Cambridge University Library’s weekly blog posts about Ukraine from 24/2 to 24/8

Katya was kind enough to highlight a post I wrote last week, so I thought I’d share with you all of the blog posts written by Cambridge University Library’s Collections and Academic Liaison department every week since Putin launched his appalling full-scale invasion on the 24th of February. Please find these in reverse order below, after a gallery of images used in some of the posts.

24/8/22: Ukrainian Independence Day

20/8/22: Russian ‘publications provocateurs’ and the war against Ukraine

13/8/22: Books about Ukrainian cinema

06/8/22: Ukraine and films in the Klassiki database

30/7/22: Ukraine and anti-war Russians in ‘Novaia Gazeta’

23/7/22: Vpered, Ukraïno! = Forward, Ukraine!

16/7/22: A couple of Ukrainian music titles

09/7/22: New Ukrainian books about the world before 2022

02/7/22: Slovakia’s Museum of Ukrainian Culture

22/6/22: Decolonisation and Russia’s war against Ukraine

18/6/22: Ukrainian literature in translation

10/6/22: New English-language acquisitions relating to Ukrainian history

31/5/22: Newly catalogued Ukrainian books

28/5/22: Ukraine, agriculture, and war

21/5/22: Vyshyvanka Day 2022

14/5/22: Leonid Kravchuk, 1934-2022

07/5/22: Hryhoriĭ Skovoroda (1722-1794), Ukrainian philosopher

30/4/22: Mariupol

22/4/22: Raising money for a new library for Ukrainian refugees

13/4/22: The ethnography of the Ukrainian Carpathians

09/4/22: Ukrainian literature for teaching in 1901

01/4/22: Ukraine’s forgotten war before war

26/3/22: Modern Ukrainian music

19/3/22: Serhiy Zhadan : a voice from Ukraine

11/3/22: Recent Ukrainian language and literature additions in the University Library

04/3/22: Mariia Prymachenko : a Ukrainian artist for peace

25/2/22: The Russian invasion of Ukraine

Mel Bach

Mel Bach: Russian ‘publications provocateurs’ and the war against Ukraine

In her recent post Mel Bach talks about acquisition of inflammatory popular books published in Russia referring to Iryna Baturevych’s article about anti-Ukrainian publications. The topic that Mel addresses is very important and painful for all Slavonic librarians. It is also very useful to bring Chytomo to our the attention.

Thank you, Mel.

The First Ukrainian Printed Books (1574) from the Libraries in the UK

In 1574, two books were printed in Lviv: Acts and Epistles and Primer. There are three copies of Acts and Epistles in the UK. One is held at King’s College Library, Cambridge, and two – at the Bodleian Library (the copy at B.21.16.Th was digitized ).

The Bodleian Library also made a short film about this book, which is available on their Youtube channel.

Only two copies of the 1574 Primer have survived. One of them is held at the British Library.

Mel Bach: Decolonisation and Russia’s war against Ukraine

As a follow up of our discussion on Decolonisation in libraries at the conference, Mel Bach wrote a blog based on her presentation at the conference.

The discussion is open and we welcome your reactions, suggestions and information from your libraries.

COSEELIS Conference 2022 – programme finalized

The final programme is now available

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