CoHSL-list July 2013

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Head, Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Subject: Job: Head, Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University seeks a qualified individual to lead the Library of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World [ISAW] is a unique center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education, offering the Ph.D. degree through NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science. It has a wider geographic span than other programs that focus on the ancient world, incorporating not only Europe and the entire Mediterranean basin, but also the Near East, and Central, South, and East Asia. In its research and its teaching of doctoral students, ISAW emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach, one that transcends modern boundaries of nation. It supports scholarship that crosses customary disciplinary boundaries – art history, literature, archaeology, history, geography, geology, economics, and sociology, among others – to create a new intellectual framework for understanding the ancient world, and to train a new generation of scholars steeped in that integrated approach. The ISAW Library supports the research and curricular needs of ISAW’s faculty, resident and visiting scholars, and graduate students. The ISAW Library and its staff have been built to suit the needs of scholars in the 21st century, embracing both traditional and digital collections and methods, and taking advantage of new techniques for access, delivery and collection building. The Head Librarian works closely with the Institute Director, faculty, and Associate Director for Digital Programs to deliver and enhance information resources and library services that support the interdisciplinary work of ISAW. Those interdisciplinary programs also require that the Librarian work collaboratively with other libraries at NYU and in the New York area, as well as with digital publishers, aggregators, and catalogers worldwide, to insure that the ISAW community, both locally and globally, has access to the broadest possible range of scholarly content. Such collaboration is also essential in the context of collections development to ensure that the ISAW Library complements and extend, rather than duplicates, the extraordinary range of resources New York’s cultural institutions make available to researchers. The Head of the ISAW Library, reporting jointly to the Director of Collections and Research Services in NYU’s Division of Libraries and to the Director of ISAW, is responsible for all aspects of the Library’s operations, including oversight of access and research services, development of the Library’s print and digital collections, liaison with other NYU Libraries departments (including technical services and the NYU Digital Library team), and liaison with ISAW’s user community. The staff of the Library includes an Assistant Head and three catalogers. The incumbent will be responsible for the Library’s close collaborative relationship with other NYU Libraries, including the Institute of Fine Arts Library on East 78th Street and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library on Washington Square. The incumbent will also maintain close working relationships with other libraries in the New York area, such as the Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University. Reade the rest at: http://library.nyu.edu/about/jobs.html#ISAW

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Proposal for Coptic Romanization Table

by Johnson, Bruce

Proposal for Coptic Romanization Table 7/19/13 A proposal for a Coptic romanization table has been received from Charles Riley of Yale University and is available for review at Coptic Romanization<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/coptic.pdf> www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/coptic.pdf<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/coptic.pdf> [PDF, 189 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 18, 2013. 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) 202.707.6629 (fax)

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FIND OF THE WEEK

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Macar, Elcin. Iste Geliyor Kurtulus : Tu¨rkiye'nin II Du¨nya Savas¸i'nda Yunanistan'a yardimi/ Erchetai Ti Kourtoulou [IN TURKISH AND IN GREEK]. Izmir: Izmir Ticaret Odasi Kultur , 2009. First Edition. Boxed. New / New. ISBN: 9789944604062. [Series Izmir Ticaret Odasi Ku¨ltu¨r, Sanat ve Tarih Yayinlari, 9.] Parallel Turkish and Greek texts describing the fate of the Turkish ship SS Kurtulus which sank in the Marmara in 1942 when carrying emergency food aid to starving Greece during the Nazi occupation. 153p. illus bibliography =============================== -- 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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NEH Report on Evaluation of Preservation & Access Grant Program

by KALAMOS BOOKS

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wurl, Joel <JWurl(a)neh.gov> Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provides support to the nation’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions to help enable long-term public access to significant collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, art and artifacts, sound recordings, moving images, and more through its program Humanities Collections and Reference Resources (HCRR). This program, whose antecedents date back to the 1960s, also supports the production of reference tools, such as encyclopedias, historical dictionaries, and atlases.**** ** ** Beginning in 2011, NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access conducted a formal evaluation of HCRR, focusing on grants made in the years 2000 through 2010. Staff surveyed 177 past awardees, providing them with questions intended to elicit both quantitative and qualitative evidence of project outcomes, often extending beyond the term of the grant itself. The resulting study provides information that may be of broad value to the cultural heritage community, including the impact of such grant projects on the use of collections and resources, on programmatic infrastructure, and on permanent job creation.**** ** ** An article summarizing these findings<http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/featured-project/the-division-pre…>and containing a link to the full report, has been posted on the NEH website. We wish to express our gratitude to all who participated in this survey and to the American public for its support. Please feel free to share this announcement with anyone you believe might be interested. Thank you.**** ** ** Joel Wurl Sr. Program Officer Division of Preservation & Access National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20506 phone: 202-606-8252 fax: 202-606-8639 email: jwurl(a)neh.gov **** [image: Color Horizontal GIF version]**** *Visit the NEH Website at** www.neh.gov* *Follow the Division on Twitter: @NEH_PresAccess* * * **

10 years, 9 months

Tombros Librarian

by KALAMOS BOOKS

Congratulations to Chuck Jones <<< Yesterday I just received word that my appointment with tenure to the endowed faculty position of Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities in the George and Sherry Middlemas Arts and Humanities Library on the University Park campus was recommended by the ommittee and approved by the Provost of Penn State. >>> June Samaras (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

10 years, 10 months

Tamashek Romanization Table Approved

by Johnson, Bruce

Tamashek Romanization Table Approved 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: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) recently received and reviewed a proposal for new Tamashek romanization table. The table has subsequently been approved. The Tamashek 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) 202.707.6629 (fax)

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