The Calouste Gulbenkian Library, Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, 1925-1990: An Historical Portrait of a Monastic and Lay Community Intellectual Resource Center
Manoogian, Sylva Natalie · 2013
The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is a major religious, educational and cultural institution established more than fourteen centuries ago, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Library is one of its intellectual resource centres. Planning began in 1925 as a tribute to Patriarch Yeghishe I Tourian; its mission has been to collect and preserve works of Armenian religion, language, art, literature and history alongside world literature. Construction was funded by the benefaction of Calouste Gulbenkian, with continuing support from the Gulbenkian Foundation. The dissertation offers the first systematic English-language institutional history of the library, analysing its emergence, leadership and functions. Manoogian found that key primary sources existed in the Patriarchate's administrative archives but had never been consistently organized.
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Manoogian, Sylva Natalie 2013. The Calouste Gulbenkian Library, Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, 1925-1990: An Historical Portrait of a Monastic and Lay Community Intellectual Resource Center. PhD dissertation, Library and Information Science, University of California, Los Angeles; eScholarship.
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The history of one of the great Armenian libraries, and a warning about what happens without trained archivists.
First systematic institutional history of the Gulbenkian Library; UCLA dissertation in library science.
One of our most important archives has never had a professional archivist. That should worry us.
The story of the great Armenian library in Jerusalem.
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