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The first special collections department at the University of Georgia was established in 1953. In the years since, the original collection – now the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library – has grown, as have the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives, and the Peabody Awards Collection.
The library houses the archives of the Greek-American poet and art historian Nikos Kalamaris, known under the pseudonym Nicolas Calas. The archive of the surrealist artist was handed over in 1999 and includes letters, essays, articles and photographs as well as other material.
The archive collection also includes individual archives such as archaeologist Panagiotis Eustratiadis' documents from 1864 to 1894, which contained 37 folders regarding the Archaeological Society. [2] Publications in the Library of Archaeological Society of Athens [12] The series "Vivliotheke tes en Athenais Archaiologikes Hetaireias"
In 1842, the Public Library merged with Athens University's library (15,000 volumes), and was housed together with the currency collection at the new building of Otto's University. The first director (then-called "president") was Georgios Kozakis-Typaldos [7] of the newly enlarged institution, retaining the job until 1863. At this time, the ...
The Gennadius Library main building in Athens, designed by the American architects John Van Pelt and W. Stuart Thompson and inaugurated in 1926.. The Gennadius Library (Greek: Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη), also known as the Gennadeion, is one of the most important libraries in Greece, with over 110,000 volumes on Greek history, literature and art from Antiquity until modern times.
Greek artists and galleries have granted to the museum archives related to contemporary Greek art, after an invitation by EMST. The archives are constituted by catalogues, books, exhibition invitations, audiovisual material, texts by artists, correspondence, critiques, reviews, reproductions of works and biographical data.
The genesis of the formation regarding the collection dates 1970s. From the early 1980s, the library had become a fundamental tool for my systematic search for every printed book able to cast light on the printing and publishing course taken by Greeks from the years of the Italian Renaissance onward, without any geographic differentiation.
In library science, special collections (Spec. Coll. or S.C.) are libraries or library units that house materials requiring specialized security and user services.Special collections can be found in many different organisations including research libraries, universities, colleges, schools, national libraries, public libraries, museums, art galleries, archives, historic houses, cathedrals ...