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
Engage in scholarly dialogue about library and information resources through ASEEES conference panels and roundtables, webinars, email discussion forums (i.e., Slavlib) and other media as needed.
Promote the exchange of information and advice about information literacy for SEEE studies.
Engage in scholarly dialogue about emerging digital resources relevant to SEEE studies; consult with digital content providers to explore ideas for new digital content relevant to SEEE studies; and work with Digital Humanities in the Slavic Field interest group to share expertise, explore cooperation, and promote awareness of new digital resource
Promote best practices and collaborative sharing initiatives in cataloging and metadata creation related to SEEE studies.
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
Larisa Walsh (University of Chicago)
Geoff Husic (University of Kansas)
Lana Soglasnova (University of Toronto)
Thomas Dousa (University of Chicago)
Reflections on Digital Scholarship
March 9, 2018, 10:00 am (Central Time)
Presentations
Digital Humanities in Russia. (Inna Kizhner, Siberian Federal University). The history and context of the development of Digital Humanities in Russia as outlined in this paper shows that there are various influences at play which have led to the forming of the Russian DH field. The talk links the quantitative methods used to previous trends in scholarship, including mathematics, Russian editorial practices, and the development of museum computing in the country. By doing so we can consider the individual societal contexts which encourage a field to emerge, and, although that field may look similar to outsiders, identify the lineage of intellectual approaches which still influence methods and cultures within the discipline. The paper will also outline the development of current DH projects and centers relating them to previous scholarship, including establishing the Russian Association for Digital Humanities, and the Associated Organization within the European Association for Digital Humanities
What Would Digital Area Studies Look Like and How Could it Be Made? Reflexions from Teaching DH (John Randolph (Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). In this presentation, John Randolph will discuss his attempts to bring REEES expertise and concerns into more general conversations within the Digital Humanities about the future of documentary publishing. Where and how can we combine the teaching of both area studies and DH skills? How do we manage the balance of needing to work on digital skills with the need to also build skills in the world's languages and cultures? John is part of a larger, multi-university project called "The Classroom and the Future of the Historical Record," combining historians and information scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Michigan State University.
Petr Plecháč (Versification Research Group, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v.v.i. = Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS). The talk will present the Corpus of Czech Verse, which is a lemmatised, morphologically, metrically and strophically annotated corpus of Czech poetry containing ~75,000 poems. Dr. Plecháč will introduce several online tools that enable users to work with these data - this includes graphical interfaces for statistical analysis of rhymes, verse meters, keywords etc. Additionally, he will show how such statistical findings on versification may be used for the purpose of automatic recognition of authorship.
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
Embedded Librarianship for Large and Small-scale Digital Projects (Ian Goodale, Librarian, University of Texas at Austin)
Digital Scholarship in Libraries: Multiple Roles and Multiple Approaches (Brian Rosenblum, Librarian, University of Kansas; Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities)
Don’t Do It Alone! Collaboration and Organization in Support of Digital Scholarship Glen Worthey, Librarian, Stanford University