Overview

Gain an up-to-date overview of the evolving nature of access to scholarly publishing and acquisitions on East Europe and Eurasia Access to East European and Eurasian Culture: Publishing, Acquisitions, Digitization, Metadata presents a wide-ranging overview of current information access issues in the Slavic and East European field. This valuable resource is a helpful guide to acquisitions from border areas less commonly covered, including Greece, Ukraine, and Central Asia. Slavic specialists will find a range of answers to some of the most salient information access issues now confronting the East European and Eurasian field. This careful selection of superb presentations from a 2006 conference on Book Arts, Culture, and Media in Russia, East Europe and Eurasia: From Print to Digital focuses on access challenges and advances in publishing, acquisitions, digitization, and metadata. Access to East European and Eurasian Culture: Publishing, Acquisitions, Digitization, Metadata provides a clear picture of the trends and technological developments now impacting library collections and acquisitions. This one expansive volume presents helpful tables with publishing statistics, lists of web sites, workflow charts and diagrams, several figures, and MARC templates. The book is extensively referenced. Topics discussed in Access to East European and Eurasian Culture: Publishing, Acquisitions, Digitization, Metadata include: publishing trends and diversification in Russia, East Europe, and Eurasia since the early 1990s access to scholarly texts from underrepresented areas in US Slavic collections Slavic studies’ library acquisitions from Central Asia, Greece, and Ukraine Slavic digital access designing and maintaining large- to small-scale digital projects in the Slavic field MARC21 and XML as tools for access to Slavic metadata library-scholar collaboration in promoting digital access to Slavic scholarship Access to East European and Eurasian Culture: Publishing, Acquisitions, Digitization, Metadata is an essential resource for Slavic librarians, educators, and students who seek to improve their knowledge of new access mechanisms and technology applications in Slavic studies.

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Author:   Miranda Remnek
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780789033956

ISBN 10:   078903395
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   04 March 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword (Bradley L. Schaffner) Guest Editor's Introduction (Miranda Remnek) PUBLISHING The Diversification of Russian Scholarly Publishing, 1995-2005 (John Bushnell) The Slovak Periodical Press: Historical Development, Current Content, New Forms of Access (Peter Olekšák and Albert Kulla) ACQUISITIONS Iltimos, bizga kitoblar yuboring! U.S. Libraries’ Collecting Strategies for Central Asian Publications (Karen Rondestvedt) Modern Greek Collections at U.S. Libraries: New Directions (Harold M. Leich) Acquisitions Problems in Ukrainian Libraries and New Electronic Solutions (Olena Bashun) DIGITIZATION The Methodological Advantages of Digital Editions: The Case of Eighteenth-Century Russian Texts (Marcus C. Levitt) Internet Resources on Russian History: The Electronic Library at Moscow State University (Leonid Borodkin and Timur Valetov) Russia Beyond Russia Digital Library: History, Concept, and Development (Nadia Zilper and Rita Van Duinen) Implementing an Image Database for Complex Russian Architectural Objects: The William Brumfield Collection (James D. West, Eileen Llona, Theodore Gerontakos, and Michael Biggins) Digitizing the Zdenka and Stanley B. Winters Collection of Czech and Slovak Posters, 1920-1991 (Patricia Hswe) METADATA Application of MARC21-Concise Format for Bibliographic Data in Bulgarian Libraries: The Case of the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sabina Aneva) The Librarian’s Role in Promoting Digital Scholarship: Development and Metadata Issues (Eileen Llona) Index Reference Notes Included

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