I am just back from the Byzantien congress in London. We'll sit down
tomorrow to work on what we have. Sorry for being so out of it.
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/
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[mailto:cohsl-list-bounces@lists.fas.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Rhea
Karabelas
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 7:21 PM
To: cohsl-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu
Cc: Kostas Papadopoulos
Subject: [Cohsl-list] Modern Greek Resources Meeting in Athens
Dear Members of the Consortium for Hellenic Studies listserv:
This is to give you all an update on the plans for the Modern Greek
Resources meeting at the Gennadius Library in Athens Greece, December
7-10, 2006.
Maria Georgopoulou was at Yale this past month and she, Tony Oddo and I
were able to get together to try to come up with a tentative
agenda/itinerary. The programme is still in process as we have learned
that summer is a difficult time to organize any meeting. However,
time is passing and people need to make travel arrangements. I wanted to
let you all know that the meeting is confirmed. The Greek contingent has
been invited--the major academic libraries and institutions will be
present as well as the Library of the Parliament. In addition
representatives from Oxford
University and the University of Vienna will be there.
In order to give you context for the Modern Greek Resources Project
and for this meeting I am "pasting" below the letter of invitation that
we
sent to the Greek and European contingent. This information might help
you
as you apply to your respective institutions for funding for this trip:
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Dear X:
On behalf of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) Library
Committee
and the Consortium of Hellenic Studies Librarians (CoHSL)
http://www.cohsl.net/, I cordially invite you, or a selected
representative from your institution, to a Modern Greek Resources
Project
meeting to be held at the Gennadius Library of the American School of
Classical Studies at Athens (Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou Street).
The
meeting dates are December 7-10, 2006.
The meeting in Athens is a follow-up to the Symposium held November 5,
2005, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The theme of the panel was "Research
Collections in Hellenic Studies: Challenges and Possibilities."
Presenters
focused on library collections in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies and
innovative methods for preserving and disseminating them.
At the Symposium, attendees revisited the recommendations of the 1999
conference "Strengthening Modern Greek Collections: Building U.S.-Greek
Library partnerships"
(
http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/GrkColl/GrkConf.html). The interest of
Modern Greek librarians in the U.S. in collaborating with their Greek
counterparts is strong, and advancements in technology allow us to
explore
innovative techniques to facilitate resource sharing and cooperative
action.
The meeting in Athens will focus on five broad categories: (1)
collection
development/acquisitions, (2) bibliographic control (including
cataloging,
adherence to standards, transliteration issues, and Unicode), (3)
Reformatting/microfilming and digitization (4) indexing contents of
periodicals and (5) resource sharing/document delivery.
Other suggestions for topics are welcome. Please send them, in either
Greek or English, to: Rhea Karabelas Lesage (karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu)
Modern Greek Section,
Collection Development Department, Widener Library, Harvard College
Library
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Representatives will include subject bibliographers responsible for
Modern
Greek resources from the major Modern Greek collections in the United
States, including: California State University (Sacramento), Columbia,
Harvard, Library of Congress, New York University, Princeton, Yale, and
the University of Cincinnati. The intent of the meeting is to explore
the
viability of effective transnational cooperation among libraries in
Greece
and North America. We welcome concrete proposals for action and will
explore the interest, capacity, and feasibility of participation from
each
side. Please return the enclosed reply card as soon as possible to:
Maria Georgopoulou (mgeorgopoulou(a)ascsa.edu.gr), Director of the
Gennadius
Library,
61, Souidias street, GR 10676 Athens. Professor Georgopoulou is
directing
local coordination and logistics of the meeting and is also available to
answer any questions you might have.
Sincerely,
Rhea Karabelas Lesage
Chair, 2006-2007 MGSA Library Committee
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*
We are working the programme around the 5 topics illustrated above.
Local arrangemnts are being scoped out. We have it narrowed down to the
following hotels, all of which include breakfast:
A selection of two hotels very near to the Gennadius and another
two less expensive that are near the Acropolis metro stop. We will need
to decide which one so that they can block off the rooms for us. Please
give me your feedback and we will make the decision based on the
majority.
Near Gennadius:
St. George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel.
http://www.sglycabettus.gr/ 113
E/night single; 119 E double
Andromeda Athens
Hotel.
http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservations/Andromeda_hotel_Athems.htm
115 E single, 130 E double
Near the Acropolis:
Herodion Hotel.
http://www.herodion.gr/ 73 E single, 90 E double, 110
E
triple
Philippos Hotel.
http://www.philipposhotel.gr/ 54 E single, 69 E
double; 81 E triple
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The committee has decided that a reasonable registration fee of $50.00
would be necessary to help defray the costs of hosting the meeting.
Oionos
Bookservices from Greece has been kind enough to offer to underwrite
this
event as well. We are very grateful to Kostas Papadopoulos!
I apologize for this lengthy e-mail but I need to get a sense of who
from
the American side is planning to attend. It is my hope that the original
"founding" members of the CoHSL are going to be present.
Our goal for this meeting is to walk away with a concrete plan of
cooperation between the Greek and American institutions. We
hope to change the fact that Modern Greek resources tend to fall below
the
radar screen of many institutions. By working together, we would like to
ensure that these valuable resources become accessible to the
international scholarly community.
I hope you all can be there in December! Please write directly to the
list, or to me directly (karabel(a)fas.harvard.edu) if you have any
questions or concerns. Also, please do confirm with me whether you are
planning to attend.
With best regards,
Rhea
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