Structuring a Successful Instruction Internship

Internships and practicums allow MLS students the opportunity to gain knowledge of and experience with information literacy instruction. These experiences can supplement the theoretical information learned in graduate information literacy classes. Yet, the literature on structuring and creating a successful internship experience is sparse. This article reports on a survey of interns who completed an instruction internship at George Washington University's (GWU) Gelman Library and provides seven recommendations for creating a successful internship program.     

New Documents on the History of the Russian Historical Archive Abroad in Prague

The article discusses a newly-discovered collection of administrative documents and correspondence from the Russkii zagranichnyi istoricheskii arkhiv [Russian Historical Archive Abroad], which was active 1924–1945. The collection is housed in the Slavonic Library in Prague. It is important for both the history of the archive itself and the history of the Russian emigration. An inventory list of the collection is now available on the library's Web site.     

Trip to Russia and Uzbekistan,April 2013

The author reports on her trip to Moscow and Uzbekistan. In Moscow she attended and presented a paper at the conference Rumiantsevskie chteniia [Rumiantsev readings] 2013. After the conference she set up a new approval plan for Yale University Libraries with Natasha Kozmenko Booksellers. In Tashkent she participated in the seventh international conference Information and Library Resources for Science, Education, Culture, and Business: Central Asia 2013. She and some of the other participants also traveled to Samarkand.     

The Pacific Resources Room at Hawaii Loa College

Construction of the Boyd MacNaughton Pacific Resources Room in the Library at Hawaii Loa College was completed in December, 1985. Unlike archives and many special collections facilities, the Pacific Resources Room was designed to serve the needs of undergraduate teaching in the liberal arts. The book collection of approximately 3,500 volumes and a small periodicals collection were gathered over a period of twenty years through library purchases and donations from private collectors of Hawaiiana and Pacificiana.     

Early Soviet Visual Antireligious Propaganda: The Display of Print Images in the Past,Present and Digital Future

ABSTRACT

This study examines information about the display of early Soviet visual anti-religious propaganda in the past in order to conceptualize its re-presentation in the digital future. Based on recent research conducted in the Hoover Institution Library and Archive and other American and Russian collections, it considers printed visual images of the 1920s–1930s, including posters. It also investigates the theory and practices that guided their display detailed in the specialized literature and disseminated in the anti-religious periodicals Bezbozhnik and Bezbozhnik u stanka. These materials make it possible to recover the structures and contents of historic propaganda displays and to replicate and re-exhibit them virtually with digital technologies.     

The Trouble With Bibliographies: Where Is Mezhov When You Need Him?

This is a review of twelve bibliographies that reflect the holdings of the Russian collection in Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii focusing on Siberia, the Soviet/Russian Far East, and Russia in Asia and the Pacific, especially Russians in China. The chosen titles represent a mixture of the great, the average, and not-so-good that the author has used over the past four decades. While there is a question about the usefulness of bibliographies in this digital age, most of the old standards should still play a role in academic scholarship.     

The Readership of the Current Periodical and Newspaper Collection in the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library

A call slip analysis for the years 1985 through September 1988 was conductcd in the Slavic and Baltic Division of the New York Public Library in order to determine the usage of the Current Periodical and Newspaper Collection by the Division's patrons. The conclusion of this analysis was that the most read materials were newspapers published in Russian. It confirmed findings of earlier studies on Russian or Soviet readership that newspapers are the primary source of information about current events in the Soviet Union for Russian readers. Russian emigres constitute a majority of the Division's patrons.     

Collecting the Revolution: New Directions in Research

ABSTRACT

This essay reports on the latest efforts to assess the collections of materials relating to the Russian Revolution held in the Hoover Institution and the New York Public Library (NYPL). The first section reviews the presentations made by Bertrand Patenaude, Michael Herrick, and Robert Davis during the roundtable “Collecting the Revolution” at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in November 2017. The second presents additional information documenting the development of NYPL’s and Hoover’s collections located in The Wisconsin State Historical Society Archive and the Archive of the Russian State Library.     

Original Cataloging at the New York Chiropractic College Media Resources Library

This article is about the conceptual framework of the original cataloging process that is used to catalog the audiovisual a materials at the New York Chiropractic College Media Resources Library. The cataloging norms serve as the conceptual underpinnings to the Cataloging Policy Manual of the New York Chiropractic College Media Resources Library. The paper describes the use of the various cataloging standards and policies that are used as well as the use and assignment of the National Library of Medicine classification to ensure access to the audiovisual collection.     

国家图书馆俄文“中国学”（汉学）书刊的国际交换回顾与展望

书刊文献的国际交换是图书馆采访工作的一部分,也是文献来源的一个重要渠道,国家图书馆中国学（汉学）外文文献国际交换工作经历了一个渐进的过程,特别是俄文中国学（汉学）文献的交换,更是经历了一个从不太重视到非常重视的过程。对国家图书馆俄文中国学（汉学）文献国际交换工作做一个历史回顾与未来展望,对我们了解俄罗斯汉学家的研究成果大有裨益。     

网络环境下高校图书馆实现文献信息资源共享的若干思考

~~网络环境下高校图书馆实现文献信息资源共享的若干思考@赵翠玲$太原重型机械学院图书馆!山西太原030024~~~~[1] 刘凤泰．在教育部高等学校图书情报工作指导委员会第二次会议上的讲话．大学图书馆学报,2001．(3)． [2] 庄琦,曹雄伟．上海高校网络图书馆的探索与实践．大 学图书馆学报,2001,(3)． [3]赵禁,张卫华．网络环境下大学图书馆的信息资源建设与共享．大学图书馆学报,2003,(2)． [4] 张九庆．关于当前我国科技政策与体制改革评价的十点思考．新华文摘,2002,(8)．…     

Collection Development Trip to Moscow,Tallinn, Riga,and Vilnius,May 3–23, 2013

The author traveled to Moscow, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius in May 2013. The primary purpose of the trip was to acquire materials written by former participants in the University of Iowa’s (UI) International Writing Program (IWP). The UI Libraries has an approval plan for works written by IWP authors from selected countries, including those she visited, but this trip was an opportunity to locate harder to identify materials and to learn from the writers themselves about their current projects.     

MINERVA: Archiving Born-Digital Material at the Library of Congress

ABSTRACT

MINERVA (Mapping the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive) is the Library of Congress's largest archive of born-digital materials. The article discusses crawling to find material, selection, copyright considerations, the importance of metadata, cataloging, and the user interface.     

The Origins of the Russian Collection at the Library of Congress (1800–1906)

This article traces the development of the Russian collection at the Library of Congress during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Library of Congress, which was intended to be a small legislative library, initially added books about Russia in English translation and on limited subjects. The purchase of the Jefferson library brought the first Russian-language books to the collection, but the Russian collection would not truly begin to grow until the 1866 Smithsonian Deposit and the development of international exchanges in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The author made heavy use of the many printed Library of Congress catalogs and supplements, as well as archival sources, in the course of this research.     

Travel Report: Moscow,St. Petersburg,and Vladimir Province,Russia August 31–September 14, 2011

The article describes a research trip to Russia in September 2011. Activities focused on three Russian collections at the Library of Congress: the Iudin Collection, the Prokudin-Gorskii Photograph Collection, and the Russian Imperial Collection.     

The Health Sciences Library Network in Russia

Abstract

The recent, important events in the ex-Soviet Union have not only been political. The world of libraries has begun to be opened up and the changes have even reached the most famous institutions, such as, for example, the State Central Scientific Medical Library in Moscow, which is at the head of a network of scientific and research libraries, and has created the first Russian scientific database. This article was written after the congress of the IFLA (International Federation of Librarian Associations) in August 1991.     

Cards and Reflections: The Eugene Gros Collection of Sputnik-Era Technical Literature at Texas A&M University

ABSTRACT

British translator and publisher of Russian technical literature Eugene Gros, evidently of Czech origin, collected over two thousand titles published in the Soviet Union from approximately 1945 to 1965. These books are now at Texas A&M University library, which introduced the books into the OCLC online union catalog from Library of Congress catalog cards while updating name entries, series, subject headings, and classification numbers. Publishers, notable authors, and titles in the Gros collection are surveyed, proceeding from power, mechanical and civil engineering, metallurgy and defense (e.g., aerospace and electrical engineering) to Academy of Sciences and popular publications on science and technology. Book title imagery and style are another perspective on the collection.     

The Prokudin-Gorskii Collection of Early 20th Century Color Photographs of Russia at the Library of Congress: Unexpected Consequences of the Digitization of the Collection, 2000–2017

The article describes activities in Russia related to the Library of Congress’ Prokudin-Gorskii collection of early 20th century color photographs. The collection was digitized in 1999/2000 and is freely available on the Internet. Russian interest in the photographs has resulted in websites, blogs, documentary films, dissertations, exhibitions, and books about the collection and the photographer and his work.