Karen Green: The Homepage

In memoriam GRATIANI

• Orbis Latinus - my electronic version of Graesse's 1909 edition.

• The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Electronic Text Service's Offsite Resources Page
• HUMBUL Humanities Hub -- history links by historical era
• The Holy See
• ITALATIN -- links for resources in Latin translation

• Ancient World Web
• Fathers of the Church
• ICLnet - Early Christianity and more.
• James J. O'Donnell's patristics home page
• Latin Library (from Ad Fontes Academy)
• Resource Pages for Biblical Studies
• Trajan's Column
• Classics Subject Guide
• Informationen zur Römischen Geschichte -- including events in "AUC" and Gregorian calendars.

• Biographical collections: Medieval Studies
• CU's Amiens Cathedral website
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• The Labyrinth
• WESSWeb's Medieval and Renaissance Page
• The Medieval Review - formerly The Bryn Mawr Medieval Review
• MEDIEV-L Archives
• NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources
• ORB: The OnLine Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Sources of Medieval Swedish Church History
• YAHOO's "Middle Ages" page
• EuroDocs: Medieval and Renaissance Europe
• Modern Bodley Bibliographies: The Crusades

• Hagiography Page (c/o the Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
• ICONCLASS
• Patron Saints Index
• Société des Bollandistes
• Thomas Head's Hagiography Page
• Hagiography Society

• Centre d'Études des textes médiévaux
• Comité international de paleographie latine
• Digital Scriptorium
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
• Hill Monastic Manuscript Library
• CORSAIR: The Online Research Resource of The Pierpont Morgan Library
• Institut de Récherche et d'Histoire des Textes
• RSLP Paleography Project
• The Age of Charles V--a 1996 exhibit at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
• Aberdeen Bestiary

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Search Engines du Jour

Google

Switchboard

Bookfinder -- see also Bookfinder4U Rare & Out of Print Books

Chambal -- also for finding books

David Magier's Bookmarks -- A staggeringly comprehensive guide to research tools on the Internet.

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Also Important: The Kitchen...

Epicurious

The Food Network Cyber Kitchen

Cooking Light

Link Culinaire

The Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage

IChef

Star Chefs

Cookbooks On/Line

Food and Wine Magazine

GourmetSpot

Soup of the Evening

The Baker's Catalogue

Penzey's Spices and Herbs

Adriana's Caravan

The Best of French Cheeses

Hometown Favorites -- missing a regional speciality? It may still be out there...

Redwood Hill Farms -- mighty-fine goat dairy!

Chowhound!

Cook's Thesaurus

New York Eats

The Hungry Cabbie

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The Other Obsession: Film....

The Karen Green Video Collection

INFO: Ain't It Cool News The Greatest Films Classic Films -- "the best classic film pages on the web" Internet Movie Database -- straight to search. The New York Film Festival New Directors/New Films Festival UpcomingMovies.com Drew's Script-O-Rama And the bastard cousin: Zap2it -- formerly Ultimate TV. TV Tome Television Without Pity

COMMERCE: Critic's Choice Video MovieFone Movies Unlimited Reel.com Facets:Your Source for World Cinema on Video Netflix -- couldn't live without it if I tried with both hands

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I LOVE New York. You think I'm jokin'? The Greatest City in the World.

HISTORY

• Forgotten New York
• History of the NYC Subway System
• Museum of the City of New York
• Fading Ad Campaign
• Weegee's World
• New York City Transit Museum
• New-York Historical Society
• The New York City Fire Museum
• Central Park
• Grand Central Station
• Medieval New York
• James Lileks' New York City -- including many old postcards
• Five Points (urban archaeology)
• New York Songlines
• Virtual NYC: Neighborhood Panoramas
• Streetscape and Townscape of Metropolitan New York City, 1860-1942
  Scouting New York

RESOURCES

• The Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York
• Straphangers' Campaign
• The New York Film Festival
• The New York Times
• Overheard in New York

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Reasons Why I Love the Web....

USEFUL STUFF Universal Currency Converter Conversion Charts World Clock -- time conversion. The Weather Channel Homepage Rhetorical Figures (do you know your anaphora from your synecdoche?) Even better: Rhetorical Figures in Sound! Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Urban Legends Reference Pages Roadside America -- or, go directly to the Electric Map

FUN STUFF Anatomical Man Famous Marriages Real Name Resource of Pseudonyms and Aliases Partenia: A virtual Diocese Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope -- truly, not to be missed! Driveways of the Rich and Famous Star-Myths Advertising Graveyard -- and help someone with their research... Cap'n Wacky's Gallery of Unfortunate Cards The Institute of Official Cheer -- don't miss the Interior Desecrators portion... Flagorneur -- French flattery, just for you. Is your French a little rusty? Try it in English. Don Markstein's Toonopedia Crash Bonsai An Annotated Wimsey Japander--watch vain Hollywood stars sell out in Japanese commercials Michael Paulus: Skeletal Systems--cartoon skeletons, literally

GRAPHICS WE LOVE Doonesbury Comic Rocket I Can Has Cheezburger? Cute with Chris Shorpy Good Morning, Comics Achewood xkcd Don't Forget to Validate Your Parking Kawaii Not BibliOdyssey Get Your War On BLOGS WE LOVE: POLITICAL... Talking Points Memo This Modern World Ta-Nehisi Coates The Daily Dish TBogg ...AND, NOT SO MUCH The Beat Go Fug Yourself Bwog Self-Styled Siren The Comics Reporter The Comics Journal The Hooded Utilitarian Daytonian in Manhattan My Love For You Cute Overload David Rees' Blog (LOL) What's Alan Watching? (WAW archives) Boing Boing Gluten-Free Girl Bitten Serious Eats: New York Scouting New York

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Sui generis

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Genealogy

My newest project...

Green Family Tree

JewishGen

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet -- comprehensive!

New England Historical and Genealogical Society

American Family Immigration History Center

Ancestry.com

National Archives and Records Administration's Genealogy Page

Avotaynu: List of sites for Jewish Genealogy Research

Jewish Genealogical Society of New York

FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service

Family History Fair (sponsored by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York)

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Who I Am Now...

When I started this page, I was a doctoral student in medieval history at Columbia, but I left ABD in 1999. I came over to the libraries then, and that's where I am now. Did I have a nice life as a doctoral student? You decide:

I was an A.A. Heckman Scholar at the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, in June of 1997.

I created the electronic Orbis Latinus, a digitized version of Graesse's 1909 edition of the indispensable guide to Latin placenames. I'm proud to report that it gets about 300 hits a week, from all over the world.

Two of the best years of my life were spent working in the Electronic Text Service here in Butler Library.

I worked as a research assistant to Professors Martha Howell, Simon Schama, and Joan Ferrante, and as teaching assistant to Professors Joel Kaye and William V. Harris.

I helped organize the eighth annual graduate student conference of the Columbia University Medieval Guild. It was called Reading the Middle Ages: Book, Object, Image, and in all modesty I must say it was a rousing success.

For two years, I worked as a research assistant to Simon Schama for the BBC series, "A History of Britain." The first six episodes premiered in the U.S. on the History Channel in October 2000. If you missed it, check out the DVDs or the three companion volumes: "At the Edge of the World, 5300 B.C.-1602 A.D.," "The Wars of the British, 1603-1776," and "The Fate of Empire, 1776-2000."

I left my doctoral program in 1999, and became the supervisor of the Butler Reserves Department of Butler Library here at Columbia University.

But now I am the Ancient & Medieval History and Religion Librarian at Butler Library, where I support collection development in Classics, Ancient/Byzantine/Medieval History, Christianity, Comparative Religion, Linguistics, and Modern Greek--and, as of late 2005, Graphic Novels. I also maintain the Ancient and Medieval Studies and Papyrology, Epigraphy and Paleography Reading Rooms, and work at the Reference Desk.

Being a librarian is the BEST job. You get smarter, and get to help other people get smarter, too -- and for this they pay you! How great is that? If you have foreign language skills, you could make a real contribution to librarianship. Learn more here!

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...And How I Got To Be That Way

Yes, yes, I know. This part always resembles a computer dating application,
but how else can I use all those great photos I scanned when I was first learning HTML?

Raised in Michigan, I escaped east with my family at the age of 10.

Did the mandatory Jewish teen thing in a kibbutz in Israel.

Worked as a student supplemental at IBM while getting a 2-year degree in business.

Worked as a bartender for most of 15 years -- mostly in NYC, but partly in Ohio as a hotel manager -- and got a NY State license in massage therapy.

Got my BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at NYU, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Got my M.A. and M.Phil. in Medieval History at Columbia University

Got my M.L.I.S. from The School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers University.

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Comics Stuff

My monthly column at comiXology, Comic Adventures in Academia

An interview with me at Marvel's blog, Comics for All.

The Graphic Novels Subject Guide I created for Columbia's Libraries website.

In the news: The San Francisco Chronicle

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Friends with Pages...

Anders, my good friend and former roommate, also helped me with the scanning of the Orbis Latinus. Now, he's a medievalist in the History Department at Yale University, and produces scholarship of terrifying brilliance. But don't take my word for it: Anders is a 2002 MacArthur Fellow!

UnCommon Knowledge is my brother's business. His name is David Green, and I'm crazy proud of him. If you want to give a presentation that makes you sound about 45 times smarter and nicer and cleverer than you are, David's your guy.

Leah (yet another medievalist) possesses a startling creativity, and is now at Texas A&M.

Gabriel and Mikah: I know, I know, it isn't really their page, but who cares? Meet my nephews.

I definitely need for more of my friends to get pages.

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If you have any suggestions, email me at [email protected].

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