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Slavic Library Institute – Schedule

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Each day had a morning session (10-11:30am) and an afternoon session (1-2:45pm), with additional sessions where noted.

* denotes a virtual or hybrid session

Monday, May 16th

AM: Welcome and Orientation with Kit Condill and Larry Miller (UIUC)

PM: Tour of the Library

Tuesday, May 17th

AM: The Anatomy of a Citation: Interpreting Footnotes, Search Results, and Catalog Records – Kit Condill (UIUC)

PM: Transliteration & Diacritics – Kit Condill (UIUC)

Wednesday, May 18th

* AM: Subject Headings & Descriptors – Lana Soglasnova (University of Toronto), Greg Grazevich (MLA International Bibliography)

* PM: Cataloging REEE Materials: the Slavic Cataloging Manual – Lana Soglasnova (University of Toronto), Thomas Douša (University of Chicago)

Thursday, May 19

AM: A Brief and Non-Boring History of REEE Bibliography – Kit Condill (UIUC)

PM: Bibliographies of Bibliographies and Other Meta-Resources – Kit Condill (UIUC)

3-4:30 pm: Tour of Oak Street High-Density Storage Facility and Preservation Lab

Friday, May 20

AM: Into the Pond: Reference Works for REEES – Slavic Reference Service

PM: Recap/Review

Monday, May 23

* AM: Digital Libraries – Ksenya Kiebuzinski (University of Toronto)

PM: Databases – Kit Condill (UIUC)

Tuesday, May 24

AM: no session

* PM: Digital Humanities – Glen Layne-Worthey (UIUC), John Randolph (UIUC)

Wednesday, May 25

* AM: Ukrainian Libraries in a Time of Crisis – Jurij Dobczansky (Library of Congress)

* PM: Collection Development I: A Practical Guide – Pat Polansky (University of Hawaii) and Kit Condill (UIUC)

3-4:30 pm: Recap/Review

Thursday, May 26

AM: Rare Books and Manuscripts I – Kit Condill & Larry Miller (UIUC)

* PM: My “Ukrainian Moment”: Remembering 1973-80 – Edward Kasinec (Hoover Institution, Stanford) and Olha Aleksic (Harvard)

Friday, May 27

* AM: Great Collections of North America and Western Europe – Gudrun Wirtz (Bavarian State Library), Larry Miller (UIUC)

PM: Recap/Review

Monday, May 30

NO SESSIONS – Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 31

* AM: Archives – Anatol Shmelev (Stanford)

PM: National Bibliography – Kit Condill (UIUC)

* 3-4:30 pm: Web Archiving – Samantha Abrams (Center for Research Libraries)

Wednesday, June 1

* 9-9:45am: Great Collections of Eastern Europe – Lukáš Babka

AM: Rare Books and Manuscripts II – Kit Condill & Larry Miller (UIUC)

PM:  Collection Development II: Thinking Retrospectively – Kit Condill & Larry Miller (UIUC)

3-4:30pm: Recap/Review

Thursday, June 2

* AM: Research & Publication: Librarians as Researchers – Jon Giullian (Kansas University), Steve Witt (UIUC)

* PM: Professional Organizations – Anna Arays (Yale), Adrienne Seely (Chicago Public Library)

Friday, June 3

* AM: The Future of the Field – Robert H. Davis (Columbia), Megan Browndorf (University of Chicago)

* PM: Final Q&A – Jon Giullian (Kansas University), Pat Polansky (University of Hawaii)

3 pm: A Brief Wrap-Up – Kit Condill & Larry Miller (UIUC)