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Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music Now Available at Loeb Music
Once one of the best-known musical traditions in the Mideast, Ottoman Turkish classical music was nearly wiped out in the early 1920s. In recent decades, however, the music has been revitalized, driven largely by musicians, scholars and music lovers of Turkish descent. A gift from one such music lover, Turkish-born businessman Altan Ender Güzey, will ensure the traditional music is kept alive for future generations, as the Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music becomes part of Loeb Music Library’s holdings.
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Posted June 25, 2009
Houghton Adds 2,000th Finding Aid to OASIS
Houghton Library, Harvard University’s main rare book and manuscript depository, has vast holdings collected over centuries. It is the goal of each new generation of librarians to make as many of these collections accessible to scholars as possible, and this month Houghton Library succeeded in adding its 2,000th finding aid to the OASIS (Online Archival Search Information System) catalog.
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Posted June 23, 2009
Digital Images and Slides Collection Reopens
The Digital Images and Slides Collection of the Fine Arts Library (FAL) is now open in its new location, on the lower level of the Sackler Museum at 485 Broadway.
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Posted June 15, 2009
Digitization Aids in Translation of Naxi Manuscripts
One of the last widely-used pictographic languages on Earth, the language of the Naxi, a minority tribe in southwest China, is today all but lost – no Western researchers, and only a few Chinese scholars and older tribe members are able to read or speak the language. A project to digitize Harvard-Yenching Library’s 600-plus Naxi manuscripts hopes to change that, by sharing the digital images with scholars in China, who will translate them.
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Posted June 12, 2009
Longfellow Online Exhibition Recognized by ACRL
The online exhibition “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200” has been selected as one of five winners of Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) 2009 Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab “American Book Prices Current” Exhibition Awards.
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Posted June 11, 2009
Fine Arts Library is on the Move
The Fine Arts Library (FAL) is temporarily relocating to two sites during the renovation of the Harvard Art Museum building.
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Posted June 8, 2009
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Staff Announcements
Amy Sloper, Assistant Film Conservator at the Harvard Film Archive, recently gave a presentation titled "Sex Mis-Education: The Sex Ed Film in the Moving Image Archive." The presentation was given at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles as part of the Orphans West Symposium, a conference centered around "orphan" works, or films that are outside of the mainstream and often have no known origin or copyright, or were at one point considered “lost” and without a formal repository to preserve them. These include home movies, amateur and educational films, industrial and sponsored films, experimental films, and newsreels. (June 2009)
Theresa Kelliher, Imaging Technician for Preservation & Imaging Services, has been awarded the Dean's Prize for Outstanding A.L.M. Thesis in Museum Studies for her thesis titled "Knowledge Is the New Power: The Evolution of the Public Trust and Cultural Antiquities Acquisitions in American Museums." Theresa's thesis was selected from a field of 29 graduates in the 2009 Museum Studies program, which she completed while working full time in Imaging Services. Her thesis director, museum consultant Arthur Wolf, commented, "Particularly stimulating is the application of game theory to the situation. Kelliher's questions and assumptions about the public trust are illuminating, and her attempts to align these with the actions and responsibilities of the museum field are noteworthy. [Her] survey method was audacious...and she collected valuable data...the analysis of the data is but a start that could yield significant results in related studies and publications. It is rare for this reader to want to applaud when finished with a thesis review. In this case the author brought all the strands of thought and inquiry together in a logical and lively conclusion that did invoke that response." (June 2009)
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