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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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