Dear librarian colleagues,
As chair of the Modern Greek Studies Association Library Committee, I am
happy to announce the addition of a page on research collections to the
MGSA Web site. In working with the MGSA Webmaster I provided a template
using the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection (see:
http://mgsa.org/Resources/libraries.html) at California State
University, Sacramento. I would like to ask librarian colleagues working
with Modern Greek Studies collections to add a contribution for your own
institutions for the enhancement of the Web site and the benefit of
students and scholars. It need not be overly detailed, especially if you
have external links to further information. Once new write-ups are
added, then the link above will be to an index page with further links
to individual entries. Below is the template for you to follow. Feel
free to hyperlink to finding aids for manuscript materials, articles you
have published on your collection(s), etc. Please send your
contributions directly to me; I will copyedit and then forward them on
to the MGSA Webmaster for uploading. Feel free to contact me with any
questions.
Best,
George I. Paganelis, Chair
MGSA Library Committee
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George I. Paganelis
Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
California State University, Sacramento Library
2000 State University Drive East
Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
Ph: (916) 278-4361 * Fax: (916) 278-5917 paganelis(a)csus.edu
http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos
Research Collections in Modern Greek Studies Web Page Template
I. Institution
Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
California State University, Sacramento
II. History and Description
Comprising the holdings of the former Speros
Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, this Collection of some
70,000 volumes was donated to Sacramento State as the Tsakopoulos
Hellenic Collection in December 2002. The Vryonis Center was initially
established in Los Angeles in 1985 by Dr. Speros Vryonis, Jr., a scholar
of Byzantium and Ottoman Studies, in memory of his late son Speros
Basil. This early collection formed the core of the Vryonis Center
Collection that would in 1989 come to reside in Rancho Cordova,
California. There the Collection was further enhanced under successive
directors until its transfer to Sacramento State.
III. Strengths
* An extensive collection of Byzantine and modern Greek history
and literature found in only a few American universities, including
signed editions.
1 Significant Greek and American government documents:
i. Complete run of the Ephemeris tes Kyverneseos (Government
Gazette) from 1833-1864 and 1885-1989 in combined print and microfilm
formats
ii. Complete Praktika Voules (Acts
of Parliament) from 1843-1983 in combined print and microfilm formats
iii. All available U.S. State
Department files pertaining to Greece, Crete, and Cyprus on microfilm.
* The manuscript collection of Dr. Basil Vlavianos, publisher of
the Greek-American newspaper Ethnikos Keryx (National Herald) from
1940-47
* The photographic archive of Costas Couvaras documenting the
Greek resistance during World War II
* The complete set of Adamantios Korais' translations of Ancient
Greek authors into modern intellectual Greek (katharevousa) dating
between 1800 and 1820
* One of the earliest commentaries on Homer by the 12th century
bishop Eustathius, published by Froben in 1559-1560; other rare books on
Homer
* A variety of scarce nineteenth-century books and pamphlets
published in Greece
* Most volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Graecorum
* Various editions of the Thousand and One Nights Tales
* Ottoman Turkish chronicles published in the 19th century
* Assorted seventeenth- to nineteenth-century travel accounts
* A sizable corpus of offprints
IV. Links
Collection home page:
http://www.library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos/
Library catalog:
http://eureka.lib.csus.edu/
V. Contact information
George I. Paganelis
Curator, Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection
University Library
California State University, Sacramento
2000 State University Drive East
Sacramento, CA 95819-6039
Ph: (916) 278-4361
Fax: (916) 278-5917
paganelis(a)csus.edu
VI. Access restrictions/conditions
With the exception of the rare and media materials, the Collection is
housed in a separate, named area on the third floor of the University
Library and is accessible the same hours
<http://library.csus.edu/hours/> as the main library building. Rare and
archival materials are located in the Department of Special Collections
and University Archives
<http://library.csus.edu/content2.asp?pageID=137> and media materials
in the Library Media Center <http://library.csus.edu/services/lmc/> .
VII. Additional Information
Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection Library Research Grant:
http://library.csus.edu/tsakopoulos/grant.asp