In the last few weeks, we have received a particularly high number of parcels of new Ukrainian books, and here are 25 of them. Links to their catalogue records follow further down. Improved records will displace in iDiscover later tomorrow (11/2) and classmarks will be added early next week.
Today, Remembrance Day, we look at a few books about Ukraine and the First World War.
Given the recent move to bring our colleagues in the Department of World Collections in as blog partners, I thought it would be nice to look this week at a couple of books looking at historical Ukrainian diplomatic and trade links in areas covered by that department’s Near and Middle Eastern section. Continue reading “Ukrainian ties with Western Asia”
The Ukrainian Bookshelf Project “provides for the distribution of Ukrainian literature in the original language and its translations in the world’s leading libraries”*, and the University Library has recently benefited from this fantastic and generous scheme. A large delivery coordinated by the Ukrainian Embassy in London and by the British Library has seen books selected first by the BL but then any duplicates to their holdings offered to academic libraries collecting Ukrainian, and Cambridge’s rapid response has seen us benefit most wonderfully with the donation of nearly 50 modern Ukrainian titles.
Continue reading “Donations via the Ukrainian Bookshelf Project”
The area of Eastern Galicia lies in Western Ukraine and also has a strong Polish history and heritage. A search for the subject heading “Galicia, Eastern” on iDiscover comes up with over 80 results, 7 of which were published in the 2020s, including the recently received bilingual Polish-Ukrainian set Miasta i miasteczka wschodniej części Galicji pod koniec XVIII wieku = Міста та містечка Східної Галичини наприкінці ХVІІІ століття.
Continue reading “Eastern Galicia in the University Library”
As the University’s financial year draws to a close, our department works hard with our various suppliers to try to ensure that books ordered in 2022/23 will arrive before the end of July where at all possible. Our Ukrainian supplier and all their local agents have done an amazing job this year, supplying us with scores of books over the months. Their final 22/23 parcels are currently being unpacked but here are some of their earlier deliveries (on history and cultural history, literature, architecture, and the Russian war) from the late spring and summer.
These books can all be found in iDiscover, but please write to slavonic@lib.cam.ac.uk if you have got any questions.
Mel Bach
The provider East View has recently started to stock Ukrainian ebooks that libraries can buy (libraries require special licensing), and we recently bought an initial 30 volumes, including a couple of Crimean Tatar titles that I wrote about in another post and don’t cover again here.
All the books listed in the table were published in Kyïv or Kharkiv. Except for a few in English translation, they are all in Ukrainian. The list displays a little clumsily since the blog software doesn’t much like Excel formatting, but I have given rough section headings and there are four columns for the book entries: title, author/editor, date, URL to take Cambridge readers straight into the book. Continue reading “New Ukrainian ebooks : the June 2023 Slavonic items of the month”
This week, another volume was added to the 50-volume Tvory (Works) set by Mykhaĭlo Hrushevs’kyĭ that has been being published since 2002. The new volume said it was v. 34, v. 6, and it contains part of Hrushevs’kyĭ’s epic history of Ukraine-Rusʹ. Having taken the numbers at face value, assigning the number as v. 34(6), I increasingly suspect that the v. 6 referred to on the title page will turn out to be preceded by v. 1-5 in the set’s v. 29-33 rather than all within a massive v. 34. Ah well – labels can be reprinted and metadata updated when we know for sure.
What we have so far in the set is: 1-4(2), 5-11, 13-16, 22-23, 34(6), 46(1-2)-47(1-2), and we have covered their contents in the first of two lengthy contents notes in the set’s record. The second note covers what v. 1 explained would be the subsets the overall set would involve, and we have added the relevant volumes that have turned up under these subsets as they appear (again, v. 34/34(6) seems to be altering the pattern):
Series [1]. Socio-political works. v. 1-4(2). (1894-1926) — series [2]. Historical studies and investigations. v. 5-10(2). (1888-1934) — series [3]. Reviews and overviews. vol. 10(2), 14-16 (1888-1913, 1924-1930) — series [4]. Literary criticism and literary works. v. 11-13 — series [5]. Diaries and memoirs – series [6]. History of Ukraine-Russia. v. 34(6) — series [7]. History of Ukrainian literature — series [8]. Monographic historical works. v. 22-23 — series [9]. Auxiliary materials: directories, indexes, archives. v. 46(1-2)-47(1-2) — series [10]. Epistolary heritage.
We placed a large order for Ukrainian books just before Christmas and look forward to their arrival before long. In the meantime, today’s short blog post shares a few of the books that came in our last big Ukrainian shipment. They are an interesting but quite mixed bag, both in terms of their subjects and their styles; readers might remember that we are buying as much Ukrainian material from our suppliers as possible, including some popular books alongside academic ones.
This September, Thames & Hudson published Treasures of Ukraine, with proceeds going to charity. The book is not yet available through the UL, but we expect a copy from the publisher through legal deposit in 2023.
Continue reading “‘Treasures of Ukraine’ : the December 2022 Slavonic item of the month”
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