What do the open collection and Reference Library contain?

What do the open collection and Reference Library contain?

The open collection contains a selection of contemporary literature, magazines and series. The Reference Library contains reference works, bibliographies, dictionaries, anthologies and offical publications.

Books that can be taken home
Magazines and series
Reference Library

Books that can be taken home

Regardless of the language in which it was published, research literature concerning the Russian and Slavic language areas is acquired for the Slavonic Library's loanable open collection. Recently acquired editions can be viewed on their own shelves and can be taken home.

The open collection's loanable books have been classified by geographical area, and within that, by subject when necessary.

Distribution by region
SLA Works treating Russia and eastern Central Europe as a whole
RUS Russia
SBR Siberia
CAU Caucauses
BLR Byelorussia
UKR Ukraine
POL Poland
TSL Czech Republic and Slovakia
BLK Balkan

Distribution by subject
1 Countries
2 History
3 Society, politics
4 Cultural research
5 Literature
6 Literary research
7 Languages
8 Art
9 Religion, philosophy


Magazines and series

The more commonly used magazines and series are found in the open collection; recent issues of newspapers and magazines are displayed on magazine racks. Most magazines must be ordered from the stacks. Magazines and series cannot be taken out of the Library.

Location information in the open collection
Selection of magazines published before 1950: Sl. P. I
Selection of magazines published after 1950: Sl. P. II

Reference works, bibliographies, dictionaries, anthologies and official publications

Encyclopedias and reference works are classified by geographical area and by subject when necessary.

Sl. Ref. SLA Works treating Russia and eastern Central Europe as a whole
Sl. Ref. RUS Russia
Sl. Ref. SBR Siberia
Sl. Ref. CAU Caucauses
Sl. Ref. BLR Byelorussia
Sl. Ref. UKR Ukraine
Sl. Ref. POL Poland
Sl. Ref. TSL Czech Republic and Slovakia
Sl. Ref. BLK Balkan

On display are general and specialized encyclopedias covering Slavic countries, for example the Bol'šaja sovetskaja enciklopedija, Ukrajins'ka radjans'ka encyklopedija, Encyklopedia Slovenska, Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN, Enciklopedičeskij slovar' Brokgauza i Efrona, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Literaturnaja encyklopedija, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet Literature Including non-Russian and Émigré Literature, Bogoslovskaja enciklopedija, The Modern Encyclopedia of Religion in Russia and the Soviet Union, Rossijskaja evrejskaja enciklopedija


Bibliographies are classified as follows:
5. Rare books
6A. Bibliographers' bibliographies
6B. Older books
6C. Other general bibliographies
7. Newspaper and magazine bibliographies
8A. Private bibliographies
8B. Scientific and geberal libraries
9. Publications by scientific associations
10. Publishers' and bookstores' catalogues
11A. Biographical bibliographies, anthologies
11B. Private individuals
12. Literary history
13. Education, children's literature
14. Linguistics
15. Religion, philosophy, psychology
16. Art
17. History
18. Geography and auxiliary sciences
20. Medicine
21. Jurisprudence and political science
22. National economics
24. Military science
25. Manuscripts
26. Folio bibliographies

Dictionaries

The Reference Library has a small selection of dictionaries in Slavic languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Byelorussian, Old Church Slavic, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Macdedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian.

Anthologies and official publications

(for example Stenografičeskie otčety Gosudarstvennoj Dumy, Svod zakonov Rossijskoj imperii, Polnoe sobranie russkih letopisej)