This page highlights current and new projects undertaken by SEEMP and will include project summaries and updates. For more details on any given title, please consult CRL’s catalog.

Borba (Zagreb)

SEEMP will microfilm issues from 1971 through 1988 of the rarely-held Zagreb edition of the offical daily Party newspaper of former Yugoslavia.  The main Belgrade edition was published in Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic or with alternating Cyrillic and roman pages) whereas the Zagreb edition is entirely in Croatian. Analyzing the differences between the Zagreb and Belgrade editions has been fruitful for linguists and students of Yugoslav language policy, media scholars, and students of politics and social policy, especially in Croatia, but the potential for such studies is severely hampered by limited access to the scarce Zagreb edition compared with the general availability of the Belgrade edition on film at CRL and a handful of other North American libraries.  The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign is contributing its holdings of Borba for this SEEMP project. 

Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny

Ilustrowany Kuryer Codzienny, the most popular daily newspaper in Poland in the 1920s and 30s, is an invaluable resource for investigating daily life, politics, fashion, sport, and culture in interwar Poland.  SEEMP has acquired microfilm for this title from 1910-1932 and intends to purchase the remaining available reels from the middle and late 1930s.

Kurjer Warszawski

SEEMP will acquire microfilm for this Polish newspaper from 1821-1905.

Oslobodenje (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina)

Oslobodenje covered events during the war-torn years in the former Yugoslavia. SEEMP is microfilming this title from 1992 to 2007.

Ukrainian Émigré Press

SEEMP will microfilm and/or digitize circa 400-500 periodical titles published by various Ukrainian political, social, religious, literary, and student groups based primarily in refugee camps, as well as émigrés living in some of the larger Western European cities such as London, Paris, and Rome, from the years 1945 to 1955.
The publications reflect the active civic, political, cultural, educational, religious, economic, literary, and artistic life that developed in displaced persons camps and in centers where refugees settled.
Holdings will be contributed by Harvard University, the University of Toronto, and Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in New York City (in cooperation with Columbia University).