Slavic Reference & Reading Collection in the Petrovich Room, UW-Madison
In October 1993 the Michael B. Petrovich Reading Room in Memorial Library officially opened. The reading room is named after a distinguished professor of Balkan and Russian history known throughout the state as a gifted teacher and for his creative outreach activities. The Petrovich Room concentrates basic reference works on the Slavic, East European, and Central Asian areas, including bibliographies, serial indexes, library catalogues, archival guides, statistical handbooks, census material, encyclopias, and language dictionaries. The 4,056-square-foot facility also has an extensive English-language undergraduate reading library on Russia and East Euorpe assembled from the late Professor Petrovich's personal collection. Recently, the collection in Room 212 has been expanded by a generous gift of 2,200 books on Russian literature of the 19th century from Prof. J. Thomas Shaw's personal library. Numerous complete collected works of classical Rusian writers, along with a comprehensive collection of the series Biblioteka poeta, will serve as backup copies to those in the stacks which are allowed to circulate.
The UW-Archives contains a special collection of materials donated to the library by Dr. Petrovich. This collection includes correspondence with organizations, colleagues and students, lecture notes, writings, and manuscripts, and a large collection of audiovisual materials used by Professor Petrovich throughout his teaching career.
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