Appendix To 1998 Minutes

Possible future projects of interest to members of SEEMP: Identified at the annual meeting September 26, 1998

1. Soviet and Russian high school history textbooks (9th-10th kl.), 1950s-1998 and continuing. Used to trace development of treatment of historical topics in Soviet/Russian pedagogy over time. Need to identify titles, search holdings, eliminate duplication, coordinate with Russian colleagues (textbooks are being deaccessioned rapidly and will be gone forever). A similar project could be undertaken for literature textbooks. Willing to sponsor: Princeton, U. North Carolina/Chapel-Hill

2. Film 8 additional, important regional Russian newspapers for period 1991-1995.   Choose additional titles from Pollard & Rondestvedt list. These papers are not currently filmed anywhere and are not available in North America. Work with East View on filming. Approximately a $14,000 project. Willing to sponsor: U. Michigan and U. Pittsburgh

3. Film runs of extremist/nationalist political groups' newspapers from Russian Federation from the UC Berkeley and possibly other collections (fill gaps from other locations). Approximate cost: $1,000-2,000, possibly more. Willing to sponsor: UC Berkeley, Illinois, Duke.

4. Provide complete coverage of Polish cultural and political serials published originally from 1919-1939 in newspaper format. Determine what has been filmed already in Poland and elsewhere; prepare a list of titles not yet filmed; negotiate with Polish National Library or Jagiellonian Library to produce film. Willing to sponsor: Stanford.

5. Polish Solidarity newspapers, 1976-1990: determine what titles are not yet available on film, locate originals and arrange for filming. Work with National Library in Warsaw, other North American collections, possibly East European archives (including Radio Free Europe). Willing to sponsor: Harvard.

6. The Russian State Library has been filming some 200 Russian journals and newspapers for the U. of Illinois over the past 8-9 years. Additionally, the Russian National Library could be involved to film an additional selection of titles; SEEMP funds would be required to support involvement by the RNL. Completed film would be housed at CRL. Willing to sponsor: Illinois.

7. Daily newspaper from the Russian Far East (Dal'nii Vostok, Khabarovsk) is not available on film commercially. Duke U. Library can supply complete backfile for the 1990s for filming. Cost will be about $300-500 per annum. Willing to sponsor: Duke

8. Newspapers and other publications of post-Soviet Russian women's groups. Coordinator can contact individual women's groups in Russia to determine which have backfiles of their own publications which can be donated/loaned to SEEMP for filming. Willing to sponsor: NY University.

9. Newspaper coverage of the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan): investigate currently available commercial film and identify titles not yet available. Locate and collect print backfiles.  Willing to sponsor: UC Berkeley.

10. Film complete, collected work editions of Czech authors published 1918-1938, which are now completely brittle (e.g., complete works of Jindrich Simon Baar). Locate and assemble complete sets. Willing to sponsor: Indiana

11. Prague daily newspaper Narodni listy from late 19th century to mid-20th century. Very little is available on microfilm (CRL has 1 reel). Locate holdings in U.S./Eastern Europe and arrange for filming (possibly Narodni knihovna?). Willing to sponsor: Ohio State and Indiana.

12. Daily newspaper Unen (the Mongolian Pravda, i.e., Communist Party official daily newspaper) through a period of 1-2 decades. Willing to sponsor: Indiana.

13. Czech samizdat: work with National Library in Prague and other North American collections to locate and collect backfiles, film. Willing to sponsor: Harvard.

14. Film 300-500 Russian quasi-underground or local newspapers, mainly for the period 1989-1998, drawing mostly on existing holdings at Illinois, Columbia, LC, Hoover, Harvard, and others. Willing to sponsor: Illinois.

15. Acquire NIS and East European executive and legislative gazettes from 1st issue of post-Communist period to present. Locate titles held in U.S.; collect complete backfiles; arrange for filming. Could be a multiyear project, focusing on one country or region per year. Willing to sponsor: Michigan.

16. Newspapers of national record of NIS countries, exclusive of Russia, 1990-present. Willing to sponsor: Arizona/Arizona State.

17. Siberian regional archival guides formerly classified "dlia sluzhebnogo pol'zovaniia (DSP)"—internal use only and others. Identify regions/archives/availability of guides, and locations. Princeton has 25 titles. Willing to sponsor: Princeton and Pittsburgh.

18. Preserve Slavica, casopis pro slovanskou filologii, which has become brittle in its early years (1920s-1930s). Willing to sponsor: Ohio State.

19. East European newspapers of national record: ensure presence of microfilm in North America, if still non-existent. Willing to sponsor: Arizona/Arizona State.

20. Sovetskoe iskusstvo (newsprint), 1929-1953. Only fragmentary runs available in North America. Work with Russian State Library to film. Willing to sponsor: Chicago, Washington.

21. Academy of Science publications from Russia and Eastern Europe, from their inception. Identify titles needing preservation, compile complete runs, submit for filming.

22. Complete Russian dissertations, both kandidat and doctoral level. Begin with Russian Academy of Sciences (either BAN or INION) as a pilot project; if successful, expand.

23. Digitize pre-1940 Russian films.

24. Russian revolutionary pamphlets, 1917-1929. Pool holdings of North American libraries. Most of these items are extremely brittle and about to disintegrate.

25. East European regional newspapers, 1990-present.