Or, of course, ask us to sign you up to make contributions directly to
the blog. :)
Gabriel
Gil Renberg a écrit :
Dr. Hunsucker (and those listening in),
First, I apologize for the delayed response. Regarding your question, I
believe that one of the others involved with "Current Epigraphy" (possibly
Chuck Jones? it's been a month, so I don't recall) was indeed going to
notify interested university librarians. So the word will get out, if it
has not already.
I am very glad to see that you have already made use of this new effort.
For it to work, though, we'll need more people to get in the habit of
contributing. (Otherwise, the list of works will read suspiciously like
the bibliography from one of my book projects.) Therefore, I would ask
that anyone who discovers that a book or journal with epigraphical content
is a "rare publication" e-mail me or one of the others so that we can post
the information.
- Gil
The idea is that by posting this sort of information it will inform
others that they should try to have their libraries acquire these
overlooked volumes, and it is also our hope that classics librarians
will themselves get in the habit of monitoring these "Rare
Publications" postings and acting on them.
. . .
so I wanted to draw it to everyone's attention.
Why don't you directly approach those responsible ? : Have you
e.g. made this kind of posting also directly to any librarians' fora ?
Some of us are, I am happy to assure you, already "in the habit"
of tracing and ordering rare epigraphical (and all sorts of other)
publications. I do it myself -- but of course I don't notice
everything (and, like all librarians, can't buy everything, having
budgets and therefore priorities as we do -- which also means
that not acquired needn't be equivalent to "overlooked"), and
thank you very much for pointing out your "new effort". An
excellent initiative in my opinion -- and indeed its usefulness
has already been demonstrated : I just myself ordered for our
collection a couple of things from your list which were not yet
anywhere in this country.
- Laval Hunsucker
U. Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: The papyrological bulletin '[email protected]'
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gil Renberg
Verzonden: dinsdag 22 januari 2008 19:58
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: [PAPY] new effort to benefit library holdings
Over at the "Current Epigraphy" blog
(http://www.currentepigraphy.org/),
Tom Elliott, Gabby Bodard, Chuck Jones and I just began a new
effort to
get epigraphers to notify each other whenever they find that a book is
rare or unavailable in research libraries. The idea is that
by posting
this sort of information it will inform others that they should try to
have their libraries acquire these overlooked volumes, and it
is also our
hope that classics librarians will themselves get in the habit of
monitoring these "Rare Publications" postings and acting on
them. Over
time, with enough participation, there will be a lot of holes plugged,
making a lot more books readily available through inter-library loan,
which will work to our collective benefit for decades to
come. This sort
of approach could also benefit the papyrological community,
so I wanted to
draw it to everyone's attention.
On a completely unrelated note, I want to thank those of you who made
suggestions about which Demotic font to use. I'm still
trying to sort it
out, and very much appreciate the suggestions I got both on
the list and
privately.
--
Dr Gabriel BODARD
(Epigrapher & Digital Classicist)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980
http://www.digitalclassicist.org/
http://www.currentepigraphy.org/
