Kiebuzinski publishes history of Slavic studies resources at U of T

Petro Jacyk Program Co-Director Dr. Ksenya Kiebuzinski has published an article, “Slavic and East European Collections at the University of Toronto Library: From the Great Fire to the Deep Freeze, 1890−1948,” in Slavic & East European Information Resources. The article explores the history of the Slavic and East European collection at the University of Toronto Libraries from the great fire of 1890 to the beginning of the Cold War. Dr. Kiebuzinski contextualizes the history in relation to the development of Russian studies at the University and the creation of a formal program of Slavic studies in 1949, and she places particular emphasis on gifts and bequests of library material.

The full article can be accessed directly from the journal or through the University of Toronto Libraries website.

Ksenya Kiebuzinski is Head of the Petro Jacyk Central & East European Resource Centre, and Slavic Resources Coordinator, for the University of Toronto Libraries. She also co-directs (with Professor Lucan Way) the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, and coordinates the Ukraine Research Group at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. Her research interests include nineteenth-century French stage representations of Ukraine, its historical figures, and events, as well as bibliography, the history of the book, and Austrian Galicia.