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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 13
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). 14
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