Ruin and Recovery: Strategies for Building South Slavic Collections after the 1990s
Ruin and Recovery: Strategies for Building South Slavic Collections after the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: There is perhaps no greater challenge for a Slavic materials selector in the early 21st century than navigating the bibliographic straits of the Former Yugoslavia. Before the 1990s, the handful of vendors selling Yugoslav books, along with functional exchanges with the major libraries of the country, constituted a reliable network through which major research collections in the United States were maintained. The Yugoslav federal government’s fiscal reform efforts of the early ‘90s made all Yugo slav books, including the national biblio graphy, prohibitively expensive. Although institutional exchanges continued after that time, even that avenue for acquisitions became very problematic, if not impassable, following the conflict that ensued after the successive declarations of independence by Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia beginning in June of 1991.

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