PACSLAV Meeting Minutes, November 2002
PACSLAV Meeting
November 21, 2002
Pittsburgh , PA
Present: Karen Rondesvedt, (Chair); Michael Biggins, Michael Brewer, Mischa Buczkowski, Beth Feinberg (Recorder), Michael Markiw, Allan Urbanic, Ruth Wallach
Karen Rondesvedt introduced Michael Brewer to the group. He is the new Slavic Bibliographer at the University of Arizona .
Realignment of Stanford and Hoover :
Karen Rondesvedt: Hoover now collects only archival materials, and does not collect library materials. Stanford now collects for 20 th century history, security studies and the mainstream books and serials previously purchased by Hoover . Stanford also absorbed some Hoover staff. Allan Urbanic asked if there will be a change in archiving newspapers due to the merger. Karen Rondesvedt is encouraged to get microfilm, but the collecting scope has not changed.
Announcements:
Michael Markiw: Arizona State is offering new courses in Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian; Macedonian and Tatar courses have been expanded. Armenian and Albanian will also be added.
Mischa Buczkowski: Oregon has acquired a Soviet propaganda/pamphlet collection translated into English by Novosti. There is collection-level cataloging for the set.
Allan Urbanic: The Berkeley Institute of Slavic and East European Studies has received Title 6 funding, and Eurasian Studies has now been added to its scope. The Center will now cover study of the Caucasus , Central Asia , Georgia , Armenia , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan . Allan is now collecting periodicals on political economics and current events for the region, and microfilms of newspapers for capitals in the Caucasus .
Michael Biggins: Much at Washington is the same as before. Washington has purchased the large CPSU microfilm set. There is an emphasis on collecting for Central Asia and the Baltic. Washington has a large endowment for Baltic, and the department teaches three Baltic languages, literatures, folklore.
Michael Brewer: University of Arizona has acquired the Saur Russisches Biographisches Archiv.
Ruth Wallach: Collection development at USC is being re-organized; the book budget is declining, and the library's collection emphasis is moving toward electronic resources.
Beth Feinberg: As at Berkeley , The UCLA Center for European Studies, which includes Russia and Eastern Europe , has been expanded to include Central Asian studies. UCLA has acquired the large CPUSA microfilm set. UCLA has also acquired a large collection of Romanian archives. The local collection title is: Romanian Documents of the Communist Era. Documents date from the mid-1940s to late 1960s; subject focus includes the Romanian Communist Party, Politburo politics, collectivization, agriculture, food industries, purges of government agencies, transcripts of prisoner interrogations, anti-Jewish legislation, Jewish emigration to Israel, and the 1956 Hungarian revolution from the Romanian perspective.
Eastview database: Allan, Karen, and Michael Markiw have been using the database. Allan has used this as a trial to get people to ease in to online resources. Ruth Wallach commented that her faculty would rather her use funding to buy books and microfilm instead.
Group purchases:
Allan and Karen encouraged members to announce large purchases on the PACSLAV listserv, since the group cannot really buy as a consortium. Our info-sharing model has been successful, so we should make sure to do that when we can.
Union list of serials:
Allan will pull the link to serials list, as it is not up to date. The page will be more informational, so the group can cover newspapers and microforms from all countries.
Acquisitions survey from 1995:
The group decided to not try to update this survey, and also the cataloging survey.
Union list of major microform sets:
Instead of updating the acquisitions survey, the group thought it was more important to maintain a list of current major microform set purchases. The group also thought that it would be too difficult to organize retrospective microform lists.
Digitization:
Washington currently has some digitization projects ongoing.
Duplicate exchange:
Karen and Allan encouraged the group to circulate older duplicates. Karen asked if there are profile guidelines for each institution, and suggested that the group circulate the guidelines on the PACLAV listserv.
Weak budgets:
The group agreed that Assunta Pisanti, the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Services at Stanford, would have to talk to her counterparts at other campuses to organize any funding for the Consortium.