Facilities
Classics
Resources Guide
Greek
Studies, Electronic Resources Guide
Library Resources
The Library resources at the University of Florida are excellent for
most research projects in Classics. The humanities collections manager,
Dr. Blake Landor (Ph.D., ancient philosophy; M.A., Classics at the University
of Texas) has been very efficient in making sure that the needs of classics
are being met. He has been especially effective in improving the
collection, coordinating purchases in the ancient area with other concerned
programs (e.g., art history, philosophy, history, religion, linguistics),
finding opportunity funding for special purchases, rounding out retrospective
holdings in serials, and taking advantage of the latest in computer based
technology and programs which are needed for research. (He has, in fact,
held sessions several times per year for our undergraduate and graduate
courses, in which he demonstrates how to use the library collections and
electronic resources for research in particular areas.) Dr.
Landor has also constructed a special, award-winning web page for classical
studies which is now consulted by scholars throughout the world. The Center
for Greek Studies also has donated a substantial number of volumes to
the Library acquired through gifts and bequests. In many areas these
volumes complement the Classics collection.
Journals
The Smathers Library currently subscribes to 95 classics journals, nearly
all of which are held in complete runs. (These 95 do not include
many journals with classical content which are funded through other programs
such as history, philosophy, religion, and art history.) It has a continuing
subscription to most classics journals, both American and international.
In addition, the library provides online access to a number of electronic
classics journals through its classics web page (http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/classicshttp://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/classics)
and has many limited runs of journals that, though important, have ceased
publication. Landor comments: –The journal collection is at a very
high research level.”
Space and Equipment
The program makes use of space already assigned to the Classics Department,
which is housed in Dauer Hall. We have recently moved to the first floor
in very pleasant surroundings. The main office is in 125.
There is an attractive department library/study area, a seminar room,
a computer room, and a photocopy room. Normally the library is used as
study area by undergraduate majors, graduate students, and faculty, since
it contains basic reference works (encyclopedia, dictionaries, grammars)
and a collection of nearly all the major Latin and Greek literary texts.
The Department policy is to keep this room free for study purposes during
daytime. Keys are issued to graduate students who wish to make use of
the facilities during evenings and weekends. Graduate seminars are
occasionally scheduled in the early evening, but normally are held in
the seminar room.
Computing and other Electronic Equipment
The Department has a computer room for use by majors and graduate students with one Macintosh, and one PC/Windows machine, a very sophisticated scanner with a special attachment for slides, plus a printer. Two Macs are available in the graduate student offices as well as two telephones with voice mail. The latest software of various kinds is available to faculty and graduate students under the terms of various UF license agreements. The Department licenses the two repositories of all classical literary texts on CD-ROMs (the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae and the Packard Humanities Institute Latin discs), the Database of Classical Bibliography, and Perseus (a 3 disc Greek civilization CD-ROM set). The departmental library computer has an institutional licence for Musaios, and students have open access to the TLG, and the Latin CD-Rom (PHI 5). The Department also has an institutional licence for the equivalent software for Macintosh from the Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS). Other available resources include a voice mail system, a photocopy machine, a microfilm reader, as well as carousel and overhead projectors. Moreover the University readily provides technical support, and equipment such as computers and Powerpoint projectors for the purposes of teaching and public presentations.
The Classics Department maintains it own home page (http://web.classics.ufl.edu), with many cross links and a regularly updated Newsletter, where activities of the Classics Community are publishized. Graduate students are expected to create and maintain their own web-pages, as a means of communication with their classes, and as a podium for the promotion of their research and activities within Department of Classics (see here the current pages). Dr Kapparis, the webmaster for Classics and Greek Studies, is always available to offer assistance to graduate students with matters related to computing and software suitable for the purposes of their research and teaching duties.
