[Aaus-list] PLEASE Circulate! Call for Applications: 2014 Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois

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Wed Mar 26 13:16:20 EDT 2014


Call for Applications! 2014 Summer Research Laboratory at Illinois


The Summer Research Laboratory (SRL) on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia is open to scholars with research interests in Ukraine and the broader Russian, East European and Eurasian region for eight weeks during the summer months from June 16 until August 8. The SRL provides scholars access to the resources of the University of Illinois Slavic collection within a flexible time frame where scholars have the opportunity to seek advice and research support from the librarians of the Slavic Reference Service (SRS).  Graduate students and junior scholars will also have opportunity to attend a specialized workshop on Scholarly and Literary Translation from June 16-20, 2014.



The deadline for grant funding is April 15 and is fast approaching! REEEC will continue to receive applications for the Summer Research Lab after the grant deadline, but housing and travel funds will not be guaranteed.



For further information and to apply, please use this link http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/srl/?utm_source=AAUS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SRL2014.<http://www.reeec.illinois.edu/srl/?utm_source=SEESA%20&utm_medium=Bloglistserv&utm_campaign=SRL2014>



For graduate students, the SRL provides an opportunity to conduct research prior to going abroad and extra experience to refine research skills.  Students will also have the opportunity of seeking guidance from specialized librarians skilled in navigating resources pertaining to and originating from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia.



The SRS is an extensive service that provides access to a wide range of materials that center on and come from: Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Czech and Slovak Republics, Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The International & Area Studies Library, where the Slavic reference collections are housed, contains work stations for readers, a collection of basic reference works, and current issues of over 1,000 periodicals and 110 newspapers in Western and area languages.


The Slavic Reference Service provides access to several unique resources pertaining to the Russian, East European and Eurasian region.  Currently, there are plans at the University of Illinois’ to become the first library in the Western Hemisphere to gain access to the Russian State Library’s Electronic Dissertations Database, which contains the full text of nearly 1 million dissertations in a wide variety of fields.

In addition, the SRS provides access to

  *   the microfilm collection Holodomor: Famine in Ukraine, 1932-1933 containing 158 reels of microfilm  from the Central State Archive of Popular Organizations.  resolutions, telegrams, directives, correspondence from local officials, appeals, and memoranda.

  *   other extensive print, digital, and microform holdings relating to Eastern Europe, including rare materials acquired via Keith Hitchins and other noted scholars.


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