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1. Libraries at IUL
16 libraries on IUB campus including:
The Wells Library (the central library on campus)
The Lilly Library (rare books and manuscripts)
The Law Library
The Fine Arts Library
The Music Library
The Education Library
(for a complete list visit: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=11)
2. Finding materials at IUB
Use IUCAT (materials owned by the Indiana Universtiy Libraries), IU WorldCat (beyond the Indiana University Libraries materials), or WorldCat (beyond IUL, mostly monographs)
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=7799
3. Important library services
ILL (Interlibrary Loan): delivers materials not owned by IUB
https://www.dds.iub.edu/logon.html
Electronic delivery of journal articles: delivers articles that are not available online
https://www.dds.iub.edu/logon.html (after logging in select "Request Article Delivery)
Electronic delivery of book chapters: delivers book chapters that are not available online
https://www.dds.iub.edu/logon.html (after logging in select "Request a Photocopy")
ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility): delivers books and journals from ALF within 24 hrs
(click on "Request this item" button provided by the item)
Placing a recall: recalls books for you within ca. 10 days that have been checked out by other users
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/?pageId=3499
Rush Cataloging: processes brand new publications fast for borrowing (ca. 10 days)
http://www.indiana.edu/~libtserv/rushcat-form.html
Renew: renews electronically borrowed materials
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=7501
4. Loan period:
Faculty: 1 year
Graduate students: 4 months
Undergraduate students: 1 month
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Study/Research guide
Language learning materials | Online resources | Significant titles and collections | Subject bibliographies | Other reference materials
(The following is an abridged list of online resources, mostly subscription-based, available at IUB. For a more extensive list of online resources go to the Resources Page of the Slavic and East European collection.
ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies): most comprehensive to Slavic and East European studies scholarship of North America
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1494405
UDB (Universal Database): 3 full-text databases of Russian newspapers (central and regional separately) and academic journals
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=201
CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library): full-text database of about 370 East European journals and magazines
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=1854917
Letopis’ zhurnal’nykh statei: national index to Russian journal articles
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2273831
Current Digest of the post-Soviet Press Digital Archive: English translation of Russian newspaper articles
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=4820437
Russian Military Intelligence on Asia – Archive Series, 1651-1917: archival documents from the Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA) in Moscow
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=8089176
Russian Military Intelligence on Asia – Secret Prints, 1883-1914: all the 96 volumes of “Sbornik geograficheskikh, topograficheskikh i statisticheskikh materialov po Azii,” a series of secret publications produced by the General Staff of the Russian Imperial Army
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=8089175
Russian Census Online: online version of the 2002 all-Russian national census
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/scripts/countResources.php?resourceId=2219445
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Significant titles and collections
Dissent in Poland: 115 microfilm reels of documents from the KARTA Archives in Warsaw
Wells Library - EastTower2 - HD8537.N783 D587 2005
Voice of the people under Soviet rule = Golosa iz sovetskoi epokhi: 90 reels of documents from the People's Archive (Narodnyi arkhiv) in Moscow
Wells Library – EastTower2 – being cataloged
Records of the Department of State Relating to the Internal Affairs of ….:
[reports of the US Department of States on various countries. Search the title with the country name of your choice added at the end]
British intelligence on Russia in Central Asia, c. 1865-1949
[Wells Library – EastTower2 - DA47.65 .B757 2005]
Records of the All-Union Communist Party, Smolensk District, 1917-41: 68 reels of the Smolensk archive materials
[Wells Library – EastTower2 - JN6598.K55 S6
Russian censuses:
1897 [Wells Library – EastTower2 - HA2 microfiche]
1926 [Wells Library – EastTower2 - HA1431.A4 1926]
1970 [Wells Library – EastTower2 - HA1432 .A5 1970a]
1979 [Wells Library – EastTower2 - HA1434 1979a]
1989 [Wells Library – EastTower2 - HA1434 1989b]
2002 [Wells Library – HA1450.12 .A4 2002]
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Subject bibliographies
Sullivan, Helen F. and Robert H. Burger
Russia and Eastern Europe : a bibliographic guide to English-language publications, 1992-1999. 2001
[Wells Library – Slavic Reference Colletion - Z2483 .S86 2001]
Burger, Robert H. and Helen F. Sullivan
Eastern Europe : a bibliographic guide to English language publications, 1986-1993. 1995
[Wells Library – Slavic Reference Colletion - Z2483 .B89 1995]
The series “World bibliographical series”
[Search by the keyword “World bibliographical series” in combination with a country name of your choice]
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Other reference materials
Croucher, Murlin
Slavic studies : a guide to bibliographies, encyclopedias, and handbooks. 2 vols. 2005. 1408 p.
[Wells Library – Slavic Reference Colletion - Z2483 .S554 2005]
The series “Historical dictionary of … ”
[Search by title “Historical dictionary of” in combination with a country of your choice]
The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history / edited by Joseph L. Wieczynski. 60 v. 1976-[2000]
[Wells Library – Reference Dept - DK14 .M689]
Handbook of Russian literature / edited by Victor Terras
1985. 558 p.
[Wells Library - PG2940 .H29 1985]
Segel, Harold B.
The Columbia guide to the literatures of Eastern Europe since 1945 : Albania (and Kosovo), Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia (and Montenegro), Slovakia, Slovenia. 2003. 641 p.
[Wells Library – Slavic Reference Colletion - Z2483 .S444 2003]
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Last updated: July 8, 2009
