Mission Statement

The East Coast Consortium of Slavic Library Collections was established in 1993 to better coordinate activities among major Eurasian area studies collections in the Eastern United States. The Consortium presently numbers ten member institutions: Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, The New York Public Library, New York University, Princeton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Yale. Initially, the meetings of the Consortium offered a venue for the discussion of issues related to the state of post-Soviet publishing and the book trade, sharing information on dealer and exchange relationships. In subsequent sessions, the Consortium's work has included the following topics:

• Collection development and acquisition, including efforts to prevent needless duplication of serial and other periodical-like materials.
• Collection description, assessment, and preservation, and the pursuit of coordinated grant-funded projects in these areas, including the creation of a cooperative preservation Slavic and East European area studies group, under the auspices of the Center for Research Libraries.
• The preparation of informative literature intended to assist and promote area studies research at member institutions.
• The electronic publication of a Union List of Newspapers.
• Identification and evaluation of electronic resources for the Slavic and East European studies field, and the development of a Consortium "home page".

To obtain Collection Development and Access Policies of participating libraries, please contact the Slavic Bibliographer at the appropriate institution.

Electronic mail may be sent to the Consortium listserve at ecc@listserv.unc.edu

• Pacific Coast Slavic & East European Library Consortium

Other Consortia

•     Collaborative Collection Management Project for Russian and East European Studies (COCOREES)
•     Council for Slavonic and East European Library and Information Services (COSEELIS)

Page maintained by Nina Shapiro, Slavic Bibliographer, Princeton University.  Revised 4/2008.