CoHSL-list June 2012

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by KALAMOS BOOKS

Three vintage school books used to teach children Greek at schools in the USA 1921-1928 1] Psylla, Alexandros. Hellenikon Anagnosmatarion Dia Tin B' Taxin Ton Demotikon Scholeion Amphoteron Ton Phylon. Egkrithen Para Tou Ypourgeion Tis Paideias Kata Ton Gonismo Tis 19 Auguostou 1921. Athenai: Ekdotes Georgios Velones, 1923. Cloth. Good>Very Good Vintage textbook for classroom use printed in Greece. 160p. illus.index. This version imported to the USA by the Atlas Book Store, 25, Madison St. New York City and re-issued by them in grey-green cloth covered boards embossed with their own name and address and with an additional 4 pages of commercial listings . Text clean and complete but paper age tanned, staples rusted, loose on scuffed covers. names of previous students on ffep $25.00 Sykoki, Ioannou M. Alphabetario A" Meros. ill. Eikones Apostolos Gerali . Athenai: Ekdotai I.D.Kollaros & Sia, 1926. 3rd Ed. Cloth. Good>Very Good Alphabet book for classroom use printed in Greece. 94p. frontis. illus.index. This version imported to the USA by the Atlas Book Store, 25, Madison St. New York City and re-issued by them in grey-green cloth covered boards embossed with their own name and address and with an additional 4 pages of commercial listings . Text clan and complete but paper age tanned, half title missing, covers scuffed. $25.00 Sykoki, Ioannou M. Alphabetario B" Meros. ill. Eikones Apostolos Gerali . Athenai: Ekdotai I.D.Kollaros & Sia, 1928. 11th Ed. Cloth. Good>Very Good Alphabet book for classroom use printed in Greece. 78p. col. frontis. illus.index. This version imported to the USA by the Atlas Book Store, 25, Madison St. New York City and re-issued by them in grey-green cloth covered boards embossed with their own name and address and with an additional 4 pages of commercial listings . Text complete, some pencil marks and names Staples rusted, loose in covers $25.00 =============================== June Samaras KALAMOS BOOKS (For Books about Greece) 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com www.kalamosbooks.com http://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/ http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal

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FIND OF THE WEEK

by KALAMOS BOOKS

A nice association copy -Henry Ward Beecher copy Burrow, E.I. THE ELGIN MARBLES, With an Abridged Historical and Topographical Account of Athens. London: 1837. 263p. + Forty plates drawn by the Author. Nice bright 8vo hc copy with a some of wear. Henry Ward Beecher copy with his sort of bookplate and autograph in pencil. =================================== - 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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Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dot Porter <dot.porter(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:10:15 -0400 (Apologies for cross-posting) We are very pleased to announce that, following a one-year planning grant, the Mellon Foundation has awarded the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA) a three-year implementation grant. MESA serves two related purposes: to develop a federation of digital medieval resources, and to provide peer review for scholarly digital projects in all areas of medieval studies. MESA is a federation both in the sense of a community - of scholars, librarians, and students developing and using digital resources - and as a website that federates disparate collections and projects. The website will provide a search across various types of resources spanning the disciplines, geographical areas, and temporal spans that make up the Middle Ages, in the broadest sense. MESA joins with Nineteenth Century Scholarship Online (www.nines.org), 18thConnect (www.18thconnect.org), and the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) project as a node of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC). ARC is a developing organization, centered at Texas A&M University and directed by Laura Mandell, which serves to provide support for the constituent nodes. This support includes coordination, sustainability, and scalability by providing shared infrastructure - including development of the COLLEX platform and maintenance of a shared catalog including metadata from objects represented in all the nodes. During the second half of 2012, we will be loading the first group of 12 resources into the MESA website. The site will launch with those resources in late 2012. At the same time we will be developing our procedures and policies for including other resources in the site. We have already started compiling a list of projects and collections that we would like to include in MESA in the second phase of the project (after the initial launch). If you have a project that you would like to see included in MESA, please contact us. MESA Co-Directors Dot Porter, Indiana University Bloomington Timothy Stinson, North Carolina State University MESA federation blog: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/projects/mesa/ Press Release from NCSU: http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/technology/wms-medieval-online/ -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.porter(a)gmail.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* --

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St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai Palimpsests Survey

by KALAMOS BOOKS

St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai Palimpsests Survey St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt In cooperation with His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai and with generous support from Arcadia, a London-based foundation, EMEL will field a scientific team to St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai, home of the world’s oldest library, to work with the Father Justin, Monastery Librarian, to: Study the reflective qualities of palimpsests in the monastery library (how the inks and parchment of these manuscripts reflect different wavelengths of light). Demonstrate the feasibility of using multi-spectral imaging and related technologies to recover the erased texts on these palimpsests. Palimpsests are recycled manuscripts. Frugal medieval scribes would scrape an old manuscript to remove the ink and write new text over the old. The erased layers of writing can preserve texts from antiquity that survive in no other form. Built in the 6th century, St. Catherine’s holds 120 known palimpsests that contain classical, Christian and Jewish texts in Greek, Syriac, Georgian, Armenian, Arabic, and other languages. Only three of these palimpsests have been extensively studied, and all three contain erased texts from the 4th-7th centuries. The survey will advance our scientific understanding of palimpsests by studying how palimpsests with inks and parchments of different chemical compositions reflect different wavelengths of light. This information will assist libraries around the world that hold palimpsests to design methods to make the erased texts legible again. St. Catherine’s Monastery holds a large and diverse collection of palimpsests that provides the optimal conditions for such a survey. At the conclusion of the survey, EMEL will submit a report to His Eminence Archbishop Damianos a report that describing the methods by which the underlying texts can be recovered in service to the monastery and to scholarship. Project participants include: Roger Easton, Professor, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Keith Knox, Senior Scientist for Boeing LTS, based in Maui, Hawaii. William Christens-Barry, Chief Scientist, Equipoise Imaging, LCC, based in Maryland. David Cooper, Director of Digital Lightforms, Ltd., U.K.; former Librarian, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. Michael B. Toth, Consultant in Technology Planning and Integration, R. B. Toth Associates; Project Manager of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Michael Phelps, Executive Director, Early Manuscripts Electronic Library, California. Technology Development Next-Generation System for Digitizing Codices >From fall 2005 through spring 2007, EMEL coordinated an international working group to design a next-generation system for digitizing fragile codices that would realize the following priorities: Support fragile bindings throughout the digitization process. Achieve best contemporary image standards in terms of spatial resolution, pixel depth and color fidelity to the original. Optimize workflow so that large-scale digitization projects are cost-effective and feasible. Create a multi-use system capable of digitizing diverse media via modular design. Be transportable for projects around the world. Stokes Imaging of Austin, Texas, is now manufacturing this new system. Click here for a PDF that describes this next-generation system for digitizing fragile codices. The following experts participated in the working group: David Cooper, formerly of Oxford University, and photographic consultant to St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai; Father Justin Sinaites, Librarian of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai; John R. Stokes of Stokes Imaging, designer of turnkey systems for large-scale digitization projects for the U.S. Library of Congress, National Geographic, and the National Library of Medicine; and John T. Stokes of Stokes Software, designer of workflow management software for large-scale digital conversion projects. Digital Imaging National Center of Manuscripts, Tbilisi, Georgia In September 2007, EMEL traveled to Tbilisi to collaborate with Georgia’s National Center of Manuscripts to digitize a selection of its most important manuscripts. The Center preserves outstanding manuscripts in a variety of languages that are the heritage of Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. This project featured the digitization of early Georgian manuscripts that originate from St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai. St. Catherine’s Monastery ‘Diaspora’ Manuscripts Project EMEL seeks to digitize manuscripts that were once part of the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery of the Sinai but are now scattered in libraries around the world. In this way, scholars will be able to study the history of the world’s oldest continually operating library and reconstruct the relationships among its manuscripts. As the first installment of the project, EMEL digitized the Peckover-Foot Codex, a 12th century Greek New Testament manuscript in the Department of Special Collections, Young Research Library, UCLA. Strategic Alliances Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece EMEL and Department of Medieval Studies of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, have entered a strategic alliance to develop projects to digitize collections of Byzantine manuscripts. Prof. Vasili Katsaros of Aristotle University is exploring project opportunities in Greece and the Middle East. Other major projects are in development and will be announced when appropriate. -- 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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Bulgarian, Russian, and Shan Romanization Tables

by Johnson, Bruce

Bulgarian, Russian, and Shan Romanization Tables 6/19/12 The ALA-LC Romanization tables are developed jointly by the Library of Congress (LC) and the American Library Association (ALA). Romanization schemes enable the cataloging of foreign language materials. Romanized cataloging in turn supports circulation, acquisitions, serials check-in, shelflisting, shelving, and reference, particularly in library catalogs that are unable to display non-roman alphabet information. The ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) recently received and reviewed LC revision proposals for the Bulgarian and Russian romanization tables. Both tables were approved. The Committee on Cataloging: African and Asian Materials (CC:AAM) recently received and reviewed a proposal from LC for a new Shan romanization table. The table was approved. The Bulgarian, Russian, and Shan tables are now available for downloading from the ALA-LC Romanization Tables webpage<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html>. Please direct any questions about romanization tables to Bruce Johnson, Policy and Standards Division (bjoh(a)loc.gov<mailto:bjoh@loc.gov>). Bruce Chr. Johnson The Library of Congress Policy & Standards Division Washington, DC 20540-4263 USA bjoh(a)loc.gov<mailto:bjoh@loc.gov> www.loc.gov<http://www.loc.gov/> 202.707.1652 (voice) 202.707.1334 (fax)

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Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works

by KALAMOS BOOKS

From: Charles W. Bailey, Jr. <cwbailey(a)digital-scholarship.com> Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:30 AM Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works: http://digital-scholarship.org/dcpb/dcb.htm In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital curation and preservation copyright issues, digital formats (e.g., data, media, and e-journals), metadata, models and policies, national and international efforts, projects and institutional implementations, research studies, services, strategies, and digital repository concerns. Most sources have been published from 2000 through 2011; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 2000 are also included. The bibliography includes links to freely available versions of included works, such as e-prints and open access articles. The bibliography is available as a paperback and an open access PDF file. All versions of the bibliography are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. For a list of all Digital Scholarship publications, see: http://bit.ly/ffWu9D Translate (oversatta, oversette, prelozit, traducir, traduire, tradurre, traduzir, or ubersetzen) this message: http://digital-scholarship.org/announce/dcb_en.htm -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://bit.ly/Z6HFx

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Recall: sobering article on the state of the Greek book

by Maria Georgopoulou

Maria Georgopoulou would like to recall the message, "[Cohsl-list] sobering article on the state of the Greek book".

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sobering article on the state of the Greek book

by Lesage, Rhea

http://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2012/06/14/grece-le-livre-en-ruine_171…

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Updates to Girolamini scandal

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Some particularly eloquent and interesting reflections on this and other library problems here : http://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/reflections-on-girolamin… June S ========================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jennifer Lowe <jlowe3(a)slu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:20:05 -0500 After yesterday's forgery revelations, the mere theft side of the Girolamini scandal will seem like old hat. For those following it, though, here are a few updates. First, two new arrests: Federico Roncoletta and Marco Ceriano of Verona. All suspects are now charged not only with embezzlement, but with criminal conspiracy. The count of alleged stolen books is up to 2,200 and may grow with the Zisska returns: http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/cronaca/2012/9-giu… Even hotter off the press is the news that more Girolamini books were found in a Rome apartment that has a phone number registered in Marino Massimo De Caro's name, and that is also occasionally used by Senator Dell'Ultri and his aide. I am unclear on the nuances here, but it seems as if the official search of the apartment was blocked by a claim of "Constitutional protection" of the Senator's parliamentary privileges: http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2012/06/11/news/girolamini_il_gip_il_se… In this next article, the investigating judge Francesca Ferri describes De Caro as the head of an international criminal organization, and the emptying of the Girolamini Library not as a crime of opportunity, but as an organized "looting" arranged in all its phases and carried out methodically from the very beginning of his appointment: http://www.larena.it/stories/dalla_home/372817_biblioteca_girolamini_svuota… Please pardon any distortions of meaning caused by my imperfect Italian. For those like me who need a crutch, I recommend google translate: http://translate.google.com/ I also enjoyed Daryl Green's reflections in the University of St. Andrews Special Collections blog, "Echoes from the Vault." It certainly has the best caption that has yet been applied to the infamous 3-handed photo of De Caro: http://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/reflections-on-girolamin… Jenny Lowe RBMS Security Committee http://www.rbms.info/committees/security/theft_reports/theft_reports_2012.s… -- Jennifer J. Lowe Rare Books Librarian Pius XII Memorial Library Saint Louis University 3650 Lindell Blvd. St. Louis, Mo 63108 Phone: (314) 977-5070 Fax: (314) 977-3108 Email: jlowe3(a)slu.edu -- 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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Proposal for new Kazakh (in Arabic Script) Romanization Table

by Johnson, Bruce

The Policy and Standards Division of the Library of Congress has received a proposal for a new Kazakh (in Arabic Script) ALA-LC romanization table from the University of Washington. The author notes that although "a majority of current Kazakh publications are in Cyrillic [script], a number of titles are issued in China using a modified Arabic script. Some of these titles are acquired by libraries, and the lack of an approved romanization table has led to problems." The proposal<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_kazakh_proposal.pdf> < http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_kazakh_proposal.pdf > (PDF, 99 KB) is accompanied by a separate explanation<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_kazakh_explanation.pdf> < http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_kazakh_explanation.pdf > (PDF, 57 KB) as well as a comparison<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_kazakh_comparison.pdf> < http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman_kazakh_comparison.pdf > (PDF, 120 KB) of romanizations of a text with Arabic and Cyrillic originals. Comments on this proposed revision may be sent to Bruce Johnson in LC's Policy and Standards Division (bjoh(a)loc.gov<mailto:bjoh@loc.gov>) no later than September 7, 2012. Bruce Chr. Johnson The Library of Congress Policy & Standards Division Washington, DC 20540-4263 USA bjoh(a)loc.gov<mailto:bjoh@loc.gov> www.loc.gov<http://www.loc.gov/> 202.707.1652 (voice) 202.707.1334 (fax)

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