News — Mardigian Library
Der Matossian’s “Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World” Series Enriches NAASR Library and Armenian Studies
NAASR’s Mardigian Library was enriched in 2025 by the donation of 11 titles from the series “Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World,” published by Bloomsbury, which were donated by the series editor, Prof. Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), in memory of his late father, Vartan Der Matossian (1933-2017). In recognition of the donation, and in keeping with NAASR's policy, each book has been given a bookplate recognizing the gift and honoring Vartan Der Matossian. Donations to NAASR’s Mardigian Library are vital to its growth to nearly 40,000 volumes. Whether the titles are old or new, any donation...
NAASR’S Mardigian Library Becomes Part of WorldCat
The Mardigian Library of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) recently became a part of WorldCat, the world’s largest bibliographic database, operated by OCLC, Inc.
In Memoriam: Shushan Yeni-Komshian Teager (1931-2024)
A summary of Shushan Teager's illustrious life.
Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library ~ NAASR and the Establishment of the Mashtots Chair at Harvard, 1954-1969
In conjunction with the celebratory event NAASR held on May 6, 2023, marking the appointment of Christina Maranci as the third holder of the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies at Harvard University, we are devoting this Library Treasures installment to materials from NAASR’s own organizational archives pertaining to this organization’s pioneering effort to establish the first chair in Armenian Studies in the U.S.—or, indeed, anywhere in the Armenian diaspora in North America—focusing on the years from 1954 to the appointment of the first chairholder in 1969.
Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library ~ Maps and Atlases
For this installment of the Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library, we have chosen examples and maps and atlases and a few related works from our holdings. They are not necessarily selected for their beauty (although some are indeed beautiful) nor for their age (though some are quite old) but because they tell an interesting story and reflect the diversity of approaches to mapping Armenia over the past 325 years, which is the time period reflected in the maps included in this feature.
NAASR Receives NEH Preservation Assistance Grant
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is proud to announce that it is a recipient of a Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of its efforts to safeguard the important and rare holdings in its Edward and Helen Mardigian Library. The grant will support a general preservation assessment and the purchase of rehousing supplies.
From Venice to Boston: The Awgerean Brothers, Hamilton Fish, and Vartan Gregorian ~ Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library
We offer this in tribute to all of those who keep the spirit of learning and the love of books alive, from the Mekhitarist Fathers of San Lazzaro to Vartan Gregorian.
Genocide Survivor Memoirs in Armenian & English, 1918-1955 ~Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library
In this feature we highlight a group, by no means exhaustive, of memoirs by survivors of the Armenian Genocide published in Armenian and English between the years 1918 and 1955. In these memoirs we hear the voices of women and men, clergymen and political activists, natives of the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire and of western Asia Minor, Protestant and Apostolic, intellectuals and “average” women and men, as well as one non-Armenian, an Assyrian whose people suffered largely the same fate as the Armenians.
Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library ~ Khrimian Hayrik (1820-1907)
He is a figure which steps straight out from the Old Testament with all the fire and all the poetry. H. F. B. Lynch (Travels and Studies in Armenia)In 1820 two prominent Armenians were born who devoted their lives to Armenia and the Armenian people and were venerated by their contemporaries. Khrimian Hayrik (1820-1907) was an Armenian Apostolic Church leader, educator, and publisher who became the Patriarch of Constantinople and later Catholicos of All Armenians. Ghevond Alishan (1820-1901) was a philologist, historian, geographer, translator, a member of the Mkhitarist Congregation in Venice.