The Scandinavian Library of Athens is giving a model for Greek culture

Abstract

The Scandinavian Library of Athens concentrates on literature on Greek archaeology, on ancient Greek history, religion, art and history of culture. Since the library use in Greece is not as common as in Scandinavia, the Library provides a good example of the possibilities of a modern archaeological library. The Library is a reference library. It uses UNIMARC based ABEKT program for cataloguing. It participates in the ARGOS project, which aims to combine in one database all the collections of the 16 archaeological libraries in Athens. Many of the public libraries the author visited reminded her of school libraries in Finland in the 1950s.