CoHSL-list November 2007

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FRANTZ, M ALISON & TALCOTT, LUCY (EDS) This is Greece as Photographed By Members of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Their Friends New York. Hastings House. 1941, 1st US Ed. Hard Cover. "These are photographs taken by Americans who have lived & worked in Greece and who have contributed to this book as some small recognition of the warm hospitality they have found there." All royalties on this book were dedicated to the help of civilians in Greece subjected to the invasions of 1940-1941.(128 pages of plates,map ) Paper of dj tanned, especially along spine. Very Good/DJ Good with slight chips & tears. USD 75.00 ================================= 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

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Re: [Cohsl-list] CoHSL-list Digest, Vol 29, Issue 8 Apology

by KALAMOS BOOKS

> > Sorry about this - the URL for the GNA newsletter seems to have been > embedded into the blue links in the message that I forwarded to the list, rather > than direct ones into the web sites being referred to. However you CAN get to the links relating to items in the content of the message by using that same URL as an entry point. GNA seems to have a VERY messy way of handling this.... June S ============================= > This came in today from the Greek News Agenda > > Greek News Agenda <newsletter(a)greeknewsagenda.gr> > > June S > > ============================================== > > <<< A website called " Argo< > http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFVJVgUDGVcDAA%3… > >" > has been developed and is constantly updated by the National Documentation > Centre< > http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFZJVgUDGVcDAA%3… > >. > > > It is an environment facilitating the open access to bibliographical > information resources which are available in Greece as well as abroad. It > appeals mainly to users of the scientific, research > and educational communities, seeking information > > in different thematic sectors, as well as librarians, providing them the > opportunity to retrieve and acquire bibliographical records. > [image: ?]*Digital Library* >> > > 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 > >

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Bibliographic stuff

by KALAMOS BOOKS

This came in today from the Greek News Agenda Greek News Agenda <newsletter(a)greeknewsagenda.gr> June S ============================================== A website called " Argo<http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFVJVgUDGVcDAA%3…>" has been developed and is constantly updated by the National Documentation Centre<http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFZJVgUDGVcDAA%3…>. It is an environment facilitating the open access to bibliographical information resources which are available in Greece as well as abroad. It appeals mainly to users of the scientific, research and educational communities, seeking information in different thematic sectors, as well as librarians, providing them the opportunity to retrieve and acquire bibliographical records. [image: »]*Digital Library* The Anemi Digital Library<http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFdJVgUDGVcDAA%3…> aims to provide simple and quick access to a rich collection of digitized material related to Modern Greek Studies<http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFBJVgUDGVcDAA%3…>. Apart from finding bibliographic information, the researcher can also browse the documents themselves in electronic form. One may find a great number of old and rare documents, as well as recent publications for which their creators allowed the digitization and free distribution over the Internet. Anemi was founded in 2006 by the University of Crete library<http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/lt.php?id=LU0DUwhbDFFJVgUDGVcDAA%3…> . -- 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

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Google : Custom Search goes global

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Custom Search goes global http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/custom-search-goes-global.html 11/20/2007 05:25:00 AM Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Lead Product Manager, Enterprise Search and Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search In our Mountain View, California lobby, there's an image of a globe radiating colo(u)red beams of light, representing searches in different languages in countries all over the world. It's quite mesmerizing to watch. (You should check it out if you visit.) Today, we're pleased to tell you that the Google Custom Search platform is available in 40 languages, in close to 80 countries worldwide. And now you can search your Custom Search engine (CSE) in the language of your choice. We hope to see more people creating useful CSEs -- we want to see more colo(u)red beams on the globe! The Custom Search platform brings the relevance, reliability, speed and power of Google search to webmasters and developers worldwide. Webmasters can use CSE to create tailored search experiences on community web sites; businesses can add hosted site search to their web sites; users can add search to their blogs and web pages; and developers can build search right into their applications with the Custom Search APIs. There's no software to install or hardware to maintain. CSEs can be built in minutes and are easy to customize and manage. You can also control the appearance of the search results to match the look and feel of your web site. * Now, you can administer your favo(u)rite CSE in the language of your choice.* There's a free, ads-supported version, and there's also the Custom Search Business Edition (CSBE), in which further customization of search results is possible using an XML API, and ads are optional. CSBE also offers options for email and phone support. Our international launch of the Custom Search platform now brings CSBE to your country. Millions of businesses all over the world have a web presence but offer users no ability to search their site. Users are left on their own to navigate content once they land on a site. Now, organizations and businesses everywhere can enable Google-hosted site search to help users find what they need. The UK Parliament uses CSBE on its website to make nine million documents easily accessible to the public. Monarch Airlines is using CSBE to help manage the growing number of customer enquiries about hand baggage regulations and the increased focus on airline security. Since adding CSBE they have seen a 30% reduction in inbound email as more customers now find what they need online. A leading Serbian media system B92, which includes both a TV and radio station and a leading web portal, B92.net, offers Custom Search on various sections of its site, such as sport, business, culture and technology. B92.net also uses several unique features, including linked CSEs, search refinements, and the capability to exclude certain sections of their sites from search results. Belfabriek, a provider of 0800 and 0900 service numbers in The Netherlands, wanted to offer customers the speed and quality of searching with Google. Since using CSBE, the number of callers has decreased substantially as people find the information they need and register their numbers directly through their website. Indian cricket site Cricbuzz uses a CSE to provide cricket fans relevant cricket content for any search related to cricket, using search refinements for drilling down into scores, player profiles, records, blogs and news. We'd like to hear from you about your CSE too. Please keep that feedback coming. -- 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

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Re: [Cohsl-list] Question about Greek character set in bib. recs.

by Ilias Kyriazis

Rhea, As sound recordings cataloger in Lilian Voudouri Library, I am currently using both latin and non-latin scripts in the records I submit to OCLC (this is still pilot, the workflow doesn't get very fast, indeed). Although records can be exported as Unicode, it is not the same when validating a record in OCLC and updating holdings (thus submitting it to Worldcat), where the record needs to be MARC-8 compatible. I am coping from the OCLC guide about international cataloging ( http://www.oclc.org/support/documentation/connexion/client/international/): *Verify MARC-8 characters* *Tip:* If non-Latin characters that you need (other than Bengali, Devanagari, Tamil, and Thai) are not in any MARC-8 approved character sets for MARC 21 cataloging: - Enter the character in the record, export the record to your local system using Unicode export format, and then remove the character before processing the record in WorldCat. Or - Enter the name of the character within square brackets, using the Unicode standard if available, (for example, enter *[schwa]*), or for CJK characters, enter the reading of the character (for example, enter *[yin]*). For reference, see, for example, the Unicode charts Web page, which has a name index, at < http://www.unicode.org/charts/ >. Since the greek tonos is not a MARC-8 character, I need to exclude it before submitting to WorldCat. Otherwise I would have to name it in square brackets, which I don't consider that functional. As about parallel fields, I am using them for 100, 245, 246, and 260. You can check the following examples: #180691325 #173470900 Sincerely -- Ilias Kyriazis Fulbright Alumnus - Music Librarian Lilian Voudouri Music Library of Greece Megaron Concert Hall Vas. Sofias & Kokkali 115 21 Athens GREECE tel.: +30-210-7282556 fax: +30-210-7259196 mail: ikyriazis [at] megaron [dot] gr URL: http://www.mmb.org.gr

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Question about Greek character set in bib. recs.

by Rhea Karabelas Lesage

Dear CoHSL members, Would you kindly forward this query to your appropriate cataloging departments if you are unable to answer? I am trying to get a handle on best practices for handling the Greek character set in bibliographic records. 1. Which libraries are incorporating the Greek character set in bibliographic records and what is your practice? 2. I have noticed that OCLC records that do include Greek characters, do not include the tonos, even though there are correct unicode values for these. a. Is there are reason for this? If yes, please let us know! 3. If we proceed with the Modern Greek Resources Project and decide that shared cataloging is one of our goals, then should we not consider including the tonos so that we will be able to use records from Greece? As far as what we are doing at the Harvard College Library--we are still just creating transliterated recs. since adding the paired fields requires twice the work. However, we do accept records with the Greek character set from the University of Crete (which include the tonos), and then add the appropriate parallel fields. We also share the Harvard catalog with our colleagues at Dumbarton Oaks, who are cataloging with parallel fields, but without the tonos. I would like to hear from them as well, perhaps offering advice as to how they are managing this extra step in the cataloging process. I would be very grateful for any responses to this message. And please do post to the list since I believe that most members are interested in this topic. Best regards, Rhea -- 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

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Princeton University Librarian Position

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Juts in case you don't see it on "the Other" list JS ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dimitri H. Gondicas <gondicas(a)princeton.edu> Date: Nov 21, 2007 3:09 PM Subject: [MGSA-L] Princeton University Librarian Position To: mgsa-l(a)uci.edu PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Program in Hellenic Studies http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/ Dear Colleagues, I bring to your attention the following announcement by the Princeton University Library, Department of Human Resources, for a Librarian in Classics, German, Hellenic Studies and Linguistics: http://library.princeton.edu/hr/positions/JobLibrnClassicsGermanHellenic Studies2007.html Kindly forward this announcement to qualified individuals. I thank you in advance, Dimitri Gondicas Dimitri Gondicas Executive Director Program in Hellenic Studies Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/ _______________________________________________ List-Info: https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/mgsa-l 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 -- 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

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Re: [Cohsl-list] CoHSL-list Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5

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> 2. I have noticed that OCLC records that do include Greek characters, do > not include the tonos, even though there are correct unicode values for > these. > a. Is there are reason for this? If yes, please let us know! Rhea, Just wondering - is this less a function of the availability of Unicode characters, than of ensuring correct alphabetization within data bases that were designed (in roman script) before these ELOT characters were standardised ? Obviously data bases in Greece were designed with built in protocols for handling the script & alphabetizion in Greek ( Greek PERL scripts ?) But the ones here function with search sequences in Roman script. So then it may not be just a question of transliteration of records, but also of programming within the data base software. The "alphabetization" question just came up on the Classics mailing list and some list members suggested work-arounds for arranging files/indexes in Greek characters (and obviously the problem of accents is the greater in ancient Greek) The discussion related to documents in Greek (in word processing programmes) but I think the generic dilemma regarding different scripts and their A/B word order searching protocols is much the same in DBs Ralph Hancock is the source of the information below (and the designer of Greek fonts / software in Greek so I am, with his permission, including his e-mail address) <<On Nov 17, 2007 4:19 PM, Ralph Hancock <ralph.hancock(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > There is a way to sidestep the problem of alphabetical sorting of classical > Greek, which is used by my program Antioch for its sorting procedure. Like > Antioch itself, this works only in Word. > > 1. Turn on 'Track changes'. > 2. Use Antioch to convert the polytonic Greek to monotonic. The previous > step causes the original spelling to be preserved in a parallel universe > somewhere. > 3. Sort the text with the ordinary Word procedure, which sorts monotonic > (but only monotonic) Greek correctly. > 4. Reject the 'changes'. The text now returns to polyphonic spelling, but > the order into which paragraphs have been sorted remains the same. > > RH When I mentioned the question of library catalogue entries he replied as follows :: <<Do you mind if I forward this to some librarian colleagues , faced with the > many problems of creating bi-lingual catalogue entries for Greek books [...] <<< Please go ahead. I should point out that the downloadable trial version of Antioch is fully working even when not registered, and if the librarian colleagues want to use it simply for sorting, I would not expect them to register it. (If they want to use Antioch for its main purpose of writing classical Greek, they should register.) Instructions on the procedure are given in the Antioch help manual under 'Sorting classical Greek'. I haven't explored the maximum length of list that Word will sort. The program can be found at : www.hancock.dircon.co.uk/antioch.htm or www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm >>>> Not being in any way a computer Geek I hope this helps .... June S ========================== 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

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1. Agnostos Nomolos/Easter Rising (George Paganelis)

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> I Googled the phrase "Restif Press," the publisher listed for <Easter > Rising>, and found the poet Richard Burns mentioned as its author on > several sites, including Burns' own (see: > http://www.richardburns.eu/site/Books-in-English.html). =================== George, Thank you for casting some light on this - I was obviously looking in all the wrong places ! The book states : "This nine-part poem written in Greece during the early days of the 1967coup, 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 " This led me to assume that this was a GREEK author in hiding, so was searching for some clue in Greek bibliographies etc. Even if it was originally written in Greek, I could not find if it had ever been published there, even after 1975. I also checked some some "pseudonym" sites (paper & on line) with no success There were NO listings in the British Library, or Oxford (or even Trinity College Dublin) Which there "ought"to have been under UK copyright/ legal deposit rules ( but this was the year before ISBN numbers arrived to simplify things in National Bibliographies <g> ) I just checked again in BL, Oxford & Trinity - this time using "Burns" and AN and NA as well as the title. There is nothing on record that this publication was ever deposited at any of them as was mandatory at the time. ( I used Trinity on the assumption that no one in Dublin was likely to have casually disposed of a book with a title like "Easter Rising" ) No listing by AN ir under title anywhere in WorldCat. When I posted a qry on MGSL list some time ago there was no response I also sent a qry to Denise Harvey who published the anthology below, and who I thought might know: HARLOW, MICHAEL (ED) Events Greece 1967-1974 Athens, Anglo-Hellenic Publishing. 1975, 1st Greek Ed. Original Wraps. A short anthology of poetry, prose and art reflective of the Junta years in Greece by a wide range of authors including : Contributors include : Michael Harlow, Andonis Kyriakoulis, John Demos, Pericles Korovesis, Yianni Ritsos, Margarita Karapanou, Jenny Mastoraki, N.C.Germanacos, Kay Cicellis, Irving Layton, Gail Holst, Martin Booht, Nikos Stavroulakis, Kevin Andrews, Sophia Yemenaki, Manolis Anagnostakis, George C.Savvides, G.Williamson McDiarmid, Yannis Goumas. 88p. illus. Some unanswered questions arise : Why no legal deposit copies anywhere in the UK ? Why would a British author need to disguise his ID ? When did the Restif Press record identify it as by Richard Burns ? It seems that this publication fell through a number of Bibliographic cracks! June S ============================ 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

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Agnostos Nomolos/Easter Rising

by George Paganelis

I Googled the phrase "Restif Press," the publisher listed for <Easter Rising>, and found the poet Richard Burns mentioned as its author on several sites, including Burns' own (see: http://www.richardburns.eu/site/Books-in-English.html). Best, George ---------------------- 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

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