Library-related Meetings, Panels, & Roundtables, 2024

56th ASEEES Annual Convention (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

All times are EASTERN STANDARD TIME

Meetings

East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections

Thu, November 21, 8:00 to 11:45am EST (8:00 to 11:45am EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 1st Floor, Columbus 2

Midwest Slavic and Eurasian Library Consortium

Thu, November 21, 8:00 to 11:45am EST (8:00 to 11:45am EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 1st Floor, Tremont

Pacific Coast Slavic and East European Library Consortium

Thu, November 21, 8:00 to 11:45am EST (8:00 to 11:45am EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 1st Floor, Columbus 1

Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Subcommittee on Copyright Issues

Thu, November 21, 4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 5th Floor, (EDC) Event Design Center

Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Executive Meeting

Sat, November 23, 2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 5th Floor, (EDC) Event Design Center

ASEEES Awards Presentation & President's Address

Sat, November 23, 6:30 to 8:00pm EST (6:30 to 8:00pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 4th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon G

Committee on Libraries and Information Resources Membership Meeting

Sun, November 24, 10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Arlington

Library-related Panels and Roundtable Discussions 

(in-person convention)

Power and the Construction of Knowledge: Overcoming Dynamics of Dominance in the Information Age

Thu, November 21, 12:00 to 1:45pm EST (12:00 to 1:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Boston University

Description

The “information age” has brought new ways to deliver knowledge but has reinforced conflicts between accepted knowledge and unaccepted knowledge that shape our understanding of the world. Even without deliberate suppression, patterns of economic and cultural dominance ensure that information flows reinforce dominant perspectives. Now we also see rifts between authentic intelligence and artificial intelligence; misinformation and disinformation; public relations substituting for knowledge; silencing and marginalization of scholars in the academy and journalists at large; assaults on truth and the rights of individuals; economic assaults on authors and creators; and destruction of academic institutions. The roundtable will address threats to the understanding of intellectual property rights as human rights, politically-driven reshaping of academic institutions in Hungary, unseen currents of tacit knowledge and the transgenerational transmission of knowledge in South Slavic oral traditions that speak to the nature and validation of knowledge in the information age, and a new knowledge initiative on gender-related data on the countries of Central Asia and Mongolia that aims to recenter local and repressed perspectives. Is there a path to liberation of our knowledge systems? The roundtable format is intended to promote a lively discussion.

Chair

Janice T. Pilch, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Roundtable Members

Danica Anderson, The Kolo: Women's Cross-Cultural Collaboration

Barbara Brigida Krupa, Stanford U

Christina K Peter, Columbia U

Janice T. Pilch, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Ryan Womack, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Slavic Librarians with a Voice: From Publishing to Public Advocacy

Thu, November 21, 2:00 to 3:45pm EST (2:00 to 3:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Boston University

Description

 This roundtable will explore ways librarians can participate in the broader field of Slavic and eastern European studies by publishing and engaging in effective outreach. Participants will provide specific examples of how they demonstrate library value and advocate for diversity during a time of war and geopolitical instability. A variety of platforms will be explored on how to disseminate ideas and content creatively, such as traditional academic journals, translations, blogs, nonprofit media outlets, and an internet encyclopedia project. The goal is to show that academia and activism and inventiveness can coexist and that there are other ways to transfer knowledge to wider audiences.

Chair

Ksenya I. Kiebuzinski, U of Toronto (Canada)

Roundtable Members

Michael Biggins, U of Washington

Jon C. Giullian, U of Kansas

Heghine Hakobyan, U of Oregon

Ernest Alexander Zitser, Duke U

The "Concerned Lens": Slavic and East European Documentary Photographic Albums and Photographic Holdings in American Collections

Thu, November 21, 4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Boston University

Description

In the last quarter century, our area of study has witnessed an increasing interest in, and use of, graphic and photographic sources in research and teaching. However, an in-depth knowledge of the availability of resources (esp. albums and loose photos) held by major American archival and library collections remains spotty.

This RT seeks to raise broader questions concerning the paths of discovery and use of such resources throughout the United States, while focusing on an ongoing project to compile a census of Slavic, East European and Eurasian-related documentary images held in hundreds of individual archival collections at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, perhaps the principal such repository in the United States.

This RT allows a diversity of perspectives from three institutions as well as the fields of library and archival science, and photographic history.

Chair

Bertrand Mark Patenaude, Hoover Institution

Roundtable Members

Jennifer Goetz, Columbia U

Ognjen Kovacevic, Hoover Institution

Bertrand Mark Patenaude, Hoover Institution

Tatiana Saburova, Indiana U Bloomington

Anatol Shmelev, Hoover Institution

Building Distinctive Collections through Collaborative Collecting

Fri, November 22, 8:00 to 9:45am EST (8:00 to 9:45am EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Boston University

Description

Collaborative Collection Development (CCD) sees multiple institutions making strategic decisions about who will collect what. As an oversimplified example, one institution might collect comprehensively for Central Asia, another does the same for the former Yugoslavia, and two more libraries divide metropolitan and regional Russia between themselves. Many circumstances motivate such arrangements: shrinking library budgets in the face of an ever-growing resource landscape; the high cost of storing materials; the desire for targeted collecting in certain areas to meet specific campus research priorities; the availability of expertise to catalog certain languages. CCD promotes reduced duplication between libraries and the growth of stronger distinctive collections, held locally but accessible to all. Meanwhile, increasingly efficient interlibrary loan networks, and even expanding possibilities for sharing electronic resources, mean that researchers and learners can get a book from a neighboring library almost as quickly as from their own. This roundtable will discuss both the challenges and the opportunities peculiar to collaboratively collecting SEEE resources.

Chair

Brendan Nieubuurt, U of Michigan

Roundtable Members

Thomas Francis Keenan, Princeton U

Terri Miller, Michigan State U Libraries

Brian Vetruba, U of Minnesota

Juergen Michael Warmbrunn, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (Germany)

Celebrating Three Historic Slavic Collections On Their Anniversary Year: New York, Prague, and Helsinki

Fri, November 22, 10:00 to 11:45am EST (10:00 to 11:45am EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Boston University

Description

 The Slavonic Division of the New York Public Library was established in 1899, while both the Slavonic Library (Slovanská knihovna) in Prague, now a part of the National Library of the Czech Republic, and the Slavonic Library (Slaavavilainen kirjasto) in Helsinki, a part of the National Library of Finland were established in 1924. The three panelists will discuss the current situation of these distinguished collections, as well as their historical evolution from their origins as Russian collections to their transformation into broader Slavic repositories of international significance.

Chair

Bogdan Horbal, New York Public Library

Papers

• 'No Matter Who You Are or What Your Business': NYPL's Slavic Collections at 125 - Robert Harding Davis, Columbia U / Cornell U

• The Slavonic Library (Prague) and Its Transformations: 1924-2024 - Lukáš Babka, National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

• Milestones in the History of the Slavonic Library at the National Library of Finland - Irma Reijonen, U of Helsinki (Finland)

New Initiatives in the Digital Humanities in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Fri, November 22, 1:30 to 3:15pm EST (1:30 to 3:15pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd Floor, Boston University

Description

This roundtable focuses on digitization as a method of both preserving and disseminating printed, visual, and other formats for research purposes. Participants will discuss digitizing Russian émigré newspapers, non-conformist art and archives, slavists’ correspondence, and “big data” approaches to major Slavic collections such as UC Berkeley and Slovanska knihovna.

Chair

Leonid Livak, U of Toronto (Canada)

Roundtable Members

Sylvie Archaimbault, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) / Sorbonne U (France)

Lukáš Babka, National Library of the Czech Republic (Czech Republic)

Liladhar R. Pendse, UC Berkeley

Vassili Schedrin, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Vladimir Alexey von Tsurikov, Hoover Institution

Print Finds a Way: Russian and Belarusian Emigré Publishing Past and Present

Sat, November 23, 4:00 to 5:45pm EST (4:00 to 5:45pm EST), Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 4th Floor, Vineyard

Description

This panel brings together four presentations about Russian and Belarusian émigré publishing. The panel offers perspectives from both the past and present, showing the continuities and changes in the development of publishing in exile. Natalia Barykina (University of Toronto) will address Belarusian émigré periodicals published in Toronto in the 1950s and early 1960s. Through thematic analysis, she will investigate how early émigré periodicals addressed experiences during and after the Second World War and the subsequent resettlement of immigrants in their host country. Angela Cannon (Library of Congress) will present an historical overview of Russian periodical publishing in the United States from the 19th century through the current day. The discussion will center on the collection of Russian American journals held by the Library of Congress and recent efforts to expand the collection. Anna Rakityanskaya (Harvard University) will discuss Harvard Library’s new plan to collect works by Belarusian publishers outside Belarus. She will discuss the challenges and discoveries of implementing the plan as well as the preliminary results of its first-year performance. Matthew Young (Library of Congress) will discuss contemporary Russian publishing in exile and provide an overview of major publishers and their output. He will also examine the challenges facing these publishers as well as the efforts of the Library of Congress to collect such material.

Chair

Kirsten B. Painter, U of Pennsylvania

Papers

• Russian American Periodicals - Angela Cannon, Library of Congress

• Contemporary Russian Publishing in Exile - Matthew Young, Library of Congress

• Belarusian Emigre Periodicals - Natallia Barykina, U of Toronto (Canada)

• Collecting Contemporary Belarusian Emigre Materials - Anna Rakityanskaya, Harvard U

Discussant

Thomas Francis Keenan, Princeton U