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Новости
Славянской
и Восточно-Европейской Библиотеки
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Online Slavic Bibliography Guide
The Slavic and East European Library is offering an
online introductory guide in Slavic
Information Resources (SRL 300). A guest id is available,
however to receive a unique user name and password please
contact Helen Sullivan hfsulliv@uiuc.edu
about registering. Registration is free. The Librarians
at the Slavic and East European Library designed the
guide and it is run on WebCT server software. You only
need a Java enabled browser, such as Netscape or Internet
Explorer, on your computer to access the course, no
additional software is necessary. To log into the course
go to: http://webct.cites.uiuc.edu/public/su01srl300/index.html.
Click here to view a sample
page from the course.
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Slavic Virtual Reference Desk
On January 28, 2002 the Slavic Reference Service of
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign launched
a new service: The Slavic Virtual Reference Desk. Patrons
are able to discuss their questions in live
chat sessions with reference librarians from the
Slavic Reference Service, as well as the Jagiellonian
Library (Jagiellonian University) in Kraków,
Poland, and the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg,
Russia. The librarians of the Slavic Reference Service
will be available for consultations Monday-Friday, 9
a.m. - 3 p.m., Central Time. The sessions with reference
librarians in Poland and Russia will be available by
appointment only. Beginning in Fall 2002 we began using
a new chat software produced by Docutek.
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Staff News
Miranda Beaven Remnek is the new head of the
Slavic and East European Library.
Marek Sroka, Assistant Slavic Cataloger, has
won the Justin
Winsor Prize, presented by the American Library
Association (ALA) Library History Round Table (LHRT).
The award is presented annually to the author of an
outstanding essay embodying original historical research
on a significant subject of library history. Sroka won
the prize for his essay: "The Destruction of Jewish
Libraries and Archives in Cracow (Krakow) During World
War II."
 Susanne
Birgerson of the Slavic and East European Library's
Acquisitions Staff has recently published this book
issued by Praeger Press. "Birgerson examines the
endurance of economic and political institutions established
during the Soviet period and how their endurance has
comprised the independence of the former republics."
 Helen
Sullivan has co-authored this annotated bibliography
with Bob Burger. "The thematic content of the selected
books deals with the effects of the transition from
socialism to market economies and with the social, political
and cultural effects of this transformation, as well
as the civil war in the Yugoslav peninsula and the Holocaust."
Spring 2002: Julia Dolinnaya is a GA with the
Slavic Reference Service and in Slavic Acquisitions.
Natalia Misirpashaeva is a GA for Slavic Acquisitions
and Slavic Cataloging. Diana Eynon and Andrea
Imre are GAs with Slavic Cataloging. Victoria
Panfyorova has joined the Slavic Reference Service
as a GA. Ellen Knutson, Karen Kohn and Jyldyz
Bekbalaeva have left . All of the graduate assistants
are enrolled in the Graduate Program of Library and
Information Science at the University of Illinois.
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Eastview Russian/NIS Databases
Those visiting the library will
have access to four extensive databases of current Russian/NIS
publications compiled by Eastview: Russian Central Newspapers,
Russian Regional Newspapers, CIS and Baltic Periodicals,
and Russian Parliamentary Publications. Simply
visit Eastview's site from any terminal in the library.
The address is http://dlib.eastview.com/
Most titles are archived for the last few years,
but for a complete list of the titles and the dates
included in the databases, click on the Browse Titles
button on the main Eastview newspaper database screen.
These databases are only available
through terminals in the library. If you have any questions
or problems, please do not hesitate to ask in the Slavic
Library.
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