The Slavonic Library
Books in the Slavonic Library published after 1917
Collection materials in format
Analogue
Digitised
On microfiche
The subject matters of books in the Slavonic Library published after 1917 are mostly concerned with Russia, the Soviet Union, Caucasus region and the countries, peoples and cultures of the Slavic language area in Eastern Europe.
Collection description
The subject matters of books in the Slavonic Library published after 1917 are mostly concerned with Russia, the Soviet Union, Caucasus region and the countries, peoples and cultures of the Slavic language area in Eastern Europe. Key research topics include history, folklore and cultural studies, political studies, sociology, literary studies, art history and art studies, studies related to the church and monastic institution, religions and philosophy. The collection includes fiction in all Slavic languages. Reference books, bibliographies and dictionaries are available in all topics and countries.
Collection languages
Material type
Books
Ephemera
online materials
Accrual status
Continuous
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern times (1900-)Main collection
The Slavonic LibraryParent collection
Books in the Slavonic LibraryRestrictions of use
Only for reading rooms In the open collection as e-material for remote access In the reference collection As a microfilm on reading stations Available for home loan Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publicationCollection themes
Keywords
Cataloguing principles
The description retains the character set and orthography of the publication whenever possible. Cyrillic characters may also be retrieved as transliterated according to the ISO-9 standard (see the transliteration guidelines). The topics discussed in the publications are described with Finnish-language keywords.
Catalogue information
Card catalogue made of the collection
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
More information about cataloguing
Some of the dictionaries, bibliographies and reference material can only be found in the card catalogue. For the Polonica collection, monographs published in serial publications and books acquired in the 1980s are similarly only available through the card catalogue.
Parallel collections
Books in the Humanities Collection Books in the Slavonic Library published prior to 1917Acquisition policy
In accordance with the collection development policy of the National Library of Finland, research literature in humanities and social sciences and source materials in Slavic and key European languages will be acquired to the collection.