CoHSL-list November 2009

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Goble <jgoble(a)ascsa.org> Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:53 AM SAVE THE DATE The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Please join Honorary Patrons, newly appointed Ambassador of Greece, Vassilis Kaskarelis and Mrs. Anna Kaskarelis, along with the Trustees and Friends of the Gennadius Library to Celebrate the Tenth Annual Clean Monday ‘Kathara Deftera’ Benefit Enjoy unique Lenten cuisine prepared by renowned Chef Jim Botsacos of MOLYVOS Monday, February 15, 2010 at 6:30 pm Gifts will include a special Anniversary Lenten cook booklet with recipes by celebrated Greek cuisine author Diane Kochilas and Chef Botsacos Music provided by Gregory Maninakis and Mikrokosmos Ensemble For more information and to make a reservation please call Jane Goble, 609-683-0800 ext. 14 or email jgoble(a)ascsa.org. Invitations will follow the first of the Year. USA Office of the ASCSA: 6–8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540

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Copy Cataloging Interest Group Call for Proposals

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bolze, Thomas <thomas.bolze(a)yale.edu> Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:43 PM (With apologies for cross-posting) Seeking Proposals for Presentations at the Copy Cataloging Interest Group at Midwinter ALA We would like to invite you to submit a proposal for a presentation and discussion at the upcoming Midwinter meeting of the Copy Cataloging Interest Group. The presentation should be about 15-20 minutes long and the presenter will lead the discussion. Topics can cover any aspects of copy cataloging in all types of libraries. Some topics of interest to the group are below. This is not inclusive or meant to be prescriptive or limiting, just a suggested list of topics that seem of current interest or were raised in the IG itself. If you would kindly submit an abstract or outline of your proposal and I and the vice-chair/chair-elect will review them and shape a program. I would like to take the opportunity to introduce you to our new vice-chair/chair-elect, Margaret (Meg) Mering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. * Copy cataloging for special collections. * Training and preparing copy catalogers for FRBR and RDA, FRBR being here already and RDA on its way. * Copy cataloging for special formats, such as electronic resources. * Copy cataloging and vendor records. * Foreign language records, parallel records and other issues. * The effects the current economic crisis in libraries has on copy cataloging and how are you coping? * Copy catalogers and the next generation catalog. Training copy catalogers about searching for resources on a next generation catalog as compared to the traditional catalog. What do they need to know about yours? * Core competencies for copy catalogers of the future. * Implications of the Library of Congress Study of the North American MARC Records Marketplace. Topics covered in recent meetings have included: * Experiences and issues related to OCLC WorldCat Local. * The PCC Provider-Neutral E-Monograph Record Standard. * Integrating vendor copy cataloging into your library catalog Looking forward to hearing from you! Our ALA midwinter schedule has not been finalized yet and we'll let you know as soon as it is released. Tatiana Barr, Chair Catalog Librarian/Copy Cataloging Team Leader Yale University Library Sterling Memorial Library New Haven, Conn. 06408-8240 Tatiana.barr(a)yale.edu<mailto:Tatiana.barr@yale.edu> Meg Mering, Vice-Chair/Elect Principal Catalog and Metadata Librarian University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries 322E Love Library Lincoln NE 68588-4100 mailto:mmering@unlnotes.unl.edu ************ Posted on behalf of the Interest Group Chair by: Tom Bolze Catalog Librarian Rare Book Team Yale University Library P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 203-432-8302 thomas.bolze(a)yale.edu<mailto:thomas.bolze@yale.edu>

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Evro Layton's Archive on the history of the Greek book and Typography at Harvard's Modern Greek Studies Program

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--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <roilos(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:01 PM Dear all, I am happy to announce that the archive of the late Evro Layton (1924-2005), a great supporter of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard, has been donated to Harvard's Modern Greek Studies Program and to Houghton Library. Also, in her memory Alexis and Daphne Layton have contributed a generous donation to _Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library_ (a publication Series at Harvard University Press expanding and supplementing the scope of the _Loeb Classical Library_). Evro Layton, an internationally renowned scholar, was the former Collection Development Librarian of the Harvard College Library and the Head of the Modern Greek Division at Widener Library in the 1960s. She almost single-handedly founded the field of the history of the Greek book and typography. Monumental is her work _The Sixteenth Century Greek Book in Italy: Printers and Publishers for the Greek World_, published in the series of the Library of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies, no 16 (Venice: Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia, 1994). Exemplary is also her work _Five Centuries of Books and Manuscripts in Modern Greek: A Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Houghton Library, December 4, 1987, through February 17, 1988_ (Preface by Margaret Alexiou). As Harvard University Press states, this catalogue "explores the emergence of modern Greek language, thought, and sensibility reflected in Harvard's unique collection of Greek books and manuscripts (over 200,000 volumes), ranging from fifteenth century liturgical manuals to Renaissance translations into modern Greek of Homer and other classical authors to the works and papers of such twentieth-century Greek literary figures as Nikos Kazantzakis, George Seferis, and C. P. Cavafy. With copious illustrations of Greek writing, design, and typography, Evro Layton's catalogue is a visual and intellectual treat for philhellenes." For further details please visit: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~modgreek/resources.html<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Emodgreek/resources.html> Best wishes, Panagiotis Roilos Panagiotis Roilos Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, Department of the Classics Faculty Associate, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Harvard University Boylston Hall, 2nd floor Cambridge, MA 02138 _______________________________________________

14 years, 5 months

The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship,

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CDRS’s Role as Promoter and Disseminator of Columbia Research September 30, 2009 | Online scholarship http://dangerouscitizens.columbia.edu/ Last week’s ITHAKA meeting on Sustainable Scholarship brought together librarians and University Press staff to talk about the challenges and opportunities facing those of us working in the scholarly communication arena. In a presentation about the University of Minnesota’s innovative Quadrant initiative, Douglas Armato, the Press Director, spoke about the inherent difficulty that University presses have in demonstrating their relevance to their parent institutions, given that their work by its nature, promotes the research of authors from other institutions. The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, with its new “adjunct” forms of publishing, has none of these constraints, and indeed its goal is to support and promote the peer-reviewed work of Columbia researchers. It does this on a large scale with its development of Columbia’s repository, Academic Commons, which makes accessible and preserves a wide range of content from journal articles and play scripts, to working papers and conference proceedings. CDRS also provides and supports publishing platforms for Columbia-based journals. The online version of Dangerous Citizens represents a further way to support and disseminate Columbia research. In creating an e-version of Neni Pangouria’s book CDRS is piloting a new partnership between a University Press (Fordham) which applies all the rigor of peer review to selection of its list, and an institutional publishing arm (CDRS) that then promotes the book by reconceiving it as an online, non-linear publication. Back to sustainability—how sustainable is this model? It’s a fair question and one that we’re exploring. Part of the pilot process is to calculate the costs of putting this book online and then estimating how much of this work we can undertake with current resources. And we’ll be looking at ways to fund this work—possibly from small internal and external grants. How great for example to create a fund that would support a competitive process for junior Columbia faculty to work with us and their presses, to put out an online book (not a book online) in tandem with the publication of their print monograph. Stay tuned! —Patricia Renfro, Deputy University Librarian Tags: academic commons, collaboration, journals, scholarly communication, university press

14 years, 5 months

OCLC Research survey of special collections and archives

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dooley,Jackie <dooleyj(a)oclc.org> Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM OCLC Research will launch a survey this week to study special collections and archives in academic and research libraries throughout the United States and Canada. This project updates a similar survey done by ARL in 1998, the outcomes of which catalyzed the community and led directly to numerous high-profile initiatives to "expose hidden collections." Since then, recognition of the distinction that unique special collections bring to our institutions has greatly increased. ARL's response rate was more than 90%, which gave high credibility to their data. We're including the memberships of five library associations in the survey population of more than 300 institutions: * Association of Research Libraries (U.S.) * Canadian Association of Research Libraries * Independent Research Libraries Association * Oberlin Group * RLG Partnership (members in the U.S. and Canada) The director of each library in the survey population will receive the survey by email. I encourage those of you whose libraries and archives are included to ensure that your participation is solicited. Note that each institution may submit only one response; for multi-repository institutions (Harvard, Library of Congress, UC Berkeley, et al.), this means amalgamating responses from individual units. Broad participation will enable institutions to learn about the extent of their aggregate collections, the access provided, the nature of the user base, the status of adoption of new technologies and more. The data will support decision-making for strategic priorities and collaborative projects. Data will be captured in the areas of collections, user services, cataloging and metadata, archival management, digitized and born-digital special collections, staffing and funding. Survey results will help answer questions such as: * To what extent has online access increased since the 1998 ARL survey? * How widespread is the implementation of new technologies in user services? * Are the latest approaches to archival management being widely adopted? * What is the current role of special collections in digital library development? * How much progress has been made in preservation and management of born-digital archival records? * In which of the core competencies recommended by professional societies do staff need more education and training? * How diverse is the staff of special collections libraries? * How much have these libraries' overall budgets been cut in the context of the global economic crisis? OCLC Research will publish the survey results in mid-2010, and a seminar will be presented at the ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference in Philadelphia in June 2010. More information is available on the project website <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/hiddencollections/default.htm> . This survey is one in a suite of projects focused on Mobilizing Unique Materials <http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/mum.htm> on behalf of the RLG Partnership. Please feel free to contact me for additional information. Best wishes to all, Jackie Jackie Dooley Consulting Archivist OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership dooleyj(a)oclc.org

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