On-Campus Resources
- Slavic Collection at the Main Library
- Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) serves as a resource at the University for students and faculty who conduct research and teaching on the geographic region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. You can find information about Slavic studies at Berkeley, in the U.S. and in the world (events, people, conferences, professional organizations, funding opportunities, jobs, etc.) at the ISEEES website.
- Berkeley Language Center: a resource center for UC Berkeley language teachers.
Research Tools
A great variety of research tools and databases for Slavic materials can be accessed through “Slavic and East European Studies: Selected Internet Resources” at Yale University. Tools available through the Yale website include:
- List of Slavic libraries with Major collections
- List of on-line dictionaries and other language resources
- List of journals, databases and indexes relevant to the field
For research and reference tools (including job listings), see also webpages of major national professional associations, ASEEES and ATSEEL.
Library Catalogues
- Main Library catalogue
- Melvyl: The Catalogue of All University of California Libraries and access to libraries worldwide. This catalogue provides more possibilities for searching books at Berkeley, as well as access to information on books in other UC libraries, which can be ordered through the Main Library’s Interlibrary Service Office.
- Interlibrary Borrowing Service at Main Library
- Stanford Libraries: with your Calnet ID card, faculty and graduate students can order books from the Stanford Libraries through the Research Libraries Cooperative Program. Undergraduate students can borrow books by going to Interlibrary Borrowing Services, Doe Library, Rm. 133 or by using the online form on the IBS website.
- Library of Congress Catalogue
- Catalogue of the Slavic Collection at New York Public Library
- How to Find Slavic Books in the Libraries in the US and in around the world?
Write to Reference Service, Slavic and East European library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
225 Main Library, 1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
Reference librarian Hellen Sullivan hfsulliv@uiuc.edu
tel. 217-333-1349 - How to purchase US dissertations: Dissertations can be purchased through Proquest.
Other Slavic Departments
- Brown
- Columbia
- Cornell
- Duke
- Harvard
- Indiana University
- NYU
- Ohio State University
- Princeton
- Stanford
- University of Arizona
- UCLA
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- University of Kansas
- University of Michigan
- UNC Chapel Hill
- University of Oregon
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Southern California
- UT Austin
- University of Toronto
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin
- Yale
For a list of Graduate Programs and Intensive Summer Language Programs, see http://www.aatseel.org/development/web_opportunities/
National Professional Associations
- ASEEES:Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS)
Site includes information on:- Listings of current employment opportunities for Slavic scholars
- Listings of current opportunities for support for Slavic scholars
- Listings of current calls for papers and articles for Slavic scholars
- AATSEEL: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
- Council of Higher Education: A non-profit organization to promote Czech and Slovak heritage and culture.
- Provides scholarships to American and Canadian students of Czech, Slovak and/or Ruthenian ancestry