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Home  »   Subjects and Libraries  »  Subjects  »  Belarusian Language and Literature

Contact

Nick Hearn
Subject Consultant
tel: +44 (0)1865 270462
email: nick.hearn@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Collection overview

Collection policy for Slavonic Studies (Language & Literature) including Belarusian Language and Literature.

Libraries and reading rooms

Principal collections

The principal collections for this subject area are located in the Taylor Bodleian Slavonic and Modern Greek Library (TABS) at 47, Wellington Square. This building houses two main collections of Slavonic material: the Research Collection and the Faculty Library (or Undergraduate Library). The Slavonic collections are housed together with the Modern Greek Library.

The Research Collection in the Basement of the building (only accessible to academics and postgraduates) has a representative collection of Belarusian language and literature.  Belarusian material is almost exclusively to be found in the Research Collection (although there is some audiovisual language course material to be found in our language learning section).

All readers have access to the Reference Collections and Periodicals on the First Floor of the Library. Since 2006, the Taylor Reference collection has been combined with the Bodleian Reference Collection and offers a wide variety of encyclopaedias, dictionaries and bibliographies covering language, literature and history among other subjects. The Library has an unrivalled range of current Slavonic journals including Belarusian ones. 

Associated collections

The Bodleian library also houses material relating to Slavonic languages and literatures. In particular, legal deposit copies of books published in the field in the UK are available for use and may be ordered to TABS by Automated Stack Request. Among its special collections, the Bodleian holds important collections of early Cyrillic books and manuscripts. There is a rapidly growing collection of Russian and other East European films in the Film Studies collection of the Modern Languages Faculty Library in the Main Taylor. Although TABS has some limited holdings of borrowable language-learning materials, a fuller range will be found at the Language Centre.

Important e-resources

Access to electronic library resources is through OxLIP+. To access many of these resources when you are not logged on to the university network you will need to register for the Oxford Single Sign-On.

Bibliographic databases

These allow you to find library materials that you cannot find on OLIS e.g. journal articles and book reviews. The most important databases for the study of Belarusian language and literatures are:

• ABSEES

• MLA Bibliography   

• CEEOL (Central and East European Online Library

Other links

The easiest way to find quality information on the internet is to use ‘gateways’ which link to resources evaluated and described by subject specialists. Gateways covering Slavonic languages and literatures (including Belarusian) include:

Intute: Arts and Humanities

For more information about Belarusian resources, contact your subject consultant.