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The Slavic and East European Resources and Facilities of the Library of Congress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Paul L. Horecky
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Although, before the First World War, Slavic affairs received but little attention in the United States, libraries were in this respect somewhat ahead of the times and started building their collections at a relatively early juncture. It is true that in 1901 Herbert Putnam, then Librarian of Congress, found that the Library proper could count only 569 Russian and 97 Polish books among its own holdings. The Russian collection, he commented, “has few of the original authorities, and is weak in modern descriptive works. On the history of Russia and on the Crimean War [there are] only a few of the principal authorities.” Yet pursuant to an act of Congress passed in 1866, the Library held in deposit, though not in ownership, a more substantial if not very appreciable set of publications which had been received by the Smithsonian Institution in exchange for materials supplied to learned institutions in East and East Central Europe.

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Slavic Review , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , June 1964 , pp. 309 - 327
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1963

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References

1 Biographic material on G. V. Yudin and accounts of this acquisition can be found in: HHKOjraii H. BaKafi, 3aMtbnamenuoe tcumoxpanujiuine e eocmoHuou Cu6upu (Bu6xiome%a T. B. lOduua) (Moscow: Pechatnia A. I. Snegirova, 1896), 15 pp.; Alexis V. Babine, The Yudin Library: Krasnoiarsk (Eastern Siberia) … (Washington, D.C.: Judd and Detweiler, 1905), 40 pp.; Sergius Yakobson, “An Autobiography of Gennadii Vasil'evich Yudin,” Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, III (Feb., 1946), 13-15; and Report of the Librarian of Congress (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907), pp. 20-24.

2 The Letters of Lenin, trans, and ed. Elizabeth Hill and Doris Mudie (New York, 1937), p. 27.

3 () (Novosibirsk, 1961), pp. 221-32.

4 For surveys of Library of Congress Slavic and East European collections see particularly: Morley, Charles, “Libraries with Major Russian Collections,” Guide to Research in Russian History (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1951), pp. 1–16 Google Scholar; Morley, Charles, “Major Russian Collections in American Libraries,” Slavonic and East European Review, XXIX (Dec, 1950), 256–66Google Scholar; Ornstein, Jacob, “Facilities and Activities of the Library of Congress in the Slavic and East European Field,” American Slavic and East European Review, XII (Dec, 1953), 549–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Yakobson, Sergius, “The Library of Congress, Its Russian Program and Activities,” American Review on the Soviet Union, VII (Aug., 1946), 51–66.Google Scholar

5 Moscovia der Haupstadt in Reissen durch Herrn Sigmunden Freyherrn zu Herberstain … (Vienna: Michael Zimmerman, 1557), 88 leaves, folio. See also Gsovski, Vladimir, “Early Travels in Russia,” Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, IV (Feb., 1947), 8–10.Google Scholar

6 Dorosh, John T., “The Alaskan Russian Church Archives,” Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, XVIII (Aug., 1961), 193–203 Google Scholar

7 An English translation of this correspondence, prepared by Hugh McLean, with an introductory essay by Sergius Yakobson, appeared in Harvard Slavic Studies (Cambridge, Mass., 1953), pp. 279-334.

8 In 1956 Professor Jaroslav B. Rudnyckyj, of the University of Manitoba, surveyed as a consultant on Ukrainian materials the Library's Ukrainian collection. The above data are based on his unpublished report.

9 Horecky, Paul L., “The Czech Renaissance, Viewed Through Rare Books,” Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, XIV (May, 1957), 95–107 Google Scholar.

10 Professor Charles Jelavich of Indiana University studied this collection in detail and reported his findings in an article entitled “Bulgarian ‘Incunabula,'” published in the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, XIV (May, 1957), 77-94.

11 For a detailed discussion of this Missal see Barbara Krader, “The Glagolitic Missal of 1483,” Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, XX (Mar., 1963), 93-98.

12 Joannes de Sacro Bosco, Introductiorium copendiosum in Tractatu spere materialis magistri Joannis de Sacrobusto que abbreuiauit ex Almagesti sapietis Ptholomei Claudij phi alexddrini ex pheludio pgeniti p magistru Joanne Glogouiensem foeliciter recollectu, Epigramma ad lectorem [16 lines in verse] … (Krakow, 1513), 79 1.

13 This microprint edition is being implemented, with the cooperation of the American Library Association's Committee on Resources and the Library of Congress, by Readex Microprint Corporation, New York City.