SLAVONIC MATERIAL AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION

Abstract

After giving a brief account of the historical background to the Division's Slavonic holdings, the author describes present acquisitions policy and procedures for both serials and monographs. The records maintained are described together with the special treatment necessary for ‘difficult’ types of material. The use made of the stock is shown to be small relative to the rest of the Division's activities, being only some 4% of total requests received. The various success rates from both stock and borrowing from abroad are analysed and some reasons for the small number of requests for humanities material as compared with scientific are suggested. The problems of transliteration are mentioned, including those encountered amongst the non‐Slavonic languages of the USSR.

Citation

Cornish, G. (1977), "SLAVONIC MATERIAL AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY LENDING DIVISION", BLL Review, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 96-99. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008484