CoHSL-list October 2008

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Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship

by George Paganelis

*PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTING* Dear Colleagues, As jury chair of ALA's Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship, I am writing to encourage nominations/applications for the 2009 award. The Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship "honors an individual for contributing significantly to the public recognition and appreciation of librarianship through professional performance, teaching and/or writing. The award includes $1,000 and a 24k gold-framed citation, donated by Ken Haycock, Ph.D." Nominations/applications must be postmarked by December 1, 2008 for consideration. For more information, including an application form and list of previous winners, visit: www.ala.org/ala/awardsgrants/awardsrecords/haycockaward/haycockaward.cfm Feel free to get in touch with any questions. Best regards, George I. Paganelis Chair, Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship Jury, 2008-09 ---------------------- George I. Paganelis Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection University Library California State University, Sacramento 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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Digitized incunabula from Munich

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bettina Wagner <Bettina.Wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:59 AM *** Please excuse cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is currently funding a project for the digitization of the incunabula of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, which comprises c. 9700 editions in more than 20.000 copies and constitutes the largest collection world-wide in terms of copies. It is intended to digitized one copy per edition. Since the beginning of the project, digital images of more than 1100 incunabula have been made freely available online. The can be accessed in several ways: 1. OPAC: http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/ Short records of all digitized incunabula have been integrated into the Bavarian Union Catalogue (Gateway Bayern) and the local OPAC of the BSB. However, these records do not contain the same level of detail as the BSB's printed and electronic incunable catalogue (BSB-Ink, see below 3). You can search for catalogue numbers in BSB-Ink and GW via the "freie Suche"; it is recommended to place them in inverted commas (e.g.. "BSB-Ink M-149" or "GW M19909"). The digital images can be accessed under "Weblinks" or the URL/URN. >From Gateway Bayern, the button "SFX" (in the bottem right-hand corner) offers a connection to the full record in the online database of BSB-Ink. 2. Digital collections: http://www.digital-collections.de/index.html?c=kurzsammlungen&l=en Here you find, by order of projects, lists of incunabula which have been digitized, which can be sorted in alphabetical or chronological order or by shelfmarks. The current project is listed under: Incunabula http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1157526886<http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/%7Edb/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1157526886> All incunabula digitized in other projects which have already been completed, like "Book illustrations (woodcuts) of the 15th century", "Early modern broadsides" (if before 1501) and the "Gutenberg-Bible", are already accessible via BSB-Ink online. 3. BSB-Ink online: http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/Inkunabeln.181.0.html The electronic catalogue of incunabula was converted from the printed version, published in the Reichert-Verlag Wiesbaden in so far 6 volumes since 1988. All digitized images of incunabula are successively integrated into this database, which contains the most detailed descriptions (both bibliographic and copy-specific data). In the course of the current project, iconographic data (IconClass and keywords) are created for illustrated incunabula; these can be searched via the function "Bildsuche". We constantly strive to consider suggestions for improvements in the online presentation as well as wishes for incunabula to be digitized, inasmuch as it is feasible in the project workflow. In the current phase of the project, primarily illustrated and German incunabula as well as unique copies will be digitized. It is intended to continue the project for the entire collection (in one copy per edition). If would like to draw your special attention to the unique copy of the "Türkenkalender" from the workshop of Johannes Gutenberg himself, the earliest incunable in German printed in December 1454, which was recently digizited from the original - a "Liber Eximiae Raritatis et inter Cimelia Bibliothecae asservandus" in the words of the Bavarian historian Andreas Felix von Oefele (1706-1780): http://mdzx.bib-bvb.de/bsbink/Ausgabe_M-149.html Yours sincerely, Bettina Wagner _______________________________________ Dr. Bettina Wagner Abteilung fuer Handschriften und Alte Drucke Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Ludwigstr. 16 D-80539 Muenchen Germany email: bettina.wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de Tel. +89 / 28638-2982 Fax. +89 / 28638-12982 oder 2266 postbox: D-80328 Muenchen _______________________________________ Inkunabelkatalog der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (BSB-Ink) online: http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/cocoon/bsbink/start.html _______________________________________ IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s18/index.htm _______________________________________ Programm zum 450jährigen Jubiläum der BSB: http://www.450jahre-bsb.de/

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Google settles dispute over online books

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Note for all authors - it is to your advantage to register your copyright so as to be able to claim any royalties inder this scheme June S ---------------------- Google settles dispute over online books * Mark Sweney * guardian.co.uk, * Tuesday October 28 2008 15.13 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/oct/28/googlethemedia-digitalmedia Google has reached a landmark agreement with authors and publishers to make millions of books available online, in a deal that includes a $125m (£80m) payout and the end to lawsuits filed by companies including Penguin. The agreement, part of which is subject to the approval of the US District Court in New York, comes after two years of negotiations between the parties and will mark the end of two lawsuits against the Google Book Search tool. Today's agreement settles a class action lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild in September 2005 challenging Google's plans to digitise, search and show snippets of in-copyright books and to share digital copies with libraries without explicit permission. A month later five major members of the Association of American Publishers – McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Penguin, Simon & Schuster and John Wiley – filed a separate suit on similar grounds. The deal today, described in a joint statement by all parties as "groundbreaking", will see online access granted for millions of in-copyright materials "and other written materials" in the US through Google Book Search. Rights holders will be able to control the pricing of online content and access to books. Under the agreement Google will make payments totalling $125m to be used to establish a Books Rights Registry, to resolve existing claims by authors and publishers and to cover legal fees. Worldwide holders of US copyrights for written material can register works with the Books Rights Registry and receive compensation from subscriptions from institutions such as universities, book sales, ad revenue "and other possible revenue models", as well as cash payment for their works that have already been digitised. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, called the deal a "great leap" in the search engine giant's endeavour to "organise the world's information". Free access will also be made available at participating US libraries that are willing to pay a fee. There are more than 16,000 libraries in the US. Libraries at the California, Michigan, Wisconsin and Stanford universities have "provided input" towards the settlement and will make their collections available. "It is hard work writing a book and even harder work getting paid for it," said Roy Blount Jr, the president of the Authors Guild. "As an author, well, we appreciate payment when people use our work. This makes good sense." · To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor(a)mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 7278 2332. · If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". -- 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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Call for Papers: IFLA Cataloguing Section

by KALAMOS BOOKS

From: Anders Cato <Anders.Cato(a)KB.SE> Subject: Call for Papers: Milan 2009 Cataloguing Section Open Session Call for Papers: IFLA Cataloguing Section 75th World Library and Information Congress, Milan, Italy, 23 - 27 August 2009 Session Theme: New Principles, New Rules for New Catalogues The IFLA Cataloguing Section (IFLA CATS) invites cataloguers and others involved in the following to express their interest in making presentations at the section's programme during the World Library and Information Congress in Milan, Italy, 23-27 August 2009. 2009 will be a very interesting year in the area of cataloguing and bibliographic control. IFLA will publish a new statement of international cataloguing principles; a new cataloguing code, RDA (Resource Description and Access), replacing the AACR2, will be published in 2009 and implemented the following year by four participating countries (U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia) and maybe more countries will follow soon after that; in Italy, the host country of the World Library and Information Congress 2009, new cataloguing rules will be published. The Standing Committee of the Cataloguing Section has therefore decided to dedicate the open session of 2009 to the subject of rule-making. Presentations on the topic "New Principles, New Rules for New Catalogues" are requested. Two successful proposals on the topic will be identified. Send a detailed abstract (1 page or at least 300 words) of the proposed paper (must not have been published elsewhere) and relevant biographical information of author(s)/presenter(s) by 15 December 2008 via email to: Anders Cato, Chair, Cataloguing Section e-mail: anders.cato(a)kb.se The abstracts will be reviewed by members of the Cataloguing Section's Standing Committee. Successful proposals will be identified by 31 January 2009. Full papers will be due by 15 April 2009 to allow time for review of papers and preparation of translations; papers should be no longer than 20 pages. 15-20 minutes will be allowed for a summary delivery of the paper during the Cataloguing Section's programme. Please note that the expenses of attending the Milan conference will be the responsibility of the author(s)/presenter(s) of accepted papers. ****************************************** Anders Cato Head of Cataloguing Kungl. biblioteket: National Library of Sweden Box 5039 SE-102 41 Stockholm Tel. +46-8-463 4429 Mobile: +46-73-917 24 74 e-mail: anders.cato(a)kb.se

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Invitation for archivists and special collections librarians in the New York Metropolitan area

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mary Manning <MANNING(a)adelphi.edu> Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM I apologize in advance for any duplication of this notice. You are Invited to Attend the Initial Meeting of the ACRL/NY Archives and Special Collections Discussion Group ACRL/NY is forming a discussion group for archivists and special collection librarians in the New York Metropolitan area (including Long Island and Westchester County). The Archives and Special Collections Discussion Group brings together archivists and special collections librarians who work in academic and research settings, so we may discover our commonalities, discuss our mutual challenges, and seek solutions through information sharing and collaboration. Our first meeting will consist of a round table discussion to explore possible directions. Join us; as a new member, you can help shape the future of the Archives and Special Collections Group. Monday, November 17, 2008 3:00 * 5:00 pm ColumbiaUniversity ButlerLibrary, Room 523 114th Streetbetween Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue Light refreshments will be served Please RSVP to sgh2105(a)columbia.edu Please include "RSVP" in your subject line. After our meeting, Jennifer B. Lee, Librarian for Public Services and Programs, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, and curator of the exhibit "The Tools of Learning: George Arthur Plimpton's Legacy to Columbia University," will share with us her reflections on Plimpton and her experience creating this fascinating exhibit. Following the talk, everyone is invited to view the exhibit in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. **** George Arthur Plimpton (1855-1935) was a publisher, author, and book collector, born in Walpole, Massachusetts. He assembled a remarkable collection of manuscripts and books illuminating the history of education. Describing his sixty years of collecting in the preface to his first book, The Education of Shakespeare, Plimpton wrote: "It has been my privilege to get together the manuscripts and books which are more or less responsible for our present civilization, because they are the books from which the youth of many centuries have received their education." The collection was given to Columbia in 1936. Drawn exclusively from the Plimpton Collection, the exhibition includes manuscripts and books from medieval times through the early 20th century, including many of the manuscripts and books that were used to illustrate Plimpton's The Education of Shakespeare and The Education of Chaucer, and David Eugene Smith's Rara Arithmetica. Additional sections of the exhibition deal with handwriting and education for women, two of Plimpton's particular interests. Mary Manning, MA, MLIS Assistant Professor Assistant University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Swirbul Library Adelphi University 1 South Ave. Garden City, NY 11530 phone: 516-877-3818 fax: 516-877-3675 email: manning(a)adelphi.edu

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Oral History database

by KALAMOS BOOKS

A follow up regarding some digitized oral history sources on the web . June S ================================= ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Antonis Chantzis Triantafillia Kourtoumi <frini95(a)yahoo.gr> Date: 2008/10/23 *I invite you to visit the* *"Thematic Web Collections for Social Sciences and the Humanities: The Oral History Project "Migrant Women in the Greek City of Thessaloniki, 1990s-2000s" (short title: "Migrant Women") (available at migrant-women.jeromeDL.org of Digital Enterprise Research Institute, DERI, National University of Galway, Ireland). * * * * For a short description of the project in progress (in english and greek check at http://17conf.lib.uoi.gr/files/a11.Kourtoumi.doc, * *in english at http://m08.cgpublisher.com/proposals/297/index_html <http://m08.cgpublisher.com/proposals/297/index_html%20and> and <http://m08.cgpublisher.com/proposals/297/index_html%20and>,in spanish at http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:wC-2WDENsOIJ:www.museu-emigrantes.org/… .* ** ** * Best Regards,* * Dr. Triantafillia Kourtoumi* *____________________________* *Senior Archivist- Lecturer Historian* *General State Archives of Greece*

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Oral History database

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kostantinos xaramis <kxaramis(a)yahoo.gr> Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:18 AM kati endiaferon apo mia alli lista From: Stacey Zembrzycki Subject: Stories Matter Software Dear fellow list-serve members, The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling is currently developing a new oral history database tool, entitled Stories Matter. This free, open source software is being built for oral historians by oral historians. It will allow for the archiving of digital video and audio materials, enabling oral historians to annotate, analyze, and evaluate materials in their collections. In addition to containing an offline version, the software will have an online version that will facilitate sharing and collaboration in the discipline. Both versions of Stories Matter will operate in English and French, and will have the capacity to support other languages at a later date. This software will be launched in early 2009. While Stories Matter promises to change the ways that we think about and do oral history, it also offers a unique glimpse into the interdisciplinary process of creating digital technologies. The project team is directed by Dr. Steven High, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Public History, and it is being led by a computer programmer, Jacques Langlois. Two oral historians, Dr. Stacey Zembrzycki and Kristen O'Hare, are also embedded in the development process, consulting with High and Langlois on every aspect of the project. Those interested in this exciting project may monitor its progress, development, and implementation through its blog: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/. At this stage, we are soliciting feedback to ensure that Stories Matter will meet the needs of the widest possible audience; it must be relevant and user-friendly. We welcome any comments, suggestions, and questions that you may have; please feel free to forward this information to others who may also be interested in this project. We hope that Stories Matter will inspire a great deal of discussion on both this list-serve and the project's blog: http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/ . We look forward to hearing from you. Cheers, Steven High, Jacques Langlois, Kristen O'Hare, and Stacey Zembrzycki stories(a)alcor.concordia.ca *The Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (http://storytelling.concordia.ca/) is housed at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This development project is being generously supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). ---------------------------------------------------- Stacey Zembrzycki, Ph.D. Visiting Oral Historian Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC Canada H3G 1M8 szembrzy(a)alcor.concordia.ca http://storytelling.concordia.ca <http://storytelling.concordia.ca/> ___________________________________________________________ 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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