The next article in our LibWorld series deals with the Greek biblioblogosphere. Greece looks back on an old library tradition, with some of the oldest libraries as e.g. the library of Alexandria.
Concerning to the nearly 400 year taking foreign rule by the Turks the old library tradition was lost and could be tied in with the beginning of the 19th century. Until 1830 books in Greek could only be printed outside the country, because of a restriction on printed spreading of the Greece language.
The first library foundation of the modern Greece was in 1829 on the Island Ägina. In 1834 this library became the National Library of Greece and moved to Athens.
The low stage of development of the librarianship in Greece is depending on the undervalued part, which libraries had played in the educational system for many years. In the last few years a reorientation took place to support independent working.
Nowadays the Greek academic librarianship has more or less catched up with European standard, but in the public libraries there are only a few advances noticeable. The still existing structural defects are a problematic starting position and they impede the work of libraries and the library association.
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