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Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a Tim e Constantia Constantinou SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar Library Director, SUNY Maritime College. First Humans - 10,000 BC Neolithic era – 9,000 BC Bronze Ages 1,200 BC Mycenaean – 1,100 BC Assyrians - 700 BC - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a Time
Constantia Constantinou
SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
Library Director, SUNY Maritime College
CYPRUS O to set foot on Aphrodite's island, Cyprus,. haunted by the Loves,.
who enchant brief Life with sweetness. Euripides, "The Bacchae".
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
First Humans - 10,000 BC
Neolithic era – 9,000 BC
Bronze Ages 1,200 BC
Mycenaean – 1,100 BC
Assyrians - 700 BC
Persians -500 BC
Alexander the Great - 300 BC
Middle Ages /Byzantium 1400
Ottoman Empire -- 1570
British Empire -- 1800
Independence -- 1960
CYPRUSCountry Divided- People United
UN peacekeeping forces in one of the earlier missions, Cyprus 1967
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
TRUSTTraitor or Spy
Maximiano Ngabirano, a Catholic priest from Uganda, -- “the only community where most people feel they really belong is one that transcends time, one we are members of forever”.
When he was asked by the reporter what he would take home from Cyprus: “The challenge, is to apply what I have learned here without being regarded as a traitor by my own community — or a spy by the other.”
Letter From Cyprus In a Divided Land, Lessons in Living Together. New York Times, by Nick Thorpe; August 15, 2010
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE ASSIGNMENT
1. Work with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot University Libraries in addressing their individual library challenges and aspirations
2. Promoting understanding while honoring cultural, ethnic and religious differences
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE ASSIGNMENT
Work with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot University Libraries in undressing their individual library challenges and aspirations:
• Develop a library liaison program (UCY)
• Assess the findings of LibQual surveys (UCY)• Offer preservation advice to special libraries• Enable OCLC network membership for Cyprus (UCY)• Promoted the Cyprus Library Consortium• Lectures of American Librarianship practices (NEU, UCY,
EMU) • Conversations: Open Forum discussions with
librarians (NEU, UCY, EMU)
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE ASSIGNMENTPromoting understanding while honoring cultural, ethnic and religious differences
• Learned the language, Eat the food, Observed the customs• Developed trust and shared in each other’s lives and communities
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE GATHERING
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE EXCHANGE
• SUNY• CORNELL• COLUMBIA• NYPL
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE BOOK
Towards Peace: One Library at a Time, One Nation at a TimeConstantia Constantinou, SUNY Distinguished Librarian; CIES Fulbright Scholar
THE LIBRARY
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