Gift Collections
Large gift collections, especially from faculty members, can be a very effective means for filling gaps and otherwise developing library collections. But it is important that there be a good match between the collection offered and the library accepting it. This site seeks to facilitate the gift process for both donors and libraries.
The library of one’s own college or university may not be the best recipient of even the most carefully developed collection. Why? If the library has a large collection in the faculty member’s field, the potential gift is likely to be mostly duplicates. Perhaps the faculty member specializes in a field that the college or university does not teach. The librarian and the faculty member could agree to one of the following:
- The library could accept the collection and find one or more good homes for the unwanted items.
- The library could take part of the collection and the faculty member could offer the remainder to another library.
- The faculty member could offer the whole collection to another library.
Placing Unwanted Gift Collections:
These institutions may want to be contacted with offers of gift collections or duplicates of particular types. However, please do NOT send books without asking!
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. John DeSantis, Bibliographer for Russian and Slavic Studies, john.c.desantis@dartmouth.edu.
- Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Alan Boyd, Russian Liaison Librarian, Alan.Boyd@oberlin.edu.
- Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. Mark Braden, Russian Selector mbraden@oxy.edu.
- Rice University, Fondren Library, Houston, Texas. Anna Shparberg, Collection Development Librarian, shparberg@rice.edu. “As a library that has relatively few Slavic materials as well as a limited budged for new Slavic acquisitions, we would really appreciate this opportunity to expand our holdings. We are mostly interested in Russian and West Slavic literature, Slavic linguistics (across the board, anything is welcome,) regional history and related areas.”
- Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. Marta Deyrup, Librarian, deyrupma@shu.edu. “We are primarily interested in books on literature, linguistics, religion and history. We would like to develop a niche as a repository for materials about the Catholic church in the Slavic lands, and also build up a collection of Russian philosophical/religious texts. If there are materials on the Russian patriarchy we are also interested.”
- Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. David Chroust, Monographs Cataloger, dchroust@lib-gw.tamu.edu.
- University of California, Santa Barbara. Allan Urbanic, Librarian for Slavic & East European Collections, University of California, Berkeley, aurbanic@library.berkeley.edu, who also selects for Santa Barbara.
- University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Contact history professor Semion Lyandres, Lyandres.1@nd.edu.
- University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Contact Slavic Department professor Alexander Ogden, ogdenj@gwm.sc.edu.
- Ukrainian Catholic University Library, Lviv, Ukraine
Taras Tymo, Library Director, tarastymo@gmail.com. “Our university develops Slavic studies collection and is interested in books/periodicals in this field.”- University of Tasmania — LSS (Lithuanian Studies Society), Post Offic Box 777, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006 Australia. Interested in English language books or periodicals dealing with Lithuania or Lithuanian studies. For more information, contact Dr.. Taskunas at A.Taskunas@utas.edu.au
- Globus Slavic Bookstore, San Francisco, California. Specializes primarily in Russian-language materials. Veronica Ahrens-Pulawski, owner. http://www.globusbooks.com/, globusbook@sbcglobal.net.
- Anthony C. Hall, Twickenham, Mddx, UK. achallbooks@intonet.co.uk, http://www.abebooks.com/home/ACHALLBOOKS/.
- Anton Kovac, Munich, Germany. Specializes in Slovenian and Croatian materials. http://www.slavica-kovac.com/, anton.kovac@t-online.de.
- Kubon & Sagner, Munich, Germany. http://www.kubon-sagner.de, postmaster@kubon-sagner.de.
- Oriental Research Partners, Newtonville, Massachusetts. Philip Clendenning, owner. slavicbooks10@orpgroup.com, http://www.orpgroup.com/.
- Serendipity Books (Peter B. Howard) 1201 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702, e-mail: pbhoward@serendipitybooks.com
- Thornton’s of Oxford, Oxford, UK. http://www.thorntonsbooks.co.uk/, Thorntons@Booknews.demon.co.uk.
- Xiegarnia Polska, Vienna, Austria. Specializes in Polish-language materials. http://www.ksiegarnia-polska.com/, home@ksiegarnia-polska.com.
- Antiquarian dealers above
- Lame Duck Books, Boston, Massachusetts. Specializes in rare books and archives. John Wronoski. http://www.lameduckbooks.com/, duck@lameduckbooks.com.
Listservs, Where Collections or Lists of Duplicates Might Be Offered
- SEELANGS, http://home.comcast.net/~seelangs/.
- Slavlibs, contact Allan Urbanic, owner of list, aurbanic@library.berkeley.edu.