Harvard Library

Representatives: Anna Rakityanskaya and Svetlana Rukhelman

Harvard University holds one of the largest Slavic collections outside the Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe. The main collection of over 850,000 volumes in the areas of the humanities and social sciences is housed in the Widener Library and supported by the Americas, Europe and Oceania Division of Harvard Library. The division has as its mission documentation of the Slavic and Baltic countries throughout history in order to support the teaching and research at Harvard and to serve as a resource for the scholarly community. To carry out this mission, the materials are collected in great depth from Russia, Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus in all Slavic, Baltic and Western languages, and from various émigré communities from these areas scattered throughout the world. In addition to books, serials and microforms, current acquisitions include non-book materials, such as audio-visual materials, posters, ephemera, and a robust collection of digital resources.

Archives, manuscripts, rare books, many special collections and materials in the areas of fine arts, music, anthropology, ethnology, law, and science are housed and curated in other parts of the Harvard Library system (such as Houghton Library, the Davis Center Collection at H.C. Fung Library, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Loeb Music Library, and Tozzer Library); as well as in libraries of other faculties, such as the Law School Library.

The Slavic collections at Harvard are co-represented in ECC by Anna Rakityanskaya (Slavic Librarian, Russian and Belarusian collections, Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division (AEOD)) and Svetlana Rukhelman (Librarian for the Davis Center Collection at H.C. Fung Library).