Bibliographies of East European Newspapers at the Library of Congress |
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| Authors: | Angela Cannon |
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| Institution: | 1. European Division, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia, USAacannon@loc.gov |
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| Abstract: | This article traces the development of recent bibliographies of East European newspapers held by the Library of Congress. Since 2006 the European Division of the Library of Congress has placed ten newspaper bibliographies onto its website for the following countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Hungary 1956, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, and Serbia, as well as a mixed newspaper/journal bibliography of the Soviet independent press, 1985–1992. The author covers topics such as the need for such bibliographies, their collection development benefits, the difficulty in maintaining their currency, and their popularity based on website statistics. |
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| Keywords: | bibliographies Bosnia Bulgaria Croatia European Division Eastern Europe finding aids Hungary Kosovo Library of Congress Macedonia Montenegro newspaper collection Russia Serbia |
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