A colleague has this special copy for sale
*Offered*: *The King of Asine and Other Poems. Signed Association Copy.
Quite Hard to Find.
Seferis, George [Seferi?d?s, Ge?rgios; Seferis, Giorgos]; Warner,
Rex[Introduction]; Durrell, Lawrence; Spencer, Bernard; Valaoritis, Nanos
[Translators]. The King of Asine and Other Poems [Signed Association Copy].
London: John Lehmann Ltd., 1948. First English language edition. A Very
Good or better copy of the First UK Edition, first printing (spine ends
gently pushed and lightly rubbed, tiny rubs at outer board corners, very
slightly askew with a bit of leftward lean, sunning to spine ends mirroring
dust jacket loss, modest mark to rear panel, modest foxing to endpapers),
in an about Very Good (for this title) dust jacket (loss at each spine end,
edges rubbed, foxing to rear panel and to the jacket's verso, interior tape
repairs to spine and to the head of each flap turn, excised sections at
bottom of each flap replaced, price present though lightly affected by a
blue pen stroke, short, tear at bottom of front flap fold --- the dust
jacket for this title is notoriously fragile), SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED
("Much -- or Many -- [Illegible] '49") BY GEORGE SEFERIS [IN GREEK] TO, REX
WARNER, his friend and frequent translator, who provided the
book'sIntroduction.
Presenting representative selections of his Poetry, this book
constitutes the debut presentation of Seferis' work in English translation.
A Greek Diplomat and Ambassador to the UK, and one of the Twentieth
Century's most important Greek Poets, George Seferis won the 1963 Nobel
Prize in Literature for "his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep
feeling for the Hellenic world of culture", making him the first Greek ever
to have received the Prize. This copy belonged to Seferis' good friend, Rex
Warner, who provided the book's Introduction and who later translated some
of the verses contained in this work, as well as others not previously
published in English, for presentation in the "Poems", itself the second
translation of any of Seferis' works into English (1960). Signed copies of
Seferis' works are extraordinarily scarce in any language, and our search
of the of the auction records shows no signed copies of his works coming to
auction in the last 55 years. Altogether a Very Good ASSOCIATION COPY of an
extremely difficult-to-find book from the first Greek author to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature. RARE. Very Good in Very Good (for this title)
dust-jacket. Hardcover. (#00003027) $1,875.00
--
June Samaras
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Cherokee Romanization Table
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 reviewed and approved a proposal from LC for a new Cherokee romanization table. It has been subsequently approved by the Cherokee Tri-Council meeting in Cherokee, North Carolina. (Press coverage of the meeting is available online at http://theonefeather.com/2012/07/cherokee-tribes-come-together-for-tri-coun… .) This is the first ALA-LC romanization table for a Native American syllabary.
The Cherokee romanization table is now available for downloading from the ALA-LC Romanization Tables webpage<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html> < 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)
To: Jack Kessler <kessler(a)well.com>
FYI France : Europeana digital library Newspapers Project
Worth-a-visit -- for any fans or foes of Google Digital Libraries, or
GoogleBooks, GoogleScholar, Google Books Library Project, or Amazon's
Kindle, or Apple's iBook Author or iTunes Producer, or Barnes &
Noble's Nook, or the BnF's Gallica, or Project Gutenberg's Project
Gutenberg, or Artelittera Téléchargement, or ebooks or Epub, etc. --
or the many online digital Theories Of Everything surrounding all &
each -- it's Europeana's recent announcement --
> "Press Release, The Hague, 26th of June 2012 : Launch of the Europeana Newspapers Project"
> "A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the Europeana Newspapers project to, over the next 3 years, provide more than 18 million newspaper pages to the online service Europeana <http://www.europeana.eu/> ."
For any of us who have fought the various battles involved with
newsprint -- from acid paper to indexing or more often the inadequacy
or complete lack thereof, from storage questions to microfilm's
manifold issues and complex secondary and tertiary intellectual
property agendas, and above all the thorny lineages of news outfits,
which change their names and swallow one another or get swallowed as
often as the rest of us change our socks -- the sheer courage of such
an announcement is impressive...
> "Europeana is a single access point to millions of digitised books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records sourced from throughout Europe. The Europeana Newspapers project is funded under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Program 2007-2013 of the European Commission with the aim of aggregation and refinement of newspaper content through The European Library.
> "Each library participating in the project will distribute digitised newspapers and full-text via Europeana. The project aims to make the newspaper content directly accessible for users through a special interface within the content browser. This will be integrated into the Europeana portal and will allow queries of phrases or single words within the newspapers' texts. This goes far beyond the standard libraries catalogue search functions which usually allow the searching by date or title only."
As to that last, well... Indexation of newspapers anywhere in the past
has ranged from none-at-all to erroneous -- even fine attempts have
run afoul often of the "editions game", their own indexing failing to
account accurately for differences, in an article's update version or
even publication at all, in any given outfit's West Coast or Weekend
or Local or National or European or Far East etc. edition.
Researchers, and research librarians, tear their hair...
> "The project addresses challenges linked with digitised newspapers such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Optical Layout Recognition (OLR), article segmentation and page class recognition, and named entity recognition (NER). OCR is the electronic conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. OLR is concerned with the detection and separation of articles on a scanned page with more than one article. NER seeks to locate entities in the full text and to classify them according to standardised names for persons, locations, and organisations."
It will be fascinating to see what new tricks -- techniques &
approaches & degrees of understanding -- the Europeans will bring to
bear on these old problems, some of which are very old indeed.
Language policy and publication have struggled with weird character
sets and layout and naming conventions for millennia, in Europe:
through several Ages of Incunabula and various publication formats --
manuscript, print, radio & movies & tv, and now digital -- the
problems always have been not just technical, also legal & political &
social, cultural. What improvements will the latest digital
innovations bring -- what new wrinkles in new solutions to the very
old problems?
> "The project will also evaluate the quality of the refinement technologies and transform the local metadata into the Europeana Data Model standard in close collaboration with stakeholders from the public and private sector."
As I just mentioned, "The problems always have been not just
technical, also legal & political & social, cultural..."
> "The Europeana Newspapers project is co-ordinated by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Follow the advancements of the Europeana Newspapers project at www.europeana-newspapers.eu. For any further information please contact Hans-Jörg Lieder or Thorsten Siegmann at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin via info(a)europeana-newspapers.eu <mailto:info@europeana-newspapers.eu> . Project Partners:
BerlinState Library
National Library of the Netherlands
National Library of Estonia
Austrian National Library
University of Helsinki
National Library of Finland
Hamburg State and University Library
National Library of France
National Library of Poland
CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH
LIBER Foundation
National Library of Latvia
National Library of Turkey
Universityof Beograd
University of Innsbruck
Dr. Friedrich Tessmann Library
The British Library
University of Salford
The European Library
> "Europeana is a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections. Currently Europeana gives integrated access to 23 million books, films, paintings, museum objects and archival documents from some 2,200 content providers from across Europe.
W3: (http://www.europeana.eu <http://www.europeana.eu/> )
Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/eurnews <http://twitter.com/#!/eurnews> )
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanaNewspapers
<https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanaNewspapers> )
LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4425919
<http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4425919> )
--oOo--
A Note:
Kudos to these librarians, and others, anywhere and everywhere, who
undertake newspapers recon projects such as this one. As any exhausted
& double-visioned microfilm or microfiche user will attest, newspaper
research is a difficult task -- yet any historical researcher also
knows its inestimable value, in research there is little hard evidence
comparable to the immediacy of news reports and current events
analysis.
Well-considered weighty tomes written many years later may get the
history right. But history is not what people experience, they
experience the news, the current events, with its uncertainties,
rumors, unverified reports, unlikely sets of always-complicated
circumstances: without some knowledge of these, and an appreciation of
their significance in people's real lives, we cannot appreciate the
significance of events in our own -- their importance, also very often
their lack of importance -- preserving "the news", then, helps us
greatly, we can better see events of history through the eyes of those
who were there, and that helps us better understand our own.
Any set of decision-maker "memoires" can be used to support this --
all of them accounts from "the fog of war", valuable as much for their
reminder that wartime gets foggy and decision-making takes place in
times of uncertainty, as that certainty and conclusions taken at the
time very often look very odd later on -- from Julius Caesar's
analysis of his invasions of Gaul, to Condoleeza Rice's reasons
offered, in her lucid recent memoires, for the US invasion of Iraq --
yet the memoires make great reading, the weighty tomes more often not
so -- as a famous anecdote explains,
Professional historians do not esteem William Shirer. His historical
books are simplistic in interpretation, unbalanced in coverage,
superficially researched and full of wrongheaded theories. Worst of
all, they sell like crazy.
-- William Sheridan Allen, historian
So let's save the newspapers! We'll want to know what they said: what
they told us, what we told others in them, how we all felt about it at
the time -- all before we'd had a chance to think too much but
nevertheless were forced to act.
--
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
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http://e-athens.dailysecret.com/secrets/3535-a-bookworms-secret
Have you passed a time-travel machine in the center of Kifisia?
It's white, rectangular... and Kifisia's own public street library!
Housed within the glass shelves sits a mini athenaeum of donated books.
Irene and Lefteris, both architects and bookworms, had the great idea of
organizing a free and public book exchange in collaboration with the
municipality of Kifisia.
Here's how it works: browse the collection, then take a book or donate one,
with no strings attached. Next time you're out taking a stroll, take a
peek inside
—who knows what treasures you'll find.
The library is also open at night, lit in an eco-friendly way.
P.S. Keep an eye out in your neighborhood!
Irene and Lefteris plan to build more of these drop-off portals all
around the city!
--
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.comhttp://kalamosb.alibrisstore.com/http://www.antiqbook.com/books/bookseller.phtml/kal
Just in case you missed this on the MGSA list....
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Irene Kacandes <Irene.Kacandes(a)dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:31:21 +0000
Subject: [MGSA-L] supplementary Modern Greek Story Reader available
for use without cost
To: "MGSA-L(a)uci.edu" <MGSA-L(a)uci.edu>
Dear Fellow Teachers of the Greek Language,
some of you learned last year that I had been given funds by an
anonymous donor in Greece to develop a book to support the teaching of
Modern Greek in an English context. Seven winning stories from an
internet story contest were selected, put into order of difficulty,
and glossed into English. The result circulated in a number of copies
a year ago. With feedback on that test reader, a final edition is now
available. Because of the original grant, copies of this book are
being made available *at no cost* to any individual trying to learn
Modern Greek or to the students of any teacher of Modern Greek.
Please send a message to
irene.kacandes(a)dartmouth.edu
with GREEK READER REQUEST
in the subject line
In the body of the email please write the number of copies you are
requesting, your name, and a FAILPROOF regular (snail) mail address to
send the order to.
I will fulfill requests until the book/money is gone. (Cost of
handling and shipping within North American is also being paid by the
original grant. If you have requests for books to be shipped outside
North American, please free feel to send them on, but they will be
handled after North American requests; sorry about that, but it's just
a matter of lack of staff at the moment to handle those requests. )
So all you need to do is let me know how many copies you can use and
promise to also pass on the book free of charge.
There are no strings attached to this offer. I would be delighted,
though, and it would be in the spirit of the original grant, if
teachers who use the book compare notes about how they used it and
swap any exercises they create to go along with the reader.
With best regards,
Irene Kacandes
(Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College)
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June Samaras
KALAMOS BOOKS
(For Books about Greece)
2020 Old Station Rd
Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
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Proposal for Tod-Oirat-Old Kalmyk Romanization Table
7/11/12
A proposal for a Tod-Oirat-Old Kalmyk romanization table was developed in 1998 by Wayne Richter of Western Washington University and circulated in CSB 83. No further action was taken at that time. The Policy and Standards Division is interested in completing work on this table and it is available for review at Tod-Oirat-Old Kalmyk Romanization<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/kalmyk.pdf> < http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/kalmyk.pdf > [PDF, 159 KB].
Comments on this proposed romanization table may be sent to Bruce Johnson, Policy and Standards Division (bjoh(a)loc.gov<mailto:bjoh@loc.gov>) by October 12, 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)
The American School of Classical Studies announced this morning an open access version of Hesperia. All articles beyond the three-year moving wall are now freely distributed on the School’s website for individual use.
Andrew Reinhard and his colleagues in the Publications Department and the Publications Committee of the School’s Managing Committee are to be congratulated for making this important move.
See the announcement at AWOL:
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2012/07/hesperia-goes-open-access.ht…
-Chuck Jones-
ISAW - NYU
