The Collection
The Slavic
Reference Service is responsible for the non-circulating reference collection
of materials covering Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. Previously
organized by general geographic region, the Slavic Reference Service has
reorganized its reference collection by country. This collection includes the following sections: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Russian
Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan,
Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and General Slavic, East Europe, and Eurasia.
The
General Slavic, East Europe, and Eurasia Collection contains a variety of
materials. The reference materials include indexes, bibliographies, biographies,
encyclopedias, transcription materials, transliteration and Romanization
tables, dictionaries, museum and archive guides, law reference, and atlases.
These materials cover large geographic regions, different ethnic groups, and
general Slavic topics that transcend country lines and their borders. Access to vital information from these sources is now digitally available:
The Project
Slavic
Reference Service Graduate Assistant, Kevin Adams, digitized the title pages,
introductions, and table of contents of each monograph and serial in the
General Slavic Collection. These scans were compiled and curated on the digital
publishing platform, Scalar. The scans are meant to provide a snapshot of the
contents in this collection, and can help patrons identify articles or chapters
that may be of interest to them. This digital publication is titled Slavic Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
The
digital content and publishing platform, Scalar, allows patrons to browse the collection as it
appears on the shelf by call number. Because this is a quite extensive
collection, call numbers are divided into three sections. The Table of Contents
for the General Slavic Reference Collection allows patrons to quickly identify
the areas of the virtual shelf that they would like to browse.
Highlights
One of the
most popular monographs in the General Slavic Collection is Women
& Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia (Volumes 1 &2). The now digitized
Table of Contents, allows scholars to consult the encyclopedic content of these
volumes, in order to identify the chapters or articles that may be of interest
to them.
Less
popular, but equally useful and interesting are two volumes: ThePeriodical Publications of the Jewish Labour and Revolutionary Movements in Easternand Southeastern Europe 1877-1916 and EastEuropean Peasantries: Social Relations: An Annotated Bibliography of PeriodicalArticles. These volumes are both extremely helpful reference sources
for identifying newspaper articles that are otherwise sparsely indexed. Now
that the Tables of Contents have been digitized, scholars will be able to
identify if these volumes will be helpful for their research.
