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{"title":"Historical Collections for the Future: A Note on Modernist Books at Columbia and Cornell","authors":"S. Mansbach","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.1985716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.1985716","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The two specialized collections from the libraries of Cornell and Columbia Universities represent an expansive array of holdings of keen interest to diverse publics. Capitalizing on the rich scope of materials – from modernist book images and broadsides to sheet music to booklets and pamphlets, many recently and strategically acquired – enables the collections not only to promote original scholarship but also to creatively engage students of the humanities and social sciences broadly.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"23 1","pages":"240 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42265018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A. E. Presniakov: A Note on His Library at Columbia and His Contributions to the History of Russia","authors":"R. Wortman","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.1985711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.1985711","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper recounts the details of the purchase of the historian E. A. Presniakov’s Russian library by the Columbia University Library in 1930 and gives a general description of its components and significance. It uses the library as the basis for a general assessment of the breadth and depth of Presniakov historical contributions, concluding that the originality of insight and interpretation place him among a number of great prerevolutionary historians. The lateness of his professional development, culminating after the Bolshevik seizure of power and during the vicissitudes of the 1920s, and then his early death by cancer have deprived him of that recognition. This paper describes and assesses his major works on medieval Russia, the Lithuanian-Russian state and Ukraine, as well as his late writings on nineteenth century monarchs.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"23 1","pages":"90 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45967621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geroid Tanquary Robinson: An Architect of American Area Studies","authors":"N. Knight","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.1985710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.1985710","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Geroid Tanquary Robinson (1892–1971) was a pioneering scholar of Russian studies in the United States. As founder of Columbia University’s Russian Institute (now Harriman Institute) Robinson created one of the premier centers for the study of Russian and the Soviet Union and, in the process, set in place a model for area studies programs that would be widely emulated. This article traces Robinson’s biography and intellectual influences, while outlining his contributions to the field of Russian studies.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"23 1","pages":"73 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43267608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Compiling a Guide to Open Access Historical News Sources from Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Countries","authors":"Ernest A. Zitser, Bogdan Horbal","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2018245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2018245","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The digitization of historical news sources – both print and audio-visual – has altered the information landscape for researchers in all scholarly disciplines that investigate the past. Thanks to the initiative of nonprofit cultural heritage institutions, commercial enterprises, and joint public-private partnerships, researchers now have a plethora of electronic resources at their disposal. Unfortunately, only a portion of this data is freely available online, and what is available is generally scattered all over the internet. While guides to contemporary (currently active) news media outlets and newspapers abound, historical news sources are more difficult to locate. This article describes the authors’ efforts to compile and publish an online guide to open access historical news sources from Slavic, East European, and Eurasian countries. It outlines the selection criteria, describes the guide’s layout, and provides a survey of preliminary usage statistics.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"263 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44863164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Arabic Script Rare Books at the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan: An Annotated Bibliography","authors":"Akram Khabibullaev","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2018249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2018249","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This bibliography lists and describes forty-one volumes of old and rare books in Arabic script held in the Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan located in Bishkek. This small but unique collection has been neglected, untouched, and uncatalogued due to lack of linguistic expertise. The publication dates of the books in the collection generally range from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Each bibliographic entry consists of the original Arabic title of the work, full imprint information, and a brief annotation. Most items described in this bibliography are not found in modern catalogs, including the WorldCat database. This bibliography is a first step in providing access to one of the many hidden and rare collections in Central Asia.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"331 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43207343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rare Books from Imperial Russia and Its Predecessor States in the UC Berkeley Library","authors":"Liladhar R. Pendse","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2018247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2018247","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present article discusses the University of California-Berkeley’s collection of select rare books from Imperial Russia and its predecessor states while relating this tracing to the history of printing in Russia. For this case study, a sample of pre-Petrine era and early Imperial Russian books that were published before 1800 was gathered and analyzed for the subject distribution. This article provides some historical background on how this collection evolved over the history of UC Berkeley. The collection was also analyzed based on Old Church Slavonic and Russian along with the places of imprints within the Russian Empire. The purpose of this case study was to document the rare books from pre-Imperial and Imperial Russia while providing the ancillary yet useful information about the Russian Studies collection development at UC Berkeley.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"287 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49372414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Video Appeals to the President of Russia: Creating a Born-Digital Primary Source Collection","authors":"A. Rakityanskaya","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2018250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2018250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Video appeals to the president of Russia are a primary source of unprecedented richness for the study of various aspects of contemporary Russian life. Online videos are recorded by diverse groups and individuals in Russia as attempts to prompt President V.V. Putin to directly resolve specific social, economic, cultural, and environmental problems; and to express opinions on a variety of issues or to wish him well. The content of this material and its role as a historical source can be compared to epistolary archives and, specifically, letters to the authorities written by Soviet citizens. This paper describes an experimental project in collecting, preserving, and providing access to these videos.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"344 - 355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46244021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Al’manakh bibliofiliv. Knyha persha [The Almanac of Bibliophiles. Book One]","authors":"Ostap Kin","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2025866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2025866","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"385 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42312628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why Collect Zines?: Notes on the Soviet and Russian Rock Zine Collection in the Global Resources Center of George Washington University Libraries","authors":"M. Yoffe","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2018246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2018246","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the phenomenon of rock music zines in the Soviet Union and Russia, focusing on the historical value of zines, as well as their tradition within the realm of samizdat, a milieu where zines flourished, with their writers-editors, production values, types of design, and audiences. Types of zines are discussed as well as their relationship to traditional samizdat. The collection of rock music zines in that International Counterculture Archive at the George Washington University (GWU) Library’s Global Resources Center is described in this regard with special notes given to the provenance of the collection as well as to the cataloging and descriptive approach to processing the rock music zine collection.","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"276 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48234412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Jon C. Giullian","doi":"10.1080/15228886.2021.2031626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2031626","url":null,"abstract":"Welcome to the final issue (v. 22, no. 3–4) of Slavic & East European Information Resources(SEEIR) for 2021, a double issue featuring several unique collections, new digital resources, a captivating memoir, and one book review. I offer congratulations to all the authors for their excellent work, and gratitude for submitting revisions in a timely manner. Thanks also goes to my fellow editors for their efforts to meet an accelerated publication deadline – this issue would not have been possible without their work. The Research Articles section opens with an article by Erik Zitser and Bogdan Horbal describing their effort to “compile and publish an online guide to open access historical news sources from Slavic, East European and Eurasian [SEEE] countries.” The authors first explain how this new guide facilitates remote access to historical newspapers and fills a gap that has heretofore existed in the current bibliographic landscape; then briefly discuss ideological and practical questions that help readers to understand why the authors chose a particular platform for the guide. The bulk of the article details the guide’s layout, criteria for selecting resources for each country in the SEEE region, and preliminary usage statistics suggesting the guide’s utility in meeting researchers’ needs. Samples from the guide are accompanied by screen shots and data figures on usage. In their conclusion, the authors encourage users to submit corrections, suggest additions, or volunteer to co-curate one or more of the guide’s sections, making it clear that Zitser and Horbal envision the guide to be a cooperative affair that bridges gaps, crosses borders, and builds community within the field. The second research article, by Mark Yoffe, discusses the value of collecting non-traditional publications, such as the collection of rock music zines housed in the International Counterculture Archive at the George Washington University (GWU) Library’s Global Resources Center. Yoffe begins by describing the social milieu in which Russian and Soviet rock zines were created and subsequently contextualizes zine production within the broader tradition of samizdat. Noting how rock zines reflected the subculture/counterculture among certain currents of Russian and Soviet youth, the author outlines different types and forms of rock zines that emerged during the Soviet period. Images of several rock zines from GWU Library’s collection offer vibrant samples of the different forms. In contrast to the collective spirit of official Soviet society, the author points out the individualism and democratic culture that characterized rock zine production during the Soviet period. Yoffe’s SLAVIC & EAST EUROPEAN INFORMATION RESOURCES 2021, VOL. 22, NOS. 3–4, 259–262 https://doi.org/10.1080/15228886.2021.2031626","PeriodicalId":35387,"journal":{"name":"Slavic and East European Information Resources","volume":"22 1","pages":"259 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41531621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}