Electronic find of the month:
I detoured through New York on my way to the Symposium in New Haven
and stopped off to view the amazing multilingual resources of Queens Borough
Public Library (at the Flushing location - I did not have time to get
to Astoria <g>)
One interesting project is their sponsorship of "Wordlinq" see at:
http://www.worldlinq.org/
which forms a bi-lingual portal to access a multiplicity of on-line
resources in
a range of languages and scripts (11 at present) for public library users.
Once they get round to doing Greek I think it will be one more useful
resource for members of this list.
June S
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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
www.kalamosbooks.com
Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
The library said it planned to digitize a collection of
rare cultural materials and move forward with plans to
create a global digital library in cooperation with other
nations.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/technology/18world.html?th&emc=th
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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
www.kalamosbooks.com
Dear Colleagues,
As a member of ALA's Joseph W. Lippincott Award Jury, I am writing to
encourage nominations/applications for the 2008 award. Founded by the
late Joseph W. Lippincott and now donated by his grandson, Joseph W.
Lippincott, III, the award "consist[s] of $1,000 and a 24k gold-framed
citation presented annually to a librarian for distinguished service to
the profession of librarianship, such service to include outstanding
participation in the activities of the professional library association,
notable published professional writing, or other significant activity on
behalf of the profession and its aims."
Nominations/applications must be postmarked by December 1, 2007 for
consideration. For more information, including application form and list
of previous winners, visit:
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=awards&template=/ContentManageme
nt/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=161877.
Feel free to get in touch with any questions.
Best,
George I. Paganelis
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George I. Paganelis
Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
California State University, Sacramento Library
2000 State University Drive East
Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
Ph: (916) 278-4361 * Fax: (916) 278-5917 paganelis(a)csus.edu
http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos
The Library of Congress and the Embassy of Greece will celebrate Nikos
Kazantzakis in a tribute on November 1, 2007.
Two lectures will be presented, after opening remarks by Ambassador of
Greece Alexandros P. Mallias and by Georgios Babiniotis, President of the
Hellenic Foundation for Culture. The event will be 7-9 p.m. in the Mary
Pickford Theater (James Madison Building, 101 Independence Avenue SE), 3rd
floor.
The speakers and their topics are Darren Middleton (Texas Christian
University), "Reading Kazantzakis Today," and Patroclos Stavrou
(N. Kazantzakis Publications), "Kazantzakis and America."
The event is free and open to the public, and will mark the inauguration
of activities in Washington, DC by the Hellenic Foundation for
Culture. Please note that the Pickford Theater seats 64 people;
seating will be available on a first-come basis. A reception and display
of Kazantzakis books from LC collections will follow the program.
For additional information please contact Donna Urschel, Public Affairs
Office (202/707-1639, durschel(a)loc.gov) or Harold Leich, European Division
(202/707-2224, hlei(a)loc.gov).
Dear CoHSL members:
Thanks to all who replied that they were attending the Librarians'
Meeting at the MGSA Symposium. I am looking forward to seeing all of you
there. I have attached the meeting agenda and below I have pasted the
message that I sent out to the MGSA list serv this morning. What was
formerly an "unofficial" committee of the MGSA has been formally added
to the MGSA Standing Committees. This change in our status will require
some administrative changes that we will discuss at our meeting.
Finally, a look at the MGSA Symposium's final program indicates that
Maria's lunch panel *will* take place on Friday at 1:00 after all.
Please try to attend this interesting discussion!
Looking forward to seeing everyone again. Safe travels to all.
Rhea
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Dear MGSA members:
In 1999, MGSA members, who were also librarians, formed an informal
committee to share information on building Modern Greek collections in
the U.S. and improving access to Greek materials for libraries. I am
pleased to announce that this past month the MGSA Executive Board
approved the formation of the MGSA Library Committee as an addition to
the existing MGSA Standing Committees. We are scheduled to meet on
Friday morning, October 19th 9:00-12:00 at the Beinecke Rare Books &
Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street, Yale Campus. All MGSA members are
welcomed to attend this meeting, the agenda for which is pasted below.
We will discuss the draft mandate, committee structure and objectives,
which will be presented to the MGSA Executive Committee for approval. If
you are interested in serving on the committee, please come to the
meeting to learn more. If you are unable to attend but would like to be
considered for committee membership, please send me, Rhea Karabelas
Lesage (karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu) or incoming Chair, George Paganelis
(paganelis(a)csus.edu) an email stating your interest. After
introductions, we will spend the first part on the MGSA Library
Committee "housekeeping" issues. The remaining 2 hours will be spent
reviewing the Modern Greek Resources Project (MGRP) goals, objectives,
bylaws, and working groups. For background information on the MGRP see
the Global Resources Fall 2006 Newsletter:
http://www.crl.edu/grn/newsletter/GRN_7.pdf#page=10
For those who would like to learn more about the MGRP, the 2006 MGSA
Bulletin published the preliminary report on p.48-51.
I look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
Sincerely,
Rhea Karabelas Lesage
Chair, MGSA Library Committee 2005-2007
MGSA Librarians' Meeting
Friday Oct. 19, 2007
9:00-12:00
Beinecke Library, Yale Campus
AGENDA
1.
Welcome and introductions (10 min.)
2.
MGSA Library Committee: (50 min.)
1.
Status update
2.
Mandate, Structure---draft approval
3.
Committee---call for participation
1.
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2007-2009 term)
2.
Five other members
4.
Future activities/projects
3.
Modern Greek Resources Project (MGRP) (1 hour 50 min.)
1.
Executive Committee Draft: MGRP objectives, by-laws, working
groups
2.
Discussion
3.
Working groups---call for participation
4.
Next steps---Meeting in Crete 2008/2009?
IV. Wrap-up (10 min.)
--
Rhea K. Lesage
Head and Bibliographer for Modern Greek
Modern Greek Section
Collection Development Department
Widener Library
Harvard College Library
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617)495-3632
FAX (617)496-8704
Two uncommon little publications
1] One of the topics under discussion at the MGSA Symposium
will be the postwar reconstruction of Greece under the Marshall Plan :
There is this item of interest :
Bailey, John S.
The Marshall Plan.
Athens: American College of Greece, 1998. First Edition. Soft Cover.
'Remarks of President John S. Bailey on the Occasion of the 50th.
Anniversary of the Marshall Plan, November 11th 1997" (Library
Pamphlet series No. 4)
"1000 copies of these remarks delivered at a Veteran's Day dinner in
honor of the U.S.Military Retiree Association of Greece were printed
in October 1998 ..." $25.00
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2] An unusual item from the Junta Years
(I can't see any copies either in LoC or WorldCat. or the
British Library .... which is surprising ... )
Nomolos, Agnostos.
Easter Rising 1967.
London: Restif Press, 1968. First Edition. Soft Cover.
"This nine-part poem, written in Greece during the early days of the
1967 coup, was smuggled out of the country in late November. It is
published here in a translation made by the author, who is obliged to
write under the pseudonym Agnostos Nomolos"
(Number 47 of an edition of 500 copies) $50.00
As yet I have not been able to establish exactly "who" was (justifiably)
hiding behind this pseudonym - does anyone know??
(I thought maybe Manolis Anagnostakis - but this seems TOO obvious -
even the best brains of the Junta could have worked that one out ... <g> )
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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
www.kalamosbooks.com
Request from the Department of Classics at the University of Illinois
The Classics Library at the University of Illinois, with an
open-shelved reference collection of over 60,000 volumes, is one of
the best in the world. Founded in 1908, and developed by W. A.
Oldfather and A.S. Pease in the 1920's from the historic Vahlen and
Dittenberger collections, it now houses magnificent holdings in Greek
and Latin Language and Literature, Philology, Linguistics, Greco-Roman
Religion, Archaeology, Palaeography, Numismatics, Epigraphy,
Papyrology, Art History, Ancient History, Patristic and Jewish
Theology, Medieval and Renaissance Latin, and Byzantine Greek. With a
staff of two, including one full-time scholar-librarian with a PhD in
Classics and a Senior Library Specialist with a Ph.D. in Linguistics,
it is an indispensable research and teaching tool for faculty,
students, and countless visitors from the U.S. and abroad.
In a recent "State of the Library" address, University Librarian Paula
Kaufman, under direction from the Provost to reorganize how the
library delivered its services, stated, "The best way to provide the
level of service we've provided in the past is to move away from our
monolithic department library model and toward new service models that
recognize the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of academic
inquiry." As one possible means of implementing this initiative, the
library is considering consolidating the Classics Library with all of
modern European literature (English and various European foreign
language) to create a single even more monolithic supra-departmental
library. The only stated intellectual justification for doing so is
that it will create greater "interdisciplinarity," on the assumption,
it seems, that Classical studies deals only with literary works, and
oblivious to the fact that Classical studies-as attested by the nature
of the holdings of the Classics Library-already is as
interdisciplinary as a field of scholarly studies can ever get. More
pragmatically, the reasons for wanting to consolidate the Classics
Library involve reduction of "service points" for library users and
space issues.
If this initiative is implemented, it will mark the end of the
Classics Library as an effective instrument of scholarly studies. The
on-shelf collection will be heavily reduced, thus destroying a unified
and coherent collection that has taken nearly 100 years to put
together. The social, intellectual, and pedagogical home that the
Classics Library has fostered for many decades will be destroyed. The
reputation of the Classics Library in particular and the University
Library in general will be seriously damaged, and library usage will
decline even further. In order to keep this from happening, we, the
members of the Department of the Classics at the University of
Illinois, hope that you will support our efforts on behalf of the
Classics Library by signing the petition that you will find at the
following URL: https://webtools.uiuc.edu/formBuilder/Secure?id=1319096
If you would like to send a more detailed letter, please address it to:
Paul Kaufman
University Librarian and Dean of Libraries
230 Main Library
MC 522
1408 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
Email: ptk(a)uiuc.edu
With a copy to
Professor Linda Katehi
Provost
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
217 Swanlund Administration Building
601 East John Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Email: provost(a)uiuc.edu
Thank you!
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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
www.kalamosbooks.com
