LIS 530C: Fall 2006
Instructor: Miranda Remnek
Class Meeting Time: Wednesdays, 2.00-3.50 pm. Location: Varies; see schedule.
Office Hours: (1) Every Tuesday, 2.00-4.00 pm; (2) 1st/3rd Thursdays, 3.00-5.00 pm. Location: 225A Main Library.
Course Goals | Class Schedule | Course Requirements & Materials
| No. | Date | TOPIC | Description | Readings | Instructor | Location |
| 1 | August 23 | Introduction | Goals, assignments, expectations; the changing practice of Slavic scholarship/ new forms of scholarly communication; print versus digital research and reference; searching UIUC Library web, Voyager, SEEL web (why not just Google?); style guidelines (print, digital), transliteration, cyrillicization | Cannon (2005) |
Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) |
| 2 | August 30 | Russia: General | Russian collections @ UIUC; general Russian resources: national bibliographies, encyclopedias, online catalogs and databases | Fisher (1994) |
Miller | 413 Library |
| 3 | September 6 | South East Europe | Resources for the study of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia | Miller/Hitchins (1976) |
Sullivan, Condill | 109 LISB (GSLIS) |
| 4 | September 13 | Russia: Historical Sciences | Resources for Russian history: early, imperial, Soviet and post 1991 (print and digital) | Rosenzweig (2006) |
Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) |
| 5 | September 20 | Research Tools | RSS, Refworks, SFX, WebFeat | Refworks tutorial (2005) |
Sullivan | 413 Library |
| 6 | September 27 | Resources for Russian law, government, economics, media (print and digital) | Exercises |
Miller | 413 Library | |
| 7 | October 4 | Central Europe: | Resources for Poland, Czech and Slovak republics, Hungary | Valdrova (2001) |
Sullivan, Adamczyk | 413 Library |
| 8 | October 11 | Russian/Slavic Languages/Literatures | Resources for Russian/ Slavic language, literature, and folklore (print and digital) | Peshchio et al. (2005) |
Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) |
| 9 | October 18 | Caucasus/Central Asia | Resources for the Caucasus/ Central Asia | Sidorko (2002) |
Miller | 413 Library |
| 10 | October 25 | Archives | Practical introduction to research in Russian archives, followed by visit to University Archives | Glagoleva (2002) |
Steinberg | 413 Library |
| 11 | November 1 | Approaches to digital teaching/ scholarship in Slavic language & literature: scanning, delivery (XSLT), text encoding (XML/TEI, topic maps) |
Remnek (2005)
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Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) | |
| 12 | November 8 | Approaches to East European social science research: GIS (Geographic Information Systems), qualitative data analysis (unstructured texts). | Jessop (2005) |
Johnson, Remnek |
109LISB (GSLIS) | |
| 13 | November 15 | Approaches to digital teaching/ scholarship in Russian & East European history: encoded texts, historical datasets, dynamic maps |
Borodkin (2005)
|
Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) | |
| NC | November 22 | Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| 14 | November 29 | Projects | Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) | ||
| 15 | December 6 | Projects | Remnek | 109LISB (GSLIS) |
~ Course Requirements & Materials ~
Assignments | Readings | Final Paper
Students will be graded on (1) their assimilation of material in assigned readings as evidenced by class participation, (2) occasional class exercises, (3) occasional presentation of their research progress, and (4) a final paper.
| Author | Date | Title | Session |
| Borodkin, Leonid | 2005 | "Sozdanie bazy dannykh po materialam agenturnogo otdela moskovskogo okhrannogo otdeleniia (1902-1917 gg.): itogi sovmestnogo proekta GARF i MGU" [Creating a database of materials from the intelligence bureau of the Moscow secret police department, 1902-17: results of the joint project of GARF and Moscow State University]. Otechestvennye Arkhivy 2005 (1): 51-56. | 13 |
| Cannon, Angela | 2005 | "Digital Reference in Slavic and East European Studies with an
Examination of Practice at the University of Illinois and the Library
of Congress" Slavic & East European Information Resources
[SEEIR] 6, nos.2/3 (2005): 183-217 (available online) |
1 |
| Fisher, Ralph | 1994 | "Swimming with the Current," Russian History 21, no.2 (1994): 149-70. | 2 |
| Glagoleva, Olga | 2002 | "Archival Research in Russia: How to Make It Successful?" Newsnet: News of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 42, no. 5 (2002):13-21. | 10 |
| Jessop, Martyn | 2005 | "The Application of a Geographical Information System to the Creation of a Cultural Heritage Digital Resource." Literary and Linguistic Computing 20, no. 1 ( 2005): 71-90. Project to evaluate GIS and web technology for integrating quantitative and qualitative data about forced migration in Macedonia, 1880 to the present. | 12 |
| Miller, Larry; Hitchins, Keith | 1976 | "University of Illinois" chapter (pp. 187-197) in Horecky, P. and D. Kraus, eds. East Central and Southeastern Europe: a Handbook of Library and Archival Resources (Santa Barbara, 1976). | 3 |
Peschio, Joe; Pil'shchikov, Igor; Vigurskii, Konstantin |
2005 | "Academic Digital Libraries Russian Style: An Introduction to the Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folkore." Slavic & East European Information Resources 6. nos.2/3 (2005): 45-63 (available online) | 8 |
| 2005 | Refworks tutorial (http://www.refworks.com/tutorial) | 5 | |
| Remnek, Miranda | 2005 | "Adding Value to Slavic Electronic Texts: Approaches for Scholars and Librarians." Slavic & East European Information Resources 6. nos.2/3 (2005): 151-167 (available online) | 11 |
| Rosenzweig, Roy |
2006 | "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past." Journal of American History 93, no. 1 (2006). (available online). Please also scan "Politics of Russia" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Russia) |
4 |
| Sidorko, Clemens P. | 2002 | "Nineteenth-century German Travelogues as Sources on the History of Daghestan and Chechnya." Central Asian Survey 21, no. 3 (2002): 283-299. (available online) | 9 |
| Valdrova, Jana |
2001 | "The Image of Women in the Czech Media and Its Impact on Female Identity,"
Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 15, issue 1 (2001):
73-86. |
7 |
-Length: The final paper should be at least 15 pages long, including notes. (You may use either footnotes or endnotes).
-Due date: The final paper will be due by 5.00
pm on December 8. Students will make oral presentations on their topics
in class on November 29 and December 6.
>>if you feel you would like to receive feedback in time for lengthy corrections,
you should sign up to present on November 29.
>>if you feel you would rather have more time for preparation, you should
sign up for December 6.
-Guidelines: Draft guidelines are provided here. More examples
may be added.
-Topics Chosen: A fairly complete list is provided here.
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