Friday May 13th, 2022, 1:45–3:00pm

Instructors:

Chrysoula Chaziraki, Librarian
Digitization Service of the Library and Information Center, AUTh

Efstathios Amanatidis, Archivist and Librarian
Department of Rare Collections and Digitization of the Library, AUTh

Abstract

PART I

The creation and the content of the “Digital Collections” (Chrysoula Chaziraki)

Starting with a brief historical overview of the creation of the Library of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the enrichment of its collections, this presentation highlights at the same time the reasons that deemed necessary the existence of the specific digital repository of the Library and Information Center (LIC), known as “Digital Collections.” The presentation continues with information about how to access them while referring to the most important holdings of these collections.

PART II

The “Emmanuel Kriaras Archive” in the “Digital Collections” (Stathis Amanatidis)

This presentation focuses on the digital collection “Emmanuel Kriaras Archive”, which is hosted in the digital repository of the LIC of AUTh, known as the “Digital Collections”: https://digital.lib.auth.gr/. The digital database of the “Emmanuel Kriaras Archive” constitutes a successful synergy example between the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (IMGS) and the LIC of AUTh. The LIC of AUTh participated actively in this valuable Greek literature and language project with qualified staff who undertook the digitization and metadata description of the “Emmanuel Kriaras Archive”, based on current international standards. The database, which significantly enhanced the AUTh open access literary and educational materials, was created thanks to the crucial funding provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Instructors’ Bios

Chrysoula Haziraki is a librarian with a Master's degree in “Information Management in a Digital Environment” at the International Hellenic University with a thesis titled “The Contribution of the Departmental Museums of AUTh to the Management and Promotion of the National Cultural Heritage.” She has worked on the retrospective cataloging of the holdings of the AUTh libraries, in the “Library Training” service, in the Online Reference, Loan and Interlibrary Loan Service of the LIC, while recently she has been working in the Digitization Service of the LIC of AUTh. She has participated in exhibitions as well as conferences corresponding to the interests of the respective service. Her research interests include the methods and new tools of digitization as well as the modern programs for the presentation and promotion of various digital collections.

Efstathios Amanatidis is an archivist and librarian. He studied at the Department of Archives, Library Science, and Museology of the Ionian University and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the Hellenic Open University. He has worked on the documentation, archival description and digitization of diverse archives (including the Historical Archive of AUTh, the YMCA in Thessaloniki, the Center for the Study and Research of the Greek Culture of the Black Sea, and the “Emmanuel Kriaras Archive”). He also works on the digitization, archival description, and online accessibility of the AtoM collaborative project and “Digital Collections” of the AUTh Library digital archives. He participates in digitization research projects and has published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences. He is a staff member of the Department of Rare Collections and Digitization of the AUTh Library as well as of the Hellenic Archive Society (HAS). His research interests include the study of the historical archives and libraries of the Greeks of the Black Sea and Macedonia.