University Libraries welcomes Dr. Valerii Pavlovich Leonov, Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences Library
Dr. Valerii Pavlovich Leonov, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Library, studied at the University of Maryland in the midst of the Cold War. As
the only librarian sponsored by the IREX exchange program, an international
effort to promote positive change, he credits this formative experience
(1973-1974) as one that enriched his career and expanded his view of libraries.
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LECTURE
International Academia and the Cold War
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
12 noon – 2:00 p.m.
McKeldin Library 7121
Light lunch will be served
Sponsored by the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, Department of History
Introduced by Dr. Mikhail Dolbilov, assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, who is a historian of Imperial Russia and has published extensively both in English and Russian.
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KEYNOTE
Russian Libraries, Research and Scholars: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Special Events Room
McKeldin Library 6137
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FILM VIEWING AND DISCUSSION
Fire of 1988 at The Russian Academy of Sciences Library
Thursday, April 4, 2013
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
McKeldin Library 7121e??
A fire in 1988 devastated the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences and marked one of the worst library disasters the world has ever known. Nearly 300,000 items were lost, among them 152,245 valuable foreign imprints published before 1930. Dr. Valerii Leonov, who had only recently been appointed director, oversaw the recovery and is credited with saving this national treasure.
Introduced by Carla Montori, preservation librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries, who is a national leader in the field of preservation and digital preservation.
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