GLEETT - University of Washington

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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