Library Stories
Keith Rutter bequest of numismatics publications
On 18 July 2025, the British School at Athens received the personal library of the acclaimed numismatist Professor Keith Rutter, as a generous bequest to the BSA Library. This remarkable collection of books and pamphlets, covering Greek, Roman, and Byzantine numismatics, has found a permanent home at the BSA, accompanied ...
Map Annotations
While sorting through and cataloguing the rare map collection at the BSA, I noticed that a number of the maps had handwritten notations and drawn lines on them. These annotations highlight specific points of interest, delineate routes or paths between one place and another, and, in the case of inscriptions, ...
Map Elements: a Note on Source Notes
What's in a Map? Maps contain common elements: by definition there is the actual “map” – a conventionalised visual representation, usually two dimensional, of geographic space – but often a title, scale, and some type of orientation in the form of a compass rose or latitude and longitude lines. In ...
A House with one column by Rosemary Ind
Among the rarer books in the BSA Library is A House with One Column by Rosemary Ind (surname pronounced as in ‘India’, where she was born) ...
Exploring Conscious and Unconscious Decisions in the BSA Map Collection
Library Science recognises that knowledge organisation systems, grouping related materials together, impose particular views of the world. Conscious and unconscious decisions play a part in how these organisational systems are created. In Part I of this Library Story, I explore how the BSA Map Collection was organised and the implications ...
