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From: Chistopher Barnes <[log in to unmask]>

Could I please draw your attention to a recent publication by Tatiana
Kostaki, edited by myself and published earlier last year, which could be
of value to you and/or your local, university and Slavic departmental
libraries. Attached is a condensed description of the book.

RUSSIAN LIBRARY TREASURES
An Index of National and Academic Libraries
by TATIANA KOSTAKI
editor C.J. BARNES

Toronto, Russian Cultural Information Publications, 2000, 186 pp.

This bibliographic guidebook is the first work in English to describe the
wealth of books, manuscripts and other documents accumulated and preserved
in Russian libraries over the centuries.  It provides a one-volume guide
to the diverse collections of one hundred of Russia's chief federal,
republican, territorial and regional academic libraries, with up-to-date
information on their current directors, local and international
activities, postal and e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and URL, based on
the most recent Russian sources.  It will be of vital interest to all
scholars in Slavic Studies.

SOME SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE:

* Detailed accounts of special collections, rare books, and other unique
holdings in each institution. (Selected topics include collections of Old
Slavonic books published in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, including first
books ever printed in Cyrillic; lifetime publications by Giordano Bruno
(18 out of 26); collections of books on Arctic exploration; collections of
Rossica, Sibirica, samizdat, underground publications, Masonic literature,
etc.)

* guide to the personal collections of well-known scholars, writers and
other celebrities now held in institutional libraries, e.g., collections
of N. Strakhov, friend and first bibliographer of Dostoevsky; of I.
Shliapkin, leading specialist on old Russian literature; of I.Turgenev,
Rector of Moscow University, and of his sons.

* listing of items bearing autographs, notes and comments by former
owners.

* collections of books in rare languages.

* complete index (more than 600 names) of national and international
celebrities and of many provincial scholars and collectors hitherto
largely neglected.

* appendixes including chronology of Russian rulers since the 10th
century, glossary of bibliographical terms, and other useful aids.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND EDITOR

TATIANA KOSTAKI is married to a nephew of the well-known collector and
bibliophile George Kostakis.  She worked for eighteen years as a
professional bibliographer in major libraries in Moscow - most notably the
Department of Scientific Methodology in the former Lenin State Library.
Since emigrating to Canada she has worked for the Government of Ontario
teaching Russian, which brought home to her the need for comprehensive
information on Russian library holdings and prompted her to fill this gap.

CHRISTOPHER BARNES is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures in the University of Toronto, author of many
articles, translations, and monographs on the life and work of Boris
Pasternak.

Details of price and availability can be obtained from
YANKEE BOOK PEDDLER INC., 999 Maple St., Contoocook, MH 03229, USA
or JOHN COUTTS LIBRARY SERVICES LTD, 6900 Kinsmen Court, P.O. Box 1000,
Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, L2E 7E7
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