Product Overview
Books, Bibliographies, and Pugs offers a selection of new research in Library and Information Science, with special emphasis on the Russian and East European area, but also extending as far as Turkey and the Pacific Rim. The volume is presented with warm affection by its contributors to honor Murlin Croucher upon the occasion of his retirement. Murlin Croucher began his career in 1971 at the University of North Carolina, where he served first as Slavic Cataloger and later as Slavic Bibliographer. In 1980 he came to Indiana University as Slavic Bibliographer, where he oversaw continued growth in the strong Slavic collection until his retirement in 2005, as well as strengthening the Central Asian and Tibetan holdings. He was a leading figure in East-West book exchanges, not a simple affair during the Cold War. Above all, Murlin Croucher left an enduring stamp on numerous practitioners in the field through his teaching in the School of Library and Information Sciences and through his publications, most notably the seminal Slavic Studies: A Guide to Bibliographies, Encyclopedias, and Handbooks, now in its second edition. The fruits of his impact on his field may be gauged tellingly from the articles included in this volume.
Contents
From the Series Editor i
Frontispiece ii
Tabula Gratulatoria 1
Preface 7
Murlin Lee Croucher 9
1. Michael Biggins
Post-1989 Publishing on Previously Suppressed Topics: Trends in Czech Contemporary History, With Reference to Poland 13
2. Jacqueline Byrd
Cataloging Production Standards for Non-Western Languages: From a Project to Permanent Standards 31
3. John K. Cox
What's Behind the Veil? The Ottoman Fiction of Ismail Kadare 47
4. Gregory C. Ference
The Slavic Diaspora Library: The Slovak-American Example 73
5. Jon Giullen
Where Library Meets Vendor: A Comparison of Six Vendors of Russian Books 87
6. Jared Ingersoll
"Romanov University": Libraries, Books, and Learning in Imperial Russian Prisons 1137. Tim Larson
Józef Grucz (1890-1954); An Appreciation 131
8. Daniel M. Pennel
The Power and Peril of Ideas Continuity and Change in Romaniann Publishing 145
9. Patricia Polansky
Pacific Rim Librarianship: Collectors of Russian Materials on the Far East 159
10. Bradley L. Schaffner
V.F. Odoevskii and I.V. Got'e: Scholar-Librarians in Service to the State 181
Notes on the Contributors 193
