Transition for this Classics Librarian

Unfortunately, my recent update on UGA library acquisitions related to classics will be my last; I am leaving the University of Georgia as of Sept. 30, 2011.

Taking over the role of Library Liaison to Classics will be my good friend and colleague Emily Luken, who already serves as the liaison to Religion and Philosophy at UGA.  She will be keeping up the office hour in the Alexander Room (currently Thursdays at 2:30pm) and working with Classics faculty to teach students about research resources. UGA-affiliated readers, do not hesitate to get in touch with her about anything related to research or the library.

I am leaving UGA due to a family move to Cincinnati, OH, which is a little amusing as it is the city where I was born, then later studied for a PhD and met my husband (in, of course, the library.)  I am just beginning to look for a library position in Cincinnati and would certainly welcome any professional contacts.  While in this forum my librarian hat is the garland of a classics librarian, I have worked in academic library general reference for 9 years, done library instruction for 3, and could find a good fit in a variety of academic or research settings.

I plan to continue blogging about classics research resources here, whatever position I end up in, but my frequency may be a reduced. Please be patient, and don’t unsubscribe!

UGA Libraries Classics-Related Acquisitions, August-Sept. 2011

In the six weeks since my last post on this topic, the UGA Libraries added 7102  items to the Main Library collection.

Note that the “New Titles” interface of the UGA library catalog is open to the public, with keyword searching possible, and results that can be sorted by call number, author, or title.

Works of interest to those in Classics and related fields include the following (in LC call number order); as always, the boundaries for inclusion at the fringes of the discipline are somewhat arbitrary, depending on what struck me as interesting this month!

• Socrates and philosophy in the dialogues of Plato, Peterson, Sandra, 1940-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B395 .P3865 2011
• Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B430.A5 B37 2011
• In pursuit of the good: intellect and action in Aristotle’s Ethics, 1st Paul Dry Books ed., Salem, Eric.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B430 .S25 2010
• Moral psychology and human action in Aristotle
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B491.E7 M67 2011
• Aristotle on Time: A Study of the Physics, Roark, Tony,
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B491.T5 R53 2011
• Becoming God: pure reason in early Greek philosophy, Miller, Patrick L. (Patrick Lee), 1970-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B505 .M64 2011
• New essays on ancient Pyrrhonism
  Location: Main Library 6th floor B525 .N49 2011
• Goddesses in world culture
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL473.5 .G64 2011
• Companion to Greek mythology
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL783 .C66 2011
• Unbinding Medea: interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from antiquity to the 21st century
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BL820.M37 U53 2010
• Ausgewahlte kleine Schriften zur Patrologie, Kirchengeschichte und christlichen Archaologie, Dassmann, Ernst.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR128.A2 J31 v. 37
• Hadrian and the Christians
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BR162.3 .H33 2010
• Early Christian dress: gender, virtue, and authority, 1st ed., Upson-Saia, Kristi, 1974-
  Location: Main Library 6th floor BT708 .U67 2011
• Full circle: how the classical world came back to us, Mount, Ferdinand, 1939-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CB358 .M68 2010
• Histoire et archeologie.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC3 .H5
• Winding Dali’s clock: the construction of a fuzzy temporal-GIS for archaeology, Green, Christopher Thomas.
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor Folio CC75.7 .G74 2011
• Quantitative analysis in archaeology, VanPool, Todd L., 1968-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC75.7 .V36 2011
• Archaeology, soil- and life-sciences applied to enclosures and fields : proceedings of the session ‘From microprobe to spatial analysis — Enclosed and buried surfaces as key sources in Archaeology and Pedology’, European Association of Archaeologists 12t
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC79.S6 A73 2011
• Experimentation and interpretation: the use of experimental archaeology in the study of the past
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC81.5 .E965 2011
• Handbook of postcolonial archaeology
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor CC175 .H36 2010
• Neolithic to Saxon social and environmental change at Mount Farm, Berinsfield, Dorchester-on-Thames, Lambrick, George.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DA90 .O38 no. 19
• Late Roman towns in Britain: rethinking change and decline, Rogers, Adam, 1981-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DA145 .R733 2011
• Iron age and Romano-British agriculture in the north Gloucestershire Severn Vale
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DA670.G5 I766 2008
• Roman Birmingham 3: excavations at Metchley Roman Fort 1999-2001 and 2004-2005: western settlement, the livestock complex and the western defences, Jones, A. E. (Alexis Edward), 1956-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DA690.B6 J66 2011
• Collezione di antichita di Palazzo Lancellotti ai Coronari: archeologia, architettura, restauro
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DE1 .S78 v. 34
• Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DE7 .P55 1941
• Cosmopolis: imagining community in late classical Athens and the early Roman Empire, Richter, Daniel S.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DE71 .R53 2011
• Handbook for classical research, Schaps, David M.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DE71 .S27 2011
• Greek city walls of the Archaic period, 900-480 BC, Frederiksen, Rune.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF89 .F74 2011
• Greek art and archaeology, 5th ed., Pedley, John Griffiths.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF130 .P44 2012
• Moni Odigitria: a prepalatial cemetery and its environs in the Asterousia, southern Crete, Vasilakes, Antones.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF221.C8 V28 2010
• Hellenistic democracies: freedom, independence and political procedure in some east Greek city-states, Carlsson, Susanne.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF235.3 .C37 2010
• Hellenistic Karia: proceedings of the First International Conference on Hellenistic Karia, Oxford, 29 June-2 July 2006 International conference on Hellenistic Karia (1st : 2006 : Oxford, England)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.C28 H45 2010
• Ceramique protobyzantine de Delphes: une production et son contexte, Petridis, Platon.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.D35 C47 2010
• Sparta: the body politic, International Sparta Seminar.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF261.S8 I58 2010
• Prodosia: la notion et l’acte de trahison dans l’Athenes du Ve siecle : recherche sur la construction de l’identite athenienne, Bottineau, Anne Queyrel.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF277 .B68 2010
• Cite des reseaux: Athenes et ses associations, VIe-Ier siecle av. J.-C., Ismard, Paulin.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DF285 .I75 2010
• Rome: an Oxford archaeological guide, 2nd ed., rev. and expanded, Claridge, Amanda.
  Location: Main Library 1st floor Reference Main Ref DG62 .C53 2010
• Digging and dealing in eighteenth-century Rome, Bignamini, Ilaria, 1952-2001.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG65 .B54 2010
• Cuma: atti del quarantottestimo Convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia, Taranto 27 settembre-1 ottobre 2008 Convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia (48th : 2008 : Taranto, Italy)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG70.C9 C659 2008
• Figures de l’identite: naissance et destin des modeles communautaires dans le monde romain
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG78 .F49 2010
• Praxis municipale dans l’Occident romain
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG87 .P73 2010
• Complete Roman emperor: imperial life at court and on campaign, Sommer, Michael, 1970-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG271 .S66 2010
• Remembering Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, Van Dam, Raymond.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DG315 .V36 2011
• Instrumental de hierro de epoca romana y de la Antiguedad Tardia en el N.E. de la Peninsula Iberica, Casas i Genover, J. (Josep)
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DP44 .C378 2011
• Studies on Iron Age Moab and neighbouring areas in honour of Michele Daviau
  Location: Main Library 4th floor Folio DS154.9.M6 S78 2009
• Cites de Carie : Harpasa, Bargasa, Orthosia dans l’antiquite, Debord, Pierre.
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DS156.C33 D43 2010
• Cities of Pamphylia, Grainger, John D., 1939-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DS156.P27 G73 2009
• Between empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in late antiquity, Fisher, Greg, 1976-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DS286 .F57 2011
• Processo di Isidoro: Roma e Alessandria nel primo secolo, Magnani, Adriano, 1975-
  Location: Main Library 4th floor DT93 .M47 2009
• Barbarians of ancient Europe: realities and interactions
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GN539 .B27 2011
• Organizing Bronze age societies: the Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandinavia compared
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor GN778.22.I8 O74 2010
• Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275-425, Harper, Kyle, 1979-
  Location: Main Library 5th floor HT863 .H36 2011
• Demos avant la democratie : mot, concepts, realites historiques, Werlings, Marie-Josephine.
  Location: Main Library 6th floor JC75.D36 W47 2010
• From Pella to Gandhara: hybridisation and identity in the art and architecture of the Hellenistic East
  Location: Main Library 7th floor Folio N5630 .F86 2011
• Art of Building in the Classical World: Vision, Craftsmanship, and Linear Perspective in Greek and Roman Architecture, Senseney, John R. (John Robert), 1969-
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA2750 .S45 2011
• Deliciae fictiles I : architectural terracottas in ancient Italy: images of gods, monsters and heroes: proceedings of the international conference held in Rome (Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Royal Netherlands Institute) and Syracuse (Museo A 1st. International Conference on Central Italic Architectural Terracottas (4th : 2009 : Royal Netherlands Institute and Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”)
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA3700 .I58 2009
• Acropolis Museum, Athens, Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-
  Location: Main Library 7th floor NA6700.A84 T73 2010
• Codrus Painter: iconography and reception of Athenian vases in the age of Pericles, Avramidou, Amalia.
  Location: Main Library 7th floor ND115.C63 A97 2011
• Orality and literacy: reflections across disciplines
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor P35 .O73 2011
• Literatur der archaischen und klassischen Zeit
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA25 .H24 ser. 7 sect. 1 rev. 2011
• Noms du style: dans l’antiquite greco-latine
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA184 .N66 2010
• Scribblers, scupltors, and scribes: a companion to Wheelock’s Latin and other introductory textbooks, 1st ed., LaFleur, Richard A.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA2095 .L25 2010
• Reading ancient slavery
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3015.S55 R42 2011
• Why Athens? : a reappraisal of tragic politics
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3133 .W49 2011
• Theater of the people: spectators and society in ancient Athens, 1st ed., Roselli, David Kawalko.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3203 .R57 2011
• Papiri del romanzo antico: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Firenze, 11-12 giugno 2009 Convegno sui papiri del romanzo antico (2009: Florence, Italy)
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3343 .C66 2009
• Carmina Anacreontea und Anakreon: ein literarisches Generationenverhaltnis, Muller, Alexander.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA3865.Z5 M85 2010
• Omero: l’autore necessario, 1. ed. italiana., Nannini, Simonetta, 1951-
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA4037 .N363 2010
• Roman lyric poetry, 2nd ed.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6276 .M23 1974
• Forgotten stars: rediscovering Manilius’ Astronomica
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6500.M6 F67 2011
• Passato remoto: eta mitiche e identita augustea in Ovidio, Labate, Mario.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6537 .L285 2010
• Reading sin in the world: the Hamartigenia of Prudentius and the vocation of the responsible reader, Dykes, Anthony.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6648.P7 D95 2011
• Sturz des Judas: Kommentar (5,1-163) und Studien zur poetischen Erbauung bei Sedulius, Deerberg, Daniel.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6658.S6 D44 2011
• Virgil’s Book of bucolics, the ten eclogues translated into English verse: framed by cues for reading aloud and clues for threading texts and themes, Van Sickle, John.
  Location: Main Library 3rd floor PA6804.B7 V36 2011
• Roman war machine, Peddie, John, 1933-
  Location: Main Library 2nd floor U35 .P44 2004

SmartPhone Dictionary Apps for Greek and Latin

To be filed under: this is why it’s good to hold an office hour in the department and chit-chat with the graduate students…

It turns out, there is an app for that.  In response to the question, “How did you look that up so fast?” the student responded, “I have a Lewis and Short app ($3.99) on my iPhone.”  Turns out there’s an Liddell-Scott-Jones app too ($1.99) – the student said the iPhone 3 supports a Greek keyboard for input and “it was the best $1.99 I ever spent.” Some commenters I’ve read prefer the Lexiphanes app ($3.99) which includes both LSJ and a Homeric lexicon. By the same developer (and Classics PhD candidate), Harry Schmidt, as Lexiphanes is Lexidium ($3.99).  I highly recommend Schmidt’s website for those interested in computer-aided philology – it was new to me and he has interesting posts as well as a not-yet-iPhone program called Andromeda, a “platform for digital philology,” that sounds worth watching.

These aren’t new tools – RogueClassicism reported on Schmidt’s iPhone aps in 2009 – but I have a dumb phone, myself, so they were new to me.  Since I’ve written about portable digital tools for language students in the context of our Kindle experiment, I thought a post was worthwhile. If you have students with iPhones/iPads/iPod Touches (iPods Touch??), you might want to suggest these apps to them for inexpensive dictionaries-on-the-go.  A quick Google suggests that there is an Android LSJ app ($2.99) but it works with a romanized keyboard only; and there’s a Lewis’ A Latin Dictionary app for Android ($2.99) but not one for the full Lewis and Short.

There’s some further discussion on the Textkit boards about reading classical texts on iPhones, if you want to look for more leads for good apps and general commentary on e-texts in classics.

Got another favorite I didn’t find?  Leave a comment or drop me a line.  Thanks!

JStor Opens Free Access to Early Journal Content

First, briefly, my apologies for limited blogging lately, and I know I am now behind on the acquisitions list for the UGA library – I have it penciled in for next week!  Lots going on around here.

Since I blogged about the Aaron Swarz/MIT/Jstor downloading foofaraw here, I was very interested to see the announcement by Jstor last week that they are making out-of-copyright works they host available to all.  They explicitly address the Swarz incident in the news release, noting that this project was underway before that occurrence.

What does it mean for access?

…today, we are making journal content on JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere, freely available to the public for reading and downloading. This includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals, representing approximately 6% of the total content on JSTOR.

Further, they are exploring various models for individuals unaffiliated with Jstor-subscribing institutions to get access to other content via Jstor as a bundle (as opposed to a per-article fee).  Since this probably requires a lot of individual negotiations with publishers, it may take some time, but it’s a step forward.  Go Team Jstor.