The Library

The Library of ESTIA OF NEA SMYRNI operates for the public:

Monday to Thursday from 09.00 to 17.00

To book an appointment at the Library, kindly contact us at 210 9333702 or 210 9330274 – ext.4

and via e-mail at

The Library of ESTIA OF NEA SMYRNI remains closed on Official Public Holidays
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The ESTIA’S Library was founded in 1947 by Phili Vatidou who was a poet and ESTIA’S Councilor. Nowadays , the library accommodates about 80,000 volumes, of great intellectual value, mostly of historical, cultural and Asia Minor content. The Library is the custodian of a unique treasure, which includes rich bibliography related to the Asia Minor campaign and “Catastrophe”, photographs of Smyrna by Eleftherios Venizelos' personal photographer Manolis Megalokonomou, photographic archive of the war correspondent of the Asia Minor campaign Kostas Misailidis, plus valuable and rare publications of the wider Asia Minor area.

In addition, through the titles of modern Asia Minor literature are documented the daily life, folklore, economy, course and milestones of the Asia Minor campaign and “Disaster”. A distinct part of the collection of ESTIA’S Library is occupied by the valuable manuscript archive of the Asia Minor Association "Anatoli", founded in 1891 in Athens with the aim of meeting the educational and ecclesiastical needs of Hellenism in Asia Minor.

In the Library, one can similarly find a rare collection of ‘Karamanlidika” (books written in the Turkish language with Greek characters) in addition to multitude of books, newspapers and magazines from Smyrna and Constantinople, maps of Asia Minor as well as Oriental and Asia Minor diaries.

Since 1992, ESTIA has had Bookbinding and Paper Conservation Department that harmonizes the coexistence of the old with the new and the deterioration with the conservation, in which old and rare publications are well-preserved (books - magazines - newspapers - maps - photographs - paintings etc.).

The ESTIA’S Library has been supplied by the National Documentation Center of the National Research Foundation and operates the library management program ABEKT 5, 6. The bibliographic entries currently are equal to 13,284 records and 16,291 copies are also available, thus facilitating the work of the Library in the search of information by the bibliophiles.

The Library of ESTIA OF NEA SMYRNI is a member at the Network of Greek Libraries of the National Library of Greece.

 

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