Karen Rondestvedt

Curator for Slavic & East European Collections

Stanford University Libraries

Contact information:
Green Library 345A
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6004 USA
tel: (650) 725-1052
fax: (650) 725-1068
e-mail: rondest@stanford.edu

Stanford's Slavic & East European collections:
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/slavic/1slavic.html

Download handouts from September 2009 introduction to Russian, East-Central European and Eurasian library research at Stanford:

Selected General Resources and Resources for the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Supplement: Selected Resources for Some Eastern and East Central European Countries
Tips for Using U.S. Library Catalogs with Slavic and Central Asian Languages Written in Cyrillic
Useful Socrates Techniques

Download Soviet History Seminar library session handout from February 2008:

Selected Sources for Soviet History

I am also editor of the journal Slavic & East European Information Resources, now published by Taylor & Francis. Find subscription information here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15228886.asp. Vol. 10, no. 2-3 will appear shortly. It is a special issue entitled Slavic Information Literacy: Past, Present, and Future, guest-edited by Michael M. Brewer and Ernest A. Zitser.

Libraries and many journals in English-speaking countries use the Library of Congress system to romanize Cyrillic and other non-roman-alphabet languages. Library of Congress romanization tables can be found at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html. Transliteration tables in various systems are provided by Thomas E. Pedersen: http://transliteration.eki.ee/.

My colleagues at other institutions can be found in the International Directory of Librarians and Library Specialists in the Slavic and East European Field, maintained by Indiana University Library.

Additional useful links:

Some Major Slavic & East European Search Engines/Resource Guides

Link Collection from the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
REENIC from the University of Texas at Austin
REESWeb from the University of Pittsburgh
Guides prepared by the Slavic and East European Library, University of Illinois

Read and Write Cyrillic on Your Computer

Cyrillicize Windows: For Windows Vista and XP Computers, from George Washington University
For earlier versions of Windows, see SovInformBureau's Russify Everything
Matvey Palchuk's Russification of Macintosh
Type Russian and Ukrainian Cyrillic with Windows computer when no system keyboard tools are available: Paul Gorodyansky's Russian Keyboard Online

Reference Sites

U.S. Board on Geographic Names Geonames server. Includes not only major U.S. and world place names, but also the smallest minor ones (villages, homesteads, abandoned or destroyed places, parks, roads, military bases, etc., etc.). Learn the longitude and latitude here, so you can find it on a map.
Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois. Their job is to answer your questions.

Miscellaneous

Click here for my unofficial notes on the Polish-American Archives Conference, Nov. 22-24, 1996 in Orchard Lake, Michigan. In addition to the notes, you will find some links to Polish-American collections, archives and organizations.

Click here to download my PhD dissertation, "Definite/Indefinite and Related Pragmatic Categories in Early Original Slavic" (large PDF file).

This page was last modified September 21, 2009.