GLEETT - University of Washington

Association of College and Research 

Libraries 

Slavic and East European Section 

GLEETT 

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A fragment from the Book of Kings I, Chapter 1 0, Skaryna's 

Bibie (Prague, 1518), from the collection of the New York 

Public Library, Slavonic Division. Francisk Skaryna 

(1 485?-1 540), the first Byelorussian printer, translated the 

Bible into Old-By elorussian and published it between 

1517-1519 in 23 books. Skaryna's Bible was the first printed 

Bible in an East Slavic language. The clear, distinct print 

follows the pattern of the Byelorussian manuscript and 

pou-ustau , often called By elorussi an Elsevier.

Publish annually by the Slavic aixl East Eurcpean Seq jon of the 

Association of Collee ard Research Libraries, a divia.on O;the Anerican 

Library Association, 50 East Huron St., thicago, IL 60611; (312) 944-6780. 

Editorial Board: 

Wojciedi Zalewski, Stanford University Libraries, Editor-in-thief 

Viveca Seyr, Stanford University Libraries, Associate Editor 

Barbara Galik, University of Washtau Libraries, Co-Editor 

Arxrew Makuch, University of Arizona Library, Co-Editor 

TABLE OF TETS page 

Word frau the thair ar Editor 2 

Message frau the Vicethair/thair-E1ect 3 

ALA Annual meetir, NL - Slavic ard East Eurcpean 

Section minutes 4 

ALA Midwinter meetir, AUL - Slavic ard East Eurcean 

Section minutes 8 

SEES news arx notes 10 

Asrican Association for the Advaxnt of Slavic StixUes, 

Bibliogray ard cunentatiau Oxnnittee mJruites 10 

ALA Annual conference papers: Rannit 14 

Kraus 16 

Olmeted 22 

History of SEES 26 

Grants 29 

Conferences 32 

Reports 35 

Atxiuisitions 43 

Publications 45 

Cituaries 48 

Travel abroad 50 

Slavic Collection at the University of Washirton 57 

(J American Library Association 1986. 

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W'RD P1H ThE aALR AND EDI'IOR 

This year I am addressing you as the Chair of SEES and the Editor of 

our NEESIE1IR. I would like to thank my co-editors: Barbara Galik and 

Andrew ?4akudi as well as the Associate Editor Viveca Seylycur for their 

work on this issue and the Association for oDliege and Research Libraries 

for making it possible. 'lb all of you I can say that we have advanced the 

cause of Slavic librarianship In the United States during the last year. 

This, I hope, transpires frrin the pages of this NEWSIEXIER. The reports 

fron ferences of both professional associaticts: the MASS and SEES, 

poblicaticxis issued and research In progress are speaking for themselves. 

We have made an effort to provide evidence of as many achievements as 

we or*ild identify. We call on you to send sore information for the future 

issues which we hope will cuitinue to apear annually at this time of 

year. There are a few d.evelcçzmsits I ild like to stress. Our NEWSIEITER 

has been received positively. Requests for oies came not only fron 

knerican r -siriDers bet also from other countries. A SEES HANDBK is 

In the beginning stages of preparation and sgestions as to its format, 

cc*itent, profile, etc. should be send either to SEES thair, Editor of the 

NEhIErl, or directly to the ocepiler: Patricia Kelley, Assistant 

University Librarian for Public Services, George Washington University, 

Geiman Library, 2130 H Str. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20052. The Ethnic 

Omaaittee will prepare a Qiide to Ethnic organizations, collections, and 

newspapers. An encyclopedic book, BZOK 0310VRE DI 'l SOVIET UNION 

AND ESTEE PE; A HANDBXac is neariog ccmpletion. Aplicatmon for 

suport for editorial work has been snitted to the Subocemittee on 

Bibliogray, Information Retrieval and Occumentation on Soviet Studies 

of the Social Sci Research Ouncil and rejected, and to the ALA World 

Book Award and endorsed by the AC3L Board of Directors. The decision is 

pending. Several past conference prograilm resulted from the work on this 

project. This sama.bat theoretical profile will also be maintained duriog 

the forthoceiing ccnferm in New York. 

Icoking into the future SEES will promte greater involvement on the 

part of Slavic ethnic librarians and Slavic librarians fra p.iblic libraries. 

It is felt that Slavic books In poblic libraries are poorly represented and 

older books are often resoved from libraries. Thus the Slavic ethnic 

heritage in the United States is vanishing. The Section expressed great 

cexn about this cultural loss for the entire country. There is an urgent 

neei to address this issue. Euture conference pregrama In contrast to the 

past are cuiteaplated to be sore practically oriented. Preservaticm of 

library materials, retrospective cuwersion, cooperative cataloging, and 

eiarqes are an tJie targeted cozrns. The Section should also 

prminte sore contacts with East European librarians and library 

associaticrm. If possible, personal liazons should be established between 

SEES and such organizations for the p3rpose of cursunicating 

develcpiients and cooperating. 

The III World ODogress of Slavic and East European Studies which took 

place In Washington, D.C. In October 30 to November 4, 1985 was a major 

event. Report from it is included in this issue. 

We would like to congratulate our Britsh colleagues for their 

initiative to expand their traditionally fine Newsletter SOLANUS Into a 

full fledged scholarly journal devoted to Slavic ased East European book 

studies. We wish them good luck in this enterprise. 

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Likewise, we would like to applauie our German oulleagues for their 

energetic work aid the tangibla pb11ahed results In the catference 

proceedings aid their periodic infomiatioual We have 

notioed here ccztrihitiats l' our oulleaguas frat the New york lublic 

IAbrary. 

With special interest we follow the develc9eait of the Russian 

Arthives at the University of leeds under energetic leadership of Dr. 

Ricthard Davies. We wish him good luck in his fine endeavors. 

We notice with sadness, loss to death of several hook dealers: 

Alexander T1tejeff in Rrxie, Rithard Davies in Canada both 

oaxentrating at Russian materials, aid Flwan1 Puacz in aicago, vlith 

ka. We are expressing syaçathy to their families. 

to the lU World Cngresa aid many ra projects shared 

Intarnatia,aily ' librarians, book dealers, aid stholars our ties have 

beocee closer. This oocperatiat aorcms the Western world is welcrmie aid 

citerisbed an us. We wish colleague fros the Eastern cmtries 

could participate closer in orsst work aid goals. They are those frat 

we can learn. We went to assure thea that we are serving the sama 

oulthral values as we believe In criltural unity acros, political boarders. 

We hope that they will be able to share their thoi4rts aid Ideals with us 

during the next World ress. They, of ocriree, are welocma to 

participate in any of air programa aid projects. We are extending a 

brotherly band to thea. 

e*iadr Zalai3d, Diitor 

Qtair of SEES 

HSS ThM ThE am- 

With the recent establiebeent of the Newsletter aid the near 

ocepletiat of the 

4,.the 

Slavic & East D.ircpean Sectiat has deaxstrated a vitality bthic*i 

deserves renewed support at the part of its maiierahip. It is true 

that thera are those t.tw guestiat the 8.cticm'e exister, especially 

sinc, the bibliograpMc meetings at AMSS tend to draw a larger aidience 

era Slavic Librarians. at thers are others believe that there are 

good rsaaa for maintaining a Slavic foous within ?.XA, despite the 

prcbl thidr ccmfratt us. Mceg those reascz are the following; 

AlA is strcner financially than MASS aid has already deautrated 

its wilhigrimas to lend support to wortlmthile prujectsi 

Failure to maintain productive links with AlA has already 

resulted in a tendency at the part of Slavic librarians not to keep 

abreast of isportant oucperative projects at the natiatal level. This 

in tern results in the alaboratiat of inperfect tools (the Slavic porticris 

of the RT Oiispecths} aid hence missed ccportunities, 

Slavic oouecticm-boildlxq is a specialty tthith is frequently 

inisurderstood aid unappreciated by other library personnel., especially 

administrators. The maintenance of a Slavic profile within AlA 

provides a real epportenity to forge new links with our aiuleagues in 

tethnical aid peblic services, links whicth can enable us to athieve a 

better presence at our own institutions, aid better reougnition for our 

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needs. This is especiafly true for the aium-sized aid smaller 

a,llections, whose existence is sore vulnerable than that of the 

older libraries. 

The last two points both gest the need for better dannels of 

tainication aid education between Slavic librarians aid other library 

peracruriel. Since it would seem that SEEE is the d,vicus gronp to bring 

about s isprovements in these areas, perhaps our goal In the ccmth 

year should be to foster activities whith contribote to auth 

iarovnta. There are several possible smthaniaire, an thvious 

aproad is to devise a plogren these for the nsoa]. Onferenoe which 

would pte this goal. It has already been suggested that the 

ograa sight explore the prce aid of exdanges in tense 

xzrehensible to the iu-Slavicist; we might, for instai, invite the 

participation of a prunfnsnt ouUecticn develcçment administrator, 

particularly one ccposed to exchanges. We might also invite a 

nc,-Slavic area specialist, aid/or omsider joint sponsorship with 

another section, so as to ensure that ti discussion attracts as wide a 

range of cur oulleagues as possible. at other suggestions are weliie, 

aid will certainly be ocrisidared. 

Mirarda Beavea 

Vice-thair/thair-Elect of SEES 

AlA *flL 

thicago 1Uly, 1985 

- SlAVIC AND EAST XJ1)PEAN SICV 

tea (erpta) 

Sukznitted by I Fexder, SEES Secretary 

cexpted by Wojci Zaleweki, Newsletter Etitor 

S Exitive Oasittee 

The thafr expressed thanks to ceorge Thth for secretarial help at 

Midwinter, 1985. Short reports frun chairs of SEES ccasiittees 

foll,ied. Selected issues from the Mlmxtee (Issues reported elsewhere 

have been omitted.....aotico was made aid carried that the Executive 

Qxenittee açolnt Wojciecti editor of the Newsletter, with the right to 

apolnt other imibera of an editorial board for two-year terms. 

Oxriittee on AtXes8 aid Ontrol. Zaszlo inquired about the states 

of this ocamittee, ..tiose last chairman was Wasyl Veryha, aid which is 

no laar active nor listed in the AL directory. The original xrpose 

of the ccamittee had been to stidy cataloging aid classification 

Issues aid advise IC on then. Wasyl considered the committee's 

function isportant encugh to be o,timied, aid agreed to suisnit a 

report to the Executive isnittee for evaluation at Midwinter, 

including objectives aid nausea of potential urerbers, so that formal 

reinstatement could be discussed. 

Nominations Cxaaittee for April, 1986 Election. Wojcimth, 

speaking for thairnian Joee iüadko, announced that the candidates 

for vice-chair/chair-elect for 1986/87 are theryl Irern_Simirenko 

(Syracuse U.) aid Misha Harnick (Oluirbia U.). Candidates for 

manr-at-largs are Poibert lcarlowich (Pratt Institute) aid Viveca 

Seynour (Stanford). 

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taszlo discussed the se1f-sby review roiirod by AQL 

Of all sections. The final rt for S will be due Septether, 1981. 

The following sthedule was established: Set up a review ooariittee to 

begin work In JarnIary, 1986; suhait a draft to the Eicecutive Ccmuittee at 

Midwint.er, 1987; final rort ready by MA San Francisco, 1987; subeit 

final version to )L by Steiber 1, 1987. The ecutive Oarittee 

voted that Iaszlo diafr an ad boo review onmnittee, with the right to 

name other iwathera (prthably recent past SEES thnlxa) ani consult 

with colleagues. 

It was anconnoed that the MA Interoational Relations mdttee 

had been asked to e,ess its auort for a dissident Ukrainian librarian. 

Wojcied aid P].ward resperdad that SYES sha*]d be participating in 

this. Iaszlo will tact ert Wedgsworth to clarify the role of SEES 

in these area-specific matters. 

erence P1Lse 

Pre-Worid War II of I.arge Slavic aid East European 

O,Ueotiona in the thitad States. 

"Herman Resenthal, the Naskil as Librarian," by leonard Gold 

NYPL), read by ward Icaslnec 

"The Davelcpzent of the Russian 011ection at the Libraxy of 

Cgress," by l*vid H. kraua (IC); read by MIxanE Heaven 

"ftward a History of the Harvard Slavic (flections," by 

HJ4i H. Olmetead (Harvard) 

"Slavica at Yale before World War II?" by Thtiana Pannit (Yale) 

imaflts Wojciedi Zaleweki 

l4matermbip Heating 

Ibe meeting opened with lntzoducticris of the section officers 

id brief reports frma diaixs of SS stanthrj m,ittees. 

WoJciedi auiymariz.d the Qartinring ation Ommiittee's work on 

the Hardbcdc aid aimsunced that the Newsletter will co 1ceer be a 

cmamittee project but that an editorial board sisting of hLimeelf, 

Leon Pertier, Barbara Galik, ?.nfrew Nakuth, aid Vickie Seur has 

been formed to produce the Hamletter. Ha then agpealed to S 

to tribute material aid ineaa. ert Fitzgeza1d,, afr of 

the Cyrilhic anizaticr Omenittee, aissarized prthlairs with IC 

records and authority control. 

SEES officers for 1985/86 ware eniinoed: Wojcieth Zalewski 

(thair), Miranda Heaven (Vice-thair/Chair-Elect) leon Ferder 

(Secretary), George Toth (Hesber-at-Large). Speaking for the 1986 

Naninating Omnittee, Wojcieith anncainced candidates for the 1986 

elections. 

Speaking for ward Icasinec of the 1986 Program Oami,ittee, 

Wojcieth amsunced the topic for the New York program. 

D.ring the discussion period, Wojciecb lamented on the small 

percentage of the 8ES mesbers who are active,, with only 33 cut of 180 

persona]. maibers voting in the last election, aid on the difficulty In 

firding candidates to run for office. 

I.aszlo discussed the upocining se]i-study, during whi the 

activities of all cc*inittee's would be scrutinized. Miranda Heaven 

reiterated her proposal that SE try to attract scre collection 

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develcpnei* people aid administrators, to further the ction's image to 

the profession at large. 

'iha discussion tzned to non-Slavic East ropean area 

specialists. Maim 3ndza ard Rainurdas tapes, representing Latvian 

aid Lithuanian librarians, respectively, explained the position of their 

colleagues, are not able to work in their subject areas aid are 

thus riot active participants in organizations suth as SEES, but tho 

have a great deal of expertise to contribute to the profession. 

Wojciedi mngested that there be a place for a Baltic interest discussion 

gronp on the New York program aid will investigate the possibility of 

poblicizing SEES activities to ethnic interest librarians, perhaps 

thrcui ncn-AL AlA p.lblications. 

The meeting closed with Wojciec*t'e expression of 

appreciation to taazlo on behalf of the Section for the latter's suoneesful 

aid energetic service as SEES thair. 

1986 armittee 

Spealdng for zliward Kasinec, Wojciecti described the plans for the 

1986 New York The these will be: Russia aid AmericaEarly 

Relatics aid Xnfluez. Papers will be by ert Icarlowidi ("N.M. 

I,'dstherg as a St*ent of Slavic Libraries, l923_l924fl), ward 

Kasinec ("'No WcamnL.B. Eaavklna-Haniurger aid AG. Kravthenko as 

StLdesta of American libraries"), Nadia Zilper ("thanges of Biok 

Materials: a Historical Ove view") with azments by Thyllis Dein ai4'or 

rd Eaenan. 

The conference dates are ,Jtine 28-ly 3, with ccamtittee 

meetings set for JUns 29 (Suniay) aid June 30 (kaday) aid the pta 

for Jurs 30. 

An e,thibit will be munted at the Slavonic Division of NYPL to 

aoocapany the pgraa. 

CyrlUic anization aid Autatiation Ozmsittee 

ert Fitzgerald opened the meeting with a discussion of NAa) 

entries for Russian personal names, in particular the matter of 

patrcmymicm. According to } patzaice are not used In 

cross-references if not given on the title page, even if they r in the 

colcpon, because they are treated as middle nairse. The prd,les is 

ci'e'tW1 ly a1te when a pre4Qinc Soviet writer emigrates to the West 

sugjently drcp his patronymic. NMO has rejected 

cross-references, resulting in no linkage between older aid newer works 

by the eai author in those instances. The patronymic frun the co1on 

can be lirlided in the 670 field, but patrons don't have acoess to the 

authority file with a 670 field. This is not a prublera for newly 

established names, where a NAgX) refere can be established with the 

full name taken frun the coloon. 

Ibe Ominittee was unanincus in reoxineirthig that the old form 

(with patronymic) by kept as a reference in the 400 field. Nathalie 

Delcugaz of Ic's Shared Cataloging Division will try to cnmvince Ben 

Tucker at IC that Russian patronyinics must not be treated like ordinary 

middle names. Pdiert will also coz.ud with IC on this. 

Mia e announced that PIG is to go online (on RLXN) with 

vernacular Cyrillic In 1986. Design of a program has been ccmleted 

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dith would ptwide for Cyrilhic aid rcirenized records. In order to risks 

use of this erthaxmaent, an I( PC terminal aid less than $50 in 

software will be required. or t1. libraries with the I4 PC terminal, 

the display will, hav, dual (Cyrilhic aid liTan) 245, 250,260, aid 400 

fields. Otherwise, the records will açesr in totally ratanized form. The 

systes is patterned after the th -7apanese-Yoren vernacolar 

project. 

Zora Kipel desoribed NyPL's need for a vernaatlar cnline catalog as 

the inçeths for this RLIN ethaint. NyPX. rn,, uses reversible 

ratanizatiat (IC rorianizaticn is not reversible, or ate-to-ate with 

Cyrillic tharactsrs) for irçutting. 

A major advantage siwisiated is the universal use of Cyrilhic, 

to rsplaoe the many iutandard transliteraticsi systers. IC has not 

yet beoce involved in the RIG CyrU.l.ic online project because it cannot 

incur the additicmai eicpense of converting anized IQiPC tapes. 

IkMever, IC did join RIG for the 01K project. 

There was a discussiat of 1.0 record coding practices wtiith 

aeared to itradict Nia2 rules. George 'Ibth explained that sa 

records created in an l8-th period prior to 1982 are 

11-crsçatible, bot were sd "c' (full ) aid carsiot be 

recoded to "d'. 

In reply to a question about IC backlogs, George stated that IC 

catalogs the latest books to in first, so that at least for 

desoriptive catalogIng, 1984-85 isprints are -to-data. There is a 

backlog of 19,000 pre-1940 titles aid 22,000 1940-to date titles. 

Subject cataloging is, of irme, farther bablid. There was a 50-60% 

reduction In cataloging voltm i4ien was Inatituted. 

Ccamnittee on O.xitlrath'ig Psmtim at Slavic aid East 11rean 

Librarianship in North Mierice 

D4 ."iai of the SEB )4aiislettr (the first issue of tdiith recently 

appeared aid was enthusiastically received) centered at two 

areasshould the present format be tinied, aid should the Qiaiiittee 

itixaie to asause editorial r...lbility for it. 

Wojciedr Zalewski, d edited the first issue, amr*i that 280 

copies were distribrted in the U.S. rd abroad, aid that an adit1atal $600 

request for next year's pob].icattut baa been granted by L, &tth will 

beax*forth print the Ns1ettar fron ra-ready y produced at 

Stanford. Viveca S'acur will. contir.a serving as editorial assistant. 

It was generally agreed that the editorial policy as stated in the first 

issue should be ccsitln.ied, following the diacussicn of several 

alternatives, aid that the Nexelettsr would appear annosily, in tirie for 

AlA. 

The Oemaittee'a project to ccrpile a Ra1ok at Book Oilthre 

in Eastern re aid the Soviet Uhicn is nearing ocripletiat... 

Because of the lack of itribrtors for certain sections, aid to ewpeclite 

the project, it was decided that... sectiais dealing with ainigres aid 

nat-Slavic Soviet republice be pt aside until later. It was noted that 

the MASS B & D giitt.e is working at emigre projects and that 

pethape these sections could be worked at jointly. 

To aiure editorial consistency, Woiciect su]gested writing a grant 

prcpceal to ubtain funds for editorial work, iideidng, aid translating. 

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Highlights of )tiraxtee 

ALA NEWfl'R NETfl 

thicago, January 19, 1986 

AL-SUtVIC D EAST WR WEAN SECrIQ 

Mlsvteø prepared by Mirmeda Beaven Highlights prepared by Wojcied 

Zaleweki (Fbll zthutes available frt*u the Sect:mon'a thair) 

itive raittea 

L is ocxitimxtng to support the Sectic&s Newsletter. Patricia 

Irelley, George Washington University Library, is willing to prepare a 

Sectian Haiok: directory, history, progranm. The Section welccsms 

the project t requests final editorial control. tbc*uyr Wynar 

ixdicated that the early records of the Section are with his at Ysnt State 

University. Laszlo Fvace sent a letter dated July 22, 1985 to ert 

Wedgeworth in regard to the international nultural forum hith was held 

in dapaet in August suggesting SEFS Involvenent in the program. Leon 

Ferder, SEES Secretary, wrote letters In support to the 11121/ARt 

recrsuedatia of April 29, 1985 concerning reauthorization of 

the Higher Education Act Titles II aM VI. AQt staff will be available to 

assist eecti with external grant applications. Sthedule of meetings 

for AlA New York Oraference wag disissed. Planned will deal 

with "Issia aM America: Early Relati aid Thfluence&'. Open honse 

in the New York Public Library aid Reception for Slavic librarians is 

planned. In Hrittain SOLANUS will diange this year to a full-fledged 

Slavicook stMiee jcurnal.Edward Fasinec has suggested reviving the 

Ass aid Oaitrol Clnnittee. Th proposal was tabled for the tire 

being. ritttae reports follewed. Plans for Pi.m for the ALA 

fereno 1987 (San ftancisoo) were disczssed by }tirarda Beaven, 

thair. A program on exdianges geared tards collection 

develt administrators is canteaplated. Section review process, 

budget requests, liamon with other units within AlA aid AL were 

Nawslett.r Editorial Board 

Citent, arrangenent, aid distribution of Secticns Newsletter has 

been disoissed. Since the Newsletter aresses issues of Interest to all 

Slavic librarians in the U.S. its distribution to the widest possible 

constituency is of ontarist inportance to the editors. Abont 15 

instituti world wide have asked for subscriptions. Therefore, the 

editor will inguire with AQL ether it wonld be possible to 

digtrjl*zts the Newsletter fran AL to non-11L members aid urvier 

what mxitions. 

Q*itinuing Education maittee 

0. ftarrassowjtz, the prospective poblisher of the a3xffvRl'E 

IN EASTh PE; A HANDK OF )BUSIffiG, LIARXFS AND 

ARaIVFS, AND BIBLZIY has agreed to plish this work in fascicles 

This will greatly facilitate the final editorial work.Status of the project 

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has been discussed In details. A few papers have not yet been finished. 

The final deadline for subaissien of papers is Jime 30, 1986 after whith 

date participatien in the project may be terminated. 

The Ommiittee seeks suport for final editorial work: 

Ap1icatien has been suhaittei to the Sori1. Scienoe Researth Dunci1, 

Subccrmittee en Bib1iogra*iy, Informaticxi Retrieval and sesntatien 

and rejected. plicatien for World Book AlA Goal Award was aubuitted 

to the A Board of Directors and apr,ed. 

Since the IWOK project is aisset ocztplete, new projects 

ehnild be planned. In view of that the Chair will resign as off Jhne 29, 

1986. MIranda Bezven ha agreed to take over the thaixraanship. 

Qettittee niethers are sJ to Inform the new Chair by February 28 

regarding their Inttic*i to ccmthi.e their service. Zalews)d. will retain 

his respIbility for finalizatien of the HN4L. 

Ozaaittee for the Stndy of Ethnic East Borcean Publicatiens 

Ccnsaittes thjectivsa: 

Researth pertaining to Slavic and East Pnx.pean p,1icatiani in the 

U.S. and Canada; Stndy of Slavic and East *rean ethnic cultoral 

iiastitutisi and ethnic pobliahlnp bensee; cooperatien with goverrmmnt 

agencies, rsseaxth inetituti and other lnetitutioos. 

A2rIng 1982-1985 a stndy was oructed of the serial 

ub1icatia,s of rican Slavic and East rcçean presses. The results 

ware p1ishd in EIBNIC PtED( vol. 4, Woe. 1-2, .122-l5O. Initially the 

project was nxdestly ported by a grant froa AaL, bit the major 

financial assistance was provided by the Canter for the Sbzy of Ethnic 

Publicaticnis at F.ent Stats University. 

Any ethnic researCh project .3rted by thers of SEES may be 

subnitted for plicatien in Efl*IC 

The Oziuittee cooperates with the BelCh Institute of Ethnic 

Strdies in Thiladelia and the Issigratien History ResearCh Canter in 

St. Paul. 

Onsnitteo progran proposed for the future: enrvey of Slavic and 

East D.zcpean presses In the U.S. and Canada; nnicz list of ethnic serials; 

en pub1icaticr of Slavi.c and East European ethnic gripe 

(historical sociological, bibliogra*d.c); cooperation with interested 

researCh centers; creation of a reseazth task farce for individual ethnic 

gronpe and their Wblicationa. Discussants strongly eportsd the union 

list of serials, airessed the nnithodology and Inclusiveness of suCh a 

project. 

Cyrillic Rriaanizaticn and Auttion Qneaittee 

Fitzgerald reported en RIG's Cyrillic Enhancement Project, whereby 

bThlicgrahic recxrds in Cyrillic Characters can be inpit, displayed, 

and searChed via the online RUN system. bplenentaticn is planned for 

the first half of 1986 but further details are not known. yitzgerald will 

nitcr the situation as it develops. Isith, Gallic, and Beaven 

msnti that their libraries are ocianitted to using rcsianized records 

rather than thos, in Cyrilhic. 

Leicb reported en the cooperative cataloging project being developed 

between the University of Illinois and the Library of ress. Ihlincis 

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has assumed responsibility for cataloging the mnogras of seven 

)91 publishers (baginrdn with 1986 inprints) ar will do '%uper 

rush" cataloging of the ks, seniin the records to I, at1 irçutting 

the records into the OCIC database. IC will review the cataloging ard 

distrihite the rrds on the tapes, so the catalogln3 rrds will 

be available to libraries in networks other than IC. An Illim,js cataloger 

will sped two weeks at IC in Merth 1986 for advanced trainirq in 

subject catalogixq policies ani procedures. 

Fitzgerald reported on varic,j.s prthlees aM errors he has noticed in 

recent IC cataloging, JilMing discrepancies in name headinge between 

authority aM bibliograIic files. 

SEES News aM Notes 

Volunteers are needed for the follcedng: 

1987 nference Planning Ozaiittaei contact MiraMa 

Beaven, thair 

1987 Nanthatim3 iuittae, *act Hard ertson, Chair 

Ridaxd t (Beetcn PL) will inquire of his colleagues whether 

there is sufficient interest in eetab1isb1n a public library discussion 

grcop within SEES. Please atact him if interested. 

The SEES Newsletter editor has lzqaized with ACL whether the 

Newsletter could be dietribrted beycewl S srbers. The answer is 

negative. Suggested eltersatives are: "Offer the S Newsletter on a 

subscription basis to the AMSS nership. br a reasonable fee, 

rers prodncticn costs, SEEN nebers can get access to 

ycor Neweletter.If ycea feel ycei have enough editorial content aM wide 

eix*igh scripticn aMience, yon may wish to propose a Joirnal (perhaps 

similar to the new RAPE D0FS AND WNUSCIIP LIARINSHIP). (letter 

tothefftorcfMerd 10, 1986). 

Section Statistics 

The 7L Slavic aid East European Section for 1985 consists of 247 

Of these, 181 are personal reniers (172 frue the U.S., 7 fron 

Canada, aid 2 frce other cwntrjes) aM 66 institution imerbers (52 

frcen the U.S., 6 frcia Canada, aid 8 frcen other countries). 

American Association for the Mvarcenient of Slavic Studies 

Bibliogray aid DDcumentaticn Q:meittea: 

Minutes of Meeting 

Nearly 50 persrx were In atterdance, includ.fxq many of our 

colleagues fruit other intries. 

1. The first report given by Narlanna Tax tholdixi covered several 

topics: 

The Subccmunittee on BibliograIy, Thforiration Retrieval aid 

Djcumentation of the Joint Ccminittee on Soviet Studies of ACtS aid 

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SSW is o osed of Marianne (1ioldin, iward Kasinec, Hugh O]insted, 

1vid Iaus, Thane Qistafon, aid d,ainpan Mward Keenan. Ihe first 

endeavor was the piblication of The International Direcborv of 

Librarians aid Library Soecialists in the Slavic aid East Euronean Field. 

The Osaiittee wonld areciata any ciange. being forwarded to 

ert Earlovidi (Graduate Scbool of Library & Info Sciences, Pratt 

Institute, Brooklyn, NY 11205), 50 that the Director say be kept as 

Up-to-.dat. as possible. The next meeting of the O*aiittee is Noveit,er 

14th. There say be funds available to help suçort bibliographic projects. 

Ideas are w.laxa. This D,anittee also baa a e.t a2xlunt of *ey 

for a plicaticei pr. The first me will be me of the missing 

volusa. fran the skii biocrafitheskii slovar' Another of 

the mittee is with infoxsatiai dissaiMnation. Soveet 1 netsork to 

ormçuter-lin. reeearthers, is being develcped by the Center for Strategic 

aid Intarnatic*-ial Stidies at Georgetown University. Right r.i it is 

prinarily for electronic mail, but variais database. say be aled later. 

A meweek smninar will be held the week of ly 21st at the 

University of Illinois' (Urbane) Sunmer Researth ISboratozy for early 

career Slavic librarians. For re details writ. to Marianna Cheldin. 

Th Center for eaxdi Libraries has set up a panel to review its 

eregs of Soviet Aade of Sciezxes poblicatime. Mariarina is on 

thepanel, siith heaentc*xtasaapl. surveyofites fran the 1980 AN 

SSSR Riblicerafila izdanil, to a the Center aid its setters 

overlap in receipts. 

2 The Aietric.an Library Msoclaticn hUld its aitital meeting in thicago, 

luly 6-11, 1985. The AL Slavic aid East Dlrupean Section sponsored 

the eaesiau Pre-Worid r IX Dsve1cçit of Large Slavic end East 

D.ixupean Cellectime in the United States. Th.r* are the following 

standing cxrujitteee of SP2S: Ethnic materials, Cetaicqing, aid 

0*'itlxLing Education. Th. last groop is working on a handbook on 

piblisbing, libraries aid erduive. in the Soviet Union aid Eastern Eurtpe. 

Wojciedi Zalewaki Is the editor of a Newsletter issued by AtL for SEE. 

Please said any its to Wojciath (Stanford University, Green 

Library) by February 1586. The next meeting of SEES will be in New York 

City in the sser of 1986. The tcçio of the session will be Early 

issianMerican Library itacta. 

Gregory Walker of the Eodleian Library ares*tncsl plans for the 

eipansion of So1ari, the organ of the British Slavic Librarians since 

1966. With vol. 21 Mi. Walkar wiu bacon. th. editor aid the foais of 

the jcirnal will dan2.. The onverage wiU be broadened to maid. works 

on ail aspects of the printed word. The aroac*1 will be aijied at 

professional librarians, as well a Ttçicsl rmaet iteam will 

be avoided. An 1itoria1 Bcaid has been selected, aid an international 

Advisory Panel is in the process of being famed 

This year the MASS ccswention will be held Noverk.er 20-23, 1986 

in the N Orleans' Hyatt Regency. Sane ideas proposed for panels: the 

role of librarians In education; use of oorpiters; exc*ianges; 

bibliographic tools aid their use; Title tIC grants aid their islications. 

wazd Kasinec has auheittid several interesting panels to the Program 

itte.. 

I*vld Iaua reported on developeents at the Library of (ress. 

The Library has euffe large }xdget onts whicti will affect the 

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eplacenent of perscsnei. Rthert Alien (Russian and Soviet Specialist) 

has retired, and In the future the Fiis..,-Ugrian Specialist will also 

retire. The piblicatbce p mey be affected. iert Allen 

azipieted his sariuscript entitled 'Ruseians look at America: the view 

to 1917". There will be an ediibit ..ten it is finally piblished. Other 

titles being wrkad ai and In various stages of ocziplaticzi: Czedioslovak 

Declaration of Independence, ?'inland (a reference), Huarians and the 

American Revolution, an Referei works on I].ard at the Library of 

Oagrsss. Harold Isich's guide to pre-revolutictiary govermaent 

piblicaticxis is ni available. 'rrsvel for acqiisiticns and atteixUng 

professional meetings has also been drastically out. The good news is 

that for the time being iey for acqiisiticms has been out. 

Fdwazd Icasinec thanks the outgoing iesbers of the B and I) 

Oiiiujttee: Hi41 O]meted, Nina lencok, Harold Leith, and Steve Cbrrsln. 

14e t lntredied three mew nexbers: 3se Pathuta l'arris, inconing 

Slavic Bibliograer at the University of Cbicmgo; Paul Magosci, Chair 

of Ukrainian Sias, University of Thronto Rubert rlowic*i, faoulty 

mths_r pratt Institute aduate School of Library and Info Science. 

Their terme will, last 'until 1989. 

Vol. 1 (1975) of the t.,ean BiblboorarIw of Soviet. East Euran 

and SIavcmic Stodies is iq available on inicroficte for iao icluIin3 

postage. Ally an extra 30% for oniwersion if paying In US dollars. 

Orders mey be Bent to Head of Thotocopy Dept., Main Library, University 

of Birmingham, P.O. Box 363, BirmIngham B15 2Tr, Gt'eat &'itain. 

rican Bibli dw of Soviet and East Dcoean Stiies 

be 1982 volme is out and being distrimated. The 1983 and 1984 

years will be tined in a double issue. The National Ouncil for Soviet 

and East European Stodies has funded AEF for another year, with 

ral looking fairly cartain. erta Goldbiatt has done an excellent 

jth as the itor. Library of Con,r8ss is helping with the 

cxspiterizaticn of the bibiiogra*iy, .thith ahonid pit this work on a very 

ourrent status. 

Sixth Cenko Prize In Ukrainian Blbliograhy. 

There is a $1,000 annual prize given for the beat 

blbliogratical work on a tcpic of Ukrainian stndies. P.htries in lish or 

in Ukrainian aust be subaitted in four copies l' March 1, 1986. 

Manuscripts iiiust lie in their final pre-piblicaticti form, with names and 

addresses of authors. br sore information write: 

Cenko Prize Ukrainian BThliogra*iy 

Harvard University 

ainian Research Institute 

1581-1583 Massachusetts Avenue 

caabride, Ma 02138 

B and D Subocartittee Reports 

Preservation - Hi9 olmeted 

There ves nothing to report as of nov. thigh did eiminarize 

develcpuents to-date in a possible Slavic retrospective ouwersicsa 

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effort. utta Reed Scott of ARL has called together rspresentatives of 

aprorimately ten of the jor US Slavic coUecti to ocrisider neane 

ai ens of s a project. lta are being gathered this fail; the next 

ireeting will be at MA mid-winter. 

llecticz Dsvelcçzaent - Miranda Heaven 

collectioa develcçsent wzveys are still being gathered. The RIG 

cxspecths data frca nm-RIG meI±ere has been opiled and even 

requested for use by JIRL. They are iiwolved in a r pilot project for 

isisic rlit i. They have aproathed .aa of the Slavic libraries to 

see if they wcold be willing to participate OCLC is being very suportive 

tcward these efforts. 

The next stage for the RIG grp has been to work m verificaticm 

of the level rankings for class letters 'athidi kers filled in for the 

ocepecths. 'Ihere was aiti diamsicz of the prthl with U 

detailed lists of titles sent it to do the verificatiminany titles 

were esoteric and bibliogralc data were often inciplete. The titles 

were randmly selected. 

Cataloging - Harold lAith 

br the prosed AR1repored project, and RIG have 

agreed to 2ange tapes of the coavertad 1tmbia University 

has received a Title IIC grant to catalog 14,000 titles in 45 languages of 

the peoples of the Soviet Unim (prirarily in Central Asia) - There will 

be Resslan language title to these titles. C will begin to load 

miniml level IC records (miovofo will be Included) .Llbrery of 

res8 and the University of lUineis are negotiating to begin 

cooperative cataloging by p.iblisher starting in 1986. The goal is to 

hopefully speed up ameeg to booJ.Harry cuiucted a survey of Soviet 

Central Asian ooUecti m his eaheatica].. 'Ihe 3.nfonticm will, be 

available In bo fortho1ng articles. 

Thangee - Media Zilper 

The results of ti svey &xie last year by the groç working co 

eadianjes were presented In brief. The full rsport will be available In 

the proceedings of library-related sessia'aa to be p.,blished after the 

1d ress. 

Bibliogra' and Unosentatim Onittee 

Ekbth Kasinec 

Patricia Polansky, .-tha3xe 1983-86 

David 1tau. y.c officio 

Paul Magoosi 1984-87 

Joee Placek 1983-86 

Wojciedi Zalski 1983-86 

Nadia Zilper 1983-86 

J'a Paditita Ferris 1985-88 

ert Icarlcwidi 1985-88 

Patricia POlanSIy 

University of Hawaii 

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ALA tuTval 1985 fere Papers 

Slvica at Yale before World War II 

1jaxds the eed of the last century ani the beginning of this century, 

as Yale 1lee develçed into a University, its library started to giw 

acoordixqly. The main source of grwth of the library at that time seenm 

to have been gifts. The material aoguired at that time, as today, was 

mainly that connected with courses given or with existing research, 

although enthiaticn of the holdings theeselves do not necessarily prove 

this observation. 

Focusing on one particular collection is not easy. Yale's use of its 

won, older classification schese, nt othined with the Library of 

Congress cataloguing systen, created great difficulty In determining the 

size of total holdings and, even sore so, of the holdings of a given 

collection within the whole Yale Library systee. Of 1rse, this is the 

case in any and all dntralized libraries, even if they are organized 

under head. Still, it is possible to say that today Yale has ca. seven 

sdllion volumes, and to estlirate that ca. 250,000 of these are Slavic and 

East European materials. 

The begipnings of what ws , call the Slavic and East European 

Cbl1ecti go back to th. last century and to Joel Sun'ner Smith, who 

graduated frcn Yale in 1854 eM served as a cataloguer and then assistant 

librarian at Yale University Library frm 1894 to 1903, aM donated his 

uraisual collection of Slavica to the Library. .1. S. Smith was one of the 

rare atndenta, at the time, of Slavic laoguages and literatures. Although 

his proper field was saisic, an interest in Slavic sbxties led him to 

collecting and prrwhasing material connected with this area, and he 

aonzrulated an IDç%ressive nocleus of Ca. 6,000 volumes, mainly in 

Russian, pertaining chiefly to literatm, language, history, geograhy, and 

bibliograIy. it the mast lxtçortant works in his collection are 

governmental serial publicatic and those of learned societies. Although 

predninantly Russian, Smith's collections included such vital Polish 

iteus as Esterreither's bibliogray, Linde's dictionary of the Polish 

language (1810-14), aM other 19th century Polish poblications, as well as 

isportant materials frce other Slavic countries. Smith's colleague, the 

University Librarian Milson Van Htni, described the transaction is the 

ronoving words: 

3ib1t this time (1886], he entered on the work of making a 

carefully chosen collection of Russian books, and for the next ten 

years he devoted a large part of his salary, practically his only 

source of iine, to this thject. In 1896, when the collection had 

reached such cce,leteness as he felt able to give it, and rambered 

ea six thousand volumes, he printed a catalogue and gave it all 

to the University Library. 

Smith's interest in the Slavic Field also resulted in articles on the 

subject by him, which were p.blished in the $atio and the te.r Fu1ander. 

He also did sai translations, mainly of Russian poetry. His translation of 

A. Nekrasov's "-Nosed Frost" was blisbed in 1886 (Boston: Tichner). 

A second, 1887 edition was illustrated by William J. Linton, who was also 

the first to translated Mickiewicz 's "ode do alodosci" (Ode to youth). 

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Smith's donation was aoapanied by a printed catalogue as wall as 

by a card catalogue, which In the systmn of catalogui.og described above, 

iade his collection scinethln7 like a "closed collection" aixi thanks to this, 

easily accessible. In total, althoui not a sian of great means, Smith 

donated about $12, 000 in books an soney to the Slavic aM iiusic 

collections. It was an lressive start, bot ten years after Smith gave 

the collection to Yale, the University Librarian reported that further 

additions to this collection were to be limited mainly to periodicals. 

Interesting data abc,it Joel Sumner Smith are revealed in his letters to 

frieuds aM family, which were presented to Yale by his grarxison in 1964.. 

The real beginnln aM steady grwth of the present Slavic aM East 

Eurcean O,llecticn did not take place ustil after the Secoed World War. 

Until that tire, there was no Slavic Departsent aM even no courses 

connected with Slavic studies offered within the fraimaork of other 

language, literature, or history departments. Because of this, additions to 

the Smith collection were accidental aM occasional only, meet deperxiin 

mainly on the casual interests of lxdividual faculty marbers, especially 

such people as Rostcivtseff aM Petrwkevith, who in nection with thefr 

own origins may have had interest in a or another title in one of the 

Slavic languages or subjects. 

Thus, Smith's fc*iMation st fnxi its real appreciation only after 

the Seoord World War. 

Bibliogray by aM about Joel Sumner Smith: 

Catalogue of Book. (Slavica in the of Yale University. cai. by 

Joel Stnmer Smith.] Leipzig: privately printed, 1896. 

Smith, Joel Suitrier. "Benedic, anise sea. Praise the Lord, 0 nrf soul." 

New York: C.S. Elliot aM cc., 1897. (vocal score for four partsj 

Joel Sumner Smith Papers. Yale University Library. (pertalnlx to 

Slavica, see especially: Smith to A. Van Name, 26 February 1897, 

aM Smith, Miaecrardum, 3. July, 1902, Librarian (Van Name)] 

"Slavic transliteration: a further word." Yale Univesitv LibrarY 

Jcurn4. January 1902. 

"Transliteration frcau the ajssian: what's in a name?" New 

Ehqlaixier aM Yale Review , Nay 1891. pp. 431-47. 

Nekrasov, Nikolai ),lekseivicb. The Red-Nosed Frost. trans. by Joel Sumner 

Smith. Boston: Ticknor ard co., 1887. 

Yale University Library. A list of newsuaners in the Yale University 

Library. op. by Joel Sumner Smith. New Haven: Yale University 

Press, 1916. 

Yale University Library. Lirrmian aM Brothers' Library. Cataloque of the 

LbY'nian SM Brothers' Library. Yale llece. caip. by Joe]. Sumner 

Smith. New Haven: Thttle, I4orehouse aM Taylor, printers, 1873. 

Yale University School of Music Library. Ir,.zell Mason Library of Music: 

Catalogue of Authors. caip. by Joel Sumner Smith. New Haven: 

189-? 

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B1b1irar of the Present Officers of Yale University. Toqether with the 

biblbcoradw of the late President sorter, Irving Fisher, ad. (New 

Haveni Press of Tottle, !brehcuse, aid Taylor) 1893. 

O,lenan, N.M. "The Slavic O,llection at Yale." Yale University Library 

Gazette 34 (July 1959), . 49-51. 

O'zmor, M9 F. The Yale University Library. i865-1931, . A 

dissertation for Olushia Uhiversity, 1984. 

O'Meara, Eva .7. aid erto Y. Blanshard. "Joel Suazier Smith 

(1830-1903)." Yale University Library Gazette, 55 (January 1981), 

. 128-39. 

Taylor, Merrily E. The Yale University Library - 1701-1978. New Haven: 

Yale Ufliversity LIbrary, 1978. 

Van Name, isct. "Joel Suener Smith." Yale Aluen.i Weekly, 12 (25 

Fruazy 1903), . 188-9. 

Yale University Class of 1853. (Ueord1 . vol. 1 (1857), 

(1883), aid vol. 7 (1903). 

-. Yale University Library. )enort of the Librartan. 1896 

ort of the Librarian. 1902-3 . ç. 5-7. 

Yale University. Yale University Cbitharv rd of Graduates. 1900-1910 

nos. 60-9. New Haven. 

Tatiana Rannit, Qirator 

Slavic aid East flircpean Cbllecticns 

Yale University Library 

The Develcçsent of the Russian 11ctions at the Library of Cngress 

before World War II 

fle devslcpnent of the Russian Co1lectiam at the library of ODngresa 

before World War II was not the result of a ctntimiaus aid steady 

increase, but a jagged 2XS5 of fits aid starts, extraordinary s'Isses, 

followed kq intervale of passivity. These particular developients staid 

azt; 1) be so called Smithsonian Deposit In 1866, early in the 

Llbrariarmhip of Ainsvorth Spofford (1864-1897), 2) the aquisition of the 

Yidin 1lection in 1906 aid early efforts to put the Slavic collections on 

a sc*nd orgenizationa). footing, assoctiatid with the rich 40-year tenure 

of Herbert Putham as Librarian (1899-1939), aid 3) the fuidamental 

reorganization of the Library in 1940 r zdiIbald MacLeish (1939-1944), 

as a result of which prvcessii activites were effectively separated fran 

refererce aid bTh1iograhical. I wculd like to take each of these up in turn. 

E' persons in the laplementation of these policies ware .lexis 

Babine (1902-1910; 1927-30), whose efforts led to the acquisition of the 

Yudin collection lit 1906 aid .tho directed the Slavic Section fran 1927 

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vol. 2 (1860), vol. 4 

. 105-7.

until his death in 3.930; Peter A. Speek, to led the Slavic Section frczn 

1917-1927, N.R. ic,x,ff, headed the Slavic program frun 

1930-1944; Midael Vinokjroff, .to was Inethinental in acquiring 

Russian-Merican materials for the Library; aid, finally, Francis 

Woitfield aid Sergius Ya)sat tho served as onnsultants in Slavic 

matters In the early 3.9408 aid whose evaluaticma aid gestions led to a 

revarplrg of Slavic administrative, acquisiticais, aid processing 

Before 1906, the Library aparent1y had only a passirg interest In 

Russia. The annual reports of the Librarian for 1867 (?INNUAL RE OF 

ThE LrlARIAN OF o:ts (JRlc), 1867, p. 5) aid 1868 (ARIC, 1868, p. 

6) mention Russia as me of the countries fros whith the Library received 

official poblicatime on edane, but fron then until 1903. Russia is 

conspicocus for its abaei true the arrajal orts. The 1898 Report, 

which lists gifts received by the Library by caintry does not incltde 

Russia (ARI, 1898, p. 83-86). In 1900 the Librarian of gress visited 

the capitals of Rurtpe to improve the exthange of official p.licationm. St. 

Petersburg was not on his itinerary (ARIO, 1900, p. 100). The 1901 Report 

lists Russian books held by the Library as 560 voltmies, exoliding the 

Smithsonian Deposit. Ite next listing in that report is for rkey In 

Eurcçe, ..tiich is represented by 661 volurss or 102 xore than for all 

Russia (ARIC, 1901, p. 303). Iedn of the aruial reports was begun in 

1898, interrupted in 1899 aid 1900, then cait.Inued for good in 1901. 

Neither "Russia" "Russian", nor "Slavic" was an lidexing term until 1919, 

althcn4i there were reference, to me or re of these subjects In the 

irdividual reports. Ihe report for 1919 oxtaIned, for the first tine, a 

ors,cment labelled "Slavic Section ( Dr. Speek in charge)", which described 

the activities of that section (ARIC, 1919, p. 70-71). Fran that report 

thra.igh the report for 1940 there curisistantly appeared a Slavic Section 

(1919-1927), Division of Slavic Literature (1928-1939), or Slavic 

Division (1940) with a detailed acocont of its activities. Fran 1941 on, 

the annual reports were arranged by function rather than by division, but 

Slavic references continied to be i.rdexed in detail. Thus, it is possible to 

folla,, the grcMth of the Russian collection pretty well for the period 

beginning with 1919. In rcet reports the figures are given for Slavic 

acq.i8iticEs rather than Russian alone, bit according to the annual reports 

aid to Pmncis Waitfie].d's special report In 1940 ( Woitfield, F.J. 

Preliminary Heport on the Slavic Division. Peport sibaitted to the 

Librarian ofress, Ncwsther 1, 1940. p.1), the Slavic elements other 

than Russian held by the Slavic Division were not large. aonj2isition 

figures over the years reflect the difficulties of procurement during the 

periods of war aid revolution aid the eomrmic crises in the Soviet Uhicn 

that affected book production, bit despite this there was a steady grth. 

The Russian coflecticn stood at abart 125,000 volumes at the cutbreak of 

World War II (My extrapolations based on the Aiva1 Peports ). 

At this point, let me go back in history to describe several of the 

lardserk acqisitime in the Russian field. The first was the transfer of 

the Smithsonian Deposit tothe Library. Librarian Spotford estimated that 

deposit at 40,000 volins at the time of transfer In 1866 (Devid C. 

Mearns, '"lie Story upto Nce," in ARLC, 1946, p. 155.), aid cseIi Henry, 

Secretary of the Smithsonian stated, "the collection of books cc.n by the 

rresB iId not be rthy of the name of the National Library were it 

not for the Smithsonian deposit." (mid., p. 13.5). Setting aside a certain 

bias on Henry's part, this deposit was significant, aid a considerable 

advantage at the Library for the sbxly of lb.tssian matters, for it contained 

856 vo1ui of Russian p1icatime in 144 titles, representing 33 

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institutions in U cities. (Arding to my analysis of: Smithsonian 

Misceflanecus Onilection. CATAIJE OF UBIlaiTIcS OF S0CIEIES AND 

PI0DIL IGnG w r1rcvi:AN INsTruyrI, 

JANUARY 1, 1866. tEPC6fl'7) IN E LIARY OF FSS. Washington: 

Smithsonian Institution, 1866, p. 20-38.). One might recall that 

thirty-fcor years later, In 1900, the Library had only 569 other Russian 

works in total The SmithsoniaWtlbrary of tvjress agreement of 

transfer lx1ided a stipulation that this material be available to the 

p.iblic. This was the first formal statement of public acoess to the 

Library of Cyrsse aed the first step tard nialdnj it a national library. 

(Maarr, p.114.). The Smithsonian itinued its International exthanges in 

the aciennes ani the Library initiated its n international exctsnge 

in other fields. The Smithsonian Deposit remained a separate unit 

of the Library, anriunting to one million volumes in 1946 (mid., p. 116.). 

There is no airate means of determining the Russian share of the 

deposit in 1946, bit 30,000-50,000 volun wc*21d be a oDnservative 

estimate. 

The Report for 1905 mentions a shissnt of 241 books aed panplets 

frcza the flçerial Free Ecceuuic Society of St. Petersborg, (ARts, 1905, p. 

9.). In the next year, 1906, the Library procored the cornerstone of its 

Russian, ani for that matter Slavic, collecti - the library of the 

nerthant Genedii YtxIin of Ermsnoyarsk. This great private library has been 

desoribed meny t1 ard I am sure yco are all familiar with it, bet I will 

give a few details pertinent to the thes of this paper It ccsprised 

80,000 volimes, 68,000 of whiub ware in Russian, aid the remaining 

12,000 In other Slavic or other European laoguages. Its scope was broad in 

subject arx time of publication, thcltdlng rl.merons 18th century works, 

aid 1cn rme of privately published aid gwernesnt serials. Babine's 

desoriptim of it in 1905 (AlexIs V. Habine, UDIN LtARY. 

)PASNDIA1X (FS1Ti SIRXA). Washington, D.C.: (Press of Jtdd aid 

Dsbeiler), 1905. 40 p.) owInced Librarian Puthen of its value aid drew 

Theedore Ruosevelt's octenent that the acqilsition of this collection "will 

give the Library of Cgreas preeminence in this partionlar field, not only 

in the United States, bit as far as I knm in the world generally outside of 

Rusaiat aid this in a field not yet develcped at all in America." (Jthn I. 

Cole, PtR FS AND fltE NATIC1. A OLICAL BIS'ItRY OF E 

IARY OF CXU1S. Washington: Library of Chngress, 1979. p. 79). 

Alexli Babine began processing the collection after its arrival in 1907 In a 

Slavic Section that was formed in the Catalcg aid Shelf Department 

(Mearns, isplisi, p. 185.) to cope with the collection. After Babine left 

the Library In 1910 to return to Russia, Anna Evarts continued the 

processing, aid ?.urielio Palmieri of Harvard University was engaged In 

1916 aid 1917 to assist with the Russian literature part of the collection. 

(ARIC, 1916, p. 10; ARIC, 1917, p. 9) In 1926, N.R. P.adionotf aid George 

Novossjltzeff were layed to cxa*.Inue the processing of this collection. 

(ARIC, 1926, p. 155) . The worth of the collection was stated in the Annual 

Report for 1919: "Dining the last twO years erding Jme 30 (1919), the 

tethnical work In the rlin Collection has progressed so far that the real 

value of the collection has br,e arcarent ard the collection is nct 

available to the readers aid especially to the researub stuients of the 

Library." (ARIC, 1919, p. 70.) It is noted that many valuable aid rare 

works were discovered aid that these were placed in a special enclosure. 

The opening of this collection to the public aid to subolars elicited this 

omment fran Dr. Speak, "It has been a toucidng sight to see with what 

weeder aid eiotion Russian visitors, especially old-time ilseigrants 

fran bacicwocda places, flid in the collection the books wtith they had 

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studied aid read in their youthful years, aid thidi they had never tho4it 

to see on the shelves of a library so distant frau their native land." (ARl, 

1919, p.71). 

Every other Irportant addition to the Russian collection pales by 

ocmçarison with the Yidin airuisiticn, bit several were, Indeed, 

signigicant. Dr Vladimir Slskhovith gave the Libraxy a collectic*i of 

1,000 vo1uas of st1.1 revolutionary books aid panilets in 1915, many 

by Russian authors. (ABIC, 1915, p. 32). In 1920, George Icennan donated 

his collection of index cards, envelcpes, aid referaixe materials that 

formed th. basis for his book, SI9XA ND - XUE SYS1Th: this 

oaiprised ure that 20, 000 items, "representing a life's work of Mr. 

Icennan, the foretnet 11vim American authority on the Russia of pta-war 

times.., an encycicpedia of the ocsditicxis aid affairs of Czarist Russia 

durin the last deee before the war." (ABIC, 1920, p. 81-82). The next 

major aoauisitioo came in 1923 b*n the Russian i±essy gave its 

collections of books and pauplets (two truckloads) to the Library of 

O3ngrees. . . . "representatives of every shade of Russian thcoght aid 

political belief have sent to the eibassy their piblisbed pro, 

resoluticr, decrees, papars, aid books during the past five or cix years." 

(ARIC, 1920, p. 98). Also in 1923, "...the State I)eparheent through its 

agencies in Russia and elaec..tere has collected Russian informative 

b1ications in cxr,siderable raisher. NW all these piblicatiais are in the 

Library for safe-keeping aid are available to students of Russian affairs." 

(ARIC, 1923, p. 98). This was the begimaing of regular transfers fzrm the 

Deparbuents of State aid Caimerce to the Library of Caigress. In 1927, 

the Library p'xthased 298 ima.epaper titles poblished in Russia aid abroad 

durli the Russian Revolution aid Civil War aid a collection of 480 war 

aid revolutionary posters. (ARIC, 2927, p. 145). In 1928, the Russian 

Orthodox Greek thurdaes in North iierica and Canada Sent to the Library 

the Russian thuxth Arthives of Alaska, thidi had been stored In the 

hessnent Qf the Russian Cathedral of St. Nidaolas In New York City. This 

splendid collection had been the ect of study sii its receipt. The 

Library ainiseary In this case was Mr. Midaael Z. Vincksiroff of the Slavic 

Section, toee father had been aid Orthodox priest In Sitka, Alaska. A 

history of this collection may be fasd In the Anneal art for 1928. 

(ABLe, 2928, p. 27-28.) 

In 1931, Mr. Israel Perlsteln, a book dealer of New York City, visited 

leningrad aid bought the so-called Winter Palace Collection frau the 

Soviet gc'yerrsent, "having the Library of Caress definitely In mind as a 

potenti.al l*irdaser." (ABLe 1932m p. 38). This pirdaase aiwunted to 

2,600 volumes. AltbcI4a many of the volumes were presentaticn orpies 

aid "coffee table" itee, there was auth solid material for ectiolarehip. 

About 10% of the collection a,sIsted of inisic and iiical literature, 

with sane rare items, law was also represented, the ncst lsçortant 

pieces beln the UWZ*MIE TSARIA AIEIEIIA )CFBAIIDVIaVt aid the 

Is'iP.IA I*IG&. The collection is described in considerable detail In 

the Anneal Report for 1931. (ABle, 1931, p. 16, 36, 42, 137-144). A 

collection of 47 rxzaogra,s aid 28 serials, representirx exile literature 

poblishid during the )aaxthy, was porthased by the Library In 1936. 

(ABle, 1936, p. 218.) Many other valuable iteem taceived on exdaange or 

by pirthase are described in the annual reports for 1919 through 1940. 

The Slavic Division sought works in the fields of ilailoscphy aid religion, 

history aid its auxiliary icienoes, social aid political, science, fine arts, 

belle-lettz'es, aid bibliogratiy. Sons materials were transferred to other 

costodial divisions (Music, Law, Pare Books, Periodicals, Science, etc.). 

(ABLe, 1940, p. 218). 

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M the collection of Russian materials develcçed and pblic interest 

Increased, denani upon the Slavic Section became heavy and varied. The 

Pepeort for 1919 states; "This is explained by the irportance into which 

the Slavic peoples sprang thr4i the war and revolutions and by the fact 

that their orziitions were little known in the Western nt.ries, 

especially in this ntry." (ARU, 1919, p. 70) . nd in 1924, "The interest 

of readers in Russian scientific investigations, research, and discoveries 

was pronounced during the year. Xany native American students of Russian 

affairs, who have mastered Russian so far that they can read Russian 

material in their specific field quite freely have sci4it and received 

assistance of the section. In isuch the same way, the exsitive 

departments, especially the Departhmnts of State, Jigrioulture, and 

merce, have been assisted, while translations of texts and letters 

were made for )fesbers of sgress , and in an rust'er of cases, for 

readers in the Library." (ARIC, 1924, p. 125). 'Ihe 1931 Report notes, "All 

this Interest ii,,cees on the Division of Slavic Literature of a national 

library a very diffioult task, with a email staff, limited funds, and 

Inadequate shelving space to collect as many inportant Russian books as 

possible, to handle then technically in the quickest and the nost practical 

way, and to have then ready for referei use." (ARIC, 1931, p. 321). 

All these .tatia frca the ernijal reports, and i,,any nre not 

cited, stress the dil of the Slavic unit at the Library, namely how to 

meet the ever increasing deimni for reference sevics to the poblic aid 

govezTune* without neglecting its primary task of receiving, processing, 

and nieidng the works available to the poblic. One gets the Iitpresslon, in 

reedizq the aiwnial contrinitiosm of the head of the Slavic unit (1930 

through the early 1940s), That he protests too math, that he llices the 

growing need of the Library for the linguistic and area skills of his staff 

aid that his protests are intended to explain why the unit is not keeping up 

with its principal tasks. However, badclogs were not the sole concern of 

the Slavic Division, In as such as the Librarian stated in his Annual Report 

of 1941, "Pethaps the greatest prcblen is presented by the uncataloged 

collections of the isic, Slavic, aid Senitic divisions. The bulk of these 

collections, artsmting to millions of items, has never been cataloged, The 

nature of the material, however, will not lend itself to brief methods of 

cataloging. Th be of the greatest reference use to the Library, these 

collections should be cataloged by author aid subject entries, with a 

reasonable anumt of bThliograic description." (ARIC, 1941, p. 225). 

It was Into this situation In 1940 that the Librarian brc4it Francis 

Weitfield aid Sergius Yakthson, as expert advisers, "The reference 

demands of the war period have made us aware of the weaknesses in cur 

foreign oollections, which bad not previously aeered. We had long known 

that cur Slavic collections were uneven and diffioult to use aid we had 

taken steps to strengthen then by the apoint..L of Francis J. whitfield 

as Fellow of the Library of 0ress aid Sergius yakson, formerly of 

Laxbon University, as Osu1tant in Slavic History." (ARIC, 1943, p. 55). 

The Librarians stated further, "Graet quantities of books are in dire need 

of cataloging, so that our holdings, particolarly Russian material, may be 

made known aid available. A nre active aog.iisitions policy is required... 

the staff of the division nust be increased... Much thcugbt has been given 

to these prubleme during the year aid it is hoped that considerable 

progress will be made in the near future". (ABLe, 1941, p. 195-196). The 

quotation is fron the first report on the division that was not signed by 

Rudicnoff, who harbored a resentment toward the isportation of outside 

specialists. Purther, these specialists said substantially what he had been 

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saying for years - we need re pecçle to do the jth if we are to be both 

a processing ard a reference unit - bot Podianoff vociferonsly resisted 

the separation of amtodial aid processing duties. thange was inevitable, 

however, and In 1944 LIbrarian MacLeish ted to discx*itln.ie the Slavic 

Division aid proposed substituting a Slavic Center, sodeled on tbe 

Hispanic P*irdatian, to be iepinted, "...as soon as the uncataloged aid 

unclassified materials formerly in its custody can be subjected to catalog 

oatrols." (ARIC, 1944, p.23). Iever, the creation of a new Slavic 

Division had to wait until 1951. Mearthile, the Slavic Roan, attaithed to 

the General Roference aid BIbliogray Division, performed reference 

fintiong aid the Processing Department handled processing functions. 

In suiirexy, the Rossian coflectiems began slowly aid were negligible 

until 1906 ,then the Yndin onllection was irdiased. They develcped 

gradually thereafter, aonelerated by the interest is Rossia aid other 

Slavic states during World War I aid its aftermath, went through a period 

of rapid growth following World War I, too rapid for the Slavic unit to 

perform its processing tasks aid meet increasing reference dsemrxis. 

Organizational dianges were made In the early l940s to resolve this 

prthlem. By 1950, on the eve of the founding of the new Slavic Division, 

the Rossian cullection stood at aproxiinately 265,000 volumes, (my 

aictrapolation, based on .Anncal Reports), aid the way was paved for the 

erursnal increase in Rossian holdings that took place after 1951. 

Present holdings are estisiatel at 850,000 volumes of mmographs and 

bound periodicals, with an average annual of 17,000 volumes. 

I wish to aicpress my thanks to Or. Rthert V. Mien, Thissiar/Soviet 

Specialist is the European Division of the Library of Cngress for his 

researdi assistance aid reonllections. 

David H. Rmus, Acting thief 

European Division, Library of lgress 

Tune 17, 1985 

fl following represents an cutline for a paper by Dr. Hugh Olmeted, 

Harvard University Library. A acre externive work is in preparation. 

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EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARy'S 

SLAVIC COLLECTIONS: 

Era of Archibald Cary Coolidge (1866-1928; Director of the 

Harvard University Library, 1910-28) 

First massive effort at building the Harvard Slavic collections: 

purchase by Coolidge with own funds of entire collection listed 

in the catalogue: 

Antiquarischer Catalog 202, Slavica: Sprachwissenschaft, 

Literatur, Geschichte u. Ethnogrthe der Slavischen V8lker; 

issued by Otto Harrassowitz Buchhandlung und Antiquariat, 

Leipzig, 1895. 90 p. 

Rough total number of titles listed: 2330 (count is approximate 

because of double listings (sante titles under more then one rubric). 

Linguistic and subject (ethnic, national) analysis made further 

difficult by manner of listingi some German-language characterizations 

of the books instead of reliable citations in actual languages; 

and separate ethnic, national, linguistic entities may 

be silently listed under rubrios for large neighboring empires 

and the like). 

With these difficulties understood, the categories as listed 

in the catalogue (rearranged for thematic proximity) together 

with a rough suitunary analysis, are: 

Total in % of Total % of numb. 

cateqory 2337 pre-1851 in category 

Comp. & Slavic linguistics 411 9% 39 18% 

Slavic lUst. & Ethnogr. 32 1.4% 14 44% 

OCS 120 5% 17 14% 

Russian lang., lit. 256 11% 15 5.9% 

Russian Hist. (European) 221 9.5% 69 31% 

Russian Hist. (Asia) 109 4.7% 35 32% 

Ukrainian lang. & lit. 28 1.2% 1 3.6% 

Germ.-Russian East. Prov. 72 3.1% 34 47% 

Baltic, Balt-Slav.iingx. 97 4.2% 29 30% 

P011gb lang.& lit; Kashub. 184 7.9% 17 9.2% 

Polish-Lithuanian Hist. 205 8.8% 60 29% 

Wendic 40 1.7% 10 25% 

Czech/Slovak (mostly philol) 112 4.8% 23 21% 

Slovenian (mostly philol.) 31 1.3% 5 16% 

Serbo-Croatian lang.& lit. 225 9.6% 41 18% 

Yugoslavian hist. & etnogr. 108 4.6% 15 14% 

Bulgarian 26 1.1% 0 0% 

Greek Orthodox Church 42 1.8% 8 19% 

Europ.Turkey; Greece, archip.167 7.1% 60 36% 

Addenda 51 2.2% 3 5.9% 

Total 2337 (100%) 49S 21% overa] 

At least 43% of the co1iction (1010 of 2337) is in Slavic languages. 

(German is registered, probably misleadingly, as T% (799 titlesj) 

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EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY' S 


Era of A.C.Coolidqe, coOt. 

1895 Harrassowitz purchase, cont. 

Significant number of relatively early imprints: 

21% (495 titles) published 1850 or before 

6.7% (155 titles) published 1800 or before 

2.6% (60 titles) published 1700 or before 

.69% (16 titles) published 1600 or before 

The collection contains many bibliographies, descriptions 

of manuscripts and manuscript collections; editions of 

primary source materials; works of historiopraphy and 

ancillary historical disciplines; travellers' and e:p1orers' 

accounts; editions of belles-lettres, and critical and historical 

literary studies; ethiiography, folklore; general and specialized 

historical studies; descriptive and comparative lir.luistic 

studies, including grammars, dictionaries, and other fundamental 

reference works; studies of the arts; Biblical and liturgical 

texts---all in all enough to form the nucleus of a serious 

research collection overnight. 

Coolidge donated it outright. It arrived at Harvard in two 

shipments, registered in the handwritten accessions records: 

volumes pamphlets maps Total 

July 1, 1895: 1664 264 42 1970 

Oct.29, 1895 415 180 -- 595 

2079 444 42 2565 

In the decades that followed, Coolidge was personally responsible 

for the addition of many thousands of volumes to the Harvard 

Slavic collections. Some examples: 

In 1919 he acquired 4,000 volumes on the history of Central and 

Eastern Europe while in Vienna working for the american 

Commission to Negotiate Peace. 

In 1921-22 while in Russia with the American Relief Administration, 

he acquired over 3000 volumes (30 cases' worth) not 

counting 10 cases of books for the Harvard Law School. In 

this he worked closely with one of his students, Frank 

Colder, who was acquiring a splendid coll.nction of materials 

on World War I and its aftermath for the Hoover Institution, 

whose first Director he was. 

He was largely responsible for increasing the Slavic coljections 

at Harvard from Ca. 2000 Volumes in 1890 to over 30,000 volumes 

by the time of his death in 1928. 

His work and influence were far broader and deeper than what 

is sketched above. For further discussion, see R.P. Byrnes, 

Awakening American Eduatjon to the World; The Role of.. .Coolidgc 

1866-1928 (Metre Dame. Univ. of Notre Dame rrens, C 1982). 

23

--Maudru. lmens raysonnés de la 

langue russe. 80 2 Iv.) 

--Xarjavifle, Erofée 

Remargues sur la langue russienne et sur son 

alphabet, ... SPb., 1791 

--1audru, Jean Baptiste 

E1mens raisonns de la langue russe 

Paria, An. X [1801?) 

--X1rjsjofora Tsel].arja kratkoi latinskoi 

leksikon - Christopher Cellariuss' 

Latin Dict. 80 1 vol. 

--Karjavine. Remarques Sur la langue 

russienne. 8° 1. tv.] 

leksikon .. SPb., pri Imp. AN, 1746 11747] 

--Cellarius, Christoph, 1638-1707 

KhriBtofora Teellarija kratkoi latinskoi 

--Rossjjskoi Psellarius. The Russian 

Cellarius. 8° 1 Iv.) 

--Vesmannov lekaikon. Weissmanns Lexicon. 

40 

2 Iv.] 

--Nouveau dictionnaire françoi, italien, 

allemand, latin et russe. 4 2 Iv.] 

2. Second lot, mentioned in letier of 8 1une, 

of Barvard: 

--Heym. Nouveau dictionnaire russe, f rancois 

et allemana 4° 3 volumes 

--Gem, Ivan Andreevich, 1758-1821 

Nouveau dictionnaire russe-françois & allemand 

Novyi rossiisko-frantsuzsko-nemetskii 

slovar' ... 1799-1802 3 V. 

--Sots, Ivan Vasil'evich, -1794 

Nouveau dictionnaire françois, itlien, aliemand, 

latin et russe. Novyi leksikon iii Slovar' na 

frantauzaxom ... M., Un. tip., u N. Novikova, 

1784-87 2 V. 

--Wcissmann, Ehrenreich, 1641-1717 

Veismannov nemetskii leksikon S latinskim, 

prelozhennyi ma rossiiskii iazvk, ... SPb., 

pri Imp. AN, 1782 

--Rlterhof, Franz, 1711-1805 

Rossiiskoi 1!sellarius, iii £tiinologicheskii 

rosgiiskci leksikon, ,.. Der ruasische 

Ce].larius, ... [M.) pri Imp. Mosk. uri-te, 

1771 [i.e. 17721 

1810, JQA to Revd. Samuel Webber, President 

1. First lot of books, mentioned in letter of 19 May, 1797, JQA to Revd. Joseph Willard, 

President of Harvard: list of 19 entries, 177 vols. stly in French. 

Le Clerc Ristoire de Rossie Le Clerc, Nicolas Gabriel Clerc, called, 1726-98 

(et Atlas) 6 Iv.] Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique 

de Ia Russie ancienne et moderne. Paris, 

Frou1l, l783-(94] 6 V. 

(Atlas. Paris? 17- 3 

Era of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848; Ambassador to Russia, 1809-1814) 

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY' S SLAVIC COLLECTIONS:

Plora rossica; seu, Stirpium Imperii roasici 

per Europant et As jam indigenarum descriptiones 

at icones. ... Petropoli, e Typographia 

imperiali J.J.Weithrecht, 1784-88 

2 v. 46cm 

new and important work upon the 

principles of chronology, in the 

Potocki, Jan hrabia, 1761-1815 

French language, by Count John Potocki' Principes de chronologie, pour les temps 

añtrieurs aux Olyinpiadea. SPb., de 1 imprimerie 

dAlexandre Pluchart at Comp., 1810 

3. Third lot, mentioned in letter of 18 September, 

Treasurer of Harvard University: 

1810, JQA to Honbie. John Davis, 

--Pa1las' Flora Rossica --Pallas, Peter Simon, 1741-1811 

EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY'S 


Era of John Quincy Adams, cont.

The History of S 

Havirg worked in the cataloging Department of the Indiana University 

Libraries since 1953, I found that actually there was no forum within the 

structure of the American Librazy Association for discusi on topice 

specifically related to dealin3 with Slavic and East European library 

materials. There was, for exariple, an urgent need of revision of IC 

classification, main entries, and subject headings related to the Soviet 

Union and Eastern Europe and it was necessary to have an organized group 

within AlA, which could create pressure upon IC to make the badly needed 

Participating In the AlA creiferenoe In Washington D.C. In 1953, I 

raised the question of creating a special subsection, dedicated to Slavic 

librarianship, within the Subject Specialist Section durIng this Section's 

meeting. I also discussed the need of the existenoe of such a subsection 

with several persons at the Library of Qmzess. I led discussions on this 

topic with many Slavic librarians also at the next AlA ocnferenoes and 

especially at the AlA conference in Miami Beach In 1962. 

)y idea of creating a subsection, which would represent Slavic and 

East Fnrean librarians and serve their interests, found support form 

several librarians, including Dr. tawrex H. Miller, and Mr. D. H. Shtthryn, 

i.tio began their work in the University of Illinois Libraries in 1959 and 

1960 respectively. 

Derixg the AlA conference in Miami Beach, I talked about the proposed 

subsection with Miss Katharine M. Stokes, President of )L, as veil as 

with Mr. Iricker, thairman of the Subject Specialist Section. They both 

expressed their surt for the creation of the subsection. The only thing 

which reeained to be done, was to flxd at least twenty five esT*iers of 

the American Library Association who ld be willing to sign a petition 

for the creation of the proposed subsection. Being too tusy, I teqiorarily 

postponed oniiectiry the needed signatures. This was done by Mr. L.H. 

Miller in the fall of 1P62. 

Waea I received a letter from Mr. Miller of Octcher 19, 1962 

concerning our petition, I suggested that the proposed organization should 

be within the Subject Specialist Section and should be called Slavic and 

East European Subsection. In order to expedite its approval, I prepared a 

draft of its by-laws and sent it with my letters to Miss 1

Ibe First Newsletter 

The Slavic aid East ).iriean Subeectia publi.shed its first 

Newsletter in 1969. The purpose of the Newsletter was to present 

inforeaticn a the Subeecticm'e organizaticn aid activities, its status 

aa other units within the smrican Library Msociatic, as well as 

provide the list of names aid addresses of the maiibers The first issue 

Included the follcwln sectia,s: 1. A brief historical sketth of the 

activities of the Subsectic*; 2. The Bylaws; 3. A list of Fecxtive 

Qmenittee amere frtza 1962/63 to 1968/69i 4. A list of the annual 

program asetin3a, 1963-1969, hiding the thairnian aid principal 

speakers; aid 5. A list of the sectien's irdividual aers as provided 

by the 1968 ?nmican Library AsaocIatic*k Directory. roduoed belov is 

the first sectia of the first Newsletter, a brief historical sketth of the 

Subsecticn. The Ececztive Ccmriitt.e for the first year, 1962/63 

crEsisted of Iawrenoe H. Miller, thafr, Eleanor iist, kdrew Thrthye, aid 

Daytro H. Shtthryn. 

Brief History of the Subsectios 

Althb there had been earlier mgestia regarding the 

establishment of a special unit for Slavic aid East aircçean specialists in 

the ?meriaan Llianxy asociaticn, the sta leading directly to the 

fcxinding of the Suheectia began at the 1962 aial cuferenoe of AlA in 

Miami Boadi. Librarians fcia the University of flhInoj.s discussed the 

possibility of a special Slavic secticu with the President-elect of the 

Meociaticu of 1lege aid Besearth Libraries aid ware enoc*zraged to 

awe taxd the organizaticu of auth a unit. They wsre aware of the 

aincet czm1ete lack of cxmsainicaticzi azuq practicing Slavic aid East 

&lrtç,ean specialists, meet of whcu were not then methers of AJ.A, aid 

their cbief uctivaticu was the deafre to provide sas forus for the 

discaissicu of prthlere ejntered in this rapidly aicpaniing aid az,lex 

field. Petitions ware circulated thrcugbcut the United States in tther, 

1962, aocxsçeniid by a statament of possible areas of ioera for the 

new grcup. Sons of these are listed balc,. 

AJ 

Pzusi,tixq coerative acxiuizitins aid Bpecializatii ag 

libraries oollectin Russian aid East bean p*licaticns. Feasibility of 

a Slavic Farehngtat Plan or similar 

Investigation of ares (dealers) aid special prthlerns caused by the 

short suply of older Slavic publications. 

aibilitiee for iaçirwing aidianges with Soviet aid East European 

libraries aid an Mnerican libraries with extensive Slavic duplicates. 

Stanlards (ccepariscti of staff aid book tidgets) for building Slavic 

collections. 

BThlicoradw aid Paferaive 

1. Bibliography aid abstracts of Russian aid East European library 

literature. 

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Translations of Slavic literature on bibliogray aid library science. 

Advice aid aupoxt regarding bTh1ingra*ica1 aid reference projects. 

tal 

Stidy aid advice on special pxt*.,las in the Slavic area regarding 

arevlatia, transliteration, forns of nan, classification, aid subject 

(mtha2ing stxiy of Slavic aid Fast European resources in libraries, 

identification of special collections, aid staidards for description In 

c*ragasnt of worthwhile Slavic reprintixq aid microriludng 

Aenecta 

Prca,t1ng stidies of Slavic librarianship, library history, aid 

bibliogray. çarative librarianship (a.issian aid American, etc.) 

Ee.tanges of American librarians arid library Sd)ool studerits with 

their interparts in Slavic arid East European countries. 

Pereael 

Pacruitment of Slavic arid East European specialists to librarianship. 

Special prthl of education aid training for Slavic studies 

librarianship. 

Plaoment of Slavic library specialists. 

Cooperation of library specialists with stholarly associations of 

Slavista such as the American Associaticn for the Advanceaient of Slavic 

Sbxies. 

About sixty Interested librarians signed the petition which stated 

that "in order to pruiote miinication aid cooperation anon the 

increasing nuwher of American librarians who are specialists in Russian 

aid East European resources arid prthleum of Slavic bibliograiy aid 

librarianship, the undersigned prospective berm respectfully regnest 

the establishment of a Slavic Section or Subsection within the 

Association of College arid Research Libraries of the American Library 

Association." The AL Board approved the petition on January 30, 1963. 

The first meeting of the Subsection in July, 1963 at the annual 

conference in thicago was aressed by l4elville J. Ruggles, a noted 

authority on Soviet libraries aid Slavic library resources. Program 

meetings have been held each year since then, arid these of rse have 

provided the asion for us to becc*ne anguaintid with our colleagues arid 

informally to exrbarqe views on professional concerns. 

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Particularly notorthy were the ortunities to meet at the United 

Natirsis Library in 1966 aid the Hoover Institution in 1967. 

In detezithiixg ubat projects should be uxdertaken by the Suheection, 

one of the c*ief difficulties has been that many of our rns are 

primarily the responsibility of other ALA units, aid action in these areas 

would reajiire the forireticsi of joint axeaittees aid other forre of 

liaison with the relevant organizations. A directory of librarians in our 

field was suggested in 1963 as a useful project ithith we could uixlertake 

lidepanSently aid poblish within a reasonable period of t1e. As a result 

of diligent effort by the ccril.r with zixh help frca executive 

cc*eaittes sieeters aid others, A Biogzmhica1 Directory of Librarians in 

the Field of Slavic aid East Euzxean Sbies was poblished by the 

American Library Assoniatior in 1967. This referei tool has been well 

received, aid it is hcped that reswoes can be fonid soon to p.2blieh a new 

edition inclixflng many sore entries aid additional inforration of 

referaixm value. 

ThUowlng opletion of work on the Dirsotory, a Slavic Holdings 

Cmnittae was açolntad to sbxy the possibility of uidertajdng a nsc 

svey of Slavic resources In Aserican libraries. Although soth work has 

been done in devising the met1o1ogy for suds a arveg, the magnitide of 

this project sesrs beycid the present capacities of the Subsection. 

Unless very substantial support frue MA aid outside scmirs is thtained, 

it say be Iwary to abardon this project or attespt a nzid sore 

limited survey consisting of general descriptici of the major Slavic aid 

East Frcpean oullections. 

In 1966 the American Association for the )dvanoesent of Slavic 

Stidies invited the Subsection to b.-'-'- an affiliate, aix! fine). a'oval 

for the affiliation was voted by the ALA Owil at its 1968 Midwinter 

meeting. Pbr several years news rota, of Subsection activities have 

appeared in the MASS Newsletter, aid the oative zeitte. of the 

Subsection has been enzraging plane for a meeting devoted to 

library aid b1b1iograhical develcpsenta ithid will be held at the national 

meeting oftha MASS inluntus, thio in 1970. 

Rapid grcMth in akerahlp has cirred during the øix years since 

the Subsection was organize!, aid the grwp has justified its existence in 

a zuer of ways. At this stegB in its developeent the Subsection is 

faced with the thallengs of urdertaking significant thith will 

utilize the abilities of is mters aid attract to matiership many 

aciditicrial specialists, in order that cur grci4, may become a sore 

effective force in the furthering of Slavic aid Fast Horopean stidies. 

Grant Possibilites 

Travel Grant for sginning Slavic Librarians Ssidnar 

A smuinar for beginning Slavic librarians will be held at the 

University of flllnois at Uzbana-cbaupaign from July 21 to July 25, 

1986, within the Sumner Researth Laboratory on Russia aid Eastern 

Europe. The onordinator is Eubert A. Farlcwic! (GrAate Sthool of 

Library aid Information Scieis, Pratt Institute). This seninar is 

aimed at those tho wish to begin a career in Slavic librarianship or are 

in their first years in the field. Library &*iool stidenta with a strong 

interest in the field an! )cncwled?B of Russian or another language of the 

area are also encouraged to atteid. Nhile this is a non-credit 

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seminar, library edicol stents tho wish to arrange graduate credit 

aiay dose. 

The .oint eeittee on Soviet Shrlies, thnmigh its Subccsrittee on 

Bibliography, Information Patrieval, awl Qmientaticrt (BflW), is leaking 

available rrcdset trs to help ocver the costs of traveling to Urbana 

for participants tho would otherwise xxt be able to attenl. (It*islng 

ts are ocyerad by the Itissian awl East Xlztpean Center for up to bo 

weeks for acadeic faculty meaLers awl other profeasicoals; up to fcor 

weeks for graduate sbents.) 

If yro are interested In attendini the seamer, please ormtact Jerrie 

Fisher at the aian awl East ntçean Center (217) 333-1244 for the 

i-'y appliceticn foz. 

The deadline for receipt of aliceti for travel assistance is 

15.l98. 

Mariai mx aloldln 

University of Illlnei/t1rtan 

Ihe itor has IixiuIred with the 5.-n',s1 Science Rcsearcti nci1, 

Subocmittee on Bthhiogrepy , Information trieval aid saentation 

regardixq its cbjectivss aid priorities for grant awards. We are 

pthliehing the relevant portion of the rely by the thair of the 

Subccseittee, Prof. fliwerd 1enan, dated .lalllary 6, 1986 sInce it may be 

helpful for the pruepective a1icants to this Sutnittee. 

"Dear ). zaleJBJd., 

Blair 1. has passed on ycor letter of Wovesher 26 

aencerning onr B.LR.D. Subcrmeittee. s di&Ixman, I think pethaps I 

sculd arwer yror .ries scsma.bat sore directly than B1.b might: 1. 

the Sitaittee dose not have any declared "priorities" that ld be 

plithed at present. Our dijectives are to identify aid deal with 

needs aid prdilers in the areas of bibliography, librarianship, & 

dcQmlentation, as a part of the .Ioixit Qmiirdttae. We have only recently 

into beiog; for the areeent we are e1oring the field & operating ad 

hoc. I personally cisIder audi freedees of action one of the 

isportant strengths of axt a voluntary, onueglal, private & 

iu-metherabip organization & I Interd to zaintain the policy of ad hoc 

.xplorattcn & the taking of "tazets of cportunity" until irj colleagues, 

tho ax. all library ofsesiceals, indicat, that a sore concerted 

arsodi is iniicat*L" 

Grants ded 

Patricia Ilansky received a one-sviith grant at the 1(ennan 

Institute for 1dvae la.issian Stidies Fran Novori,er 5 to Decerber 

5, 1984, sh, worked on a first draft of the Intrwltion to her bibliography 

of Russians in the Pacific. At the present time, abont 70 pexvent of the 

work is orai,letad. She has also received an additional grant frcea the 

University of Hawaii at Hence for five uaiths leave to finish the 

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ibliography. In addition, she has received a short term IREX grant to visit 

Navosibirek and IrJtsk later this year. 

Patricia lersky 

Uhiversity of Hawaii 

Nadia Zilper, University of North cerolina, received an IREX grant 

to visit Soviet and East Euixçean libraries for the prpose of expaxxthyj 

and erMncin edstfrq eanges and starting new nges. She 

plans to visit libraries is lgaria, Czectoslovakia, Yos1avia enS 

the Soviet Uhicn during Hay and ne of 1986. 

Barbara A. Gallic 

University of Wahlnton Libraries 

The Center for Pesearth Libraries (L) has received a $145,000 

Higher Education Act Title It-C grant to preserve ethnic newspapers 

in its collecticm. The funSs will be used to fibs newspaper files and to 

gather information that will enable UL to plan fLttie Inlividual and 

cooperative newspaper preservation efforts. 

CL has files of e than 500 foreign language newspapers 

piished in the U.S. for and by various iaaaigrent grwpe. In many cases, 

the files are extensive enS, for a significant ns*er of titles, arm either 

the only file or the 1st ccitplete file known. 

1he fibuing portion of the grant project will. focos on 

newspapers pb1ished in the languages of Central, Eastern and Southern 

rte: aL holds 241. of these newspapers, only 90 of '.thicti have been 

preserved on micofiba. 

Other porti of the project will ioolnde bibliographic searthes 

of all. QL'e ethnic rspaper files to determine ith noeS microfibning 

enS to identify extant files that cczp1eant aL's holdings. 

Icarla 0. Petersen, Assistant Director for 'rec*inical Services, will 

direct the project, enS Donald L S1peon, CL Director, is prinoipal 

investigator. 

Newsletter of the University of )tbinesota Libraries, 

1\dn Cities 

(31 Octther, 1985, p. 5) 

Oluthia University has received a $210,120 Higher Education Act 

Title tI-C grant to catalog its Soviet Nationalities llectlon of 

xdliahed materials in the indigenous languages of Soviet Central Asia. 

The collection tains ecre than 14,000 volusse of mriographs, 

periodicals and newspapers on microfilm in the Indo-Eurcçean, 

Uralic-Altaic, Tranacaucasian and Paleo-Siberian languages of the Soviet 

Union. 

This collections Is noted as a valuable enS unique researth source 

thoee repitation has spread by word of enuth. By cataloging the 

collection enS entering the resulting bibliographic records into RLIN 

(Ressazth Libraries Infonration Network), the contents of the collection 

will be made krn and -'-t'easible to librarians, sdo1ars and stndents. 

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution enS Peace has recently 

received frcin the National sent for the Hunanities a three-year 

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grant in the sum of $150,000, to be used for the preservation of the 

Th.issian 1lection; an additional. $100,000 in matching fuuds will be 

raised fron other scorces. The major f.is of the project will be on 

microfilming rare aid fragile ateria1d in the collection, in order to 

assist in preservation of the originals aid to make the information rcre 

readily available to researchers. Iters to he filmed include 

RussiarVSoviet newspapers; the Soviet Minority Ianuages (bliection, 

xmposed of nearly 550 volumes of mesh books published by the Soviet 

govenisrent in the 1920's ard 1930's in scam thirty of the native 

languages of the non-Slavic nationalities of the USSR; Pussian enigre 

serials, x*prieed of apprcsdmately 2500 itses published in Europe, the 

Far Fast, aid the Americas; the Pussia Mass Education C1lection, 

cxarpoeed of over 200 penpilets, meet of which were published between 

191.9 aid 1925; aid the 0dirana Q,llection, cctsisthxj of written iixr*ning 

aid outgoing dispatches aid talegrama, raw reports of agents aid 

corresixnents, cçeraticzial notes aid instructions aid other records of 

the Paris-based brarth of the ixipenial Puasian secret police. 

In aiticn to the microfilmln aoes, the grant will support the 

re-housing of the Pussian Ixtogra*t collection, as well as the oylng of 

nitrate negatives In that group. The Hoover Institution Atthiveé possesses 

over 15,000 Pussian *iotcgras covering a bread range of subject matter 

depicting political, social aid econnio cxeditions. Noteworthy are 

several discrete collections, such as that of the American Relief 

ktidnistraticei Thissian Unit dunJn the famine of the 1.920's; the 

thousan of police *lotograçiis, or "rug shots," Included in the Othrana 

C,1lectkzi; prints depicting the relief work of the American Pad Cross in 

SIberia, 1918-22; aid photograIis taken I' peci1e who were 

eye-witnesses of events of the revolutionary periud of February-Octder, 

1917. Pbr additional information on the project, contact Jeseui !yer, 

Depity Curator of the East Euruç'ean Cbllection, er Institution, 

Stanford, 94305 (415-723-2066) or .lidith Pbrtson-.Jones, 

Craiservation Officer, Hoover Institution (415-723-0141). 

New York Public Library Ita 0*iferenoe on NY Ethnic Newspapers 

Ci Fabruary 6th aid 7th the Slavonic Division of the New York 

Public Library airl the Graduate School of library aid Information Science 

of Pratt Institute, co-sponsored a ference on the preservation, 

collection develcpaent aid biblingrajIiic control of Matixolitan New York 

Slavic aid East European newspapers. The cr*iferei was held at the 

Graduate School aid University Center, city University of New York aid at 

the Slavonic Division of the Fifth Avenue aid 42rd SLt library. 

P.xtr*wI the 31 ethnic ispaper representatives present were Dr. 

Ingars Spi].ners aid Eleanor Stones of the Iatvian newspaper taiis. 

Keattitim Mialas of Unrbinlnkas, A. SmJJcus of Tevyne aid orias Valaitis of 

Vienybe represented the Lithuanian press. 

The conference's listed speakers were Arthur Curley, t)epxty 

Director of the Research Libraries, the New York Public Library, Professor 

Rchert A. lcarlcwic*i, Graduate School of Library aid Information Science, 

Pratt Institute, R. 7csh Aiderson, Library Director, the Ealth Institute 

for Ethnic Studies, hiladeI*iia, PA, S,eafl Grigg, Director of the 

Scçhia Smith aid Cullege Archives, Smith College, Northaeptcn, N, 

.'ard Kasinec, thief, Slavonic Division, New York Public library enS 

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Hovever, it was a great j' am advantage to be able to listen durlrg 

the iiornlng session to the fifteen reports fran the foreign 

participants aii to learn little-krx,wn facts abait their librarie& 

exchange history. The fofla.iirg foreign libraries were represented: 

flcdleian Library, cford; British Library, lacn; Library of the Center 

for Hussian ard East European Stz1ies at the University of Birinhxham, 

Euglard; Polish Llbraxy, Iraxlcni; Bibliotheg.ie des Langues Orientales, 

University of Paris, France; Bibliotheque de amntation 

Thternatiaiale Ctes,oraine, Nanterre, France; Bibliothe.k des 

Osteuropa-Institots der Freien Universitat, Berlin; Bibliathek des Jchann 

Gottfried-Hertier-Thstituts Marburg, West German; Universitats-ur 

Tethnith Inforsatiaisbibliothek, Hanncver, West Germany; Orszagos 

Szethenyi Iyvtar, Bidapest, Hungary; library of the Slavic Research 

Center, W*)caido University, Saporo, Japan: library of the Sethian 

Acadeny of Sciences, Belgrad, Yugoslavia; University Library "Svetozar 

IlarkQvic", Beigrad, Yugoslavia, aid National aid University Library, 

Zagreb, Yugoslavia. AngeiiJca ell read the report frau the National 

Mas Library in Prague, Czethoslovalth )' Dr. Jaxvslav Vrthotka, who 

had sent hi. rep...rt bot cald not atterd hiirself. Because of the abee 

of a participant fran Polmi, Hurlin Crc&idier, Slavic Studies 

specialist fran lirliana University, aid ngelika Pcweil surveyed the 

state of the arts of Polish edanges in the United States. Nina Lencek, 

Slavic librarian at Oluebia, gave a res.m on Belgarian exchanges. 

The first part of the afternocn session was used for individual 

exdiange negotiaticss between American librarians aid air foreign 

guests. .ing fran letters received in Virginia after the conference, 

this arrangenent proved to be very euocessful. The final part of 

the ifersa was spent discussion long-range planning for financial 

wiport of book eanges with air East European partners, whose 

biggest prthlen is the hii price of American piblications. A National 

Casuittee was elected to investigate funding possibilities aid to rk up 

a proposal, hopefully within the .irse of 1986. Meters of the 

ccnnittee are: Paul Shcup, Director of the Center for Russian aid East 

Eurrçean Studies, University of Virgins, chair; lingelika Powell, 

University of Virginia, secretary; Patricia Polaneky, University of 

Hawaii; Miranda Deaven, University of Minnesota,; Harold I.eith, 

University of Illinois; Media Zilper, University of North Cerolina, thapel 

Hill. Foreign me±ers are: Michael )tlaren-'l'urner, British Library, 

ton, England, Ibrst V. Cteielewski, J.G.-Herder-Institute, Mazturg, 

West Germany. 

All American aid foreign reports stüsd.tted to the 

International Book Eachanges Caferer will be piblished in the 

Proceedings of the III World Caigres. for Soviet aid East European 

Studies. 

Angelika S. Paiell 

University of Virginia Library 

Western Slavic Association 

The Western Slavic Association meeting was held in Portland, 

Oregon on March 25-27, 1986. library panels ware held: Sairces 

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for the Stixy of Rossians en the West Oast ard Rourdtable: Slavic 

Librarianship en the West Cbast. 

Barbara A. Ga]JJc 

University of Washintca Libraries 

Rocky )kiuntain Association for 83.avic Sies 

1he Rocky Wountain Association for Slavic Strd.tes held its 

meeting April 24-27, 1985 in brt Worth, Texas. Patricia Polaneky 

presented a paper entitled "lbs leenid Shur (llection at the University of 

Alaska". 

Patricia Polansky 

Uhiversity of Hawaii 

A -AGXN J1M. SOUNUS IU*'S 'lx) WI }IZC* 

by Gregory Wai)cer, 1eian Library, University of Oxford 

Scab American librarians will already Ja SOW&, the "little 

megazine" of Slavic librarians in Britain, 'ithose twentieth issue aWsared 

early in 1986, twenty years after it. fourdatic*i by the Slavic specialist 

group within the Starding fsrenoe of Natienal arzi University Libraries 

(SUL). SOLANUS was produced for Slavists within the library 

profession, aid was notable for the meny descriptfra of British aid other 

libraries' Slavic oollecticms thich it carried over the years, 

suplerentirq the data given in the group's directory of library resources 

(The 2rd edition of thin directory apeared as: BCX PrR scvn"r, 

EP.r 113l)WAN AND SLAWVIC S'1UDIN IN PrISH taWARnS, ad. by 

Gregory Walder with the assistanos of Jerw Brine (Univ. or Birmingham, 

1981). 

Th 1985 the group ( SWLs Advisory Ozsnittae en Slavonic ard 

East Eurtçean Materials) agreed that there was an ccening for a journal to 

carry articles aid revi.in en all aspects of the printed word in Eastern 

P2irope ard the USSR, provided that it had a rare aid stardard whic.t 

would attract a1ojars in the field at least as nud, as librarians both 

as readers aid as trihitiors aid provided also that its appeal was 

explicitly international. With 80*IUL'B suçort, it was decided to 

re-latincii SOLANUS as an r"c journal designed specifically for this 

field of st*dy, conprising the history aid present state of publishing, the 

book trade, printing, the book arts, reader stidieg, censorship, 

bib1iogra*iy aid libraries in Rossia, the USSR aid Eastern Ebrepe. 

(MaIiscrlpt aid artthive sbxues are ee,1rdal). A enall, Ulc-based itorial 

Board has been cxgtittzted, aid the journal's international dirensici'i is 

ernxidiad in an International Advisory Panel recruited fins sc*iolars aid 

librarians with special expertise in the subjects covered. Orrent 

tiership of the EB aid lAP is listed below. 

The twenty-first vol'. (or "ni series 1") is planned to appear in 

late 1986. lt of the ortitent is still in course of preparation at this 

tire of writing, but the articles we bcpe to see iii it include: Polish 

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samizadt publishing. Publishing In Bolgaria during the National P.evival 

period. Soviet libraries arri their readers. Literature survey of znt 

Soviet ani East Liropean book stites (knigovedenie). A full irdex to 

SOIANIJS, volusa 1-20. 

Reviews ani shorter notices are also being cxmniasioned, sod a 

"Notes ard Queries" coluen will be available for shorter municatmons. 

Distribetion sod subeription arrangesents have sUn to be finalized, 

hot all enquiries sxald be sent to th Editor, Dr. Gregory Waijcer (Slavonic 

Section, Bodleisri Library, Broad Street, Oxford ca 3W, Englard), who 

will also be very happy to hear fros those interested in contrihoting 

articles, reviews or other raterial. 

Editorial Board: Professor Qarles Drags (Subool oF Slavonic ard East 

East Enrcpean Stirlies, T.lhiveraity or I:nn) Dr. Jenny Brine (University or 

Birmingham), Dr. Will Ryan (Waxb.rg Institute, University of Iorri.cn), Dr 

thristine 'flicsaa (British Library) sod the Editor, Dr. Gregory Walker 

(leian library, Oxfor. 

International Mv'isory Panel: Mixaixta Beaven (Univ. of Minnesota), 

Professor William B. artier (University College, loodon), Professor 

Mariarsia Tax øldln (Univ. of Illinow at Urbana-thazpaign), Edward 

Fasinec (The New' York Public Library), Professor Gary Marker (State 

University or Na, York at Stcz' Brook), The Very Revererd Alexaixter - 

Nadsaa (ancis Skaryna Byslorussian library, Ixtcri), Dr. Horst Ittiling 

(l,hr-Universitat Bodun), Jthn S.G. Sismuis (Iill Souls College, Oxford), 

sod Dr. Wojcied Zalewaki (Stanford University). 

Slavic Materials in the WA International B1blicgrapIy 

The WA International Bibliography of Books ard Zarticles on the 

2srn Languages sod Literatures (ML,XB) is craTpilsi frun a nester list 

of over 3100 periodicals sod series dealing with linguistice, literature 

sod fo11i.ore. bunked sod sixty eight journals curprise the 1985 

Slavic sod East Lrrcpean master list in literature aid folklore; nearly 100 

serials sake the parallel section in linguistios. pprcsdinately 140 

periodicals accept articles written in Fossia. 

Wwbsrs asiss, what journals are on the Slavic master list? How can 

MUiTh users locate articles in particular Slavic languages? Part of the 

answsr lies in the MIMBs adjunct publication: The WA Directory of 

Periodicals: A Qide to Jcnnals aid Series In languages aid Literatures 

(P). The noP, a biennial publication, is described as a ocaanion 

publication to the WAIB aid serves as the key to its master list of 

serials. The current edition, cupiled by Eileen M. Maokesy aid Susan Cook 

Suarrer, describes the nester list for 1984-1985; the 1986-1987 edition 

will be publis in the spring of 1986. Designed as an aid to sdiolars 

sttrrittfng articleà for publication, the LOP outlines the scrpe, 

publication data, aid policies of the jonrna].s irdexed In the WAIB. Entries 

are alphabetical by full title rather than by corporate heading or acronym. 

However, aok entry bides the MLAIB acronym for easy reference. The 

LOP also gives lidex access by subject, sponsoring organization, editorial 

personnel, and languages accepted for publication. For reasons of space, 

English, Frencth, German, Italian, aid Spanish have been elided fron the 

languages Irdex. Slavic periodicals written In these languages can be 

fcurd using the subject ixdex. Sctholara interested In tracking down 

periodicals publishing Russian language articles can use the language 

Jzdex to determine exactly whiok journals are represented in the ML?,IB' 

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master list. Using the DDP iMexes, it is possinle to pare the MLATh 

Slavic master list with core lists of Soviet literary ar linguistic 

bibliograies. When making orsperiscais, it is worthwhile to thunt 

through the entire P to get a cxsçlete picture of the 141MB master list 

aM to spot periodicals in other fields that may be of interest. 

Omçarisczks of different editions of the IX)P shaw variations in the 

master list. With eac* ri edition, journals are added, while ceased 

i*blications aM those ne larger In the I4LAIBs scope are drped. 

In addition to the IP aM the printed bibliogray, the 141MB is also 

available online thro* DThI. lILA is working to txmprterize the 

entire bib1iograhy frost 1922 to present. Th. years 1968-1984 are 

online. The project inclines a language description for eath online article. 

Language aa is available for the years 1968-1969 aM 1981-1984 As 

the 141MB for 1967 on back as online, article. will, be retrievabl, by 

language. Using DIAi, sctolara can locate articles on Russian syntax or 

articles on syntax written in Russian. They can isolate articles in a 

partionlar journal in a particular language sii as Russian language 

articles In toevskv Stodies or Eatonian Pacers in Ibonetios . Free text 

searthe. of Russian words will as Russian language articles in the 

1970-1980 141MB. 

The MLAIB began .ring East Ruirpean material In 1956. In 1981 

the ZILAIB ed a subject irdex to tpleient th. author classification 

adai. Using the iMx, it is posaihl.e to stMy U)ainian literature 

in Canada, narration as a literary tethnique, travel literature or science 

fiction written in Russian. 'erag. has been exparded to Inclixle articles 

on fine. The breaJaown of tcpios in linguistics, general literature, aM 

folklore is s.ith sore thorce4r. Stholars new have many sore access 

points for locating articles of interest to then. 

Because of tine aM staff consMeratiais, it is ispossll,le to irdex all 

of the master list journals in any given year. A concerted effort is mads 

to take care of any indexing backlog in succeedIng years. It should be 

neted that starting In 1981, t)e journals indexed in part or in full have 

been flagged with an asterisk next to the acratym listing in the fratt of 

the 141MB classified section. Th insure satisfactory coverage of 

materials in MIMB's ae, the lILA velocities ofeprinta aM nrnngrats 

for Inclusion in the b1bliogra&iy. Offprints do net have to be frost the 

master list journals. Subeissicn information is printed on page iii of the 

1984 141MB front matter. Suggestirnis for rma, master list journals are 

also wele. Information at suheitting serial suggestiats can be found 

on page v. of the 1984-1985 ro tinier the scoçe description. 

Susan thln 

The ldern Language Association 

of Amarica 

SP A L)ata Base of Orporaticns in the Russian hire, 1700-1914 

The data base consists of madtIne-readable profiles of all 

corporations thartered by the ir'perial Russian govt...r through 1913. 

The data are drawn frost corporate dtarters pblished by the tsarist 

goverreent. Additional information at companies aM their managers in 

1905 aM 1914 is excerpted frost national directories issued In those 

years. Because the source. gave profiles of all new cuiipanies 

(arcadaately 4000) aM a].], that survived to 1905 (1589) ard 1914 

(1655), the data base cnmttains ne missing cases. The crepleted data base 

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will cczisist of five files, eath azitainlng the following I formation: 

Master file: ciiartar nuirber; date of founding; headgarters; rpany 

mama In fliglish and Russian. 

ODrporate data at founding: functions; lccatias of operaticms; size of 

basic capital; juther of shares; restrictions on property ownexship, 

ethnicity, aid citizenship of managers aid stocJholdera; etc. 

Piwiers' data: mama; sex; ethnicity; citizenship; aid social status. 

D-1905 aid 13-19)4: Orporate data as in File B, for the years 1905 aid 

1914. 

E-1905 aid E-1914: Ita on managers as In File C (except that citizenship 

aid social status are often lacking) for the years 1905 aid 1914. 

The files are related to another by the corporaticn' s PSZ iurber, 

that is, the umber assigned to the corporate iartar ,then it was 

cxi1fixmad by the tsar's signature aid poblisbed in the Jolnoe sthranie 

zajcm),y (rplete Ol1ecticn of Laws, 1649-1913). 

Under the terse of the grant, this data base aid the code book devised 

for it will be made available at ot to other researthers. The LSU 

Division of Rueearth Services estimates that the ospleted data base will 

fit on a'çrdzately ten diskettes or on a single Bernoulli cartridge. This 

storage device correctly costs agproxlmately $50.00 aid can be used In a 

Bernoulli c attathed to a microoupiter The data base will also be 

deposited at the Eater-university ortiva for 1'1itical aid Sn.-b1 

P.sseaz'di In zm Ar, Mithigan in a format suitable for use on a 

mainframe iter. Users of the data base will be able to zianipilate 

aid analyz the data using SPSS or SS, both of whith are available in 

mainframe aid miorocxiipxter versions. 

In the fUture, the data base can be ecpsnied by the inclusion of 

iticna_1 information on corporations and their managers, suth as that 

piblished In a series of local, regional, sectors]., aid national directories 

frce the 1860's tol9ll. 

Thcsnas C. Owen, Department of 

History, Louisiana State tJniversity, 

Beton 1ge, IA 70803-3601 (NSF 

grant S-8419943, .7uly 

1985-Decesber 1987) 

Internship at Stanford University Libraries, Octther 1985, ombined with 

visits to sai other East Duropean collections in the United States 

Last year's issue of this issue inclnded a report on an internship of Dr. 

Wojciecth Zaleweki at the library of J. G. Herder-Institut in MarborqJLahn 

oirblned with visits to other places in the Federal Rublic of Germany. 

Dr. Zalewski's Maxtuurg internship was part of a professional exduaie 

agreement between the Slavic airatozs of Stanford University and the 

Herer-Institut. This exchange was a pilot project for eventual later 

excthanges between librarians fran several countries. 

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In his rsport, Dr. Zalski expressed his positive view of the personal 

sharing of every day life in a foreign library cY1tined with a prngram of 

infonastion of special interest to a o.irator in the field of East Eurcpean 

studies. So I plan arj stay in the United States with sate expectations. 

Stanford agreed to tiathrj the internship so that it wald coincide with the 

Third World Omigress of Soviet an East D1rsan Studies in Washington D. 

C., the tharlotteeville ocrifereia on ediange of poblicaticzis ani a visit 

to the University of Illinois at Urbena-thançaign. 

Fbr ad Information on East zean holdings ar librarians 

activities, Stenford Is surely th. best pl In lifornia aed ate of the 

best in the United States. This oay.lueion can be drawn after a visit to 

Stanford, Berkeley, Urbana, Washin3tca, ani tharlotteevilla. The presex 

of a rn university library with good holdings in the East brtpean 

field in the neitborhood of Hoover Institution provides exosptional 

cççortunities for stholars ani students of Slavic languages ard literatures 

ard many aspects of social sciences concerning Eastern Eurcçe (mainly 

history, politics, eny, law, etc.). Th fact that Eezlceleys holdings 

ani other (San Francisoc Russian Hosesi) are very close makes Stanford 

still zre attractive. 

Ozp.aterizaticei of catalogs ard blbliogra*tical informaticn can be 

fasi in artet U. S. libraries. In alitiat to this at Stanford, the attraction 

of the library building (Cecil H. Green Library), pertiailarly the reading 

facilities In the stacks, the ho1dli tmaselves aM their descriptions in 

several thlicatiate Beesed to ma a sl for G.ztten ]Jbrmries. This Is 

also the case In respect to the Library of the Iver Institution on War, 

Revolution, aM Peace with its f.ntastic holdings whith are not unkeown in 

Germany. The intrrductory aJraes for ,tunts offered by Dr. Zaleweki 

sees to ma very helpful. They are only te aspect of his varics 

professional activities. In addition, visits to eeveral bookstores in the 

Bay area, partionlarly to Szweds In Palo 1to were not only interesting but 

of practical mae for the Herder-Library 

Th Slavic aM East ircean Dsparbaent of the University of Illinois 

at Urbana-thanpaign is fanris for several reasate. First, the Slavic 

holdings are rmaarkable, partionlarly eznin Russia, the Soviet Union, 

aM Czedelcivakia. Offering these holdings to an International ccmiamity 

of stholars is ate of the porposes of the renowned sstmar 1reee. 

Iutother aM maybe the main reason far Urbana-thaapaign's rsputatiat is 

the bibliogra*tical Information servic, In the East Rurean field. Prof. 

Marianne Tax tholdin, bead of the Slavic aM East Ruropean tartnent has 

great marits for organizing Internatiatel oz.cperation of librarians In the 

East Pbrciean field. 

This cooperation was ccntixued at the 'Third World Ortgrese for 

Soviet aM East Exrcpsar Stuiee In Washington D.C. Osrents att this 

Q-zress will certainly be of greater Interest to German librarians. So 

they will be azitted here. A mare detailed German version of this rsport 

will be pobliahed In 15. aX6D-'ragung, Wurzbarg (Hal 1986), Referate 

tiM Beitrage. 

Pbr the same reason I leave cot my rqtort at the International Book 

dtangas Crtferenoe at the University of VIxinia in tharlotteeviUs 

wbic*t took place after the Washingtcm qress. Nevertheless a foreign 

guest of this aretference feels thligsi to express his gratitude to Its. 

Argelika Sc*mtiegelow-BoweU for her efforts In organizing this 

tferare. 

Suuimarizing my stay in the United States I h&ve the bipression that 

the Slavic aM East Ruropean sector in American libraries also benef its 

frma the central services offered in cataloging by the Library of Congress. 

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In aparisczi with Germany, xrern tedmie is further advanced, sore 

has been done to describe collections aed furri-raisiog for libraries seesm 

to be sore effective. The crstition between state aed private 

institutions se.m to be stisolatirq. 

I want to express lay gratitede to DIrtor tvid Weber aixi all the 

2ritera of the staff of Stanford University Libraries with thciu I was 

able to discuss matters of professional interest. Dr. Wojcieth Za).eweki 

elaborated a spleediI pes of information into the many aspects of his 

professional activities. I thank him sincerely for all his help. 

C1L Nauka Project 

Roret von Cbinielewski 

Herder-Institut 

A survey is beirq ocniucted by the Center for Researth Libraries to 

determine the disriboticm of publications of the caderty of Sciences of 

the USSR in North ?mrican libraries. This survey is interned to provide 

Information that will both help the Center evaluate its n 

aoguisitixe policies related to cadeiny p.Slications aixi enable 

Slavic bibliograers to tailor their efforts so that they might sore 

fully ccçlesent one another's collections. They survey was designed 

at the University of Illincis at Urbana-thaapaign, there the results are 

also being tab.ilatad. (If ycor library is participating aid you have not 

yet ccrpletad the survey, you are asked to do so as soon as possible.) 

For information about this stedy, contact Pay Boylan at L or 

Marianne Tax tholdin at the University of Illincis at Urbana-thaspaign. 

Marianne Tax tholdin 

University of Illinois/Urbana 

QDcçerative Cataloging Project: Library of ressjThiversity of Illinois 

The University of Illinois/Urbana aid the Library of Cerress are 

develWin a cocçerative cataloging project for current Soviet lisprints. 

Diring the first *aee of the project (to begin In early 1986), Illinois 

will give top cataloging priority to the imprints of seven Soviet 

piblishiog houses (iga, Mezlxiunarodnye otnoshenila, Myal', Finansy I 

etatietika, Politirdat, cmnika, aid lUriditheskale literatura). 

Bibliogra*dc aid n.m authority zrds for these iteim will be sent to 

IC, reviewed by staff there, aid Inclimled on the IC tapes for 

distritution to the networke aid databases. IC will defer cataloging 

imprints of the seven publishers for 'iiar Illinois ham assun 

prinary responsibility, aid concentrate on other Important Soviet 

publishers' output in their current catalogiog. 

M Illinois cataloger will speed several weeks at IC in Manth, 1986, 

to be trained in the details of subject cataloging (as a N13) participant 

since Deceirber 1983, Illinois catalcgers have already been trained in IC 

n.m authority work). 

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For further lnfonttic*i about the cocçerative project, please 

cxstact Rthert rger at the University of hUmble Slavic Library. 

Harold N 

University of flhlncis/Jrbana 

New O.irator & Acting Director Nai for ThI 

The aointhtents of Joel F. Wurl aid Professor C. 

Radzia1a,skt as Curator aid Acting Dixector, respectively, of the 

Thisigratior History 1searth Center (fl) have been ai by the 

Cbflege of Liberal Arts. 

Wurl has a B.A. in history fror the University of Wisa*in-Eau 

Claire aid an M.S. in history aid ardiives administratic* frcn the 

University of DenvSr. us to the nut fxca the University of 

Ibledo thero ha wee University az'c*iivist aid acting director of special 

collecticris. His bacJcgxd incluee 19th aid 20th centhry U.S. history 

as well as caipiter aplicaticn. far arthivee aid special collectiors 

rositoriee. 

Radzialowski will serve as Acting I1U Director in the ahaerr'e of 

Professor 1dolh Vecoli %thO is or sakbatical leave for the 1985-86 

year. Radzialawski, to I. or the faazlty of Southwest 

State University in Narshail, ), baa tai*t history at Heidelberg Cbllege 

aid has served as special assistant to the thairean aid liaisor to 

ethnic aid nity grwp for the Natic*aal Fzdcwsent for the 

Humanities. He has blishe1 extensively or Polish-Aserican 

isnigrant history. 

Neweletter of the University of Nlmeeota Libraries, 

Twin Cities 

(31 0ctcier, 1985, p. 5) 

Soviet Central Asian Cataloging at flhixnis 

As a project that grew partially out of w sathatical work or 

Soviet Central Asia aid also art of hllincis' urgent need to bring urder 

ocritrol its growing backlog of Soviet Turkic, Finm-Ugria, etc., 

vernacolar-language materials (estimated at 6,000 voitnes), in the 

sd half of 1985 I began to catalog selected titles in Soviet Iirkic 

languages. jll cataloging wes dcne for seth title processed, aid the 

bibliogra*ic records have been irpit into the C databas, aM into 

Illinois' 1l alms catalog. In aditticis, since Illinois participates in 

the Wi project, iis authority records were subaitted to IC for each 

persoral aid corporate n heading used in the blbliograthic records. 

These nesie authority records will be distrihoted to the cnline databases 

aid networks after review at IC. It is hoped that these mess authority 

records will be useful to other libraries then they catalog Soviet 

Turkie sat.erials (or translatiors of eLxth into Russian). 

In the slx-mcnth period, 1,210 titles were cataloged (primarily 

works of literature, tht also sane ncn-ficticn works, primarily in the 

areas of linguistics aid literary oriticiss), aid a total of 795 mass 

authority records war. subsitted to the Library of aress under the 

Tb provide acoess via the Russian-language title that 

usually açears on an added title page or In the colqon, added entries 

(i.e., 740 fields) for the Russian titles appear in all bib].iograhic 

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ecords in OCli, enablirg e to search itema for .kiith one has only a 

Thissian citation (a t enn 1rrence, slire stardard 

b1b1iograies such as Fztinik )caici ard Ihihnaia letcvls cite itsis 

in Russian, regardless of the language of the title page aM text). I wculd 

be haçiy to provide further Information or details abcut the project to 

one erseted. 

Earold N. Leith 


StMy of Inflation Pate of Soviet aM East European Nonographs 

The Slavic aM East European Lthrary at the University of 

flh1iis/Urbana recently curducted a quick aM largely unscientific 

sttxly to determine current inflation rates for recently-p.iblished 

noncgras frrzn the Soviet Union aM Eastern Europe. Ocr findirgs may 

be of interest to other institutions aM we, in turn, ld ilice to learn 

about any sinilar etMies done elsewhere on current price Iscrease rates 

for ca frcin areas. 

Three of large blanket order prrgrama were selected for the 

survey (Soviet blanket order; Ukrainian blanket order; Eastern European 

blanket order) aM invoices for the July-October peried for 1994 aM 

1985 totalled aM ooeçared. Ocilar prices given below are those which 

we actually paid at the tine the invoices were processed (postage, 

insurance, abipin, etc., charges are ixlMed in the dollar figures 

below sii we axe fortunate In belrg able to charge these to a general 

"hardling" turd rather than to our Slavic book furds). 

Soviet blanket otder (the Livres Etrangers, Paris, dealer). 

Socçe: current crmiesrcially-poblished aM ecported Soviet nncgras 

(primarily In Russian: it.ese in other Soviet languagesexct 

Ukrairdan-.-aM English are provided when available) in social 

sciez aM heaanities disciplines, lncludlrg belles lettres. 

Average price per vo1ses: 

itese received July-Oct. 1984: $5.48 per volwie 

ites received July-Oct. 19852 $5.79 per voluma 

Inflation rate: S 6% 

UkraInian Blanket order (Ukrainian Book Store, Eàniton, ?.lta., 

dealer). 

Scope: currant Ukrainian-language mnograrl,s fron the USSR, Western 

Europe aM North America, in social science aM humanities 

disciplines, inclMirq belles Lettres. 

Average price per voluse: 

itaes received July-Oct. 1984: $7.34 per volune (US dollars) 

itese received July-Oct. 1985: $7.60 per volume (US dollars) 

Inflation rate: 3.5% 

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Xnflatiai Rate Study 

3. East r1rcçean blanket onder (Ibc*i & Sagner, Inith, dealer). 

Scope: Qirrent axcgras In social acie and hmanities 

disciplines (Including belles lettzes) frcin Czedoa1ovakI.a, Hungary, 

1sania, Bolgarla, YUOe1aV1a, and Albania. 

Average price per volare: 

itees received July-Oct. 1984: $10.00 per volume 

ites received July-Oct. 1985: $11.14 per'Yoles 

Inf].ati rate: 11.1% 

We are airrently worldxg en cbtaining detailed figures by cc*mtry for the 

Fast Hurtçean blanket order (data has been provided by Huben & Sagner 

that will be very useful) and win be ba to dissesinate thes dien 

available. 

Harold H. Le.tc*i 


The Gleb Stzuve Ocllectic*1 

The Stanford University Li rise and the Hoover Arthives have 

aouired the Gleb Struve ol1ectien. It ists of rid arthival materials 

and about 1000 volumes dealing with Iaissian literature of thidi alxxzt 

half are belles 1.ttres. Within it the bolk is Russian esiigre poetry frrin 

the 1920 s. The papers are hc*ised at the Hoover Arthives, the printed 

material at the Green Library. 

It is wll 3ajn that Struve was ixt enly a of the greates literary 

sctolars of the century bot also a central figure in Russian enigre cultural 

circles and a post himaelf. It is nt surprising, therefore, that the 

collectien includes a great rather of poets of his tima: G. Adanr,vich, A. 

Biak, A. Bol3dn, A. Ginger, I. Golenishcbev-iituzov, S. G.sev-Oreri*irgskii, 

V. tXkel'skil, G. Evangulov, IU. Ivask, D. 0nit, A. Iadinskii, K. L'dov, S. 

l4akDvskii, V. Namthenko, I. Odoevtseva, N. Otsup, L. Stra3thovskii, IU. 

'Israpiano, B. Filipov, A. steiger, and many others. The collection holds 

also iimrs books presented to Struve by a wide range of authors 

including suet major writers as: I. B.min, A. Remizov, V. Nabokov (Shin), 

and B. Zaitsev. Autoratked books in it are, for exanle, H. Tsvetara' a 

Psiitheia (1.923) to Oint S. H. Volkci,skii, L. Kel'berin's Idol (1929) to 

Boris Vil'de, and books fren ths private ool1ecti of K. V. Hodu1'skii, Z. 

I. Grzhebln, Z. Gippius, and V. 0. Stenith. SQ of those never appeared on 

the book market and their irisoriptica attest to that, e.g., ShaJchovslcoi a 

Predmety (1924-1926), (Brussels, 1926). Others, published in 

r1-ccEventicmal forma, for exanple, five typewritten books by IUrii 

Trubetskoi, covering his writings fore 1916 to the 1960 a, aid a 

handwritten book by LaY Gczmlitskii, Binoborets (1924) are nt listed in 

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edstirg bib1iogra*iies aid were hardly ever nentioned In the press. 

The coflectian is rith In rara. In this category are Sviathennaia 

Lira, Zarubezh'e (with pors by A. irdratev, L. Gcsclitskii, G. Q.$rger] 

(Warezawa, 1937)); A. K. Gorrtaev, Litso Ery (R1iarbin, 1928); A. 

IQxdrat'ev, Slavianskie bogi (1936); D. Fcbiakov, Veshniak, Ritiuitheskii 

tsl)cl (Paris, 1926); A. Nesaelov, Bez Possii (ithathln, 1931); aid Vsevolod 

Ivanov, ena edy (Itharbin, 1928). Araj valuable editions cc*nted are 

several issues of Giperborei (1912-1914), a serial piblished by St. 

Peterbirga Guild of poets; A. 810k, Dvenadtsat', Skify, S Deviat'iu 

ifliustrataiiami N. Gczxiarovoi i N. Larionova (Paris, 1920), aid N. 

Volcehl.n Usthitsa, Stithi orevoliutsii (Dvov', 1923). 

The Fate of Alexaider Benois Collection 

(Inforuration provided by Mr. Valerii Ruhartets of Th.ussica Book Shop, N.Y.) 

The significant portion of the collection has been aog.uired by Russica 

Book Shcp. In general it has been sold as follows: 

Paferenee books have been sold to the N York Metropolitan Museua; 

tuxthives aid corzspctdei porthased University of Texas, Austin; 

ks, stage design, aid working files: e*umnera, newspaper clippings, 

etc. anguired the Boston lic Library. 

The remmlnlng books inolidirg sass lxcribed to Benois aid with his 

notes, as well as sass potograths, original costune designs, theatre 

hav, been added as parts to other collections auth as those of 

Saul Hurok, Helene Ealieff, aid A. Ithtdiakov How this part has been 

disposed of it is not known at this tine. 

University of Washington 

'its University of Washingtcn has acxiuired a large collection of 

books on Russian aid Soviet military history fran Russica Book and Art 

Shop, Inc. The collection cautains many rare ites aid Inclides Soviet 

aid Russian military pmsoirs, regimental histories, reports on 

military cperatiass aid theoretical works on Russian military strategy 

aid tacticm, aid guerilla warfare. It also 1ncldes plicmtions whith 

were printed for restricted clxcolaticn aag the military aid 

higher-party officials aid iteuss whith have been either witkdrawn fran 

Soviet libraries or destroyed. The collection will be cataloged aid made 

accessible tbra4 OCL. 

Barbara A. Galik 

University of Washington Libraries 

University of Arizona 

The University of Arizona Library has acxiuirid a sizeable 

collection of books, pançulets aid serials on Soviet performing arts: 

theater, ballet, ppet theater, vaideville, cineuna, television, stage 

design, imsical instruments, history of tie violin virtuosi aid antoirs 

of faius artists aid inreaarios. The collections strength lies not 

only In the Russian Federal Reixiblic area, bat also In the non-Russian 

speaking areas auth as the U)aine, the Caucasus aid the Baltic Peplblice 

of Lithuania, Latvia aid Estonia. Although quite generais in items of the 

Pre-Revolutionazy period, the oollection a greatest strength lies In the 

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post-1917 spoth. It is a ocsposite of various libraries of Russian 

imaigrants aM esigres Btd as Sol B. Hurok, the noted inpresario; the 

ballerji,a Elena Belieff; the harpist Inna Marinel (an associat, of Anna 

Paviova); A].exv1re Benois, the Frar-Rossian artist aM stage 

designer: Serge SoieiJc.the, another stage designer tho worked with 

Diaghilev in the Ballet Russe; aM fleitri Friabsan, a distirguished 

Soviet ausloologist. Many uival aM hard-to-get itess ee also 

fran the collectboo of Roy Lv1s, Alearican military journalist in the 

USSR durirg Horid War IL 

M% its thoice it the collectiou offers an cutstanhlng 

selectiou of grata an the dramatic tethnique of the classical 

authorsGogol, the)thov, L. 'lblstoy aM Maxim Gorky. Amang the serials 

are siith hani-to-fied rune as the "Ezhegodnik" (Am.ial) of the ?ol'shoi 

Theatre aM "Shekspirovskii Shornik" (Shakespeare A]manac). 

R1BLITIct3 

N Publicatians 

Beaven, MlxaMa. Russian historical poblishi.og 1810-1820 

t3s forgotten dde. 1, 1.985, p. 70-86. 

Beaven, M1xaia. A1ecseMr Selxdln aM ubli.hIj In 

St.Petersliirg. Canadian Slavanic Papers: Ivue Canadienne de 

Slavistes 1, 1985, p. 15-30. 

Beaven, Miranda. 1issian literary alzenaca of the 3.820a aM their 

legacy. Pub]ithu HIstory 17, 1985, . 65-86. 

tholdin, Mariam,a T. ' feixa ars.ri the eeaIre Russin 

caneorshin of Western ideaø wer the Tears. D2xbaln : bike 

University Press, 1985. 

1vies, Rithard.. 1 w1nov antø Russia. 150 veers of the Britis1 

in Russia and Russians abroad. Catabooue of an e,thlbitban o 

'eoent aocuIsitias by the leeds Russian Arthive; incornoratIn 

The ls Russian Axthive 1984-1985 se prooress report. 

leeds, &otheztan GoUecti, University of leeds, 1985. (Lvies first 

rsport for 1982-1984 was isened in 1984.) 

Higgi±otham, Jay. Soviet literature, library respc*Thility. Library 

Journal , . 129-133. 

Zeich, Harold M. Bibliograic systeam of the Soviet Repoblica. 

Govezmt Infornatian Cuarterly , Vol. 2, No. 3, . 291-298. 

Leith, Harold H., p Russian liiterial Go.t serials oo 

jcrofiire in the Library of Onress : a auide to the uncatalcaueii 

oollecticsi . Washingtc*, £4brary of Caress, 1985, 135 p. 

The Library of the Hoover Institutic on War. P.evoluticn and 

PkI. lij Peter Puignan. Stanford University, Hoover 

Institution, 163 p. 

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The Ohio State University Hilarder Balletin. Iacri I. 1\.zazog, id. 

No. 1, 1985-86. "Published three tines a year for Erierds 

of Hilanier Pssearcb Library aid the Center for Slavic, 

Byzantine, and East !Xircçean Nascripts on Hicrofi]m." 

Soidylowa, Barbara. The oxçeration of 1ish Libraries In 

isp1esnting the plan of the library colleotkz,s specialization. 

Librj, 2, w. 107-112. 

Zalewakt, Wojcieth. Ohllectors ard onliections of Slavica at Stanford 

University. A ormtribotion to the History of eerican cadenic 

Libraries. Stanford University Libraries, 1985. 

Zalewski, WoJcied. rdamantals of Russian rete.renoe work in the 

)nsinities aid social sciences. New York Russica Publishers, 

1985. 170 p. ("Russica" Bibliography Series, 5). 

RESEaII IN SS (Reprinted ft-on ?.A?,SS Newaletter, Vol. 25, 

no. 5) 

QDIN, WIRIN .X (225 Library, V. of Illinois, Urbana), "Soviet 

Treathent of Western Publicatia" (1917-pres.], k, fl 1986. 

GARD, WIlLIAM C. (t. of History, U. of North I)ota), "Index to sborn1J 

skaQo Ieratoraj Istoriches) Ctdiestva ," (17th-19th C.], 

paiilets, ks for o5piter ass, E 1985 (first sub-set). 

GETIY, (Dept. of History, U. of Celifornia, Riverside), "Soviet tkta 

Bank Project" (1917-41], Cat*iter data bank & k, 1987. 

PIRICIA INEDY (Harvard Ukrainian Resear,th Inst.), 

"Ard-iivea aid Xar.iecript Repositories in the USSR, Ukraine, aid 

Moldavia," book in 2 vole., 1985-87. 

IHJSF.1, KLAUS-rILV (Historisches Sesdnar der Univ. Hanturg, 

Von-1le-Perk 6/IX, D-2000 Hairborg 13, W. Genriany), "Handbook on 

ScjjtJasten Ruzcçe (Suedosteurcpa-Haidblch]" (pOSt4MII), 

vols. 4-8, 1985-95. 

ARD (Slavceiio Div., New York Public Library), 

"Russia/Soviet Bibliography aid Librarianship in the 20th 

Century," k, no . 

MInEVSKI, GE (8030 Haley Ctr., Aiborn U.), "nnotated 

Bibliography of Yuoelav Theatre aid Drama in Eoglish 

Translation" (post %MIIJ, book, _ 1985. 

CMIN, DDS C. (Dept. of History, Iuisiana State U.), "Deta Base on 

Qrporaticns In the Russian Errpire, 1700-1914," macthine-readable 

data base, 1987. 

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ID E. (Dept. of Languages & Linguistics, Oooidental 

O3l1ee), "Russian Syxrbolist Prose: n Mthology" (1900-22], book, 

ri 19877 "n Inlex to Ruian SyirIDOlist .7ournals (Vesy, Zolotoe 

, Pereval, Trudy I dni, Za ski thtate1eI ) (1900-22), book, 

1986. 

USPNSI, KERIIL V. (20 Presa±t St., Cairbrice, NA 02138), 

"Dictionazy of Uiventicn,1 Russian" [19th-20th C.], azox. 

50,000 entries, 1985. 

ZXIPrR, }UDIA (Qllecticn Develcçzent t., Devis Library, U. of North 

Carolina, (tepel Hill), "- -t of Omtasporaxy Peseaxth 

Material Fcithangee beb,een North Aiserican ard Soviet Libraries" 

art., 1985: "History of 1eseaxth Material Excbanges bebeen 

North Arican ard Soviet Libraries," art., r 1986: "7.lejcsis 

Dab in's .lc*rnal: Diary of the First Slavic Librarian at the Library 

of cI1gress," trans., 1986. 

GALfl(, BARBARA A. (U. of Washington) "Nikolai Vasilevith Zcvy,,", 

ency. art., 1986. 

NAiqsai, AN U3. (U. of Arizciia). "The pins aid the palm tree: 

critical reception of the Latin American niwel In Russia aid the 

Ukraiiw". (Bib1iograie raisaiee). 

BXEvAvIaI, II21qt, VL?DX}. "Fre, voices in 

Russian literature, l950s-1980e. A biogratiic guide to ths lives aid 

works of 800 "r-officia1" citorary iisaian writers." lb be 

published by iiesice Publishers In Ni York In aioa 

bib1iograpIy series nc.4. 

Third World tress for Soviet aid East flrean Studies, 

Washington, D.C., 1985. lned with the 2ni International 

ziference of Slavic Librarian aid Thfozraticn Specialists. 

Paprea are edited by Marianna Tax tholdin aid will be piblishei by 

Russica Publishers In Ng, York in Russica biblicgray series. 

A'1PACIS OF S/ILT AD EAST PEAN PZ1XE PERIODICL 

LflARB (ASPPL) 

By Leonid Thoth 

EUtor 

The p*encaenon of large-scale esigration fron the Soviet Union 

aid East fllrcçean nations has been acxuipaniei by a consistently 

growing enigre press. At present, rpapers aid jcirnals p.lished in 

the native languages of the enigres exist in very large iuibers. We see 

the emigre press as a significant soirce of information about the life, 

oniture, history, politics aid eocncjnies of the Soviet Union aid East 

Lurçean ccuntries. It is quite natural, hcMever, that Western libraries, 

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university libraries a.men them, have been unable to keep up with aM 

subscribe to all of these varied piblications; therefore, the facts aM 

ideas cuitained In thea have thus far remained inacrssib1e to 

Western scholars. 

tracts of Soviet aM Fast Ebropean Eaigre Perio±Lcal 

Literature (ASEEPL) is a quarterly publication, with issues appearing 

In winter, spring, sunmer, aid fail of each year. Fourteen issues of 

ASZPL have already been published. 

Each issue of ASEEPL contains extensive surenaries of selected 

valuable articles with essential bibliograyhical information aid includes 

subject aid author inlioes. Table of contents: hits; Econcauics; 

Governrent; Law aid Bolitics; History; International Relations; tanuage 

aid Linguistics; Literature; Thiloeqthy; lolitical Theory aid Ideology; 

Religion; Science; Sociology. Annual subscription: $40.00 for 

inatithti; $25.00 for irdividuals. Our address: ASEPL, 235 17 Wile 

Drive, Pacific Grove, 93950. 

We also p1ish amially Review of Russian Faigre Books which 

cataths annotations on Russian aearira in the West. Issue 1, 

consisting of 600 ks (1980-1983), has already been published. Issue 

2 will .r 1984-1985. Annual subscription $20.00. 

0BflUARIS 

Paynd Arthur tvies, noted bookseller, died on JUly17, 1985. 

Ivies, who emigrated with his father frcn Western Russia to the United 

States in 1920, was born in the village of Srvrgon, since obliterated by 

the Second World War, aid until his adult years used his father's family 

name, Shoban. Always fascinated by writing and consumed by a love of 

books, Ivies became a journalist covering Spain In the late 1930's aixl 

then USSR frtzn 1941-1945. As a journalist for Canadian media, he was 

only a few days behizd the front line aid was one of the first western 

journalists into Hitler's banker after the fall of Berlin. He was also one of 

the first to enter aid report frurt llinka and Maidanek concentration 

casts. After the war he ran a news service fron Thronto for a number of 

year before axiving to )bitreal and beginning a book service under the 

name R. A. aid Lillian Davies. His life was books, aid he shared it with his 

wife Lillian until her death In 1968. Tagether they bailt an International 

service that had an unsurpassed reputation for obtaining difficult-to--find 

Slavic end Fast Eircpean laterial, and there is hanily a major library in 

the United States that at one tine or another did not find it useful (while 

often quite expensiv&) to use the services of RamrM aid Lillian Davies. 

The name of the crepany evolved to Davies Book Company, then 

Scientific Books International, World Book Ourporation, Livres des Clnq 

Continents aid finelly Incie Bolduc Inc., whicti was the mane of Davies 

sed wife. 

Davies had a knack of finding things quickly, or a least quicker than 

others, aid his reach was at tines astonishing. Always on the go, 

difficult to pin down aid sometimes leaving a messy wake In this tale, 

this man was a encnon to everyone who knew his. He may have loved 

the wheeling aid dealing as reich as the books themselves, but he believed 

In his heart that it was his way of contributing to International 

understanding aid to the advancement of mankind. Awash in a world where 

ocepaters were unknown, his warehouses were in constant tunimil. hind 

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yet, amazingly, he always knew the precise locaticn of his stock. Davies 

was involved In pxttLng together major co1lectia of ks, periodicals 

aid aicrofthe, including large iuii,ers of aicrofi]me of Hebrew 

inaø.iscripta existing aily in libraries in the USSR. 

All during his life, he renamed attacbed to the Soviet Uhiai as the 

birthplace of his aistora ard, in a samathat ranantic way, as the hiz 

of ,that he believed to be the eirce of man)dM's saving itself fran 

destructiai. thatever experiences, good or bad, that those who met 

Raynrfd Arthur Davies may of bile, he was the kird of 

unforgettable tharacter, larger-than-life, to trderstood how to ve 

pecple, and1 toget things dose. Saris librarians may not )ci that he 

was also a writer, publishing five books during the 1940's, anl ose 

blblij of Jewish Canadians 1111956. 

At his death, Davies left a stock of sae 5000 boxes of largely 

unsorted material, jicet of whith has been disposed of by his sos (author 

of tie lines). The leftover hooks aid other material is being offered os a 

selected basis by ert Davies, who can be reathed at 4920 ilevard de 

)Iaiscerisuve West, Suite 206, Weslnt, QC Canada H3Z 3N1. Tele1iose 

(514) 488-9531. - reseinizq books are meetly issian aid Ivlish 

pre-1917. Enquiries are welocais. 

A film an Rayerni Arthur Davies life is In progress and any 

inforinatios, ocemients aid so forth woold be weltxaeed by his sos. 

ert Davies 

Alexander Tisofejeff - Instead of an Cbituary 

by Wojciech Zalewski 

Alexander Timefejeff a book dealer associated with sev, residing 

in Pose died an Octeber 2, 1985. Weat follows is a trarislatios frau 

issian of an aieLpt fran a letter dated 25.9.1984 he wrote to the 

undersigned: 'That pertaixis to book activities (Jcnithnoe delo), is this: 

Already in 193 Os I was representing the iepaper Z )DINU in Sweden. 

This was a newspaper of RIS. Iiimmdiately after the war, in 1946, I joined 

sev, the publishing hase aid the journal. I was its representative in 

Sweden, aid I have disseninated air publicatioss. Since then, I never 

abanaied this rk, altha4i for a period of time in 19508 aid l960e I 

was less active. 

In 1969 1Iokathev, an antiquarian book dealer, died in Rare. I bcuht 

the major part of his Russian library and sent it to Possev. This began my 

activity as an antiquarian book dealer in 1970 (until then I was selling 

cnly Possev publicaticuis). I turned fully Into the antiquarian activities in 

1972. At that time an antiquarian departhent was formed at P058ev. 

I studied bit not mxtL. above all, I have learned fran mistakes. I was 

selling rare books Inexpensively. I did not understand Gradually I began to 

wderstand. Gradually I began to imagine how the university libraries are 

worldng; differently in various intries. Gradually I understood with 

ithan anu book dealers aie can deal, and frau whan a shaild keep a 

In air catalogs I try to list old books. Since we have many Slavic 

institotee anrmg our clients, we axe listing books under a). new books and 

b). Soviet hocks in ilology. In general we have taided towaz1 ilology. 

In every catalog there is tilology. Often I am taking ks cut isigreant 

and I am listing then In sty catalog. Indeed quite often. Aid so Slavists and 

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professors are sellin their books through us. I am 1ookii for books 

everywhere: in Flnlaid, Sweden, IDersiark, Fg1aid, \irkey, Iran, Marocco, 

Frai, Federal Republic of Germany, JustrLa, Italy, Switzerlard - in all 

these ccinitries I porthazed books several tii or frequently, even In 

Brazil. In catalog we are trying to give titles whith we did not offer 

earlier. In cata].og there are rare books, In catalog there is 

also a part of "inexpensive" books. 

Catalogs are not prepared very professimally fros the library point 

of viev, because many clients - private persaia - would not uiderstard. 

Aid it baens anay that they do not uiderstard. 

I try always to Iidicath haestly the defective ies. it thousans 

of books pass thrrufl my hanis every year aid it is not always possible to 

reveal a or another defect. 

ir primary antiquarian war1se is In Fraokfurt. It itaixis abcut 

15,000 volmma. Besi it, there are mraller warises 1,500 - 2,000 

bo In Paris, Stoc)tholm, aid Ikse. Vat, pozhalui ivse... 

Tcday I ma going with my wife to Switzerlaid, Germany, aid ftar. 

Evexytisre in .sarth of books (Vse pa keizhnya delam): to boy, to seid, 

aid to prs a imai catalog In Paris. 

SIQAL 'IPAVEL AD 

Dethanigs Trip Ctiesrvatimm - Harold H. Leith 

In May 1985 I had the pleasure of visiting fourteen of Illinois' lange 

exthaxqe partner. in )tuc,, Leningrad aid Warsaw. The libraries 

visited are: 

Lenin Library 

University Library 

Stats Central Theater Library 

State Public Scientific-'rethnicml Library 

DU Library 

Stats lic Historical Library 

brsign Literathr. Library 

atra1 Scientific Pgrioultural Library 

Sa1tykev-thedrIn State Public Library 

Leningrad University Library 

3icadiy of Sciences Library 

Warsaw: 

Warsaw University Library 

Naticnal Library 

Pulish Acadouy of Scieie (0PP) 

)' trip was the first ia made by an Illinois librarian to the major 

exthaiqe partners since the early 19705 aid was, I feel, very safu1 

in firming up our large exthanges aid laying the fouidati for expaiding 

several of then. Rather than going Into the details of my visit to eath 

library, I will rake sara ervatic*is that might be of general interest 

to other Amarican libraries with exthangs partners in the Soviet Unicn ani 

POlaid. 

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I was received everyubere with unfailing courtesy aid genuine 

interest. C my part, it was a real pleasure to seat Soviet aid Pulish 

extazqe librarians with wixin I bad oorrespcix.ed for a ruiber of years 

in my capacity as Slavic Aculsitiens Librarian (molding respciisibility 

for IUlnois Soviet aid East Dnupean exdiarvjea). At alscet every library 

I visited, I was taken en a tour aid had the cçportunity to meet aid talk 

with librarians in other deparIients audi as Cataloging aid Reference. In 

itiai to disoussirq the excbanges, Soviet aid Polish erthange 

oufleagues were very interested in talking about library 

prthlenm audi as cataloging backlogs, inadequate stack apace, aid kidget 

prthl, as well as enre general issues auth as library edixmti.en, 

biblicgraIilc instructien, clasefficaticsi systas, aid the use of Soviet 

aid East xean materials by ear1.can facolty aid abmients. 

Ibe Soviets aear to be pereitting nors libraries to cc*ict 

lnternatienal e3atengee. S1tly befor, my daperturs for Ieocw, we 

received In Urbana a letter frcn the State Central Theater Library, 

asking if we would be interested In establishing an aidiang. with then 

(they had aily r.oently been given pernissien to cçerate internaticnal 

e,cd,anges). I visited then while I was in Xosoov, aid we r, hav, the 

begizriiivjs of an e*hange with then for pobL1neti In the areas of 

theater, c.lneaa, rmiio/IV, aid susic. We have also received inquiries 

frce several other Soviet libraries interested In establishing i 

egea with Pserican libraries (e.g., Vorunezh University). The 

possibility of regular eanges with a larger mer of Soviet libraries 

is, of irse, a great ccortunity for American libraries, bot also raises 

questiam of hc*, to baniled Increased staff ts for corresdene, 

greater bet cxxuithmnt to em±angss, etc. 

me acxxuntIng basis of ediange. centinues to be a source of 

disoussien aid Most of lUincis' large edanges with Soviet 

libraries are en a "axnetary' basis (i.e. eadi partner in an aiethange 

agree. to balance the .iiange in terse of total dollar or ruble irth of 

materials sent, regardless of vola, serial titles, microfilm reels, 

Sto.), although Soviet librarians did not sees to think this was a totally 

fair asthod, given th. high price, aid high lnflatiai rates of American 

books aid jaals. (i th. other hard, several of the large scientific aid 

tedmical libraries I visited (e.g., State Public 8ciaitific-!1cbniosl 

Library) insist en an "it itara" basis of eangs acixiuriting (book 

for book, serial issue for serial issue, microfilm reel for microfilm 

reel), a method that we censider at least partially unfair (again, because 

of the great differeirm in prices between Soviet aid American materials). 

At the practical level, lliiiois is fairly casual about maintaining strict 

acxiountlng balaiw always .eid our m1,angs partners what they 

request fran us (assaning it is available) even though each inlividual 

emtharq. may be cut of balance (either way) for a year or so at a tine. 

Cr local situaticzi has changed ecamabat recently since many 

University of Illinois Press publicatiam that were formerly available 

free for a exchange use have either ceased piblicaticm or are ri 

available aily en a pnthase basis. lile we do have a bodget line for 

p3rthaslng materials for exchange partners ($28,000 per year), these 

And. ax, increasingly inadequat, to suly all of cur large exchange 

partners with anash materials to keap the extharqes balar. 

ail. attentIng to have cur exdange Iuget increased, we have also 

been forced to be a little e "creative" by shopping arcwxf wrj U.S. 

vers for larger discounts aid using other methods to get the meat 

cut of the dollars m available to us for exthang, prrthases. 

Si

I would be haq to provide further informaticn on my trip 

(details on iriiv1dua1 libraries visited, ontact persons, etc.) to anyone 

interested. 

Harold H. Leict 

Uhiverity of Iliiniz/Urbena 

Report on Book Pcthauge Trip - Augellica S. ll 

This trip, urdertaken with the specific prpoee of setting up book 

exdianges between the University of Virginia Library aM major East 

rcçman acaienic libraries, was sponsored by the Center for ssian 

aM East brcpean Sbies aid Mdennan Library at the University of 

Virginia. 

In twenty-one days I travelled tbroogh five *intries (West 

Germany, Czethoslovakia, Austria, Huogary aid Yugoslavia) aid visited 

ten libraries aid eleven cities. My mede of travel inclided six trains 

with nmi like Viniobcxia, Wierer Walzer, Belgrade aid Yugoslavia 

Eapress, an all-day boat ride on the Mriatic Sea frcin Debrovnik to 

Split aid two over-laM flights fron Belgrade to Debrovnik aid fron Split 

to Zagreb. Ml traiji, wars on time aid only flight in Yugoslavia was 

delayed by hour. Train reservatia were in first class, a fact 

highly r for Eastern Lirope, althc4 taMe to meet only 

other foreigners fros far-fluog places like Afghanistan or North 1rea. 

Ostaes searthes on trains did not inclida luggage, hot seats were lifted 

aid knoc1 about, dogs bnuht In to sniff out drugs in the corridors aid 

one time I even saw a hm,an being crawl outside the train 

ormçartinents to theck alaig the floor iroldings. Dering halts at border 

train stati eath car was carefully diecked urderneath near the 

wheels. I was told that the drug traffic frrs the Near aid Far East goes 

through Balkan mtries aid In partionlar through Yugoslavia. 

My first library visit in Prague on 3iz 17 took me to the Stathi 

Ebihovna R (the Czedlovak State Library) in the 1asneritIiim, until 

1777 the largest aid meat iiiportant Jesuit lamiastery of Central 

Europe. At the time of the seailarization of all ramiasteries urder 

ths "enlightened" Habsborg iamiarth Joset II, the University library of 

Prague'. Charles University, fainied in the middle of the 14th century, 

became the State library by inw.,atiog the rith holdings of 

illuminated atamescripta, bibles aid other lnnla fron many 

mmiagteries into it. This created one of the meat magnificent rare book 

collections in the world, unravaged by to. revolutions of the 19th aid 

20th centuries aid two world wars. I had a very diarming meeting with 

Janaila Erivanova, Head of Lxuisitions (retired in December 1985), 

Mrs. bickova, Head of the Exthaoge Dept., aid Mr. Molf Eholl, who 

began managing the exctiaoges after Mrs. Prubickcva retired on July 1, 

1985. Hers, at Statni Ehihovna, I encountered for the first tins the 

repeated fact that the generation of librarians In East European 

academic libraries aointed after World War II is ro stepping down 

aid a audi ys.inger crowd of bright, university-trained people is taking 

over. These young people, in contrast to the older generation of 

librarians, teni to know Llith rather than German as a foreign lauguage. 

After discosslzq our exithange program, thidi has been in effect for at 

least two years ri ard whidi involves Czicslovak imprints In the 

Humanities aid Social Sciences (both cerrent aid antiquarian) in exthange 

for American university press blications prooured through the Yankee 

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ok Pler Program (anrsiai aint $2,000 with an e±aoge rate of $1 

for 9 kca. for if 85/86), I was given the graid tour. The center for the 

rare book collection is a beautiful baroque library with carved wocxen 

bookcases aid ceiling fresco. painted by Tiex,].o. Here I was shown, 

aalKng other illusdnatei mannscripts, the ysahrad codex, created In 

1085 on the ocoasion of the coronation of the first athenian king 

Vratislav II, an autogra by an Ibs, the great Bciwaaian reformer, 

aid a rare co1lecti of ike by the glish reformer thn Wycliff. A 

huge dark tile stove in the Main Reading Ioea depicts the life aid death 

of the isst f of all Jesuits, Ignatius of Wyola, reaixrlixig the 

reader daily of the former rester. of the building. 

Stathi ldhcvna CR hold. over six million books aid is, like the 

Library of ress, a depository library. Their aid*nges are rim very 

efficiently. We ware able to out down our am.a1 eçeidithres for 

Crecti material. (ourraiat ani antiquarian including ausic scores) 

acquired thru4i nercial thanla by over $2,000. 

The other library I visited in Prague was that of the Narodni )tz 

(the National. Wsaiim). This library was fcuid in 183.8 aM holds 

ahut tao million books. be building is a typical exaixçile of the 

cpilent national revival style of the mid-l9th oenthry so prevalent in 

the intries of the Austro-Hungarian espire. he Narodni Huzetai, so 

I was told by Dr. Jaro.]av Vrthotka, th. library director, was entirely 

build by Czedi artisan. aid laborers aid designed by Czeth arthitecte. 

Dr. Vroctotka is a proednent sre*er of the IPIA aid SpeakS fluent 

German aid English. He is an e,cpsrt in the history of the book aid, eq a 

librarian, supervises the book es in the many wanian aid 

Ibrav1an castles dating beck to the MI.ddl. Ages. 

The reniairder of my precious time in Prague was spent on the 

Prazaky Hrad (Prague Cstle Hill), i,tiith m.t certainly be a of the 

arthitectural wceder. of the world. It was diffioult to poll away in order 

tàtakethetralnVuidthma toVienria, th.rs Iwas mat .ix hours later 

at the station by Wilhelm lders, a D.ztdrean itho is one of the very 

f rining Slavic antiquarian book dealers In ixope. 

Wy b full day. In Vienna I spent astly in the onepany of Mr. 

tho ciatantly travels In the utries of Eastern ztçe 

(awoliding the Soviet Union) for the p.mpoee of buying antiquarian books 

by container loads frca the stat, authorities. These books are ai.tly 

tron formerly privat, libraries rf owi by the goverrasot, aid their 

sale provide, desperately noeded foreign hard curxaiies. I spent hours 

in tao of Mr. Seclders three separate waruaie, in the Viennese 

district of Ottakring, maldng many selection. for our library aid 

generally getting an idea of the nature of his tcck, whith is particniarly 

.tg in Czed,cslovak, Hulgarian, Yugoslav, Prnenian, Russian aid 

pclish laprints of the 19th aid early 20th century. Mr. Ssolderm is also 

Interested in porthaslng stholarly libraries in the United States whith 

contain Slavic iepriiita. 

lb reouperate frcai dusty warehclng, I tried to take In scam of the 

splaixiors of laperial Vienna by visiting the Hofb.irg, the former castle of 

the Austrian ailperors. This truly cavenris asseably of buildings 

houses, ai others, the National Library, the Spanish Riding Sc*col 

with the world fa LIpizan horses, the. 1esus M.lssum with its 

arthaeological eshibiti showing the Austrian excavation treasures from 

AnatOlia, aid the seemingly endless balls with mrsical instruments 

am can take de1it In a piano on .thith Franz Sthubert used to 

play. The am important celtural event, thc4i, not to be missed in 

Viaima betaeen Mezth aid 0cter, 1985, was the eshibiticn in the 

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I0mstlethaus "Traum urd Wirklithkeit-Dreain aid Reality, Vienna, 

1870-1930", ciçcsef aid designed by Rcbert Waissenberg anf 

arthitect Hans Hollein aid stheduled to be ediibited at the 

Metropolitan )tzse.im in 1986. For sonebody like am with such a short 

tlnm to sperd in the former capital of the ustxt,-Hungarian flipire, this 

exhibit presented a dazz1in, athd-bogg1in introduction to the 

historical events that led up to two world wars aid the flowering of the 

arts aid scieixies that produced artists like Klimt, Sc*iiele, aid Ru'o von 

}bfuanrmthal, as well as scientists Ulce Freizi aid Wittgenstein. 

I could net help leaving Vienna with mixed eticns - so auth 

splerdor, so eii misery aid all of it having had profourd iiipact on the 

fate of Eastern aid Western Europe to this date. 

Th, train "Wiener Walzer" took ma to &idapest within four hcurs 

ithere I was mat at the staticn, toW great relief, by my colleague 

Dr. Jozeef Velcerdi. He was holding up a .tiite piece of paper with "A. 

Powell" written onit. Hetookme fron Pest toBLda (the two parts of 

the city being divided by the river raraibe) to the magnificent castle 

splex on the da hun, the scene of ainnet total destruction during 

brld War II. One of the beautifully restored palaces r houses the 

Orszagos Szethenyi 1yvtar, the National Library of Hungary, named 

after 0*mt Szedenyi, a collector of rare books, patriot, reforzmr aid 

inventor tho is admired even today as a syebol of Hungary's fit for 

nationhood. There I spent six hours, from 3-9 p.m. on Friday, the 21st 

of June, in the very pleasant vaulted office of the International. Exctange 

Service, aid wee instructed by Dr. Vekerdi about the 

Mierican-Hungarian book erthanges. We negotiated a new exithange in 

the aast of $500 per emsa for Western-language piblicaticns, 

i,ubliebed in Hungary in thHisaanities aid Social Sciences, Iliding 

periodicals aid serials (exthange rate $1 - 25 foririt). He also told ma 

about Hungarian history, partioularly of the 19th aid 20th centuries. A 

crash 1rse, naturally, bot delivered in perfect German with a izisical. 

Hungarian ant by a librarian who is a Sarm)Tit sdnlar aid expert on 

the Hungarian gypsies whose language is related to Sans1it. Dr. Vekerdi 

has collected aid just p.ibll.shed the fairy tales of the Hungarian gypsies. 

He is, like so many of the other East European librarians I mat, a 

etholar-librarian also turned cut to be a perfect aid selfless tour 

guide. On Sunday we went by suborban train to Szeriterdre, eanething of 

a Hungarian Wilhiaamburg. This village an the Irvbe was settled by 

Serbian pigfaxmers , in the irse of tire, built several beautiful 

baroque Serbian-orthcdox thurthes with original Serbian 

iccecetases, painted aid gilded in the Byzantine style. The little 

village houses are painted in all ehades of orange or other, the latter 

being the color f lids mast frequently thra4xut the 

Mietro-Hungarian eapire. Dr. Vekerdi is the ba' owner of a lovely small 

19th century country house, called dateba In Eastexn Europe, which is 

very near Szenterdze. There he treated am to hot tea, seasoned with 

Ixanegrown sour cherries aid heavily perpered, a perfect our, for my 

beginning bronchitis which followed ma an thrcuh Yigoslavia. 

Seourely put an the mlnight train to Belgrade by Dr. Vekerdi, I 

arrived at the Yugoelav capital early in the sorning with almest ne voice 

left. Th. first Iapressicn of Belgrade was distinctly "eastern" or 

"turkish", as the people in the Western part of Yugoslavia like to may. I 

managed to fini my Rrt on Suohotel on foot aid was soon of f to the 

Serbian cadmay of Sciences for a two-hour meeting with Spcmtenka 

Ninic, the librarian for Merican excthanges, Olgica )tzeoilovic, who Is 

responsible for German inprints aid Mile Zegarac, who is the library 

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director. We negotiated an exthange in the aimxint of $500 with an 

exthanga rate of $1 to 140 dinars (about half of the cificial earqs 

rate at the tire, ithith thangea daily In a outxy where lnflaticei is 

rated 80%). We will receive all Sexbian cadesrj pblicaticea In the 

lbp*nitiea aid n'1,i1. Scietxms, ilidin Wosic, aid we shall eid 

thea en a regular basis Yankee Book ler yellow slits for selection 

of American university press pjblicaticn.. Ms. Wecilovic took ma to 

the boa for the University Library "Svetozar Markavic" where I had a 

four-hour meeting with the director, Stanija Gligorijevic, Vera Sekulic, 

the lntire aange librarian whose ,rk will soon be entirely taken 

over by Mirela Djokic, a og university-trained librarian .to speaks 

fluent American E1ish. The University of Vinglnia Library had had very 

little ccxtact with the Belgrade University Library until srj visit. I was 

surprised to flid auth eagerness en the part of my colleagues at 

"Syatosar Markxwic" for activatieg enthanges with American libraries. 

ligain I offered an exthange of $500 for Serbian isp?ints in the 

anities g,4.1 with selection lists sent to me before 

books are ehirced. I was told that they can send books ru.t theaper 

since they are net held to ctharge official ociasercial rates. 

)y cnly evening in Belgrade I spent in the delirtful ar' of 

Fasnija Gacinovic, is the eweoutive director of the lbright 

Caasission in Yugoslavia. Having been born In Pittehurgh, she speaks 

native American with ease. I bad made her acquaintance in tharlottesville 

in April, 1985, then abe vistad the University en a PuThright-apcnaorei 

tour of the Eastern Seaboard e was very helpful in erving hotel 

Mtirss for ma, a rather threnic problea in Belgrade. The 

next sorning I took off to D.ibrovnik by plane for a axh-neeied 

three-day rest to try to ours w bronrthitis and 1axitis en the blue 

Adriatic coast, 'where the weather was decidedly sore cheerful aid 

warmer than in rairy apeet and Belgrade. 

Since late June and early July is still low season, I was 

forthnate to flid loc%ing for $14 per night in a clean aid rather elegant 

private lune 4xee windows overlooked the Old n aid the Adriatic. 

*at sore wild one ask for. 

Fxra flbronhJc I lky to catth a boat for an eight-hour trip to 

Split with its magnificent Diocletian palace, ithicth is so big that it 

the Renan center of town. Slice I arrived en a Saturday, 

libraries were closed aid I was free to rose the asn labyrinth before 

taking off en Sunday for Zagrth, the capital of the Croatian Haç*iblic. 

Mirjana Gross, esinent Tugoslaw historian, r seni-retired, who 

taught at the University of Virginia several years ago, was a meet 

gracious hcetesa aid saw to it that I got a wry good fesslen of the 

lovely old city. The next sorning I was plcJced t at the madam aid 

very afortable. Hotel llbrovnlJc by Dzdica VUJvlc, he handles the 

American aid other sc*angee at the Naciemaina i Svsucilisna 

Biblioteka (National aid Uhiversity Library). She had made the hotel 

reservation for ma aid also played host to ma during the ..tole day. 

Croatia's National Library is housed in a mast meiable balding built 

in the Secession style of 1913, which thviously eurvived World War II 

with only minimal damage. Brenko HanS, the dity director of the libraxy, 

Elsara Saric, head af Acquisiticms aid Unrdica Vuic, spent the 

marning together disoussing our eiuthange prc.am, which is set at $2,500 

per year, again with the exdaare rate of $1 to 140 diners for Fl 1985/86. 

We also agreed that Zagrab will, true now on, send us preselection 

lists of Croatian titles in order for us to better coordinate our Yugoelav 

earqes and avoid duplication. &anko Hans told ma that the National 

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Library houses, in various storage 1ocati, juiluic,s of Western 

lam3uage antiquarian titles, itly iarints frca the 19th century. 

These books cane to the library after World War II fran private nera 

to left timat behixd or douated then. The Zagreb librarians are very 

amcicus to reduce this stock by extharqlng the books for ourrent inprints 

fran the West or eiipmait that is badly needed, lire aicrofflin viewers, 

etc. Pleased with the very generws Zagrab hospitality I left for 

Lj1jana, the capital of tM Slovenian Ipb1ic ard my last st ai this 

five-cintry trip. After a two-hour express train rids through 

breathta)dng r*ain scenery alcmg the vall' of the Ljubljanica River, 

I was mat at the statian by . 1enija Rosean, ourator of the 

Narodne Galerija, whan I bad net in tharlott.esville Beveral years ago 

md r had graciously offered to be my hostess. She had made 

arnegesients at three libraries for ma to mast the mdlanle librarians 

md &ed ma the lovely center of Liubijana while p.ahing her bicyle 

alcrg. I felt transported back to the 19th century. 

Sciw this Slovenian city with its river ourving thrc*41 it aid 

surrounded by m*mtairm has preserved a tcud of paradise. At the 

Biblioteka Slovensha Akadmaije znanosti In tmetncsti (the Library of the 

Slovanian Acadj of Scis aid Arts) I was received with old world 

tharm by Professor Prlz Paneve, to has been librarian for aver 

forty years aixi is also of the foreset rn Slovenian Iposers. 

He expressed great satisfactian with our laq-starding eiiarge 

relatiouship aid told me, in fluent German, that the piblicatiae of the 

Slovenian ),cadeszy are sent free of tharge to their partners. At the 

Ufliversity of Virginia Library we have an alarmt cxaplete set of SAZU's 

titles, bxt I had worried for years that ma did net fulfill our side of 

the aidange, )it Professor Pamvz seesed very pleased with it. With 

typical Central bropean graciousie, he led ma to my next meetinj 

at the Narodna In univerzitna Jcnjiznfra (Natimal aid University Library 

of Slovenia) to make sure that I ld be able to ctact the right pele, 

whith Indeed I did. I had a very cbaxsdng aid siaful cawersatiou 

with Mrs. Slavica Idcar, the edange librarian, with than I negotiated a 

yearly eiange of $500, particnlarly to include 23 Slavenian serials 

ard periodicals whidt I was able to cancel with Ynban & sagnsr. This 

exthangs has been working like a dress ever since I returned bane. I 

also bad the pleasure to inset I4Thael Glavan, the manuscripts 

librarian, who sid ma sans of the treasures of their oollection. I 

held may bard the first Slavenian bible, translated by 3'urij Ee]ir,atin arid 

printed In Wittenberg, Germarf in 1584, thereby establishing the 

Slovenian language. A ailture highlight in Xdubljana was the visit to the 

16 Iriternatic*ial Gra*iic Biennial, whith is held every two years in this 

Slovenian city aid whith ediibits n grabic art frc*u all aver the world; 

anether unforgettable event was my visit, under the guidance of my 

hestess 1. Rorman, to the oldest p2blic library In Dirope, the Semeniska 

lcnjiznica, a baroque jel, fa.uided In 1725 for the educatian and 

enjoyment of the 1ic. It Is rxxi part of a ccawent and ae has to be 

with a native with special privileges to be able to visit it. Thanks to 

Ksenija Roman, my final stop of a lctq b.t fascinating arid meet 

unforgettable trip to Fast Central Europe tumid into a grand finale. 

Angelika S. Ill 

University of Virginia Library 

(Aegeli)a will take another eange trip, this tine to Roland, April 

8-23, 1986. Editor's note.) 

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The Slavic Q1lectic at the University of Washinrtai 

The Slavic co].1ectict at the University of Washingti ccmtains 

250,000 volunes in the vernaclar in the soda]. ecienoes aid 

humanities. This figure does not inol'.xle naterials in languages not of 

the regic* nor does it inclnde materials in the ecienoes or the IsV 

Library. The ocllectii itself is relatively young, with the first Slavic 

BJ.bliogra2ic Coordinator having been açointM ce Sspterkier 15, 1958. 

Until that thea, even thc4 anguisitice of Russian materials began In the 

1940'., rrbcdy with a Russian language bacigrourd worked with the 

ocliactiom. In these early days the major eapiasi. was Russian history 

aid the East Ruropean co1l.cti re axsid.rsd sparse. It was not 

until the late 608 that the East EUrçean oullectim began to Into 

it. aI. 

Th Slavic aid East European collectice suorts the teading aid 

reeeard needs of the ebai*a aid facolty of the Depertrent of Slavic 

languages aid Litarathre, the Iiesian aid East European PL i.bic*i 

is the recipient of federal grant scsdes, aid, to a lesser extent, the 

Dspartsent of Near Eastern Languages aid Civilizaticet, there the 

Thrkic languages of the Soviet Unice are ta*4tt. The Interdisciplinary 

prngrama imlide a]t every branth of the social scienes aid 

humanities: history, language, literatore, xnioe, political .ciexx,e, 

geograty, folklore, misic aid art. Generally speaking the collecticet is 

atrorest In language, literatore aid historical. source material.. The 

collection also houses nearly complete serial rs of enst of the stholarly 

series of major "ies, universities aid learned societies, many 

filled in with microform aid rsprinta, aid a vast collection of nsspapers, 

both In hard ' aid on microfilm. In aitim, reform,, materials are 

a etrce area both for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europs. 

Th. work of maintaining this collection falls to the Slavic aid Fast 

Pl1ean Section, thid is ce of the three culIx:nenta of Area Sttriies, 

the other, being the Near East aid South Asia Sections. (The Far East 

is esperate froze Area Stdies aid baa its ozn library.) This ,ecticn was 

originally formad as part of the Cetaloging Divisicn in 1967, .tiere it 

resainei until 1979 tien Area Stidies was foz. All collection 

dsvelcçzeent activities, melding selection, eothange aid bThliograIiic 

eearthing aid verification, aid refermoe/piblio services activities 

including tours, bib1iograItic guides, aid .pecialized refere2, enanate 

frum this office. Th staff of the Section miets of full-tine 

librarians, 1.5 PIE tadmica]. staff aid approedmately 1.5 TE stdent 

assistants, With a arbined luiget of appraidsately $85,000 for 

ograts aid serials coming f bath the Libraries aid federal grant 

ey, the Section atteapta to maintain the quality of the collection 

through both ourrent aid retrospective porthasing. Having given this 

general backgrcurd of the collection, its users aid its caretakers, let us 

proceed to a sore detailed analysis of its specific straiqths. 

Collection Overview 

Eastern flie, incluithg the Balkan Peninsula, takes a secord place 

to Russian aid the Soviet Union. Hozever, there are Balm notable Past 

European holdings. The library has significant itograpItic aid journal 

literathre at Rilish lirquistioe aid folklore, Bobenian religious 

history, Slavic Collection at tM sources for the study of Central Europe 

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in the Middle Ages, aid oxiteuporary Yugoslavia, especially oatian 

literature. There is also a substantial collection of materials dealing 

with the Balican Peninsula as a whole. In addition, reference materials 

form an integral part of the collection, incliding nearly ccsplete 

runs of all the national bibliograies, aid virtually all the stardard 

blb1iograpiies,, encyclopedias aid dictionaries. The newspaper 

collection in this area inclides holdings of the major dailies of Polani, 

Czedice].ova)da, Hungary, lgaria, Ronmnia ard Yugoslavia frcmi 1944 to 

the present. Serial holdings are also strong. Generally speaking, the 

collections are struest In language, literature aid history. HcMever, it 

aust be noted that political science is also stxgly represented in the 

East European collections. It itains excellent holdings of official 

docoments of party gresses, parliamentary materials, census, 

statistical reports aid other rlications frcs the official ministries 

aid ccnnissicxs of the governuent, especially In relation to society, 

euny, finance aid foreign relations. It also Includes work on the 

axtibitiona1 history of Polard aid Thanania prior to 1930. 

Urdoubtedly the materials on Russia and Soviet Union stibite the 

real strengths of the collection at the University of Washington. It is 

trctqest in history, literature, linguistics arid Russian explorations, all 

of which will be discossed in detail later in this presentation. Other 

strengths include uxbagecgrahy, foreign policy, art, iasic aid 

eoxxaics, especially the sic oeoreaaic sodelling of the distribution arid 

allocation of reeonr In the Soviet Union. P.lso worth mentioning are 

th. notable reference materials which include virtually all the 

standard bibliographies, archival guides, encyclopedia, dictionaries, 

arri osplete runs of ithnaia letcois' , stcois zhurnal 'nvkh statsi, 

Letcois retsenzii, aid Istonis qazetrivth statej. Serials arid 

newspapers form an integral part of the Russian collection. In addition 

to crirrent newspapers such as pravda arid zvestiia which the library has 

on fins frcn their ini,tion in Soviet times, the collection also honses 

several older raipapers on film including a nearly plete run of 

Utro iseii aid has aciguired the fins set !sesners of the Ibmssian 

Revolutionary a In addition, there are nearly ocirplete runs on film of 

liiçiortant eadgre newspapers, such as Russ)caia 's1 , Ncvo& ruaskas 

arid Novvi s1Jcanete which is being filmed In-house at the 

university, aid at least one newspaper ficin each rmblic, Including 

Cazaci adietj, Pravda Voetdca arid Uzbeldston idebieti Va sanatJ. 

'flie serials collection, nuntering 5,000 titles in all areas, can be 

characterized by its cxsplete or near osplete runs of the major 

society aid university poblications arid all the "tolstye zhurnaly" of the 

lath arid 19th centuries. iaxg the serials housed in the collection 

are osplete rn of Vbered arid Viesthik Evrcov, plus rnarcims 

subject-oriented serials. 

It should also be noted that the autoncwms law Library houses a 

sizeable collection of Slavic materials including three editions of the 

Polnoe scbranie za3crr,v rcssiiskoi lsierii , Soviet laws arid decisions, 

ocmçlete runs of saea of the inst significant legal/political journals, 

Slavic 1lection at the UW court decisions, treaties aid treatises on 

law. Treaties Information is also housed In the main collection. 

Closely related to the legal material is the sizeable political 

science collection. Included in this are oceplete sets of the 

stenographic records of the pre-revoluticnary parliament, the 

directives for the five-year plans, arid reports firm the goverrmmnt 

planning offices, the central statistics bureau, the government 

ministries aid the Om.inist Perty. Ver)thovnyi Savet materials are 

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also In ab.mdanoe. Frce Inperial. Pussis, the collecticn has severs]. 

b,ortant itsea ir1zling the ccmçleta Doztaovvs razrl.adv, Go].itsyn's 

tflcazatel licimvith ixinaenyith V D'orstovv1th razriadaith aid 

:j .I *-:-. "IC.) c-.t IPX - - 

.The 

ooll.ctim also a*taths govermeent blicati as the census 

materials aid major yearbcoks. 

The oollsctim or Siberia is well-balanoed hiding edolarly 

studies, amta of travellers, aid official voltmss ubUsbed by 

Teariat goverimient agenoies. The library has two cxçies of the 

three-volume ziatskaia Thij plus both hard cupy aid fi]jn of 

prutdweko'a ibirskai oJaa1xw aid its Priloiia . As of mid-1984 the 

cullectior rantiered iIre than 2500 voluirse aid is cxxitinuhrq to grov 

both as a reflectior of faculty Interest aid the iaçortancie of the area. 

'ihe Caiitral Asian coilecticii got its start in 1969 with the 

beginning of the in ocmparative Tur)logy aid the iniividual 

'rurkic languages of ti Soviet Unict. The ocllecticxi is strest in 

language, linguistice, dialectology, foic1ore, especially I(aza)th aid 

xirgbiz epics, (iast notably Ifi), classical thagatai literature aid 

medern literature. It also incitsies basic wirce material aid rsferenos 

works in history, political scierv,e, ge.,Iif, ecx.*aeics aid 

ethnography. The ooflecticzi is divided eially by language with 

c*-thitd in western languages, ore-third in P,seIan aid me-third In 

the vernacular. Of the rblica the eipiasis is placed or 

Uzedstan aid Kaza]thetan, f011owed by KIxhiziatan, Pizerbaidjan aid 

ThzIonistan. Tadjiidstan is not really covered that well In the 

collectior, elthcugh scam porubasas are made. The majority of the 

collectica reflects its recent history, bit . older works are also 

held. Also well-wered are the Cantral Asian dialects, audi as Goldian, 

Leant, Se, aid thi. 

The University of Washingtcm Libraries Is also etrcn In 

materials relating to Pussian aicploraticris aid voyages. This collectior 

ruters açxatheately 2500 voltanes aid is d,aracterized by many 

rare itane. The materials cortained in this collecticn are listed in 

the Dicticnar%r cataloci of the Pacific Nortb,est Coflectin, id was 

ptliahed by G. K. Hall. A further bibliograby, 1orers aid Travellers' 

1currvls mterctirrt earlY contacts with Native ericens in the Pacific 

wes also piled, with a card catalog irdex by subject to 

these jcurna]s. This Uectin houeee virtually everything pertaining to 

1sian Aserica, incltdlng the orplete correspoidence of the Rissian 

America Ospany or microfilm. Th. real value of this collection lies in 

its many rare aid inportant itesm, all in the original edition aid In 

fair-to-emmllent cr*,diticn. Vrangel 'a Octark' iti aeaxs to be a unique 

as does the ]nenia to Kruzenshtern'e Ssnie sothuiiil . In 

addition there are six itane by Berith, aid Li itaas by aid ait 

Inicentii, Hetrcpolitan of Msccw, 1797-1879. Besides these 

printed materials, several ocçies or arthival materials are available 

as a 1741 ship's log of the vessel St. Peter, an cpinion of Vice 

Admiral Herders frun 1732-1743, aid papers aid documents of Grigoril. 

She1Ii related to the early history of Alaska aid Orthodc affairs. 

This collection is ore of the real treasures of the Soviet aid East 

flrcpsan collectime at the University of Washington. 

It shc*ild also be noted that the collection at the University of 

Washington Is also txte in fisheries materials. This collection is 

partially hca.med in the Fiaberies-0oeanograrIy Library with older 

ita in storage. It iixilides both arnogra*is aid serials aid the 

n1 ete fide set of the Canadian Tranelaticnis of Fisheries aid Accatic 

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Sciences. In this latter set aprcodmate1y 50% of the literature 

translated is RussIan, 30% Japanese aid 20% other lan3uages. 

Subect Strengths 

Ibe langaue aid literature allecticn at the University of 

Washingtctt is be of the major strezths of the collectic* for both the 

Soviet Unicti aid Eastern Europe. As already senticried, literature of the 

Central Asian rablicie aid literary criticiss of these works are heavily 

collected. This inclides not csly 1cgrarIic works bit also serial 

plicaticzis auth as Ala tcx aid Zuldvz. Uiibthdly Russian literature 

forma the biggest portim of the literature couectim. It is excellent 

in language studies aid belles-].ettres, lrltdin all major linguistic 

stidies (semiotic, tranefornatictial and statistical mathods In 

linguistica), works of the Russian classice aid coutenporazy authors, 

samizdat literature, aid emigre literature frctn both the 1920's in Paris 

aid Berlin aid the c*rrent emigre authors. The collection was further 

enrithed by the prdiase of the microfithe collection on Russian futurien. 

The collection also houses the Polnee scbranie soththenii of all major 

writers, nest in the Nauka edition, plus nuaurous Sthranie soctiinenii aid 

individual works. A ccnerted effort is also made to acquire all emigre 

piblications aid all oontaiorary literary works beis p.iblishid in the 

Soviety Unicti. Periodicals again form an integral part of the 

collection aid help make it a stra msearcii collection. 

East European literature is also well-represented, especially that 

of Yugoslavia, Poland aid CZ1OV&th As with Russian literature, 

the Libraries atteipta to collect at least a collected works of all 

major writers plus r1rous individual works aid literary criticiaia. 

Overags of the litermbe of Yugoslavia is exoeptictialy strca, 

prthably one of the best in the country. A recent Serbian visitor to 

the library was amazed by the quality of this collection, whith 

ocntains al] voln of the series Stan isci Hrvatski aid its 

jidern literary counterpart HIT. The Serbian authors Andric, Selisovic, 

1vico, ilatiic aid Krnpovic are very well covered along with several 

other major authors. Th. real strength of the collection, however, Is 

Croatian literature. The collection houses virtually every worby aid 

about Xrl.za, as hi. official biograer, Ivor Yapetanic, is their of 

University of Washinptai'. Deparbnent of Slavic languages aid 

Literatures. The collection is also BtrCzT4 in Qpic, Majda3c, Parun aid 

Ujevic. 

The literature of Czectoeloy'ald.a is strc*ig in the works of the 

classica incltxllxq sudi authors as Capek, Jirasek aid Neruda, the 

literature bebisen the two worlds wars aid emigre literature, with 

virtually all the works of 1ixdera, IMstig, Dense aid Skvorecky. Also 

notrthy is the collection on literary history aid literary criticise. 

Th Polish literature collection is distinguished by an extensive 

collecticn of World War II inesoir literature. Also iiriltded In this 

collecticn are excellent erage for ccnteiporaly authors as well as 

the r'tce, nest notably Mickiewicz, Slowacki, 1'asinski aid 

Sierikiewicz. The Libraries also has 49 voltmma of F].berg's Dziela 

wszvstkie ,whith has been referred to as "a milestone in folklore". 

I(ashubian language, literature aid ciulture are also covered with a fair 

aixunt of material. 

The primary strength of the Slavic collection at the University of 

Washington, however, lies in history aid historical source materials. 

This is especially true of Russian history where there is often sore 

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than one çy of isportant works. Nany of the irportant historical 

writhrj of s authors as Gradovekil, Kliucthevskii, I'stonarov, 

Itiliukav, Pokrovskii, Platc*xw, Vernadeky, rogcdin, Semevskii, 

Shdapov, Huller, aM aramzJn are included in the collection in duplicate 

copies. Por lirperial ssia, there are extensive holdings on the 

peasant question, laudholding aM serfdcin, as well as ccmplete runs of 

the Ixrperial serial publications aM a nearly oxplete set of 

Poince scbranie nmsklith letcvisei, xcet in the original 1st edition (V. 

2-34, V. 1 in 2d ed). There is also a wealth of infoziiiatic*i on the 

Debrists. 

The Revolutions of 1905 aM 3.917 aM the history of revolutionary 

soveswts are also well represented, as well as biograMcal aM Ir 

literature of B3lsbevik aM non-Bolabeviic leaders, including ?igner's 

Za2atlsuWi trod, therix,,'. Ztsld sotsialista revoliutsionera, 

aM works both by aM about Breshko-&eshkovskaia, Ferenskil, Savinkoc, 

aM Spridonova Periodicals fras this time period include caiplete or 

nearly oceplete runs of Gobs inlzaivshaao , .rthiv russkoi revoliutsiia, 

aM Poliarred.a zvie . I'at Newpers frcn 

the 1ussian Revolutic*rv Era is ocmpletad, the holdings of newspapers 

frau this tise period will also be excellent. The streni of this 

collection crzitiriues into the Soviet period, Iloding the five-year 

plans, political tracts aimed at crcceition grwpa, foreign policy, 

1nternatiäal oceimmimu sod works by aM about Soviet leaders. 

Serials ocritiraie to be another strcrq point in the collection, including 

ocziplete rz of virtually all the major historical publications. 

East Huropean history has sate definite strengths. Of note is the 

historical material on Czeccelovakia. A].thxi it is no longer a strong 

fis of collecitxxi developient, the Interest in Bthemica began long 

before en interest in the Ba1kan developed. As a result, the collection 

houses many early aM rare iuprthts, many of uthidt are Latin, for 

exanpl. &aodl'ø Glcesariwe illustrare bc ico avicae histories. 

fonts. The primary strength of this collection is the Hussite period in 

Bohenia, 1.380-1620. The University of Ishington has, pi:thably, one of 

the best overall collections on this topic in the United. States. 

The collection is also excellent for the study of medieval Polaid, 

as it is for medieval history of the rest of Cntral Hurcp.. SCam gape do 

exist in the ubzy of POlish history, e.g., historical materials beteween the 

16th aM 19th centuries are not quite as stron as materials for the early 

history of Polahi, b.it it picks up again frau the beginrnaing of the 20th 

century to the present. Historical sourne material, for Hungary are also 

quite good, a reflection of faculty Interest. The collection includes 

rarities mi as lcorabinsky's Atlas renni Hirariae, a o(]iplete set of 

Pejer's Ctdex dislaraticued lluxxiariae aM the 42 volune set of thrtus 

iuris Hun3arict.. In addition, the collection houses virtually all the 

inventories, catalog. aM serial ,lications of the Hungarian National 

Ardvea. 

Althc4i Rctnania has never been an inportant part of collection 

developicent activities, it is fairly stron in history, or!*aining 

several rare aM out-of-print iteam. 

Because of the strong faculty interest In the Balkans, especially 

Yuo.lavia, the collection in history is stru. Its main strength is 

20th century, idi ta i.here the primary eaasis has been placed. 

Included in it are the doasnents aM official records of the main aM 

regional govermr.ent bodies aM Information on the develcçrient of 

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