The following is a summary of University of Waterloo (UW) Library resources in support of the graduate program in Russian at Waterloo, prepared by Helena Calogeridis, Liaison Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Studies.
Material is collected to support teaching and research to the Masters level in Russian with emphasis on:
Current areas of active research include Belarusan literature and culture, Comparative literature, Croatian language, literature and culture, Lyrical prose, memoir and album literature, Russian drama (classicism to contemporary), Russian folklore, Russian intelligentsia, Russian literature (medieval to contemporary), Theory of literature, and Ukrainian literature and culture.
The decision to purchase Library materials for Russian is the responsibility of the Liaison Librarian in consultation with the Faculty Library Representative. Selection is guided by the Collection Development Policy and the Approval Plan Subject Profile for the department.
The UW Library collection includes over 38,108 monographs relevant to Russian. There are 44 current print serials supported by the Germanic and Slavic Studies Library fund and 83 print serials in subject areas of interest to Russian. The Library provides access to over 88 full text journals in electronic format in subject areas of interest to Russian. The collections held by the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (TUG) enhance the depth and breadth of local materials available in subject areas of interest to Russian.
The UW Library’s print collections in Russian are housed in the Dana Porter Library. Access to the entire UW Library collection, as well as materials held by our TUG partners, is available through the Web accessible union catalogue TRELLIS at http://trellis1.tug-libraries.on.ca/ .
The Library's automated circulation system allows users to charge out materials during the hours that the Library is open and to renew items online anytime. With the exception of the current issues of print journals and reference materials, most of the materials in the Library’s collection circulate. Graduate students and faculty may borrow most monographs for a term at a time.
The Library also provides a service for faculty, graduate students, and staff whereby copies of print journal articles are delivered to an on-campus address. Faculty, graduate students, and staff can also place holds on UW Library books for pickup at any of the UW Libraries’ Circulation desks. Both these services are free of charge to the user.
The Library subscribes to a number of Web accessible research databases. The following are some of the databases of interest to Russian:
The Library has embedded linking technology into the research databases, allowing users to link directly from the index to the UW Library full text electronic journal subscription or to the TRELLIS catalogue record for holdings and call number information.
UW faculty, students and staff may access Web accessible research databases and full text electronic journals from off-campus via the Library’s Proxy Server / Connect From Home feature.
The UW Library’s Special Collections Department in Doris Lewis Rare Book Room in Dana Porter Library houses some resources relevant to Russian including pre-19th century publications, rare and protected editions, reference tools, and resources in microform format.
Books and journal articles not owned by the UW Library but held by the University of Guelph or Wilfrid Laurier University may be requested through TRELLIS. Books and copies of journal articles are delivered to UW faculty, staff and students within three working days. The cost is absorbed by the Library.
The Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery (ILL/DD) service provides faculty, students, and staff with books, copies of journal articles, theses, and government documents from libraries (other than TUG) within Canada and abroad. The UW Library uses the RACER Web based interlibrary loan system at racer.scholarsportal.info/vdx/index.html to facilitate ILL access and service for users. With minor exceptions, the cost for this service is absorbed by the Library.
Canadian university libraries extend in-person borrowing privileges to students, faculty and staff from across the country. Graduate students, faculty and staff are entitled to borrowing privileges at participating libraries (http://www.coppul.ca/rb/rbindex.html ).
The Library has a well developed Web site (http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca ) that organizes and provides access to Internet resources, some freely available to anyone and others, funded by the Library, which are restricted to UW faculty, staff, and students. These resources include, for example, full text electronic journals, research databases, research guides arranged by academic discipline, catalogues of libraries around the world, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and style guides. It includes a Web page of Research Starting Points for Russian, developed by the Liaison Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Studies at http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/russian/index.html .
Reference assistance is available in person or by telephone at the Library's Information Desks, which are staffed by professional librarians and specially trained library assistants. Alternatively, UW students and faculty may choose to use the Library’s Chat Reference or E-mail Reference provided through the Ask a Librarian service at www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/comments/ or contact the Liaison Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Studies directly if a personal visit to the Library is not convenient.
The Liaison Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Studies is available for consultation with individuals or small groups of students. The Liaison Librarian also works with faculty and staff to develop course integrated library instruction in the form of lecture, hands-on instruction, Web pages, or online courseware modules.
The Library also offers general orientation programs including tours, workshops on database searching and using the Web, and seminars for graduate students.
During the past seven years, the Library has spent approximately $556,992 on materials for Germanic and Slavic Studies (see attached). It should be noted that materials acquired for other departments such as English, Drama and Speech Communications, Film Studies, French Studies, History, Philosophy, and Sociology, as well as reference material, which includes research databases, both print and electronic, are also of interest to Russian studies.
OCGS Data
YEAR |
SERIAL |
BOOK |
APPROVAL |
TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1998/99 |
17,399 |
14,132 |
42,108 |
73,639 |
1999/00 |
17,440 |
15,021 |
47,841 |
80,302 |
2000/01 |
18,643 |
17,272 |
47,322 |
83,237 |
2001/02 |
17,695 |
11,135 |
37,038 |
65,868 |
2002/03 |
21,261 |
16,822 |
42,490 |
80,573 |
2003/04 |
21,354 |
18,569 |
45,421 |
85,344 |
2004/05 |
21,912 |
24,117 |
42,000 |
88,029 |
Total |
135,704 |
117,068 |
304,220 |
556,992 |
*Final numbers are available in the middle of May 2005.
More detailed information including lists of serials purchased for Germanic and Slavic Studies, full text electronic journal titles in subject areas of interest to Russian, and a description of the resources and services in the UW Library are available in the Library. We would be pleased to discuss the Library’s resources and services with an appraiser at the time of a campus visit. We believe that a high level of support for the graduate program in Russian has been provided by the Library in both areas.
Mark Haslett
University Librarian
University of Waterloo Library
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883
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