LITUANIKOS ŠALTINIAI KAI KURIOSE JAV BIBLIOTEKOSE, MUZIEJUOSE IR ARCHYVUOSE

Lee G Burchinal

doi:10.15388/kn.v50i0.7911

Abstract

Sudan American Foundation for Education, Inc.414 N. Henderson Road, Suite 1205Arlington VA 22202 USAE-mail: lee.burchinal@verizon.comThis paper describes the development of the online Directory of Lithuanian Resources at Selected Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the United States. Eighty-six potential sources of information about scholarly and non-scholarly printed materials as well as archival collections, museum artifacts, and audio-visual materials were identified from references in publications, previous surveys, and information obtained from Web sites of organizations. Based on available information, draft descriptions of the holdings or collections were prepared for 84 organizations and sent to them for verification andcorrection. Revised records for the 82 sources constitute the content of the Directory. The 82 sources contain an extensive and wide variety of materials, including large collections of books, serials, newspapers, and other materials in Lithuanian; substantial university and public library collections of Lithuanian-related materials; hundreds of named archives related to individuals, families, and groups; special collections of Lithuanian coins, military-related items, folk art, and memorabilia; and oral histories and films based on the experiences of Lithuanian émigrés.

Highlights

This paper describes the development of the Web-based Directory of Lithuanian Resources at Selected Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the United States1 and provides a brief
Unlike previous studies of Lithuanian materials in the United States that primarily focused on scholarly resources, the present investigation included scholarly and non-scholarly printed and audio-visual materials as well museum artifacts
The information contained in the Directory provides current information about the content and variation among Lithuanian materials at 80 collections in the United States plus one collection that was transferred to Lithuania and another that is in the process of being transferred there

Summary

Introduction

This paper describes the development of the Web-based Directory of Lithuanian Resources at Selected Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the United States1 and provides a brief analysis of the information contained in the Directory. This paper describes the development of the Web-based Directory of Lithuanian Resources at Selected Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the United States1 and provides a brief The present survey updates information provided by previous studies of holdings of libraries and archives in the United States [1; 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12].

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