CoHSL-list April 2010

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by KALAMOS BOOKS

I am forwarding this on behalf of missingmaterials.org From: RLG Primary Sources Discussion [mailto:RLG-PRIMARY-SOURCES-L@OCLC.ORG] On Behalf OfProffitt,Merrilee Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:32 PM To: rlg-primary-sources-l Subject: Webinar on MissingMaterials.org Colleagues, Here is an announcement for an upcoming webinar on MissingMaterials.org. This is an very important topic and I hope you can find the time to join us. MissingMaterials.org Webinar, Tuesday, May 11, 10 am (UTC 14:00) & 2 pm EDT (UTC 20:00) Theft and loss of materials held in libraries and archives worldwide is a concern not only for owning institutions, but also for the international antiquarian book trade and global law enforcement. Centralized, highly-visible exposure of "missing materials" is needed to help identify stolen materials, recover missing items and deter future crimes. Together with the RLG Partnership, the RBMS Security Committee and the ABAA, OCLC Research developed MissingMaterials.org, a free mechanism for sharing reliable information about missing rare books and other materials at the network level. In order for this solution to work, however, it is of vital importance that the community use it. This webinar will be held twice, at 10 am and 4 pm EDT, to accommodate attendees in different time zones. Presenters include: · Katharine Kyes Leab, Editor-in-Chief, American Book Prices Current · Richard Oram, Associate Director, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin · Maria Holden, Prudence Backman and Brittany Turner, New York State Archives · Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research · Jennifer Schaffner, Program Officer, OCLC Research …and members of the RLG Partnership’s Working Group on Missing Materials Mark your calendar and join this demonstration webinar, to discuss obstacles to transparency and propose solutions. Register now* to attend the 10 am EDT (UTC 14:00) MissingMaterials.org webinar on 11 May. Register now* to attend the 4 pm EDT (UTC 20:00) MissingMaterials.org webinar on 11 May. 10am Oclc WebEx Enterprise Site http://tinyurl.com/358upj6 4pm Oclc WebEx Enterprise Site http://tinyurl.com/2bmhuxe Best, Merrilee Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer OCLC Research 777 Mariners Island Blvd Suite 550 San Mateo, CA 94404 USA +1-650-287-2136 Merrilee blogs at hangingtogether.org Follow me on Twitter @merrileeiam

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NEH Grant Opportunity - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

by KALAMOS BOOKS

NEH Grant Opportunity - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program. These grants support projects to preserve and create intellectual access to such collections as books, journals, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, art, and objects of material culture. Awards also support the creation of reference materials, online resources, and research tools of major importance to the humanities. Maximum awards are $350,000 for up to three years. Eligible activities include: * arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; * cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; * providing conservation treatment for collections (including mass deacidification); * digitizing collections; * preserving and improving access to born-digital sources; * developing databases, virtual collections, or other electronic resources to codify information on a subject or to provide integrated access to selected humanities materials; * creating encyclopedias; * preparing linguistic tools, such as historical and etymological dictionaries, corpora, and reference grammars * developing tools for spatial analysis and representation of humanities data, such as atlases and geographic information systems (GIS); and * designing digital tools to facilitate use of humanities resources. The new guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, can be found at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRR.html. The application receipt deadline of July 15, 2010 is for projects beginning May 2011. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation(a)neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of the 2010 awards is available at: Please note that the Division is also accepting applications for two other grant categories, with deadlines of July 1, 2010: "Research and Development" and "Education & Training." Details on these programs, as well as on the full slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, can be found at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#preservation ________________________________________________________________________ ________ The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. To learn more about NEH, please visit www.neh.gov. --

14 years

Interesting article in To VEMA

by Lesage, Rhea

FYI-from Thomas Mantzakides: Ρόμπερτ Ντάρντον Ο θάνατος του βιβλίου αργεί ακόμη http://www.tovima.gr/default.asp?pid=2&artid=325064&ct=56&dt=11/04/2010 From: Thomas Mantzakides [mailto:thomasmantzakides@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:51 AM To: Lesage, Rhea Subject: Re: your CoHSL message Hi Rhea, Yes it is in Greek....I'm not sure why it's not visible in the Greek font. Here's a link to the article: http://www.tovima.gr/default.asp?pid=2&ct=56&artid=325064&dt=11/04/2010 I know most of the postings are in English, but I imagine most of the members of this list can read Greek. I also find this article to be rather interesting and hope other members concur. Thanks for your note. Thomas --- On Tue, 4/20/10, Lesage, Rhea <karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote: From: Lesage, Rhea <karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu> Subject: your CoHSL message To: "thomasmantzakides(a)yahoo.com" <thomasmantzakides(a)yahoo.com> Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 10:01 AM Dear Thomas, Your message to the CoHSL did not transmit as anything readable. Would you send the message to me personally and I will see if it comes through? I think it is supposed to be in Greek text, but it appears as gibberish. Thanks, Rhea

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Ms68-007: Daniel E. Wright Papers, 1903-1973

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Archival source with Greek interest JS ============================ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: manolo <manolos(a)otenet.gr> Date: 2010/4/17 Ms68-007: Daniel E. Wright Papers, 1903-1973 ------------------------------ Selected papers from the Col. Daniel Wright collection have been scanned and are available as indicated below in PDF [image: PDF logo] file format. ------------------------------ Born in Winchester, Virginia, Daniel E. Wright received a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1904. He participated in the construction of the Panama Canal and in the public health activities that rid the Canal Zone of yellow fever and malaria. In 1921 Wright received the Theodore Roosevelt Medal of Honor. From 1921 to 1929 he served as a consultant to the Columbian and Panamanian governments. Wright joined the staff of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1929 and worked in Greece and Turkey on water supply and disease control. During World War II he worked with the United Nations Public Health Service (UNPHS) in Burma and then joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) (1944-1949). His papers contain materials dealing with the Panama Canal, the public health activities of the Rockefeller Foundation, UNRRA, and UNPHS. It also includes photographs from his travels and correspondence to his wife. A thorough finding aid<http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00196.xml.frame>is available from the Virginia Heritage database. ------------------------------ - Greece and Turkey, Pre World War II (WWII), 1929-40 Box-folder: 1:1 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder1.pdf> - Letters from Greece - Picture of Greece Sanitation Team - Miscellaneous Pictures of Greece - "Suppressive Treatment of Malaria" - "Prevention of Malaria on Field Service" - "Practical Field Application of DDT for Malaria Control" - "Measurement: Basic Mathematical Definitions" - Greece, Post WWII, Miscellaneous 1946-48 Box-folder: 1:2 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder2.pdf> - Greek Paper Money - Miscellaneous Photographs - Ration Card - United Nations' Certificate of Identity - Residential Lease - Honorable Discharge from the United States Health Service - Living Allowance Card - Greece, Post WWII, Correspondence 1944-46 Box-folder: 1:3 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder3.pdf> - Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service - United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) - Alvin J. Roseman - George Strode of the Rockefeller Foundation March 16, 1944 - Headquarters AAF Redistribution Station No. 2 - Theodore Hiatt - Pamphlet About Daniel Wright Jr. "Our World Today: The Younger Generation and WWII" - Federal Security Agency, U.S. Public Health Service - George Strode of the Rockefeller Foundation November 22, 1944, June 29, 1945, June 11, 1946 - President and Members of the Association of Doctors Hygienists of Greece - UNRRA Travel Authorization - Little Mary 1946 - Prof. G. Ioakimoglou of the Kingdom of Greece Superior; Health Council, Athens November 28, 1946 - Greece, Post WWII, Correspondence 1947-48 Box-folder: 1:4 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder4.pdf> - Dr. Sawyer UNRRA January 16, 1947 - Grace Wright May 26, June 2, 1947 - W.J. Shappa of the U.N. World Health Organization Interim Commission August 26, 1947 - The City Council of Rethymnon October 11, 1947 - Dr. Floridis - Barclay of The Reader's Digest Office of International Editions 1948 - E.J. Pampana of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Interim Commission, Geneva July 22, 1948 - Henry F. Grady - W.H. Hena August 27, 1948 - Apostle N. Depastas/Ellamdra - Hellenic- American Activity October 1, 1948 - The Rockefeller Foundation October 29, 1948 - Paul Bierstein, Public Health Engineer of the W.H.O. November 14, 1947, November 8, November 23, 1948 - G. Kenabassuiy November 22, 1948 - Prof. Ioakimogiou December 22, 1946 - R.C. Vayanos December 1948 - Reunion of Panama Canal Workers 1948 - M. Kotsianos, Kingdom of Greece; Ministry of Hygiene March 19, 1947 - Michael Callas, John Hopkins University, School of Engineering April 5, 1947 - Inland Alkaloid Co. Manufacturing Chemists April 17, May 6, 1947 - Mr. Y.C. Mar-Chief Sanitary Engineer, National Health Organization; Nanking, China May 27, 1947 - Smitie May 31, 1947 - Dr. Strode Sept 7, 1947; July 19, 1948; March 23, 1948 - Harry E. Taylor, Administrator, St. Croix, Virgin Islands July 2, 1947 - Dr. Seyfettin Okan, Director General of Malaria Control, Ministry of Health Social Assistance in Ankara-Turkey September 30, 1947 - H.B. Redd, Secretary Treasurer Virginia Tech Alumni Assn. Blacksburg, VA October 1, 1947 - Dr. E. Pampana, Secretary of the Expert Committee on Malaria October 16, 1947 - George, concerning Malaria on the island of Crete October 24, 1947 - Haas October 31, 1947 - General Wood November 4, 1947 - His Excellency, Minister of Health November 21, 1947; September 1, 1948; September 7, 1948 - Joe December 6, 1947 - W.J. Bartlet, Secretary-Treasurer, Panama Canal Society of FLA December 17, 1947 - Dr. Balfouri December 17, 1947 - John D. Brown, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, House of Representatives December 29, 1947 - Nick January 19, February 28, June 12, 1948 - Resident Director of Lake Copais Company Limited February 24, 1948 - Gov. Dwight P. Griswold, Chief of AMAG April 17, 1948 - Editor of the Newspaper Vradini May 10, 1948 - Bal May 28, 1948 - Brother Eddey June 24, 1948; July 1948 - L.H. Tung, Sanitary Engineer, Corps of Sanitary Engineers June 24, 1948 - Dr. Cermal Or in Etimesut, Turkey June 28, 1948 - David W. Lynch of Velsicol Corporation June 28, July 12, August 27, 1948 - Laurens P. Jones of Winchester, Hiram Lodge No. 21 August 10, 1948 - Lt. Col. J.H. Williams, Managing Director August 10, 1948 - His Excellency the Minister of Hygiene September 13, 1948 - Col. P. Troxler, Corps of Engineers August 23, August 25, 1948 - Dr. Grant September 2, 1948 - Professor John September 21, 1948 - List of Sanitary Supplies to be Purchased with AMAG Funds - Malaria Control Campaign Paper - Statistics on Greece - "Airplane Spray Work in Greece by D. Wright" - W.H.O. Greece Mission August 20, 1948 - Malaria Control and Sanitation Program, Budget 1947-48 - Note on Chlorodane - "Field Trials with Gammexene as a Means of Malaria Control by Adult Mosquitoes Destruction in Sierra Leone" - Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology - W.H.O. Summary of Estimated Costs - Greece, Post WWII, Magazine Articles 1944-49 [Partial] Box-folder: 1:5 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder5.pdf> - "Russia in the Mediterranean" October 7, 1944 - Greek Guerrillas - Greek Newsletter - "Europe's Most Frightened Country" (Greece) December 29, 1945 - "Wanted: A Miracle in Greece" By Paul A. Porter September 20, 1947 - Greece, Post WWII, Maps and Charts 1932-46 Box-folder: 1:6 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder6.pdf> - "Supplement to the Organization Chart" - "Chart of the Insect Control and General Sanitation Organization" - Map of DDT Spraying Pattern in Greece - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Alexandropoulos Area, Thrace Greece May 30-June 15, 1946 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Macedonia and Thrace, Greece January-April 1946 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Olympia Area, West Peloponnesus, Greece August 1946 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Mytilene Island, Greece July 17-August 10, 1945 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Northern Corfu Island July 3-14, 1946 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Thesprotia and Epirus April 24-May 13, 1946 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Crete March 1946 - Spleen and Parasite Indices Chart of Greece - Parasite Indices Percentages of Villages in Greek Macedonia Char 1932-1945 - "Number of Patients with Malaria Positive Blood in Greece" Chart 1942-1946 - "DDT Residual Spray Experiment in Petroto, Macedonia" Chart September-October, June 1945 - "Malaria Control DDT Airspray Program" Map of Greece 1946 - "The Swamps of Greece" Map - "Suggested Co-operative Survey of the Island of Crete Chart" - Greece, Post WWII, News Bulletins 1945-48 Box-folder: 1:7 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder7.pdf> - Daily News Digest (UNRRA Greece Mission) June 8, 1945; June 14; June 15; June 16; November 7; November 9; November 16; November 22; November 29, December 7; December 8, 1945; January 4, 1946; January 14; January 18; February 18; April 15; May 11; July 11; July 13; July 15; July 17; July 19; July 22, 1946 - UNRRA News Review October 24, 1946 - Daily News Bulletin of the U.S. Information Service, U.S. Embassy October 5-6, 1947; November 1, 1947; March 29, 1948 - Press Release; American Mission For Aid to Greece - Greece, Post WWII, Newspapers and Clippings 1945-48 Box-folder: 1:8 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder8.pdf> - "Greeks Capitalize on U.S. Ships" - Greek Comics - "Concentration of Fighting Forces All Along Greek Border" - "Food Conference Awaits Russians" - "Half of Greeks Look to America to Bring Peace" - "Greek Police Quit Area Near Borde" r - "Lehman May Head Nations' Pool at Parley" - "United Nations' Relief Plans are Considered" - "A Reporter's Report to the Nation" - "Life in N. Africa is Anything But Monotonous" - "Patient Governor Lehman Gets Food and Relief to Poland" - "Should Churchill's Policy on Greece Be Supported" - "F.D.R. Agreed to Let British Dominate in Greece, Yugoslavia" - "Greek Crisis Reveals Weakness of U.N." - "W.H.O. vs. Malaria" - "Terms in Advance Proposed for Giving Aid to Greece" - "U.S. Continues to Foot Bill for British in Greece" - Union Jack November 1, 1947; December 6, 1947; December 22, 1947; May 29, 1948 - "Making the Seas Safe Again" - "Truant's Voyage Around Italy" - "The Corner Column" - Map of Greece and Athens - "Bandits in Greece" - "This Farm Stands for Freedom" - Athens Days February 15-18, 25, 1945 - "King George II Ends his 5 Year Exile in England" - The Athens Gazette January 11, 25, April 18, 1948 - Athens Herald April 11; June 24, 1946 - Army and Navy Bulletin May 4, 1946 - Untranslated Greek Newspapers - The Stars and Stripes June 6, 1944 - Comic concerning Wright - Greece, Post WWII, Printed Materials 1944-46 Box-folder: 1:10 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder10.pdf> - "Delphes Greece" - "Lessons in Malariology from WWII" - Two Translated Pages from Greek Pamphlet - "Report of the Activities of the Sanitation Section of Health Division UNRRA" - "Dispatch Submitted by Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein" - "Greece and Greek Civilization as Results of Economic Expansion" - "Greek Red Cross Monthly Bulletin" - "DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife" - "Personnel Regulations for the Field Service" - World Report July 4, 1946 - Greece, Post WWII, Reports and Speeches 1943-48 Box-folder: 1:11 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder11.pdf> - Incomplete Report on Typhoid Infected Water - Justification for Sanitation and Malaria Control in Greece - Insecticide Spraying Statistics - Small Biography on Daniel Wright - Preliminary Report on the Uses of DDT in Greece 1946 - Memo to Dr. Chisholm About Visas - "Malaria Control 1946, Larva Control" - "The Program of Insect Control on Crete" - Form for Airlines - Outline for Radio Speech by D. Wright - Order Form for Supplies and Materials - Suggested Budget for U.S. Educational Foundation in Greece 1948-49 - "Move to Rid American Legion of Fascists" March 22, 1943 - Carey Longmire's Broadcast August 12, 1946 - Practical Field Application of DDT For Malaria Control - Packet containing several reports and reviews concerning Malaria Control in Greece - General Sanitation and Malaria Control in Greece - Report about Malaria in Different Regions in Greece - "Directions for Effective and Economical Uses of DDT when applied by Private Individuals" - "DDT For Relief and Rehabilitation" By Gordon E. Smith - UNRRA Supplies, Equipment, and Materials - Malaria in Greece and the Use of DDT in General - General Sanitation - "Crete Will Become a Paradise" - "Malaria Past and Present in Greece" - "U.S. Aids Greece in Fight Against Malaria" November 16, 1948 - "Pelleted Seed for Reforestation" By Paul O. Rudolf - Proposed Reconnaissance Survey Form - International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation January 1, 1947 - The Rockefeller Foundation Packing List and Commercial Invoice - New Quarters for the Labs - Staff Notes - Memo: Airplane Maintenance Supplies Against DP-MD-206 January 3, 1947 - Near East Foundation, Correspondence 1954-61 Box-folder: 1:13 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder13.pdf> - A. Koskinides December 21, 1957; March 1961 - Near East Foundation, Newspapers and Clippings 1955-56 Box-folder: 1:15 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder15.pdf> - "Our Weapons Against Malaria" - Near East Foundation, Printed Materials 1952-60 Box-folder: 1:16 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder16.pdf> - "Extension to Chlordane of the Resistance to DDT Observed in Anopheles Sacharovi" by G. D. Georgopoulos - "Suggested Criteria for Evaluating Certain Types of Technical Assistance Programs" 1957 - "World-Wide Malaria Distribution, Prevalence, and Control" by Paul F. Russell 1956 - Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the W.H.O.; Annual Report of the Director 1956 - Near East Foundation, Reports and Speeches 1949-56 Box-folder: 1:17 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder17.pdf> - Observations on Technical Assistance to Governments of Underdeveloped Countries 1955 - "A Brief Report Covering Some Impressions Gained of Work Being Done by the N.E.F. in the Near East During My Fourteen Months Association" by D. Wright 1955 - Reports and Programs Regarding Malaria in Greece 1955 - "The United Nations, a Working Organization as Planned by it's Founders, and Not the Debating Society, Which Receives so Much Publicity" - Panama Canal 1904-26 Box-folder: 1:18 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder18.pdf> - President's Address November 16, 1906 - Panama Canal Reminiscences - Semi-Retirement, Correspondence 1950-61 Box-folder: 1:20 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder20.pdf> - Laird Arche December 19,1950; March 5, 1951, August 3, 1956 - William Bieler January 3, 1951 - M.C. Balfor May 2, 1951 - Harry Scherman and Bernadine Kielty October 14, 1951 - F. W. Knipe November 15, 1953 - H. B. Redd July 22, 1954 - William Russell January 27, 1958 - Thomas Martin February 2, 1957 - John D. Hollen December 9, 1958 - Burr P. Harrison January 12, 1961 - Semi-Retirement, Newspapers and Clippings 1944-59 Box-folder: 1:21 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box1folder21.pdf> - "Greece Regaining Wealth in Mines" 1952 - "It Started in Panama: Where Will it Stop?" by Earl Harding September 1, 1953 - "Continuing the Rockefeller Foundation Story: Millions for Modern Medicine" 1951 - "Continuing the Rockefeller Foundation Story: Man's Greatest Challenge" 1951 - "U.N.'s Merciful War: The World Health Organization Seeks a Victory for Mankind in an All-Out Attack on Disease" January 1, 1950 - "Battling Diseases" by William Dutton May 5, 1951 - Semi-Retirement, Reports and Speeches 1903-62 Box-folder: 2:2 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box2folder2.pdf> - Rockefeller Foundation Newsletter May 1959 - World Health Organization Newsletters January and February 1958 - "Is Our Effort to Control the Spread of Communism in the World being Intelligently Administered?" - "Community Development Programs in Greece with Special Consideration of Welfare through Employment" 1953 - "Greece Today" - WWII, Correspondence and Pictures 1941-43 Box-folder: 2:3 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box2folder3.pdf> - The Rockefeller Foundation - W.A. Sawyer - Federal Security Agency (U.S. Public Health Service) - WWII; Newspaper Clippings 1941-43 Box-folder: 2:5 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box2folder5.pdf> - Military Parade - "Interpreting War News" - "Career Men Conduct Underhand" - "Purge of Pro-Welles Diplomats" - "Pearson Calls Steinhardt, U.S. Envoy to Turkey" - "Lehman is Elected Head of UN Relief" - "The Flying Tigers" - "Interpreting War News" - "U.N. Conference at White House" - "U.N. Group Intends Aiding Those Now Stricken" - "49 Nations to Help Victims of War" - "U.S. Rationing" - "New League of Nations!" - "The Guards and the Ghost" - WWII, Printed Materials 1941-44 Box-folder: 2:6 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box2folder6.pdf> - Greek Interpreter Dialogue & Dictionary - "Health, Medicine, and Sanitation in Bulgaria" by Alexandra Feldmahn 1943 - Wright, Grace Y. 1951-73 Box-folder: 2:8 <http://spec.lib.vt.edu/mss/pdf/wright_daniel_ms68_007/pdf/box2folder8.pdf> - "Observations on Greece in 1972" by M.C. 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NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development - July 15 Deadline

by KALAMOS BOOKS

NEH Grant Opportunity - Preservation and Access Research and Development The Division of Preservation and Access of the National Endowment for the Humanities will be accepting applications for grants in its Research and Development program. The new 2010 guidelines, which include sample proposal narratives, can be found at: http://neh.gov/grants/guidelines/PARD.html. Grants in this program support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation's cultural heritage-from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence-and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. Maximum awards are $350,000 for up to three years. Eligible activities include: * the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; * the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections; * the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and * the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods. NEH especially encourages applications that address the following topics: * Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog counterpart; * Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and * Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies. Applications addressing one of these three areas of interest are eligible for a maximum award of $400,000 for up to three years. The application receipt deadline is July 1, 2010 for projects beginning May 2011. All applications to NEH must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov; see guidelines for details. Prospective applicants seeking further information are encouraged to contact the Division at 202-606-8570 or preservation(a)neh.gov. Program staff will read draft proposals submitted six weeks before the deadline. A list of the 2010 awards is available at: Please note that the Division is also accepting applications for two other grant categories: "Humanities Collections and Reference Resources" (July 15, 2010 deadline) and "Education & Training" (July 1, 2010 deadline). Details on these programs, as well as on the full slate of funding opportunities in Preservation and Access, can be found at: http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsbydivision.html#preservation ________________________________________________________________________ ________ The National Endowment for the Humanities is a grant-making agency of the United States (U.S.) federal government that supports projects in the humanities. U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations are eligible applicants. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve, and make available cultural resources of importance for research, education, and lifelong learning. To learn more about NEH, please visit www.neh.gov <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\jsternfeld\Local%20Settings\Tempo rary%20Internet%20Files\OLKC64\www.neh.gov> . -- 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 http://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/ http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal

14 years

Library of Congress Will Save Tweets

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Library of Congress Will Save Tweets By STEVE LOHR Published: April 14, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/technology/personaltech/15pogue.html?src=… Not everyone would think that the actor Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter musings on his daily doings constitute part of “the universal body of human knowledge.” But the Library of Congress, the 210-year-old guardian of knowledge and cultural history, thinks so. The library will archive the collected works of Twitter, the blogging service, whose users currently send a daily flood of 55 million messages, all that contain 140 or fewer characters. Library officials explained the agreement as another step in the library’s embrace of digital media. Twitter, the Silicon Valley start-up, declared it “very exciting that tweets are becoming part of history.” Academic researchers seem pleased as well. For hundreds of years, they say, the historical record has tended to be somewhat elitist because of its selectivity. In books, magazines and newspapers, they say, it is the prominent and the infamous who are written about most frequently. But although celebrities like Mr. Kutcher may have the most followers on Twitter, they make up a tiny portion of its millions of users. “This is an entirely new addition to the historical record, the second-by-second history of ordinary people,” said Fred R. Shapiro, associate librarian and lecturer at the Yale Law School. The library reached out to the company a few months ago about adding Twitter’s content to the national archives, said Matt Raymond, the library’s director of communications. He cited Twitter’s “immense impact on culture and history,” like its use as a vital communications tool by political dissidents in Iran and Barack Obama’s turning to Twitter to declare victory in the 2008 election. The Twitter archive will join the ambitious “Web capture” project at the library, begun a decade ago. That effort has assembled Web pages, online news articles and documents, typically concerning significant events like presidential elections and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Raymond said. The Web capture project already has stored 167 terabytes of digital material, far more than the equivalent of the text of the 21 million books in the library’s collection. Some online commentators raised the question of whether the library’s Twitter archive could threaten the privacy of users. Mr. Raymond said that the archive would be available only for scholarly and research purposes. Besides, he added, the vast majority of Twitter messages that would be archived are publicly published on the Web. “It’s not as if we’re after anything that’s not out there already,” Mr. Raymond said. “People who sign up for Twitter agree to the terms of service.” Knowing that the Library of Congress will be preserving Twitter messages for posterity could subtly alter the habits of some users, said Paul Saffo, a visiting scholar at Stanford who specializes in technology’s effect on society. “After all,” Mr. Saffo said, “your indiscretions will be able to be seen by generations and generations of graduate students.” People thinking before they post on Twitter: now that would be historic indeed. A version of this article appeared in print on April 15, 2010, on page B2 of the New York edition. ================================ 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 http://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/ http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal

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Workshops on historic bindings, Patmos 2010

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nikolas Sarris <sarris1(a)otenet.gr> Date: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:36 AM Workshops on historic bindings, Patmos 2010 30 August - 3 September / 6-10 September 2010 Deadline for applications: 31 July 2010 ---- Patmos (Greece) is the island of the Apocalypse, on which the 11th century Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint John the Theologian is situated. It preserves one of the most important monastic libraries of the Christian world, containing a wealth of Greek bound manuscripts, scrolls, early documents and printed books. Following the success of the workshops on conservation and historic bookbinding organized by the conservation studio of the monastery over the last four years, we are pleased to announce the workshops for 2010. This year the workshops will be hosted in a traditional Patmian stately house which is adjacent to the monastery, offering the students the experience of unique local architecture. The classes will include frequent visits to the monastery where we will engage with material from the monastic library. Week 1 “Making Byzantine Endbands” Tutor: Dr. George Boudalis 30 August - 3 September 2010 Course fee: €500 The aim of this 5-day practical course is to demonstrate the characteristics of endbands in the context of Greek-style Bindings and make clear their structural and decorative role. An introductory lecture will explain their evolution in time and place, their classification and terminology and various examples shown and explained through photographs and real books from the library’s collection. Throughout the course at least 8 different types of endbands will be reproduced both simple and compound, with or without cores and with or without further decorative sewing, from the very simple to the more complicated, all encountered on Greek-style bindings from the 10th to the 17th century. The similarities and differences with both the Western European endbands and those of other Eastern binding cultures such as the Arabic, Syriac and Georgian will be also discussed and explained. Week 2 “Painting Byzantine-Style Manuscript Illuminations on Parchment” Tutor: Mr. Evangelos Zournatzis 6 - 10 September 2010 Course fee: €500 During this 5-day course we will be dealing with all aspects of drawing, transferring, and painting an illumination on a prepared parchment folio. Following the traditional techniques of Byzantine illuminators and employing materials, inks and pigments as close to the original as possible, the participants can expect to become familiar with the process of preparing the parchment skins and painting illuminations, such as decorative headpieces. Several technical details pertaining to the facture of Byzantine illuminations will be discussed, alongside the aesthetics that rule their making, the particularities of the materials that affect their condition, and the requirements for their correct preservation. The courses will be given in English. The classes are open to 12 individuals from the fields of book conservation, bookbinding, librarianship or paleography and those interested in the history and the making of the book. Since these are not beginner-level courses, the participants are expected to be familiar with bookbinding terminology and have a basic knowledge of the history of book production in the periods under discussion. Applications for the courses should be made by email to Nikolas Sarris (info(a)patmosworkshop.com) with the subject “Patmos Bookbinding Workshops 2010”. The applicant must state the course/s he/she is interested in attending as well as a short biography, showing relevant experience with the subjects of the courses. For more information please visit: http://www.patmosworkshop.com/ or contact: Nikolas Sarris Supervisor of Book Conservation Studio, St John Theologian Monastery, Patmos Greece info(a)patmosworkshop.com

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School of Fine Arts

by KALAMOS BOOKS

An interesting paper on the School of Fine Arts in Athens and the development of "information technology to provide a virtual university for artists - students & alumni " June S ============================== Utilizing complementary know-how: advanced fine arts meeting information technology to provide a virtual university for artists - students & alumni User Services Conference archive Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference Providence, Rhode Island, USA Pages: 122 - 129 Year of Publication: 2002 ISBN:1-58113-564-5 Authors Evangelos Sakkopoulos University of Patras, Patras, Greece Athanasios Tsakalidis University of Patras, Patras, Greece Sponsors SIGUCCS: ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services ACM: Association for Computing Machinery Publisher ACM New York, NY, USA Bibliometrics Downloads (6 Weeks): 4, Downloads (12 Months): 18, Citation Count: 0 ABSTRACT Since 1837, Advanced School of Fine Arts (ASFA http://www.asfa.gr/) in Athens, Greece produced practically all Greek painters, sculptors and printmakers and it has currently enrolled approximately 2,000 students. For several years now ASFA closely collaborates with the oldest computer engineering institution in the country, Computer Engineering & Informatics Dept (CEID http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/), University of Patras, Greece. Together we have elaborated a significant number of projects bringing closer fine arts and information technology. Under a common umbrella, librarians, academics and artists from ASFA, computer specialists from CEID, coupled with network and laboratory administrators supporting the Greek Universities network backbone (GUnet http://www.gunet.gr/) in ASFA have jointly undertaken a visionary project: "Eurydice", a virtual university for both students and alumni artists.The scope is to provide the ASFA students and alumni artists with a convenient way to communicate ideas and knowledge in a life-long learning sense. We imagined an effective web service that is mastered during academic years and is used for long after their completion.The invasion of IT as well as the dominating role of ASFA for the reception of modern artistic trends by the wider public emerged the need for an Internet-based meeting-point that would provide integrated access to ASFA Library of Art, a range of automatically Renewable Educational Material on Fine Arts and on Artist-oriented IT topics, supported by a powerful set of Communicational Tools and Support Services with Personalization features that evolve over time, from the first day in ASFA until years later as mature artist-visitors.This paper will address the following topics: restructural changes followed the CEID know-how "invasion"; re-engineering of existing IT supporting services and procedures; the methodology followed for the requirements gathering, the conceptual design, the navigational design, the abstract interface design and implementation; the pilot phase feedback; training the help desk and administrators; populating the service in ASFA community. =============== Probably y a wonderful programme and a fine web site - but I cannot raise <http://www.asfa.gr> either in IE or Firefox 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 http://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/ http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal

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FW: The ALA response to the proposed revision of theromanization tables for Greek

by Stewart, Deb

-----Original Message----- From: Barbara B Tillett [mailto:btil@loc.gov] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:00 PM To: Stewart, Deb; dchazen(a)fas.harvard.edu; karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu; scott3(a)fas.harvard.edu Cc: Robert Miller Hiatt; Thompson A Yee Subject: Fwd: The ALA response to the proposed revision of theromanization tables for Greek Rhea, Deb, and colleagues - Here is the report I just got from ALA CC:DA. As I noted in my other email, this is also being sent to our LC experts, and I will meet with them I hope next week and share with you our comments and LC response I hope before the end of April. - Barbara Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D. Chief, Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4260 U.S.A. tel.: +1 (202) 707-4714 fax: +1 (202) 707-6629 email: btil(a)loc.gov >>> "Myers, John F." <myersj(a)union.edu> 4/2/2010 10:53 AM >>> The cover letter from ALA/ALCTS/CC:DA/Chair and the report of the CC:DA task force are forwarded as the ALA response on the proposed romanization tables for Greek. John F. Myers, Chair, ALA/ALCTS/CCS/ALA Catalog Librarian Schaffer Library, Union College 807 Union St. Schenectady NY 12308 518-388-6623 myersj(a)union.edu

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exchange with Barbara Tillett

by Stewart, Deb

Personal notes at the end of Barbara and Deb's messages were deleted (indicated by ". . .") -----Original Message----- From: Barbara B Tillett [mailto:btil@loc.gov] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 1:57 PM To: Stewart, Deb; Dan Hazen; Rhea Lesage; Alison Scott Cc: Beacher J E Wiggins; Lucas Graves; Robert Miller Hiatt; Thompson A Yee; John F. Myers Subject: RE: FW: FW: Greek transliteration Dear Deb and Rhea - Thank you so much for writing with your constructive suggestions (below) on how to move this forward. I will be meeting with our LC experts I hope next week to discuss the ALA report, which I just received ( and I will forward to you all in a separate email next). We will be back in touch as soon as possible with you and ALA CC:DA, certainly before the end of April, and I hope we can work out good solutions together over the next few weeks. I would like to suggest that we really try to sort this out by email in the coming weeks, but should there be any other issues, that we use the ALA CC:DA meeting as the forum for discussion, as this is an ALA/LC Romanization table. Although I'd love to go again to Dumbarton Oaks (and will try to find an opportunity this spring), I really want this resolved before June with just final touches if needed at ALA, so thank you for the very kind offer, but hopefully we won't need an additional, separate meeting. More soon! - Barbara . . . Dr. Barbara B. Tillett, Ph.D. Chief, Policy and Standards Division Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20540-4260 U.S.A. tel.: +1 (202) 707-4714 fax: +1 (202) 707-6629 email: btil(a)loc.gov >>> "Lesage, Rhea" <karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu> 4/1/2010 3:08 PM >>> Dear colleagues, I am also pleased that the comment period has been extended and agree with Deb that it is time to move forward to resolution of the issues. Deb and I have had numerous conversations and I support her thorough analysis of the proposals put forth from Princeton. I, too, object to what we believe is the CC:DA’s recommendation, which is to remove all the rough breathing from all post-1453 records, for all the reasons that she outlines below. I would like to add that Harvard’s Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program is opposed to this recommendation and he, too, pointed out that 1453 is significant for political, not philological reasons. Essentially, the recommendation instructs us to cast aside more than 550 years of the Greek language to incorporate an orthographic change that took place 28 years ago. If the impetus to implement this change is to respect the orthographic changes that took place in 1982, and if a change MUST take place, then 1982 should be the cut-off date. This would require a national retrospective conversion project and since the community has indicated that there is no money for this kind of project, this supports the argument for the third option, which is: maintain the status quo. I hope that the CC:DA will have the opportunity to look at the rest of the community’s feedback so they can fully understand the implications of any change to the table. I will give more thought to this whole issue and will get back to Barbara and Bob with more feedback in the coming weeks. Great thanks go to Dumbarton Oaks for offering to host a meeting in late June! Sincerely, Rhea Lesage From: Stewart, Deb [mailto:BrownD@DOAKS.org] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:23 PM To: Barbara B Tillett; Lesage, Rhea; Robert Miller Hiatt Cc: Hazen, Dan; Scott, Alison; Thompson A Yee; John F. Myers Subject: RE: FW: FW: Greek transliteration Dear colleagues, I am delighted to hear that the comment period has been extended, pending further discussion and proposals, which was our hope with the petition. To move forward to resolution of the issues, I would like to share the following thoughts: Meeting in June: Our Director, Jan Ziolkowski, has agreed to let me arrange meeting space at Dumbarton Oaks, if that is what is preferred. The advantages (besides the beautiful setting) are that the meeting room is free and can seat as many as 50 people (although I think a smaller number is preferable for discussion) and that we avoid monopolizing the CC:DA committee meeting and are less constrained by time. The disadvantages are that we would most likely be meeting after the CC:DA meeting, which delays their vote, and that participants in the discussion may need to extend their trip to DC. I leave that to the judgment of John Myers and others, but please just let me know by May 1 so that I have time to make the necessary arrangements (I will be out of the office May 19-middle of June). Summary of some of the proposals (in addition to the changes proposed in December), which Jeff Luttrell and our colleagues at Princeton suggested to CoHSL (Jeff’s text is italicized below to distinguish it from my comments): 1) Keep the status quo but remove the rough breathing from all post-1453 Modern Greek records. Our catalogers agreed that a machine conversion of our catalog would be possible—in which bibliographic records in Modern Greek would have the letter “h” stripped from words where it preceded a vowel—and that the new practice would be relatively simple to implement and result in better searching for users, many of whom are unfamiliar with the whole issue of rough breathing signs. However, such an approach would no longer reflect the fact that the rough breathing does appear in polytonic texts, which are still being published in spite of the official adoption of monotonic orthography in 1982. What Rhea and I have heard from the grapevine is that this is the option preferred by the CC:DA task-force. I see a few advantages: ● Researchers will be able to search most publications (except critical editions for classical and Byzantine texts) without worrying about the rough breathing. ● Catalogers will not need to concern themselves with distinguishing between polytonic and monotonic, rough breathing vs. no rough breathing, unless they are searching classical or Byzantine Greek. ● This should eliminate the concern over serial records for publications that started with polytonic orthography and switched to monotonic at some point during the history of the publication. My objections to this proposal: ● We assume that machine conversions will isolate MARC records with language code gre and strip the h from select fields, and we are concerned about the accuracy of such machine conversions (as well as the human and financial resources to implement such conversions). Consider, for example, the contents of this 245 field: “Glōssa, koinōnia, historia : ta Valkania : praktika diethnous synedriou, Thessalonikē, 11-12 Noemvriou 2001 / epistēmonikē epimeleia, A.-Ph. Christidēs me synergasia me tis M. Arapopoulou & M. Chritē ; eisagōgē, G. Drettas = Language, society, history : the Balkans : proceedings of an international conference, Thessaloniki, 11-12 November 2001 / editor, A.-F. Christidis in collaboration with M. Arapopoulou & M. Chriti ; introduction, G. Drettas.” ● Stripping the “h” will necessitate changing the non-filing indicators in the 245 field for most records, correct? Harvard libraries encountered this problem with the Greek feminine article a few years ago, so we can share information about how it was resolved if you’d like. ● The 1453 date is significant for political, not philological reasons: Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, but the Byzantine Greek language did not abruptly change to “modern Greek” at this time. ● Similarly, one cannot mark a change in the language’s orthography at 1453. The type used in early Greek printing was very closely modeled on Byzantine script (ligatures, variant letter forms, diacritics, and all!). Greek typography did not simplify until the middle of the 18th century – there was some griping about complex Greek fonts in the 17th century, but upright fonts with few ligatures and the elimination of most variant letter forms did not become standard until the late 18thc. If you look at Greek publications throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, you will see that polytonic (with rough breathing!) was common up until 1982. After 1982, well, that becomes more complicated, as we all know. In order to catalog accurately all Greek printed books, the polytonic orthography must be respected in some way. 2) Keep the status quo but, instead of removing the rough breathing from post-1453 Modern Greek records, replace it with a new diacritic. In other words, for polytonic works in Modern Greek, the appearance of the rough breathing would be indicated in transliteration by a diacritic, not a character, which would insure the same search results as those from monotonic texts. This approach was also considered simple to implement. However, it was understood that (in addition to a perhaps problematic innovation) the retrospective replacement of the transliterated “h” with this diacritic would result, at least initially, in a subset of monotonic texts that now appear as polytonic. This option has several advantages over option #1: ● It respects the continuation of the polytonic orthography post-1453 and even post-1982. ● It is as easy on the user as option #1; for example, searching “istoria” will find both the polytonic and monotonic Greek. ● If the diacritic is place-holding, then the non-filing indicators in the 245 field will not need to be adjusted. My concerns: ● Again, retrospective conversion may be problematic and perhaps more complex, since, ideally, the conversion will strip the diacritic from records with monotonic Greek. ● Catalogers will need to learn to distinguish between acute accents and the rough breathing mark. ● Users will still need to learn the transliteration standards. In particular, if the “h” for rough breathing is preserved for pre-1453 Greek, then classical and Byzantine studies users will need to know both ways in which the rough breathing is represented. 3) Keep the status quo with no exceptions. The continuity of previous Greek cataloging means something, as do the expectations that it has created. Nevertheless, we understand that this status quo is becoming increasingly untenable with a new generation of users. The greatest disadvantages of the status quo are that it does not reflect monotonic orthography (which is becoming increasingly common for new Greek publications) and that it does not keep up with the standards that are used in the rest of the international community (although I know some major research centers like the University of Vienna use the “h” for rough breathing). This we all agree is problematic. The advantages, at this point in time, are many: We have all given thought to the many problems of a conversion project, both for bibliographic and authority records: funding, scope, the necessity of human resources, etc. and how difficult the transition period will be for our researchers and for librarians. Most of our US-based researchers (all fields of study) are accustomed to the old standard and have used/still use it in bibliographies, syllabi, etc. that are shared with students and researchers. Some things we can do to improve on the status quo: ● We can supply a finite list of terms where polytonic Greek includes a rough breathing with the transliteration standards. ● We hope to see more use of the vernacular (Unicode) with parallel fields including the Romanization (see the New Griffon 9 (2007), published by the Gennadeion Library in Athens and including the proceedings of a 2006 meeting of American, British, and Greek librarians who work with modern Greek) Effect on classical and Byzantine studies scholars: I would also like to clarify that the classics, patristics, Biblical Greek, and Byzantine studies communities do have a stake in these discussions. The pre-1453 standard preserves the rough breathing and other points of contention for critical editions of ancient Greek texts (most US libraries purchase only those editions published in US and Western Europe), which are fundamental to the disciplines. But graduate- and professional-level research in classical and Byzantine studies does rely on publications that are affected by post-1453 standards. Greek scholarship in the fields of Greek epigraphy, Byzantine history, Byzantine language and literature (including Greek-published critical editions of Byzantine literature, which are sometimes the authoritative edition preferred by scholars), art history of all eras, and archaeology has been relevant to advanced research in these fields since the 19th century. For example, prehistoric/classical/post-classical archaeologists based in the US cannot avoid modern Greek publications, because most of the excavations and research done on larger and smaller sites in Greece are done by the Greek archaeological service, the Greek archaeological society, and other archaeologists in Greece, including the Athenian acropolis, Eleusis, Epidauros, Dodona, Messene, etc. despite some publications on this sites being available in other languages. While discussing the proposed changes with classical and Byzantine researchers, I have found that a number of them are confused already, because they have assumed that the decision is based on the subject content, not the publication information. Indeed, these classical and Byzantine studies scholars may be the users who are most affected by splitting publications into pre-1453 and post-1453. Admittedly, the number of Greek publications purchased by US libraries in support of classical and Byzantine studies may be small (mostly the major research universities with graduate programs in these fields) as compared to the publications relevant to modern Greek studies that major collections such as the Library of Congress, Harvard, Princeton, and others acquire. Rhea and others can speak better to the potential consequences for US-based modern Greek scholars. There are many other issues that arise as well, but I hope this can be the start of a constructive discussion. Sincerely, Deb Stewart Librarian, Byzantine Studies Dumbarton Oaks Research Library . . .

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