Grant awarded to digitize major Russian journals and periodicals | |
| The Indiana University Digital Library Program received one of eight grants awarded nationally under the U.S. Department of Education’s Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access Program. A
n aim of this grant program is to support projects that can develop techniques to access or preserve foreign information resources in print or electronic form, particularly resources written in non-Roman language alphabets.
IU was awarded $240,000 over three years for the “Russian Periodical Index Digital Project,” which will digitize 20 years’ worth of the major Russian index of journals and periodicals, Letopis’ Zhurnal’ nykh Statei (Chronicle of Journal Articles).
This government-published index is “a comprehensive, national bibliography of the Soviet Union…that, in its paper form, is hard to obtain and poorly organized,” said Kristine Brancolini, director of the IU Digital Library Program. She wrote the winning pr
oposal along with area librarians Murlin Croucher and Perry Willett. The Digital Library Program is a university-wide partnership of the IU Libraries, University Information Technology Services, and the School of Library and Information Science. | |
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