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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 57
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 58
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