This guide
This guide aims to provide an introduction to resources for studying Ukrainian and some other Slavonic languages. It aims to help you make use of SOLO, OxLIP+ and OU e-Journals so that you can make the most of Oxford's libraries and electronic resources. A list of other libguides is available and may be of assistance.
Some useful links
- SOLO help pageSOLO Help gives you information about all aspects of using SOLO: searching, renewing, reserving and placing stack requests. Some of the explanations are in video format.
- Oxford University Computing ServicesOUCS can give you help if you are experiencing problems with email and with computing in general ie with the computer that you are using. They have a help-desk open from 8.30 - 20.30. The help-desk telephone number is (2) 73200
Related guides
How to locate books
Books in the area of Ukrainian language and literature are located not in the Main Taylor but in the Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library in 47, Wellington Square. In order to locate books on the shelves you will need to find out the shelfmark by looking your title up on SOLO. You will need to transliterate according to the Library of Congress (LC) transliteration scheme if you are looking for a Ukrainian title. When you have looked up your title you can either go to the shelves if a copy is available or you may need to write the LC shelfmark on a slip and ask one of the Issue Desk staff to fetch it for you from the Research Collection in the basement.
There are two classification schemes at TABS. New books in the Research collection and the undergraduate collection are classified according to a standard version of the LC classification scheme used across the Bodleian libraries. Older books in both collections are classified according to inhouse adaptations of LC. LC Slavonic shelfmarks begin with the letters PG. They are then numerically subdivided by language and literature. The Ukrainian sequence begins at PG3801.
If you come across a shelfmark beginning TNR or REP. SLAV (or no shelf-mark at all), this means that the book is kept out at the Bodleian Storage Facility (BSF) and you will have to do a stack request.
If you cannot find the book on SOLO, you could try looking for it on COPAC which is a union online catalogue of UK national, academic and specialist libraries. WorldCat covers libraries throughout the world and includes millions of records representing 400 languages. KVK (Karlsruher virtueller Katalog) is another union catalogue covering academic and national libraries throughout Europe and beyond.
If you cannot find a particular text in Oxford you may sometimes be able to find it on an electronic library such as Elektronnaia biblioteka ukrainskoi literatury. See also section on Finding Ebooks in this guide on electronic libraries.
Searching in Cyrillic
if you wish to search the catalogue of a Ukrainian library such as:
Natsional'na biblioteka Ukrainy imeni V.I. Vernads'kogo
You will need to be able to type in Cyrillic. It is quite easy to instal a Cyrillic keyboard onto a computer these days. However, if you do not have access to a Cyrillic keyboard, the Russian search engine Yandex offers a virtual keyboard which you can use when necessary as it has a Ukrainian keyboard option.
Other Ukrainian search-engines include Google Ukraine.
Ukrainian Studies Subject Consultant
(Andreievski Sobor, Kyiv)
If you have a specific enquiry relating to Ukrainian or Slavonic resources or would like to book an individual appointment for advice about Ukrainian or Slavonic resources for your course,please contact:
Nick Hearn (Ukrainian Studies Subject Consultant)
TABS (Taylor Bodleian Slavonic Library), 47, Wellington Square
Monday: 9:00 - 5:00
Tuesday: 9:00 - 5:00
Friday: 2:00 - 5:00
Email: nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 (2)70462
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