Yale university library has digitized its legacy slavic collection created by joel sumner smith

Tatjana Lorković*, Graziano Krätli, Carolyn Caizzi

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Abstract

The article briefly describes the Slavic collection created by Joel Sumner Smith, which became the basis of Yale University Library's Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Collection. It then discusses preparation for digitizing it and the processes involved in creating this digital collection, as well as some of the problems encountered.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)180-189
Number of pages10
JournalSlavic and East European Information Resources
Volume13
Issue number2-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2012

Funding

8. The three-month fellowship was funded by Dr. Kristaps Keggi as part of the Slavic and East European Collection (SEEC) Library Fellowships, which bring every year an information professional from one of the Baltic republics to the Yale University Library.

Keywords

  • Digital
  • Digitize
  • Joel sumner smith
  • Multilingual
  • Slavic collection
  • Slavonic
  • Yale University Library

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Library and Information Sciences

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