Education & Access

About

The goal of the new subcommittee is to promote education about libraries, information resources, digital projects, cataloging, metadata curation, and information literacy among ASEEES members and the broader community of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian (SEEE) studies.

Members

Chair: Brendan Nieubuurt, University of Michigan, 2023-2025

Anna Rakityanskaya, Harvard University, 2021-2023

Christine Jacobson, Harvard University, 2021-2023

Aristide LaVey, Ukrainian Museum in New York, 2023-2025

Kirsten Painter University of Pennsylvania, 2023-2025

Isabelle Schenkel, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2023-2025

Charge

Workshop Series (2017-2019)

Publishing Trends in Eurasia – Publishing initiatives, challenges, and opportunities across institutions and regions

    October 24, 2019, at 9:00 am Central Time

    Panelists

    • Jyldyz Bekbalaeva (Director, American University of Central Asia)

    • Mai Valtna (Head, Estonian National ISBN Agency)

    • Jagoda Nowak (Librarian, Jagiellonian University Library)

    • Mykola Senchenko (Director, Book Chamber of Ukraine)

    • Anatoly Murakhovsky (Deputy Director, Book Chamber of Ukraine) & Oleksandr Afonin (President, Ukrainian Association of Publishers and Book Distributors

Digital Collections Strategies, Methods and Outcomes

    June 27, 2019 at 12:00 pm Central Time

This webinar explores library programs and initiatives that aim to facilitate access to unique resources from around the world and ensure their physical preservation without repatriating or otherwise physically acquiring the materials themselves.

    Panelists

    • Jody Butterworth (Curator, British Library Endangered Archives Programme)

    • T-Kay Sangwand (Librarian for Digital Collection Development, UCLA)

    • Jim Nye (Bibliographer for Southern Asia, Emeritus, University of Chicago; Director, Digital South Asia Library)

Archives in Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies: A Conversation with Archivists

    May 23, 2019 at 11:00 am Central

    Panelists

    • Anastasiia Karavaeva (Director, State Archive of Tomsk Oblast)

As the Director of the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast, Anastasiia Karavaeva oversees one of the most important archival repositories in the Russian Federation. Director Karavaeva will provide a general overview of archives in Russia and offer tips on how scholars can access collections held at these archival repositories. In addition, she will provide an orientation to the State Archive of Tomsk Oblast.  

    • Matěj Strnad (Head of Curation, National Film Archive)

    Founded in 1943, the Národní filmový archiv (National Film Archive, “NFA”) in Prague is one of the ten oldest and largest film archives in the world. The NFA houses and preserves more than 150 million meters of film and over half a million photos, posters, and related resources. The archive provides scholars with access to Czech and Slovak film materials and special collections, and also provides technical cooperation to support research. Matěj Strnad will give an overview of the archive’s collections and their use in research on Central European film and image cultures, offering guidance for scholars planning visits to the archive. He will also discuss resources published by the NFA, both about the archive itself, and on Czech and Slovak film history. 

    • Lyudmila Sholokhova (Director, YIVO Library) and Stefanie Halpern (Acting Director, YIVO Archives)

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is a world-renowned research institution that strives to preserve, study, and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. Dr. Lyudmila Sholokhova and Dr. Stefanie Halpern will highlight collections at YIVO and discuss how they support scholarly communities from around the world.

Slavic Cataloging: Working with the Slavic Cataloging Manual

    May 31, 2018, 12:00-1:30 pm (Central Time)

The webinar will give an overview of the Slavic Cataloging Manual https://sites.google.com/site/seesscm/, and will address assorted issues in cataloging Slavic materials: transliteration, subject analysis, description, and authority work.

    Presentations

Reflections on Digital Scholarship

    March 9, 2018, 10:00 am (Central Time)

        Presentations

General information on the corpus: http://versologie.cz/v2/web_content/corpus.php?lang=en

Tool for rhyme analysis: http://versologie.cz/v2/tool_gunstick/index.php?lang=en

Tool for verse meter analysis: http://versologie.cz/v2/tool_dcm/index.php?lang=en

Tool for keyword analysis: http://versologie.cz/v2/tool_hex/index.php?lang=en

Don’t Do It Alone!  Collaboration and Organization in Support of Digital Scholarship

       

    February 16th (Friday) at 10:00 am (Central Time)

        A webinar on digital scholarship methodologies for information professionals.

    

    Presentations