**New Exhibit in the Second Floor Reading Room**

Introduction to the Collections

The Slavic and East European collections contain over 588,500 volumes on Russia and the Soviet Union, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as the countries of Eastern Europe, including Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Macedonia. The collections, which are accessed through the Library's Horizon Catalog, include material from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences and in all of the vernacular languages of these geographic areas. The collections are especially strong in Slavic philology and linguistics, Russian and other Slavic literatures, history, economics, political science, geography, and the history of religions. The Slavic Reference Collection, numbering over 7,500 volumes, is located at the east end of the Second Floor Reading Room (RR2S), and includes a wide selection of specialized bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, serial indexes, library catalogs, archival guides and other research aids.

Resources for Research

University of Chicago reference guides to Slavic & East European, Baltic, Central Asian & Transcaucasian resources, including checklists to New Reference Titles, New Acquistions on Women & the Family, Russian Women Writers, Jews in Russia & Eastern Europe, and special microform sets.

Important Slavic resources at other Web sites, including the Slavic & East European Virtual Library, networked electronic resources, newspaper holdings, archival guides, electronic journals, and organizations & associations.

Special collections include the Archives of Czechs and Slovaks Abroad, the Samuel Harper Collection of Russian Pamphlets, and the Louis Szathmary Hungarica Collection.

Transliteration Tables from The Slavic Cataloging Manual orginally prepared by the Princeton University Library's Cataloging Department. These are the systems established by the Library of Congress for transliterating the Cyrillic alphabets of Russian, Belarusian, Serbian and Macedonian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen and Uzbek.

Also here from the European Reading Room at the Library of Congress are the ALA/LC Romanization Tables.

Specialized reference and bibliographic assistance is available by contacting: