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The University of Byzantium



<OAC> The question is occasionally raised as to whether one should have an
M.A. in history or an MLS to enter the archival profession.  Not realising
the issue was either/or, I went and got both. </OAC> My focus in graduate
history was Byzantium.  And I translated a substantial part of a hitherto
non-English test.  I worked from the _Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae_
in particular a treatise by the emperor Nicephoras Phocas II, in the year
969, shortly before a heavy Slavic influence rendered my classical Greek
unusable.  It was a military treatise on conducting espionage operations in
Asia Minor. If you have any curiousity as to the intricacies involved in
Byzantine operational procedure, a sample follows.  Please note that this is
merely a sample signature line.


Holly Hodges
Not available by phone, and don't bother leaving messages on my machine
because I don't have the code to retrieve my messages, and they can't give me
one without filling out a work order, and they can't tell me how long that wil
l take because I have to fill out a work order first, and I can't get to my
phone when it's ringing because the door to my office is locked and I don't
have a key and I can't go in the other way because the other door's been
screwed shut, and I'll have to submit a work order to get a key to my office
and no they can't tell me who has work order forms and last week's work order
for a key still hasn't been signed because I my employee number hasn't been
filled in and no one's told me what my employee number is and no the form's
not going anywhere because so and so needs to sign off on it and so and so's
in a meeting.  But hey, THE OFFICE NOW HAS A DOOR!!  And it's locked...)

Again, this is Holly, available by email, as long as I'm not at a library
which can't provide email access, but I can be paged ("Number 66, you have a
phone call") provided I'm located where the paging system works, which it
doesn't in the archives...

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