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 […]
Library Story
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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