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Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago

CEERES
Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies
Center for International Studies
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Committee on Central Eurasian Studies (University of Chicago)
Committee on Jewish Studies
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society

OTHER LIBGUIDES OF INTEREST

Slavic & East European Literatures

Transliteration of Non-Latin Alphabets

In the University of Chicago online catalog and LENS, in WorldCat and many other databases, as well as the online catalogs of most other North American research libraries, Cyrillic alphabets are transliterated into Latin characters using the Library of Congress transliteration tables, which vary slightly from language to language. Even though there are many transliteration schemes available, to obtain accurate and complete search results when using these databases, you must use Library of Congress transliteration.

Library of Congress Transliteration Tables for Cyrillic Alphabets
Slavic Languages (Russian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian)
Non-Slavic Cyrillic Languages (Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Moldovan, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Uzbek)
TRANSLIT.RU
GOOGLE TRANSLITERATION

Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies Collections at the University of Chicago Library

The Slavic and East European collections contain over 588,500 volumes on Russia and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as the countries of Eastern Europe, including Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. The collections, which are accessed through the Library's Horizon Catalog and LENS browser, include material from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences and in all of the vernacular languages of these geographic areas. The collections are especially strong in Slavic philology and linguistics, Russian and other Slavic literatures, history, economics, political science, geography, and the history of religions. The Slavic Reference Collection, numbering over 7,500 volumes, is located at the east end of the Second Floor Reading Room (RR2S), and includes a wide selection of specialized bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, serial indexes, library catalogs, archival guides and other research aids.

CHANGES FOR THE SLAVIC REFERENCE COLLECTION AND THE HISTORY COLLECTIONS IN REGENSTEIN BOOKSTACKS

As part of the general reconfiguration of the Regenstein reading rooms, the Slavic Reference Collection has been moved. It is now located in the eastern section of the 4^th Floor Reading Room of Regenstein Library (a change from its previous location in the front center aisle). The 2^nd and 3^rd floor reading rooms now house a General Reference Collection in one A-Z Library of Congress classification (a merging of the various Humanities and Social Sciences reference materials previously located in reading rooms 2-5). Call numbers A-L of general reference will locate in the Second Floor Reading Room and call numbers M-Z will locate in the Third Floor Reading Room.

As part of the general reconfiguration of the Regenstein bookstacks, materials classified in D (World History) are now, for the first time, located together in one sequence in the 2^nd Floor Bookstacks. This includes:

DAW (History of Central Europe)

DB (History of Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austro-Hungarian Empire)

DF (History of Ancient & Modern Greece)

DK (History of Russia/Soviet Union and former Soviet Republics; History of Poland)

DJK (History of Eastern Europe)

DR (History of the Balkans, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania; Yugoslav successor states)

Special Collections

One of the many photographs taken by Samuel Northrup Harper during his visits to Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

WHAT'S NEW IN E-RESOURCES ??

You've indicated that you'd like to see more e-books, so we're starting to acquire them. Below are a few to review.

NEW E-BOOKS ACQUISITIONS

DATABASES

Izvestiia Digital Archive
Soviet Samizdat Periodicals (University of Toronto)
Pravda Digital Archive
Databse of Publications From Central Asia

OTHER

What's New in Print & Microform ?

NEW SERIAL TITLES

Blok. Międzynarodowe pismo poświęcone kulturze stalinowskiej i poststalinowskiej (Bydgoszcz) [HX40.B56]
Cultures d'Europe centrale (Paris) [AZ638.5.A1C85]
Folklorica (Lexington) [GR138.S44 Regenstein]
Istoricheskii vestnik (Nal'chik) DK511.C21757]
Linguistica Copernicana (Torun) [P9.L49]
Literaturoznawstwo (Lodz) [PG7001.L56]
Politics in Central Europe: The Journal of the Central European Political Science Association (Plzen) [DAW1001.P65]
Politiko-filosofskii ezhegodnik (Moskva) [JA74.5.P646]
Russkoe vremia: zhurnal konservativnoi mysli (Moskva) [JC573.2.R88]
Sovremennoe eseninovedenie (Riazan') [PG3476.E8Z4586]
Tsitata (Moskva) [PG2900.T75]
Vestnik Obshchestva issledovatelei Drevnei Rusi (Moskva) [PG3001.V48]
Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Cracow) [PR6005.O4Z4581Y43]
Zinziver: Sankt-Peterburgskii literaturno-khudozhestvennyi zhurnal (SPb) [PG3199.Z55]

OTHER NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS

Anti-Semitism and Nationalism at the End of the Soviet Era (138 fiches) [microfcDK285.5.A585 1993 3rd floor microforms]
Litsevoi letopisnyi svod XVI veka: Russkaia letopisnaia istoriia. 2009- v. 1- [PG3300.L58L58 2009 Regenstein bookstacks]
Russian Regional Archival Guides (250 guides on 30 reels of microfilm) [microfmCD1711.R87 2003 3rd floor microforms]

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