Slavic Collection Descriptions AMHERST CENTER FOR RUSSIAN CULTURE Institution Name: Amherst Center for Russian Culture Institution Address: Box 2268, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002-5000 USA Phone: (413) 542-8453, (413) 542-2350 Fax: (413) 542-2798 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/ Access Policy: All scholars planning to visit the Amherst Center for Russian Culture, or requesting access to books or manuscripts, should contact the director, Professor Stanley J. Rabinowitz. To help staff find the material desired, please use the full listing of collections (http:// www.amherst.edu/~acrc/collections.html) and the listing of cataloged collections (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html) online; then indicate on the registration form the collection, boxes, and folders needed; and send the registration form by mail, e-mail, or fax. The reg- istration form (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/forms/reg.pdf) must be accompanied by a cover letter to Professor Stanley J. Rabinowitz, the Center’s director. All collections must be used in the reading room of the Center. Additional information including maps to the Center and other campus resources can be found at http://www.amherst.edu/~ acrc/forms.html. Online Catalog: Books and periodicals belonging to the Center are cata- loged in the Four Colleges Catalog that can be accessed at http://fclibr. [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Slavic Collection Descriptions.” Urbanic, Allan, and Beth Feinberg. Co-published simultaneously in Slavic & East European Information Resources (The Haworth Information Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 5, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 5-191; and: A Guide to Slavic Collec- tions in the United States and Canada (ed: Allan Urbanic, and Beth Feinberg) The Haworth Information Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc., 2004, pp. 5-191. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: [email protected]]. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/SEEIR 2004 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1300/J167v05n03_02 5 6 A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada library.umass.edu/. Cataloged archives with finding aids are listed at http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html. Percent of Collection represented in the online catalog: A majority of the published books and periodicals owned by the Center are repre- sented in the online catalog. The large Whitney Gift Collection (http:// www.amherst.edu/~acrc/friends.html) is still in the process of being in- ventoried and cataloged. Size of Slavic Collection: Small (less than 150,000) Percent of Collection in vernacular languages: 50-80% (estimate) General Slavic Collection Description The aim of this collection is to have the fullest representation of all areas and schools of Russian creative activity, with a focus on modern Russian culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. So- viet-period fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and prose are featured here, as is the rich literature of the Russian emigration in all of its schools. These collections can be found in the Four Colleges Catalog. The Periodicals Collection contains complete runs of pre-Soviet and Soviet publications, including the main Russian émigré newspapers and journals. There are many rare and some unique periodicals published by Russians in emigration, in Europe and in Asia. The Book Collection contains nearly 10,000 volumes dealing with Russian fiction, art, and architecture, books about books, history, poli- tics, linguistics, philosophy, economics, geography, music, theater, cin- ema and dance, cooking, law, history of religion, military history, and reference. The library constitutes a good standard collection of Russian writing, on a large scale. Special Collection Description The Rare Book Collection–A large and absolutely unique collection of first editions and of Russian Futurist and kindred trends of avant-garde writers and artists, many of whose creations are by design both art and lit- erature. Some books are products of artist-writer collaboration; others have been completely handmade, the text handwritten and the artwork lithographed and pulled by the creator. Original linocuts are featured in many of these works of art and literature. The graphics are in black- and-white and in brilliant colors. The editions are quite often infinitesimal. Slavic Collection Descriptions 7 Included here is an extremely rare collection of pamphlets and bro- chures by Russia’s first Dadaist Sergei Charchoune (1888-1975). See http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/rare/rare_book_collection.html. The Dmitri Tarasenkov Collection–A collection of nearly 1,500 books devoted to émigré literature, especially poetry, assembled by Dmitri Tarasenkov, son of the prominent Russian literary scholar and critic. The collection contains both first editions and some of the very latest works by the avant-garde writers of the recent “Third Wave,” who publish in very small editions. The George (Yuri Pavlovich) Ivask Collection–A collection of sev- eral hundred first editions, many of them inscribed to Professor Ivask (1907-1986). In addition to the above, there are numerous archive collections. For further descriptions of these materials, see http://www.amherst.edu/~ acrc/collections.html#arc. If an online finding aid is available, the URL for it is provided. An asterisk (*) denotes that the collection was part of the original Whitney Gift collection. NA indicates that the collection is not currently available. • The Andreyev Family Papers *NA • The Katia Anzi-Stoliarova Collection of the Russian Social-Dem- ocratic Party and the Central Union of Jewish Workingmen in Lithuania, Poland and Russia * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#bund) • The Aleksandra Balashova Papers *NA • Andrei Bely Writings (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#bely) • The Olga Carlisle Collection *NA • The M. Chitay-Kovrin Papers *NA • The Vladimir Dixon Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#dixon) • The Naum Gabo Papers *NA • The Zinaida Gippius and Dmitri Merezhkovsky Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#gip) • The Roman Goul Papers and the Journal New Review Records *NA • The Halpernine-Kaminsky and His Contemporaries Collection (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#halp) • The R. V. Ivanov-Razumnik Diary of 1942 • The Yuri (George) Ivask Literary and Family Archives (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#ivask) 8 A Guide to Slavic Collections in the United States and Canada • The Vladimir Lebedev Collection (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#leb) • The A. Lourie and I. Graham Papers * • The Osip and Nadezhda Mandelshtam Collection *NA • The G. I. Novitsky Papers *NA • The Gennady Panin Papers * • The Konstantin Parchevskii Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#par) • The Boris Pasternak Manuscripts * • The Aron Pressman Collections of Opera Scores (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#pres) • The A. Remizov and S. Dovgello-Remizova Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#rem) • The Alexei Remizov Albums and Supplementary Materials (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#ral) • The Roerich Archive • The Felix Roziner Papers NA • The Anna Saakiants Collections (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#saak) • The “Samizdat” Collection *NA • The Shakhovskoi Family Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#schak) • The Archbishop Ioann (Dmitri Shakhovskoy) Papers NA • The Lev Shestov Family Papers *NA • The Ivan Shkott Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#shkott) • The Konstantin Solntsev Collections * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#soln) • The Solntsev Collection of A. Kuprin and V. Zenzinov Papers * • The Emanuel (Eduard) Sztein Archive • The Tarasenkov Collection of Papers and Correspondence of Sev- eral prominent Russian émigrés *NA • The Faina Terentieva and Sergei Boldyrev Collection (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#bol) • The Union of Russian Writers and Journalists Abroad Records * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#URWJA) • The Nikolai Yanchevsky and his Contemporaries Collection • The B. Zenzinov Papers * (http://www.amherst.edu/~acrc/archives.html#zen) • The Zernov Family Papers *NA Slavic Collection Descriptions 9 Electronic Resources: n/a Bibliography (Print or Online): The numerous findings aids and de- scriptions of collections that are available online have been included in earlier text. Persons responsible for filling out this survey: the editors, with permis- sion from Professor Stanley Rabinowitz, Director of the Amherst Cen- ter for Russian Culture *** ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Institution Name: Arizona State University Libraries Institution Address: Apache Blvd., Tempe, AZ 85207 USA Phone: (480) 965-6164 Fax: (480) 965-9169 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.asu.edu/lib/colldev/slav/ Access Policy: Library is open to the general public for use of the col- lections but not for borrowing. Borrowing privileges are extended only to students, faculty, staff and holders of a community borrower’s card. Online Catalog: http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/ Percent of Collection represented in the online catalog: Nearly 100% Size of Slavic Collection: Medium (150,000-500,000) Percent of Collection in vernacular languages: Less than 20% General Slavic Collection Description Collection traditionally has