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 […]
Library Story
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 […]
April 12, 2022
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 […]
September 9, 2021
Development of a map browsing tool
The BSA Library has a significant cartographic collection. Thanks to the invaluable support of outgoing IT Officer, Hallvard Indgjerd, we can now offer a digital tool that allows searching and […]
October 26, 2020
Readers’ Stories 1. Mike Edwards
Library stories launches a series where new and old library users share their experiences of the BSA Library and describe how it has facilitated their research and study. In this […]
Some thoughts about the re-opening of the BSA library
After careful consideration, the British School at Athens reopened its library to members and readers on 3 June, after a long period of general lockdown. The library adapted its protocols […]
Communist leaders in the Clogg Collection
Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the British School at Athens the processing of Richard and Mary Jo Clogg’s Levant Library, which was donated to BSA, is continuing. […]
News of Richard Clogg’s Levant library donated to the British School at Athens
The library of the BSA is thrilled to announce that the books on the emergence and evolution of the Greek state, up to the period following the occupation of Greece […]