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. >> >
