Library Stories
BSA Winter Closure
The BSA will be closed between the 23rd December and the 6th January inclusive, including the Library, which will be closed to Readers during this period. The BSA will reopen on Tue 7 January 2025. Καλές γιορτές! Season's Greetings! ...
Kollakis Librarian 2024-26
We are delighted to announce that longstanding donor to the BSA Mr Pantelis (Lou) Kollakis has become the founder donor of the new BSA Development programme to be launched later this year. Thanks to the Kollakis family’s generosity, our Librarian Evi Charitoudi, has recently become the first Kollakis Librarian for ...
Summer 2024 closure
Please note that the BSA Offices will be closed for the week of Mon 12th - Fri 16th August 2024. This is due to the national holiday in Greece on Thursday 15 August. The Library will also be closed to Readers from Thu 15th - Fri 16th August 2024. Καλό ...
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 ...
