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| ===== Further work on cataloguing and current status of the collection ===== | ===== Further work on cataloguing and current status of the collection ===== |
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| In 1996, [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/staff/englund.html|Robert K. Englund]] was named successor to Buccellati at UCLA. Recognizing the significance of the Gelb collection for the Assyriological program at UCLA, he invested much of his effort in further cataloguing and preserving the collection. Various student assistants, and the post-doc Barbara Cifola, have revised and completed the electronic catalogue of the library and made it available to the UCLA community and the general public under the Wiki pages of the [[http://cdli.ucla.edu/|Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative]]. Given the difficulties in funding the monograph and journal purchases necessary to keep such a seminar library current, a middle strategy has been implemented to make the GML a continuing, powerful tool in Assyriological research in Southern California. In the first place, through various research grants, and with the support of the NELC department and the UCLA Division of Humanities, the library purchases the major reference publications necessary for work in the field, including grammars, dictionaries, and standard literature not always available through the UC libraries. Second and more importantly, the very extensive entries of the Gelb offprint files are being kept as complete as possible through photocopying of journals and such publications as anniversary and congress volumes. Staff members of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative have entered the full holdings of the combined Gelb, Englund and CDLI collections, as of February 2007 numbering ca. 13,600 entries. | In 1996, [[https://cdli.ucla.edu/?q=robert-k-englund|Robert K. Englund]] was named successor to Buccellati at UCLA. Recognizing the significance of the Gelb collection for the Assyriological program at UCLA, he invested much of his effort in further cataloguing and preserving the collection. Various student assistants, and the post-doc Barbara Cifola, have revised and completed the electronic catalogue of the library and made it available to the UCLA community and the general public under the Wiki pages of the [[https://cdli.ucla.edu/|Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative]]. Given the difficulties in funding the monograph and journal purchases necessary to keep such a seminar library current, a middle strategy has been implemented to make the GML a continuing, powerful tool in Assyriological research in Southern California. In the first place, through various research grants, and with the support of the NELC department and the UCLA Division of Humanities, the library purchases the major reference publications necessary for work in the field, including grammars, dictionaries, and standard literature not always available through the UC libraries. Second and more importantly, the very extensive entries of the Gelb offprint files are being kept as complete as possible through photocopying of journals and such publications as anniversary and congress volumes. Staff members of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative have entered the full holdings of the combined Gelb, Englund and CDLI collections, as of February 2007 numbering ca. 13,600 entries. |
| ===== The significance of the GML ===== | ===== The significance of the GML ===== |
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| ===== The Reimer Foundation donates the GML to UCLA ===== | ===== The Reimer Foundation donates the GML to UCLA ===== |
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| In January of 2010, Stephen Reimer donated the Gelb Library to UCLA, and the collection will remain in the seminar rooms of the Department of Near Eastern Literature and Cultures. To make this irreplaceable research tool a permanent part of the extensive holdings of the UC system, we are now actively seeking funds to acquire the library for UCLA. If you wish to help, please contact Englund directly at englund@ucla.edu. | In January of 2010, Stephen Reimer donated the Gelb Library to UCLA, and the collection will remain in the seminar rooms of the Department of Near Eastern Literature and Cultures. |
