask people to protest the state
of some of those newspapers ...
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
(or) kalamosbks(a)aol.com
www.kalamosbooks.com
RLG to combine with OCLC
DUBLIN, Ohio, May 3, 2006: Two of the world's largest
membership-based information organizations have agreed
to come together. The combined organization will
offer an integrated product and service line, and will
give libraries, archives and museums new leverage in
developing services, standards and software that will
help them support research and disseminate knowledge
online.
The RLG Board of Directors and OCLC Board of Trustees
have recommended that the two service and research
organizations be combined effective July 1, 2006. If
approved by RLG member institutions, RLG's online
products and services will be integrated with OCLC
products and services, and RLG's program initiatives
will be brought forward as a new division of OCLC
Programs and Research.
A combined organization would provide an opportunity
to leverage program strengths, services and innovative
research initiatives, and to deliver more value to a
greater number of libraries, museums, archives and
other research organizations around the globe.
RLG is a nonprofit organization of over 150 research
libraries, archives, museums and other cultural memory
institutions that designs and delivers innovative
information discovery services, organizes
collaborative programs, and takes an active role in
creating and promoting relevant standards and
practices. OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a
nonprofit, membership, library service and research
organization whose public purposes of furthering
access to the world's information and reducing library
costs dominate its plans and activities. OCLC
provides computer-based cataloging, reference,
resource
sharing, eContent, preservation services and research
to 54,000 libraries in 109 countries.
"The last few years have instilled in us all an
urgent need to find innovative, cost-effective and
compelling ways to bring research collections into the
heart of the online environment and into the hands of
those who can benefit from them," said James Neal,
Vice President for Information Services and University
Librarian at Columbia University, and Chair of the RLG
Board of Directors. "It is time that RLG and OCLC
take united action if we are to realize our long-held
and long-shared mutual goal of providing information
to people when and where they need it. New challenges
demand new thinking, so after deliberation and careful
thought, both RLG and OCLC came to the conclusion that
the best way to serve our members' interests was to
combine forces."
"The OCLC Board of Trustees and OCLC management
believe that it is in the best interests of the
library and cultural heritage community in general,
and the research library community in particular,
for RLG and OCLC to create a united organization that
leverages our respective strengths," said Betsy
Wilson, Dean of University Libraries, University of
Washington, and Chair, OCLC Board of Trustees. "We
must work together, so that in the years to come, the
people and institutions we serve will point to our
alliance as a signal achievement in advancing
research, scholarship and education."
RLG's program initiatives would be continued as
RLG-Programs, a new division of OCLC Programs and
Research that would provide programs to support
architecture, standards development and best
practices, to name a few.
James Michalko, who currently leads RLG, would serve
as Vice President of RLG-Programs Development, working
under the leadership of Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President
of Research and OCLC Chief Strategist. RLG-Programs
would remain a membership-based organization. Its
agenda would be shaped by the needs of its members and
guided by a dedicated Program Council.
"RLG-Programs will continue RLG's successful tradition
of identifying issues and building consensus among
research institutions," said Mr. Michalko. "When
combined with OCLC's research capacities and robust
prototyping capabilities, RLG-Programs will transform
collaborative activity for our member institutions.
Through RLG-Programs initiatives, staff from member
institutions will work together to gain and share
competence in the use of new technologies, contribute
to the development of new standards, and collectively
improve the ability of researchers to find and use the
rich collections that members manage on their behalf."
RLG's online products and services would be integrated
with OCLC service offerings as appropriate. The
potential for increased services and consolidation of
costs would result in overall savings. For example,
RLIN, the RLG Union Catalog, would be integrated into
WorldCat, delivering economies of scale and reach that
would benefit members of both RLG and OCLC.
Both organizations are committed to providing
seamless, high-quality services and service levels.
Any change in RLG service offerings will be
announced well in advance.
Approval of the agreement requires the assent of
two-thirds of voting RLG member institutions. Voting
will conclude in early June. RLG-Programs would
maintain an office in Mountain View, California.
Staffing decisions will be made in the weeks leading
up to the proposed transition.
"We know that the RLG membership shares with the OCLC
membership a conviction to deliver access to the
world's information," said Jay Jordan, OCLC President
and CEO. "Together, we can deliver enhanced solutions
that collect, organize, preserve and provide access to
information, not just for today, but for future generations."
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
(or) kalamosbks(a)aol.com
www.kalamosbooks.com
