REECA Studies Resources in UW-Madison Libraries

REECA Studies Resources in Campus Libraries

Although Memorial Library holds the majority of the resources for REECA Studies, students and researchers will want to visit other campus libraries to discover the wide range of subject related materials available. In addition to rich resources on campus, the University of Wisconsin has access to the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). MadCat, the online catalog of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, includes the collections of 58 campus libraries.

Business Library

College Library

Elvehjem Museum

Geography Library

Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection

Kohler Art Library

Law Library

Music Library

Pushkin Collection of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

Steenbock Agricultural Library

Center for Research Libraries (CRL)

Business Library

The Business Library collects theory and research in the area of business. REECA Studies materials are available in the fields of: transition and market economics, finance, international trade, marketing, and banking, among others. Many handbooks and directories on businesses and business opportunities in Russia and Eastern Europe, along with country guides and statistical reports of these regions have been collected.

College Library

In College Library all subjects are collected with an emphasis on introductory material which support the curricular needs of undergraduates. The collection includes REECA Studies materials in the areas of politics, governement, and international relations with the USA, plus books about prominent political figures from these areas written in the English.

Elvehjem Museum

The Elvehjem Art Museum owns a rare collection of 22 Russian icons which were selected by the leading technical experts on icons connected with the Soviet government and Tretiakov Museum and 96 early Soviet paintings covering various aspects of early Soviet life. This collection was donated to the university by Josephy E. Davies, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.

Geography Library

Books, atlases, journals, and documents in geography of the natural and man-made environments, in cartography, and in geographic information systems are collected. With the exception of those published with journals and books, maps and aerial photographs are collected in the Robinson Map Library, 310 Science Hall.
The Geography Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison collects books, journals, and atlases in the geography of Eastern Europe, Northern and Central Asia, including former Soviet republics and Eastern Bloc nations. Most of the publications are in English and almost all are written by geographers. There are a considerable number of works in the languages of these areas, which were gifts to the library or were purchased when budgets were less constrained. The principal journal for REECA Studies is the run of "Soviet geography," continued by "Post-Soviet geography," from 1960 to present. The library has several current Russian and Polish journals, including "Acta geologica polonica," "Acta palaeontologica polonica," "Transactions (Doklady) of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Earth Science Sections," "Dokumentacja geograficzna," and back files of others.

Helen Allen Textile Collection (HATC)

The core of the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection is approximately 3,000 textiles given as a gift by Professor Helen Louise Allen. Since her death in 1968, the original gift has quadrupled, making it among the largest and most comprehensive university textile collections in the country. The goal of the collection is to provide educational resources that further the understanding of human beings within their material and social environment through the study of textiles of artistic, cultural and historic significance.

The library contains a rich collection of books on Slavic and East European and Central Asian folk art and textiles, including such titles as "Turkmen Needlework," "The Decorative Art of Russia," "Kaitag: Textile Art from Daghestan," "Folk Art in Poland," and "Russian Peasant Design Motifs for Needlemworkers and Craftsmen."

Kohler Art Library

The Kohler Art Library collects monographs, periodicals, exhibition and sales catalogues dealing with painting, drawing, architecture, sculpture, graphic arts, and decorative arts. Special collections include artists' books, illuminated manuscript facsimiles, and decorative arts. The library contains a lcollection of materials, both in English and the vernacular, dealing with art in Russia and the Soviet Union, and numbering in the thousands. Titles include " Art of the Soviets: Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in a One-party State, 1917-1992," "New light on Central Asian Art and Iconography," "Twentieth-century Russian and East European Painting."

Law Library

The Law Library houses a broad international collection that includes the documents of international organizations, national constitutions, and a selection of international legal journals, including materials from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The collection of REECA Studies law materials numbers over 4,000 volumes. A significant portion of these materials focus on the recent political and economic changes in these regions and their effect of the legislative systems of these countries.

Mills Music Library

The Mills Music Library contains books and journals about all aspects of music including history, biography, theory, practice, curriculum, etc., as well as scores and sound recordings of musical compositions. The library contains a sizable collection of REECA Studies materials, including musical scores and historical and critical works on both classical and folk music of these regions.

Pushkin Collection of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies

The Pushkin Collection is a library containing more than 7300 individually cataloged journal articles, monographs, collections of articles about Pushkin, editions and book-form translations. The collection is outstanding for the comprehensiveness of its holdings of periodical publications on Pushkin, and of individual articles published in books of scholarly journals. The collection is based on the private library of Professor Emeritus J. Thomas Shaw who donated his collection to the University of Wisconsin and has been broadened through donations of books and microfilms from the Pushkin Group at Pushkin House, St. Petersburg, Russia. New materials are continually being acquired through use of listings in scholarly bibliographical publications, such as the MLA International Bibliography, and through on going cooperation with Pushkin House; and systematic efforts are made to discover and fill gaps inf older materials. For more information on the Pushkin Collection, see the homepage of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic/pushcent.htm

Steenbock Library

Steenbock Memorial Library is the primary resource library for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences, and School of Veterinary Medicine. Steenbock Library acquires a wide range of materials to support research and teaching in REECA Studies, including materials on agricultural and sustainable development, argicultural economics, agricultural and forestry statistics, and the documents of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Materials on the textiles and folk art of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

Center for Research Libraries

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) acquires, stores, and provides access to less widely held scholarly research materials that supplement and thus support the research collections of its 130 member institutions. In addition to its own collection of newspapers, documents, and foreign dissertations, collections of CRL include the publications of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, archival materials of historical importance (primary focus on those that record the activities of national governments), foreign doctoral dissertations, and newspapers (foreign, ethnic, and U.S. general circulation).
REECA Studies materials held by CRL are included in MadCat and are delivered to Memorial Library promptly when requested through Interlibrary Loan, 262-1193.

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