HELP TRANSCRIBE THE CLASSICS OF CHRISTIAN PATRISTIC LITERATURE!


THE ST. PACHOMIUS LIBRARY seeks to make the literature of the early Christian Church available to all in electronic form -- for free!

You can help our work either by volunteering as a scribe (see below) or by providing direct financial support for our indexing project and free online patristic Bible commentary. If you would be interested in making a monetary donation to support the purchase of dedicated hardware and the salary of a full-time staffer, please contact redingtn@pobox.com . for further information.

We also continue to maintain our popular scribal transcription program, in spite of the now general availability of scanners. Many scribes have found the work to be enjoyable and beneficial. Here's how it works:

  1. We (Karen & Dionysios, the project administrators) will select a text. (More on choice of texts below).

  2. We will divide the text into sections of about one printed page each.

  3. We will snail-mail one section to each volunteer.

  4. Sometime in the next month, the volunteer will type his or her section as an ASCII file, and e-mail it to us.

  5. We will send back an acknowledgement and ask if the volunteer wants another section. No-one will receive more than one section per month unless they request it.

  6. We will edit together all the sections, and post them to our central archive on the Worldwide Web Orthodox Christian Page:

    http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage

    and to as many other virtual libraries, newsgroups, etc. as may be interested.

Concerning choice of texts. They will be:

  1. Translations of Greek and Latin Church Fathers; rare and ancient liturgical texts; lives of the saints; documents pertaining to the first thousand years of Christian history.

  2. Copyright Free: either items which have passed into public domain because of age, or ones which the copyright holder has given permission in writing for us to use.

Concerning our name and affiliation:

Anyone interested in being a scribe please contact us by e-mail. May God through the prayers of the holy Pachomius grant that by prayerfully undertaking this work, we may serve His Church and save our souls!

Karen Rae Keck
Dionysios Redington

redingtn@pobox.com