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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 59
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 60
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