AAASS National Convention 2008
Library-Related Panels & Events:
Thursday, 8:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
AAASS Board Meeting: 8:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
Faculty Digital Resources Workshop: 9:00 A.M. – 12 P.M. - University of
Pennsylvania, Van Pelt Library
- 9-9:30 - Session 1: “Online Sources for Research in the Social Sciences,” Hugh Truslow (Harvard) & Brad Schaffner (Harvard)
- 9:30-10 Session 2: “Online Sources for Research in Literary Studies,” Michael Biggins (University of Washington) & Liladhar Pendse (UCLA)
- 10-10:30 - Session 3: “Using JSTOR for Academic Research,” David Fowler (University of Oregon)
- 10:30-10:45 - Break
- 10:45-11:30 - Session 4: “Copyright in the Research and Academic Environment,” Janice Pilch (University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign)
- 11:30-12 - Session 5: “The Google Enlightenment,” Ruth Wallach (USC)
Session 1, Thursday, 1:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.
1-44 New Literary Finds in American Collections:In Commemoration of the 225th Anniversary of V.A.Zhukovsky’s Birth - Meeting Room 412
- Chair: William Mills Todd, III, Harvard U
- Papers: Antonia Glasse, Independent Scholar.“V.A. Zhukovsky’s Autograph in the Album of E. A. Drashusova-Karlgof (The Yarosh Collection, Slavic and Baltic Division, NYPL)”
- Yelena Kogan,“Dramatic Personae of ‘Zhukovskie-Belevskie’ Collection in NYPL (The Zhukovsky-Belevsky Collection, Slavic and Baltic Division, NYPL)”
- Irina Reyfman, Columbia U. “The Autograph of V.A. Zhukovsky’s Translation of the New Testament (The Zhukovsky-Belevsky Collection,
Slavic and Baltic Division, NYPL)”- Disc.: Ilya Vinitsky, U of Pennsylvania Richard S. Wortman, Columbia U
1-46 Creating East European and Eurasian Digital Repositories: Archiving for Preservation and Access - Meeting Room 414 - Sponsored by BDC Subcommittee on Slavic Digital Projects
- Chair: Bradley Lewis Schaffner, Harvard U
- Papers: Kevin Scott Hawkins, U of Michigan. “Long-term Preservation versus Innovation: The Challenge for Producers of Digital Content”
- T. Mills Kelly, George Mason U. “Open Archives and Social Computing”
- Miranda Beaven Remnek, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The Islam-Eurasia Project: Working to Create an Integrated Geo-textual Central Asian Research Corpus and DSpace-based Digital Repository”
- Disc.: George Andrew Spencer, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Session 2, Thursday, 3:15 P.M. – 5:15 P.M.
2-43 The Fate of Book Chambers and National Bibliographies in the Former Soviet Republics since 1991 -Meeting Room 411
- Chair: Grant Garden Harris, Library of Congress
- Papers: Daniel M Pennell, U of Pittsburgh. “Tenuous Transitions: Book Chambers and National Bibliographies in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova since 1991”
- Maira Bundza, Western Michigan U. “Baltic National Bibliographies Minus the Book Chambers”
- Hope Erika Spencer, Library of Congress. “Bibliographic Challenges in the Central Asian Republics”
- Disc.: Janet Zmroczek, The British Library (UK)
Session 3, Friday, 8:00 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.
3-48 U.S. Sources/Russian Frames: Visual Culture, Architecture, and the Printed Text in Imperial and Soviet Russia - (Roundtable) - Meeting Room 501
- Chair: James Thomas Andrews, Iowa State U
- Part.: Robert Harding Davis, New York Public Library
- John McCannon, U of Saskatchewan (Canada)
- Nancy Perloff, Getty Research Inst
- Kristen Regina, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Session 4, Friday, 10:15 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
Slavic and East European Microfilm Project - (Meeting) - Hospitality Suite 1
4-48 Hidden Library Treasures - (Roundtable) - Meeting Room 501
- Chair: Nicolae Harsanyi, Florida Intl U
- Part.: Laurence Hanson Miller, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- David Muhlena, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library
- Christina K Peter, Frick Art Reference Library
- Janet Zmroczek, The British Library (UK)
Session 5, Friday, 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Bibliography& Documentation Subcommittee on Collection Development - (Meeting) - Hospitality Suite 1
5-48 The Diplomatic Role Played by Grand Duke Alexis in Russian-American Relations and Library Culture. - (Roundtable) - Meeting Room 501. Sponsored by Bibliography and Documentation Committee
- Chair: Edward Kasinec
- Part.: Janet Crayne, University of Michigan
- Lee Farrow, Auburn University at Montgomery
- Norman Saul, University of Kansas
Session 6, Friday, 3:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.
Vendor Presentation Session - (Meeting) - Franklin Hall 13
Session 7, Saturday, 8:00 A.M. – 10 A.M.
Bibliography & Documentation Subcommittee on Copyright Issues - (Meeting) - Hospitality Suite 1
7-48 Taking the Pulse: Baltica in the United States: State of Curatorship - (Roundtable) - Meeting Room 501
- Chair: Wojciech Jan Siemaszkiewicz, New York Public Library
- Part.: Michael Edward Biggins, U of Washington
- Enda-Mai Holland, Monmouth U
- Janis A. Kreslins, New York Public Library
- Dale Terese Lukas, Lithuanian-American Community, Inc.
- Vida Margaitis, Harvard U, ALKA
Session 8, Saturday, 10:15 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
ABSEES - (Meeting) - Franklin Hall 3
8-48 Treasures Hidden in Plain Sight: The Challenge of Providing Access to Uncataloged, Underprocessed or Little Known Archival and Book Collections - (Roundtable) - Meeting Room 501
- Chair: Allan Joseph Urbanic, UC Berkeley
- Part.: Lukas Babka, Slavonic Library, National Library of the Czech Republic [The Story of the Russian Foreign Historical Archives Collection in the Prague Slavonic Library]
- Jean Mary Dickinson, UC Berkeley [Women's Writing and the Feminine Voice in 19th and 20th Century Russia: Berkeley's Russian Women Writers Collection]
- June Pachuta Farris, U of Chicago [The Archives of Czechs & Slovaks Abroad (ACASA) at the University of Chicago Library]
- Ksenya I. Kiebuzinski, U of Toronto [Ukrainian Immigrants in North America (1890-1950): Tracking Their "Hidden" Paper Trail at the Libraries of Harvard University and the University of Toronto]
- Vladimir Alexey von Tsurikov, Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary, SUNY, U at Albany [The Preservation of Rare Collections in the Holy Trinity Seminary Archives]
Session 9, Saturday, 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Bibliography & Documentation Subcommittee on Digital Projects - (Meeting) - Hospitality Suite 1
Session 10, Saturday, 3:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.
Bibliography & Documentation Committee I (Committee members attend; open to others) - (Meeting) - HospitalitySuite 1
Session 11, Sunday, 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Bibliography & Documentation Committee II - (All Attend) (Meeting) - Grand Ballroom Salon G
Session 12, Sunday, 10:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
12-43 Treasures for Tractors: The Selling of Russia’s Cultural Heritage, 1920-1930s - Meeting Room 411
- Chair: Anne C. Odom, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
- Papers: Elena Osokina, U of South Carolina “Operation ‘Duveen’”
- Wendy R. Salmond, Chapman U “A Dubious Commodity: Russian Orthodox Textile and the Western Market”
- Patricia Kennedy Grimsted, Harvard Ukrainian Research Inst, Harvard U “More Books for Tractors? Interwar Dispersal and Sales of Russian Imperial Palace Books”
- Disc.: Irina Tarsis, Harvard U
12-48 Teaching Information Literacy in Slavic Studies - Meeting Room 501 - Sponsored by: Bibliography and DocumentationCommittee
- Chair: Michael Meyer Brewer, U of Arizona
- Papers: Marta Mestrovic Deyrup, Seton Hall U. “Information Literacy: ‘Discipline Specifi c’ or ‘Core’ Competency?”
- Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library. IIntroducing ‘How One Might Teach Slavic Bibliology to the Humanist and Social Scientist’”
- Jon C. Giullian, U of Kansas. “Slavic Folklore, the Library, and the Web: A Collaborative Information Literacy Program at the University of Kansas”
- Disc.: Ernest Alexander Zitser, Duke U