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Call for Applications: Magdalen College, Oxford, Visiting Fellowships 2017-18

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daryl Green <daryl.green(a)magd.ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM [apologies for cross-posting] Magdalen College, Oxford, proposes to elect a Visiting Fellow or Fellows for the academic year 2017-2018. Applications may include proposals to focus on the College’s heritage collections (early printed/rare books, manuscripts, archives, and art/artefact collection). More information about the College’s collections can be found online; <http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and-archives/> please direct informal enquiries about the College’s collections to the Librarian ( daryl.green(a)magd.ox.ac.uk) A Visiting Fellowship is intended to offer an established scholar, either from abroad or from elsewhere in the United Kingdom, an opportunity to pursue his or her own study and research as a member of the College. Full details and the application form can be found on the College’s vacancies page <http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies/>. Daryl Green Librarian Magdalen College Oxford OX1 4AU Phone: +44 (0)1865 276057 / 276045 [image: cid:image001.png@01D21A3E.42CC1050] http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/libraries-and-archives/ Magdalen College is a Registered Charity, No.1142149 -- 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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Ancient Places in Today's Library: Pleiades URIs and MARC

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The resource linked below for ancient place names is from Chuck Jones @ AWOL This led me on a quest for an easily accessible and equivalent resource for the variant place names in modern Greece in which 19th C.Turkish names and modern place names have been cross-referenced like this. This can become a frustrating task I remember some years ago wandering around the bus station in Larissa asking in vain how to get to a small village nearby called "Omorphochorion" This was quite difficult since the natives apparently still referred to by the old designation of "Nekhali" (i was not sure of the correct spelling of this) When found the bus "did" have Omorphochorion on the front! A search on Google today under that name did not find it, either, though zooming in through Google maps to where I KNOW it is located got me to "Omorfohori" which led me to this site : http://buk.gr/en/poli-perioxi/omorfochori which, after referring to the administrative changes of the Kapodistrias and Kallikratis projects, does state that " Its official name is still “to Omorfochorion”. <<<According to ongoing research being carried out at the Institute of Neohellenic Research <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Institute_of_Neohellenic_Researc…> in Athens, between 1913 and 1996, the names of 4,413 settlements were legally changed in Greece. In each case, the renamings were recorded in the official Government Gazette <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efimeris_tis_Kyverniseos>. The regional breakdown in renamings is: Macedonia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(Greece)>: 1,805 renamings; Peloponnese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloponnese>: 827 renamings; Central Greece <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Greece>: 519 renamings; Thessaly <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaly>: 487 renamings; Epirus <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epirus_(region)>: 454 renamings; Thrace <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Thrace>: 98 renamings;Crete <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete>: 97 renamings; Aegean Islands <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean_Islands>: 79 renamings; Ionian Islands <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Islands>: 47 renamings.[12] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_name_changes_in_Greece#cite_note…> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_name_changes_in_Greece Drilling more deeply I finally did get to this site http://pandektis.ekt.gr/pandektis/handle/10442/171864 which confirmed that the name I remembered was more or less correct. June Samaras Ancient Places in Today's Library: Pleiades URIs and MARC <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Awol-TheAncientWorldOnline/~3/5azvrIQeb-Q/an…> Posted: 24 Oct 2016 10:10 AM PDT Ancient Places in Today's Library: Pleiades URIs and MARC <http://isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/MARC-Pleiades> By Gabriel McKee <http://isaw.nyu.edu/search?SearchableText=Gabriel%20McKee> 10/24/2016 In September, the ISAW Library submitted a proposal to the Library of Congress to add the Pleiades <http://pleiades.stoa.org/> gazetteer to its list of authorized sources <https://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/subject.html> for subject heading terms. That same month the proposal was accepted, and Pleiades was entered into the official list and assigned an identifying code. With this code, place names from Pleiades can now be entered into library catalog records. Though this may seem like a somewhat arcane bit of technical news, it’s actually a big step forward for both Pleiades and the role of libraries in the Linked Open Data movement. The ability to use Pleiades names in subject headings is useful for keyword searching, as it allows us to provide access to both the ancient and modern names of some locations. Under the cataloging rules used by American academic libraries, inhabited places are cataloged using their modern names. For instance, the latest ISAW publication, *Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of <https://library.nyu.edu/persistent/lcn/nyu_aleph004494355?institution=NYU&p…> Smyrna <https://library.nyu.edu/persistent/lcn/nyu_aleph004494355?institution=NYU&p…>*, is assigned the LC geographic heading İzmir (Turkey) <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79042141>, the modern name of the city. Since Pleiades is now a recognized source of authoritative name data, we can now add to this book's record a geographic heading for the city’s Pleaides heading, which records not only one ancient name, but three: Naulochon/Smyrna/Palaia Smyrna <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550771>. But additional name access is not all that this change allows. A recent change <https://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2016/2016-dp18.html> to MARC <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC_standards> (*MA*chine-*R*eadable *C*ataloging)—the standard format in which library catalog records are coded—allows for the entry of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) in subject headings. URI <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier>s—unique character strings used to identify a resource or thing—are one of the foundational principles behind Linked Data. Though you may not have heard of URIs, you probably use them every day—web URLs are a form of URI, and due to their utility and ubiquity most URIs are now structured in HTTP format and point to an online location. Though the names of places in Pleiades are useful, it is the unchanging URIs that Pleiades associates with those names and places that truly distinguish it as a 21st-century linked data resource. By encoding the URI for Smyrna ( https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550771) in the metadata for a resource about that place, we create a connection between the resource, the conceptual place, and other resources that also connect to it. The Pleiades page in turn contains references to additional resources about the place in multiple periods. The metadata model known as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) <https://www.w3.org/TR/PR-rdf-syntax/> describes individual information resources—from books to websites to physical artifacts—in three-part units of information (subject : predicate : object), called triples, that connect URIs to one another *semantically*, representing each resource as a part of web of interconnected information. Each portion of a triple is represented by a URI. For example: - The book *Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of <https://library.nyu.edu/persistent/lcn/nyu_aleph004494355?institution=NYU&p…> Smyrna <https://library.nyu.edu/persistent/lcn/nyu_aleph004494355?institution=NYU&p…>* (subject:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951563286) is *about* (predicate: http://bibframe.org/vocab/subject <http://bibframe.org/vocab/subject>) the city *Smyrna* (object: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550771). - *Smyrna* (subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550771) was a *city*(predicate: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/v1.html#City) in the Roman province of *Asia* (object: https://pleiades. stoa.org/errata/1001906) - *Polycarp* (subject: https://viaf.org/viaf/2475604/) was a *resident* (predicate:http://rdvocab.info/ElementsGr2/placeOfResidence) of *Smyrna* (object: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/550771). - In that place, *Polycarp* (subject: https://viaf.org/viaf/2475604/) had the *role*(predicate: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/rdf/v1.html# natureOfAffiliation) of *bishop* (object: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/ ChristianBishop). - *Polycarp* (subject: https://viaf.org/viaf/2475604/) was the* author of*(predicate: http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator) a *Letter to the Philippians*(object: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1361823). RDF uses the relationships, represented by the links used above, to link resources to each other. A linked data library catalog or other database would use these links to draw connections between related resources. In the example above, a user would be able to easily navigate from *Graffiti from the Basilica* to *Letter to the Philippians*, other works by Polycarp, and other works concerning Smyrna. This would enhance the user's ability to discover information, and could highlight unexpected connections between different resources. The use of URIs in library cataloging is relatively new, but has the power to transform the usefulness of cataloging and cataloging metadata. The Library of Congress is currently at work on the BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework) Initiative <https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/>, an entirely new framework for resource cataloging that is intended to replace MARC. Though it is not likely to be implemented on a large scale for several years, BIBFRAME is built entirely on linked data principles, and will rely on URIs for connecting users to information. In preparation for this, the controlled vocabularies used for subjects and names are beginning to shift to a URI-based model. The ISAW Library is ready to be an active agent in that conceptual shift. Beginning this semester, we will be adding Pleiades headings and URIs to many of our records for new materials. We are already beginning to think about different uses for this metadata, including the creation of browsable maps <https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?q=select+col7+from+1ts3nBAhfpXhKBE…> of our collection and the automatic updating of Pleiades pages with information about new resources that link to them. And we will also work to expand and enhance Pleiades itself, creating new Pleiades IDs for places represented in our collection but not yet in the gazetteer, particularly in Central Asia and Ancient China. For more information about this project, please email Gabriel Mckee <gm95(a)nyu.edu> or Patrick Burns <patrick.j.burns(a)nyu.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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Call for Applications: 2017-18 Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grants

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Gabriel A. Swift" <gswift(a)princeton.edu> Date: Oct 21, 2016 3:18 PM > Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grants > > Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Library’s special collections. The award is $1,000 per week (up to four weeks) plus transportation costs. > > Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, including the Seeley G. Mudd Library; as well as rare books in Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, and in the East Asian Library (Gest Collection). Special grants are awarded in several areas: the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies supports a limited number of library fellowships in Hellenic Studies, and the Cotsen Children’s Library supports research in its collection on aspects of children’s literature. The Maxwell Fund supports research on materials dealing with Portuguese-speaking cultures. The Sid Lapidus '59 Research Fund for Studies of the Age of Revolution and the Enlightenment in the Atlantic World supports relevant special collections research. > > For more information, or to apply, please go to http://rbsc.princeton.edu/friends-princeton-university-library-research-gra… > > The deadline to apply is January 31, 2017. Grants are tenable from May 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018. > > Gabriel Swift > Reference Librarian > Rare Books and Special Collections > Princeton University Library > 1 Washington Road > Princeton, NJ 08544-2098 > Tel. 609-258-8497 > gswift(a)princeton.edu >

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LORD NELSON IN GREECE

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I just discovered this unexpected and interesting archive online that may be of interest : http://www.laskaridou.gr/i-sillogi-tou-navarchou-nelson-tou-idrimatos-ekate… The exhibition is hosted in the building of the Historical Library of the Laskarides Foundation, Highway 2 Division 36 and Coast Moutsopoulou, Zea, which is one of the most remarkable examples of architecture in the city. The report includes 82 handwritten letters of Lord Admiral Nelson, dozens of newspapers of the era that mention his victories Nelson, many personal belongings of Admiral, about 1,500 books on the Nelson and the Napoleonic wars and a collection of valuable paintings, seascapes and engravings which depicts the Nelson himself, some of his battles and his death. Also features a significant collection of about 30 models of various types of warships from bone or ivory made by French prisoners of the Napoleonic wars. Among the personal items are a couple rings which he exchanged with Emma Lady Hamilton, various silverware of the sets, one of his personal seals, one lock of hair, a combination serving dish used by himself after the amputation of his right hand (knife-fork) and a bit of the flag of the flagship HMS Victory framed. All these have been collected over the last 30 years by Panos Laskarides, R.C.N.C. at various auctions but also from other collectors and parts of the collection have been exhibited in London, Athens, Chania and the Falkland Islands. The collection is part of the Main Maritime Collection and Report of the Foundation which is open to the public in the same places, days and hours of the Historical Library (9:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday). Items of special interest and special importance can be visited by prior arrangement only. -------------------------------------------------- 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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Programs at the Gennadius Library, 2017-18

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mary Darlington" <med(a)ascsa.org> Date: Oct 14, 2016 11:26 AM Subject: Programs at the Gennadius Library, 2017-18

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“Freely available online”

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This interesting item from AWOL with useful advice and links: “Freely available online”: What I really want to know about your new digital manuscript collection <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Awol-TheAncientWorldOnline/~3/xz6uzHk8hFk/fr…> Posted: 13 Oct 2016 04:23 AM PDT Dot Porter asks five important questions for those planning to put images online “Freely available online”: What I really want to know about your new digital manuscript collection <http://www.dotporterdigital.org/?p=263> *13* *Thursday* Oct 2016 Dot Porter in Dot Porter Digital <http://www.dotporterdigital.org/> ~ Development in production So you’ve just digitized medieval manuscripts from your collection and you’re putting them online. Congratulations! That’s great. Online access to manuscripts is so important, for scholars and students and lots of other people, too (I know a tattoo artist who depends on digital images for design ideas). As the number of collections available online has grown in recent years (DMMAP lists 545 institutions offering at least one digitized manuscript <http://digitizedmedievalmanuscripts.org/app/>), the use of digital manuscripts by medievalists has grown right along with supply.[1] If you’re a medievalist and you study manuscripts, I’m confident that you regularly use digital images of manuscripts. So every new manuscript online is a celebration. But now, you who are making digitized medieval manuscripts available online, tell us more. How, exactly, are you making your manuscripts available? And please don’t say you’re making them *freely available online*. I hate this phrase. It makes my teeth clench and my heart beat faster. It makes me feel this way because it doesn’t actually tell me *anything at all*. I know you are publishing your images online, because where else would you publish them (the age of CDRom for these things is long gone) and I know they are going to be free, because otherwise you’d be making a very different kind of announcement and I would be making a very different kind of complaint (I’m looking at you, Codices Vossiani Latini Online <http://www.brill.com/products/online-resources/codices-vossiani-latini-onli…>). What else can you tell me? Here are the questions I want answered when I read about an online manuscript collection. 1. *How are your images licensed? *This is going to be my first question, and for me it’s the most important because it defines what I can do with your images. Are you placing them in the public domain, licensing them CC0 <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>? This is what we do at my institution <http://openn.library.upenn.edu/>, and it’s what I like to see, since, you know, medieval manuscripts are not in copyright, at least not in the USA (I understand things are more complicated in Europe). If not CC0, then what restrictions are you placing on them? Creative Commons has a tool where you can select the restrictions you want and then gives you license options <https://creativecommons.org/choose/>. Consider using it as part of your decision-making process. A clear license is a good license. 2. *How can I find your manuscripts?* Is there a search and browse function on your site, or do I have to know what I’m looking for when I come in? 3. *Will your images be served through the International Image Interoperability Framework <http://iiif.io/> (IIIF)?* IIIF has become very popular recently, and for good reason – it enables users to pull manuscripts from any IIIF-compliant repository into a single interface, for example comparing manuscripts from different institutions in a single browser window. A user will need access to the *IIIF manifests* to make this work – the manifest is essentially a file containing metadata about the manuscript and a list of links to image files. So, if you are using IIIF, will the manifests be easily accessible so I can use them for my own purposes? (For reference, e-codices links IIIF manifests to each manuscript record <http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/searchresult/list/one/kba/0003>, and it couldn’t be easier to find them.) 4. *What kind of interface will you have?* I usually assume that a page-turning interface will be provided, but if there is some other interface (like, for example, Yale University, which links individual images from a thumbnail strip on the manuscript record <http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3519597>) I’d like to know that. Will users be able to build collections or make annotations on page images, or contribute transcriptions? I’d like to know that, too. 5. *How can I get your images?* I know you’re proud of your interface, but I might want to do something else with your images, either download them to my own machine or point to them from an interface I’ve built myself or borrowed from someone else (maybe using IIIF, but maybe not). If you provide IIIF manifests I have a list of URLs I can use to point to or download your image files (more <http://www.dotporterdigital.org/?p=250> or less <http://www.dotporterdigital.org/?p=266>, depending on how your server works), but if you’re not using IIIF, is there some other way I can easily get a list of image URLs for a manuscript? For example, OPenn <http://openn.library.upenn.edu/> and The Digital Walters <http://thedigitalwalters.org/>publish TEI documents with facsimile lists. If you can’t provide a list, can you at least share how your urls are constructed? If I know how they’re made I can probably figure out how to build them myself. Those are the big five questions I like to have answered when I read about a new digital manuscript collection, and they very rarely are. Please, please, please, next time you announce a new collection, try to go beyond *freely available online* and tell us all more about *how* your collection will be made available, and what users will be able and allowed to do with it. [1] In 2002 33% of survey respondents reported manuscript facsimiles “print mostly, electronic sometimes” and 47% reported using “print only”. In 2011, 44% reported using them “electronic mostly, print sometimes” and 17% reported using “electronic only”. This is an enormous shift. From Dot Porter, “Medievalists and the Scholarly Digital Edition,” *Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing* Volume 34, 2013. http://www.scholarlyediting.org/2013/essays/essay.porter.html -- 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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Survey invitation--- What I Did Not Learn in Library School

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah Allison <sarahall(a)ad.nmsu.edu> Date: Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:04 PM Dear Colleagues, Please consider taking part in a survey regarding what you *did not* learn in Library School. The survey is located at https://qtrial2014az1.az1. qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8oX2qcZE7YJ1qgB. The survey will remain open until November 1, 2016. Developed by Sarah Allison, Adam Heien, and Caitlin Wells, this survey will be used to better understand how professional development, library school curriculum, and mentorship could improve the library profession. Your participation is voluntary and there are no risks in taking this survey. Additionally, your responses will remain anonymous and any result will be reported in aggregate. If you have any questions about this survey please contact Sarah Allison at sarahall(a)nmsu.edu Thanks very much for your consideration, Sarah Allison Special Collections Librarian Adam Heien Political Papers Archivist Caitlin Wells Rio Grande Historical Collections Archivist Archives & Special Collections Department NMSU Library New Mexico State University -- 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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Arader Galleries reference book give-away 2016

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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "graham arader" <grahamarader(a)gmail.com> Date: Sep 30, 2016 3:41 PM >> Greetings! >> >> Arader Galleries are looking to give away duplicate reference books, offered as a gift while supply lasts for any institutional library involved with a school where students generate graded papers using historically important books, maps or natural history engravings. >> >> We will even pay for postage as well! >> >> http://www.aradernyc.com/ >> >> Please respond with your name, institution and address to gregaradergalleries(a)gmail.com and NOT to the list as a whole. >> >> >> Reference books: >> >> 1. Audobon’s Aviary >> >> 2. Washington in Maps – Iris Miller >> >> 3. Picturing Animal in Britain – Diana Donald >> >> 4. After Lewis and Clark: The Forces of Change >> >> 5. Engraved Prints of Texas – Kelsey & Hutchinson >> >> 6. North American Indian – Taschen >> >> 7. George Washington’s America – Barnet Schecten >> >> 8. Discovering Birds – Paul Lawrence Farber >> >> 9. Mercator – Nicholas Crane >> >> 10. Mapping the World – National Geographic >> >> 11. The Mississippi River in Maps and Views – Robert Holland >> >> 12. The Mapping of North America – Phillip Burden >> >> 13. J.J. Audobon’s Journal of 1826 >> >> 14. This Land is Your Land – Schwartz >> >> 15. David Roberts: Travels in Egypt and Holy Land – Debra Mancoff >> >> 16. Shedding the Evil – Suarez >> >> 17. Sea of Glory: American Voyage of Discovery – Nathaniel Philbrick >> >> 18. American Indians – Robert J Moore >> >> 19. City of Independence: Views of Philadelphia before 1800 – Snyder >> >> 20. Icons: The American Indian – Karl Bodmer / Taschen >> >> >> Greg McMurray >> Director, Rare Books >> Arader Galleries, New York > >

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