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UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON Publications of the Patrons  The Ultimate
Library Book  Fall 2002       The Great Libraries, by
Konstantinos Staikos, published jointly by the Oak Knoll Press
and the British Library in 2000, has been purchased by the
Patrons for the Pollak Library in memory of Velda Johnson
Parker, the Patrons' past president and Treasurer. This splendid
volume deserves special recognition for what it achieves; and it
also prompts reflections on libraries that are only implicit in
its pages.       Konstantinos Staikos, a native of Athens, began
30 years ago to study the history of Greek books during the
Greek diaspora-the five centuries after the capture of
Constantinople by Moslem armies in 1453 and up to the founding
of modern Greece. (We all have our early images of those robed
Byzantine scholars, clutching their precious texts, fleeing the
crumbling walls of the Imperial City. Only a myth, according to
Staikos. But Greek humanistic cultur