Dear Deb, hello and Happy New Year. I hope all is well. It's so nice to read about announcements coming from DO! It reminds me a of such a wonderfully blissful time. As I may have mentioned in the fall I have hired an Associate Librarian, Irini Solomonidi, who is trained as a librarian in Paris and is also a byzantinist. She is also the one to be succeeding our current Librarian who is retiring soon. It would be wonderful for her to benefit from such an opportunity at DO on two levels: how things are done in a US institution and to have particular training in a Byzantine library. Could you let me know what kind of projects you were thinking of? How specific should they be? As you know we are using Aleph as well so there can be a lot that can be done based on the system. But to me it would be more helpful if Irini got to learn how you do things: collection development, rare books and special collections, offprints (in fact we do have an old colelction of offprints, too - they are catalogued alphabetically), and/or a million other things. Please let me know how I can support her application in the best way. All the best, Maria Maria Georgopoulou, Director Gennadius Library American School of Classical Studies at Athens 61 Souidias Street 10676 Athens Greece tel: +30-210-7210536 fax: +30-210-7237767 email: mgeorgopoulou(a)ascsa.edu.gr http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/gennadius/ -----Original Message----- From: cohsl-list-bounces(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu [mailto:cohsl-list-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Brown, Deb Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:10 PM To: cohsl-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu Subject: [Cohsl-list] Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship for summer2006 Please forgive any cross-posting: Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship Summer 2006 Dumbarton Oaks Research Library is pleased to accept applications for the Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship, a competitive program intended to serve librarians responsible for specialized collection development in university or research libraries that do not support a librarian's position dedicated solely to one of the following disciplines. The fellowship provides a nine-week summer residence at Dumbarton Oaks for the purpose of professional development for a librarian holding responsibility for Byzantine Studies, Garden History and Landscape Studies, or Pre-Columbian Studies. The fellowship period is June 12 - August 11, 2006. Application deadline is March 1, 2006. Full details of the fellowship and application process can be found at http://www.doaks.org/library/ivf_2006.html Sheila Klos Director of the Library