CoHSL-list April 2007

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FW: JSTOR at American Overseas Research Centers

by James Simon

FYI... ________________________________ From: Diane Ryan Sent: Fri 4/27/2007 3:00 PM Subject: JSTOR at American Overseas Research Centers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2007 Scholars Can Now Conduct Research Using JSTOR at American Overseas Research Centers The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and its Digital Library for International Research (DLIR) program are pleased to announce that JSTOR, the major web-based archive of international scholarly research journals, will now be available to scholars and the public at selected American overseas research centers, thanks to a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and support from JSTOR. CAORC is a consortium of research centers located in Europe; the Near and Middle East; North and West Africa; South, Southeast, and Inner Asia; and Central America. Each of these centers holds unique resources in its library, resources that are vital to American research and teaching needs in area, disciplinary, thematic, historical, and current studies. Through its DLIR program, which maintains an online union catalog and a web site with digital research resources, CAORC works to enhance access to library materials held by centers and their local partner networks. By identifying, prioritizing, preserving, and disseminating the content of libraries in countries where CAORC member centers are located, the DLIR makes important primary and selected secondary source materials accessible to US scholars and to people worldwide. To expand information access and participation in international scholarly communication for local scholars and students and for American scholars working overseas, the DLIR recently secured or enhanced the scholarly resources available through JSTOR for the following centers: * American Academy in Rome (AAR), Rome, Italy * American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia * American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), Amman, Jordan * American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS), Gurgaon, India * American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), Islamabad, Pakistan * American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) - Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (AIMS-CEMAT), Tunis, Tunisia; Tangier American Legation Museum (AIMS-TALM), Tangier, Morocco; and Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA), Oran, Algeria * American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS), Sana'a, Yemen * American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS), Columbo, Sri Lanka * American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey * American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), Athens, Greece * Center for Khmer Studies (CKS), Siem Reap, Cambodia * Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI), Nicosia, Cyprus * West African Research Center (WARC), Dakar, Senegal JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve journal issues and pages as they were printed, via the worldwide web. The American and international journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines including Arts & Sciences, Business, Health & General Sciences, and other subject areas. Thanks to the generous support of CAORC, JSTOR, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the participating research centers, local students and scholars, and visiting American researchers will have full access to the entire JSTOR collection. The participating American research centers will host outreach activities to promote access to this important scholarly resource in their local countries. ...END For more information, please see the DLIR web site (http://www.dlir.org <http://www.dlir.org/> ) or contact: Diane Ryan Project Coordinator Digital Library for International Research Council of American Overseas Research Centers c/o The Center for Research Libraries 6050 S. Kenwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 955-4545 x 266 dlir(a)caorc.org

17 years

BIB.GR/Biblionet

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Recently when I was checking the in-print availability of some books I wanted to order from Greece I ran across an anomaly in the online listings of Greek BIP. I have both these URLs bookmarked : <www.biblionet.gr> and <www.gbip.gr> Since I was looking for titles in English (from Anagnosis, Lycabettus and Denise Harvey) I used the <www.gbip.gr> part of the site. None of these publishers was listed, nor were any of their titles, nor was there access by the ISBN prefixes. In addition I was looking for translations into Greek of books by Hemingway G.Garcia Marquez, J.K.Rowling and others. These expected authors did not show up at all, and neither did a range of popular mass market writers (John Grisham Stephen King etc) that I knew had been issued by Harlenik/Bell) Again I was using the English language version so as not to get caught in any dumb transliteration mistakes. Somewhat baffled I e-mailed EEKEBI /BIBLIONET to ask if there was some kind of problem on the site. It turns out that the English interface is NOT an alternative access point to the full Greek BIP data base (though it does list those titles where there are bi-lingual records) and it does not necessarily include all non-Greek (Roman A/B) authors names, even when they are transliterated on the Greek part of the site. To be sure that you are looking at the total BIP listings you MUST use the Greek data base (even if the books are published in Greece in English) I have suggested that they might want to explain this on the entry page to the English language part of the site, to reduce confusion in such circumstances I also suggested that the Publisher and ISBN parts of the search form there might conveniently be linked to the full Greek records so unwary searchers are not led into an inadvertent dead end. ========================= 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

17 years

Modern Greek Resources Project update

by Rhea Karabelas Lesage

Dear All: First of all, let me say thank you to all who have posted to the list, offering helpful information and follow-ups to our Athens meeting. I offer the following as an update to the Modern Greek Resources Project, which still has to go through some official steps before it becomes an official GRN: James Simon has advised that we need to set up an executive committee, which will formulate a vision statement and objectives. Once the objectives have been articulated, working groups will be established and we will ask for participation from all of you. James recommended that we form the executive committee based on past, present and future MGSA Library Committee leadership as follows, and all have agreed to participate: Rebecka Lindau, past Chair of the MGSA Library Committee, Rhea Lesage, current Chair of the MGSA Library Committee, George Paganelis, incoming Chair of the MGSA Library Committee Maria Georgopoulou, Greek representative James Simon, ex-officio from CRL The executive committee will draft the proposal and post it to the CoHSL-list for comments and suggestions. We will use this list-serv as a means of communication for the project. Please note that we will all meet again at the MGSA conference which is scheduled for October 18-20, 2007 at the Omni Hotel, in New Haven, Connecticut, coordinated by the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University. (Thanks to Tony Oddo from Yale for reserving a time and place for the MGSA Library Committee to meet.) Please try to attend the symposium. The MGSA is marking its 20th anniversary and should prove to be a most interesting event! All the best, Rhea

17 years, 1 month

Greek digital newspapers

by James Simon

Though this is listed in Panos Georgiou's excellent list of projects, I am passing this along this because of the committee's interest in newspapers from Greece. The Greek National Library hosts e-fimeris, "one of the biggest projects in Greece for the digitisation of Newspapers." The collection contains more then 220,000 indexed and searchable newspaper page images, and nearly 1 million article citations. Titles currently include ELEFTHERIA (1944-1967), EMPROS (1896-1917), RIZOSPASTIS (1917-1983), SCRIP (1893-1911) and TAHIDROMOS (of Egypt) (1958-1977). The Greek National Library is offering its collections via open access. http://www.nlg.gr/digitalnewspapers/ns/main.html James Simon Director of International Resources Center for Research Libraries 6050 S. Kenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 USA Phone) 773-955-4545 x324 Fax) 773-955-4339 Email) simon(a)crl.edu ******************* The Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of North American libraries and universities that promotes the preservation of resources for advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. http://www.crl.edu <http://www.crl.edu/>

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FW: [GRN-PROJECTS] Report Documents Changes in Global Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries

by James Simon

Of potential interest... ~~~~~ Report Documents Changes in Global Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries A report analyzing Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member library cataloging data in the OCLC WorldCat database presents evidence of changing patterns of collecting books with foreign imprints. This analysis of book records and holdings in WorldCat finds that the overlap of global book collections among ARL libraries is not as extensive as expected. The analysis found that, on average: * For all countries combined, fewer than five ARL libraries own copies of any foreign-imprint book represented in WorldCat. * When the same data are examined by world regions, excluding North America, the overlap in holdings ranges from three to six ARL libraries. On average, three ARL libraries hold any given East Asian book and six hold any given book published in Latin America. A closer examination was made of books from 10 countries (excluding North America) most represented in ARL library collections: United Kingdom (UK), Germany, France, Japan, Italy, China, Spain, Russian Federation, India, and the Netherlands. On average, holdings from these countries decreased in each of the five-year increments between 1980 and 2004, with the exception of books published in the UK that showed a slight increase. The report also introduces the OCLC WorldMap, an interactive prototype system that provides visual tools for managing and representing geographically based library collections and library data. The WorldMap can be viewed on the OCLC Web site at http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/worldmap/prototype.htm <http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/worldmap/prototype.htm> . The report "Changing Global Book Collection Patterns in ARL Libraries" was prepared for the Global Resources Network (GRN) by: Mary E. Jackson, Auto-Graphics, Inc. (formerly Association of Research Libraries); Lynn Silipigni Connaway, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; Edward T. O'Neill, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; and Eudora Loh, University of California, Los Angeles. GRN is a voluntary and collaborative initiative of higher academic research institutions to expand and enhance access to international scholarly resources. The Center for Research Libraries provides administrative, technical, legal, financial management, and communications support for the regular activities of the GRN and its related projects. ARL and the Association of American Universities maintain a presence on the GRN Advisory Committee and many ARL member libraries are active participants in GRN and its projects. Due to the number of detailed charts and graphs, the report is best viewed in color. The report is freely available as a PDF on the ARL and the CRL Web sites. See URLs below. ARL: http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/grn_global_book.shtml CRL: http://www.crl.edu/grn/papers/grn_global_book.asp <http://www.crl.edu/grn/papers/grn_global_book.asp> About ARL The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL is located on the Web at http://www.arl.org/. About CRL The Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves traditional and digital resources for research and teaching and makes them available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. CRL is located on the Web at http://www.crl.edu/. About OCLC OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and reducing information costs. OCLC WorldCat is the world's largest database of bibliographic records and holdings. OCLC is located on the Web at http://www.oclc.org/. James Simon Director of International Resources Center for Research Libraries 6050 S. Kenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 USA Phone) 773-955-4545 x324 Fax) 773-955-4339 Email) simon(a)crl.edu <mailto:simon@crl.edu> ******************* The Center for Research Libraries is a consortium of North American libraries and universities that promotes the preservation of resources for advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. http://www.crl.edu <http://www.crl.edu/>

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