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Starlink Internet Covers Armenia
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Update April 19, 2022
This is an amazing resource!
Guide to Armenian Electronic Resources
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Hakob Meghapart Project
The Hakob Meghapart Project, named after the first Armenian to print books in the Armenian language, “… includes all materials printed in Armenian up to the year 1800, among them: books, maps, calendars-amulets, licenses, pictures with Armenian titles and other kinds of printed matters, in other words, all that was printed in Armenian letters.” Moreover, foreign language books of the sixteenth century, which contained Armenian texts or included Armenian languages and passasges, are also included. This massive collection is divided into six period sections and one “undated books” section: 1512-1600; 1600-1700; 1700-1725; 1725-1750; 1750-1775; 1775-1800. The undated books section, “whose date of publication is not given bibliographic source or since the book was defective, it was not possible to clarify the date. Access: http://greenstone.flib.sci.am/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=publishe&l=en&w=utf-8
400 Years of Armenian Printing
Celebrating 400 years of Armenian printing, this website houses digitized materials, which were selected for historical value and cultural importance. The digitized collection includes books, anthologies, and articles. Researchers can search the collection using the following search options: “browse documents by title,” by clicking on the title tab; “browse documents by author,” by clicking the author tab; “browse documents by item type”; “browse documents by source”; “browse documents by date,” by clicking on the date tab. The digitized materials are in **** format and be downloaded. Researchers can access this collection directly at:
Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature
The Digital Library of Classical Armenian Literature was established in 1999 as a “… platform for the collection, digitization, preservation, and presentation to worldwide audiences some of the enormous cultural wealth contained in the rich holdings of the Armenian national repositories all over the world.” The digital library contains the works of 625 authors and approximately 2000 titles. According to the curators of the digital library, this online repository provides additional information, not found in other digital depositories: “… provides a complete metadata and bibliographic references on each author and each work. The digitized works do not appear as mere images of the printed books in jpg or PDF formats, but represent fully searchable texts,” allowing researchers to search for keywords and phrases withing the collection.
Access: http://digilib.am/digilib/
Haybook: Armenian e-books
In terms of online digital depositories, the scope of this digital library is quiet expansive. According to the web editors of this digital library, Haybook [Armenian e-books] provides “… access to free electronic resources about literature, language and history.” Moreover, Haybook, “…gathers all available electronic resources about Armenian culture on the web and also provides provides information about Armenian digital libraries. This digital library is divided into approximately fifteen sections: Novels, Short Stories, Theater, Poetry, History, Classical Armenian, Language, for children, Dictionaries, Art, Religion, Digitized Armenian Manuscripts, Armenian History in English, Armenian songs and music, and online resources.
Access: http://haybook.wordpress.com/
National Library of Armenia: Digital Library
The digital library at the National Library of Armenia has a treasure trove of digitized materials. Among the digitized materials, researchers should pay particular attention to the following sections: Armenian Rare Books [1512-1800] Collection, Armenia Early Printed Books (1901-1920) Collection, and Digitized Map Collection, and the National Library of Armenia’s publications age. All of the titles listed in the publications page are available in PDF documents and can be downloaded directly. As for October 2012, unfortunately, the links to the digitized periodicals and the scrolls section are broken. The digital collections at the National Library of Armenia offer unparalleled access to Armenia publishing culture and literary traditions.
Matenadaran
If researchers are seeking a central location for digitized Armenian
manuscripts, then the online Madenataran [Manuscripts depository ] is
such a place. There are a number embedded image viewing tools for
researchers to interactive with the digitized manuscripts.
Unfortunately, the employment of Adobe Flash Player delays the process
of viewing the selected manuscripts. Nevertheless, scholars have access
to numerous manuscripts and rare documents from one of the oldest
depositories of the ancient world.
Access: http://www.matenadaran.am/?id=81&lng=3
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ARMENIA AND CILICIA MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY SIGN MEMORANDUM not sure if they have any digital publications available for the public. They have bookstore to purchase books though.
Hathi Trust - full text search of "Armenian"
Press collection of the Mekhitarist Library now online
Quote from above article: "... One of the biggest digitized collections of books is the National Library of Armenia. This collection is particularly remarkable for its digitized periodicals: you can read Armenian newspapers and other periodicals printed in the 1800s in Istanbul or some of the rare journals of some of compatriotic societies. The Hathi Digital Trust, a larger digitization project, includes a number of digitized Armenian books. The Society for Armenian Studies maintains a site linking to many of these library resources...."
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| Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscript to Digital Text | Edited by Valentina Calzolari, this recent volume explores Armenian textual history and manuscript studies. It includes essays on a range of topics, from Armenian engagement with Greek sources to methods of textual editing in a digital age. |
| Digitized Manuscripts from the Matenadaran | The Մատենադարան, the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is the largest repository of Armenian manuscripts in the world. Some of them are digitized and available here. |
| houshamadyan.org | A “project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life,” this website hosts a huge amount of pictures, maps, and articles about Ottoman Armenia. |
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National Library of Armenia - Hrant Dink Foundation
National Library of Armenia is a largest repository of Armenian printed productions in the world. Library's collection at 1 January 2015 are more than 6.3 million registered units. These are including books, magazines, newspapers, maps, posters, thesis, music notes, cards, postcards, calendars, banknotes, video clips, CD/DVD-s. NLA is looking for fellows from the fields library science ..
Mekhitarist Library Press Collection is Now Online ...
ORER.eu - THE PRESS COLLECTION OF THE MEKHITARIST LIBRARY ...
About this Collection | Armenian Rarities Collection ...
Rich collection of Armenian... - Oxford Armenian Studies ...
AI Meets Ancient Armenian Manuscripts - TUMO
armeniapedia.org
Digital Michigan Newspapers Collection
Fire damages digital archives of Armenia's National Library
Celebrating the Library’s 220th Anniversary with Open Access Digital Gifts from the International Collections
(The following post is by Anchi Hoh, Acting Assistant Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division; Jonathan Loar, South Asia Reference Librarian, Asian Division; Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division; Kaydee McCann, Humanities Editor, HLAS, Hispanic Division; and Catalina Gómez, Reference Librarian, Hispanic Division.)
As we honor the Library’s 220th anniversary this week, we’d like to share some of the digital collections and projects that are available to you while the Library of Congress is closed to the public. The divisions that constitute the 4 Corners of the World blog—African & Middle Eastern, Asian, European, and Hispanic—hope that these resources inform, inspire, and engage the passions of researchers, students, and lifelong learners around the world.
African & Middle Eastern Division
Currently one may find 15 major digital collections pertinent to the fields of African & Middle Eastern studies. These collections fall into three categories: digitized manuscripts and rare materials housed in the African & Middle Eastern Division (AMED), the digital conversion of historically microfilmed manuscripts and rare materials from other great libraries, and web archives.
The Armenian Rarities Collection contains digitized versions of several dozen rare books and manuscripts. [Armenian Lectionary fragments], 17th century. African and Middle Eastern Division.
- Abdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress
- Armenian Rarities
- Eltaher Collection
- Omar Ibn Said Collection
- Persian Language Rare Materials
Dec 29, 2020 - digital archives and resources
Here is a very important link to the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.
It's in Arabic and by topic:
A digital library on Armenian literature, language and history
If you know of other Library's and their content in .pdf, please feel free to leave a message. I would like to update this page often, as I find such information.
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