UCL SSEES Library

The Ukrainian section contains approximately 8,000 books and pamphlets and some 34 periodical titles are currently received, 12 of which are newspapers. Most of the holdings have been acquired in the post-war period although a small collection has been held since the foundation of the School. This was later supplemented by the publications of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which the Library received as gifts. All subjects in the humanities are covered at present, with the emphasis on reference materials, bibliography, history, language and literature. In the social sciences acquisitions have increased in politics and current political and economic transition. Acquisitions in education, art and other subjects are more selective.

In the language section there are grammars and textbooks in both Ukrainian and English and monographs dealing with all aspects of the language. The library has also acquired facsimile reprints of key works by early Ukrainian philologists, such as M. Smotryts´kyi's Hramatyka, Kyïv, 1979 (originally, Vilnius, 1619) and L. Zizanii's Hramatyka slovens´ka, Kyïv, 1980 (originally, Vilnius, 1596).

Literature is widely covered and most major Ukrainian writers are represented. The section also contains monographs on the history of Ukrainian literature and on the literary periods and movements by literary historians and critics such as O. Bilets´kyi, D. Chyzhevs´kyi, Y. Kyryliuk, G. Luckyj and M. Vozniak. The library has been acquiring volumes in the major series of facsimile reprints of early literary texts of the Ukraine entitled Harvard library of early Ukrainian literature, Cambridge, Mass., 1987-, as well as several recent collections of 17th and 18th century poetry, such as Ukrainska poeziia XVII stolittia: pershe polovyna: antolohiia, Kyïv, l988. The history section is represented by general histories and by works on special periods and events by Ukrainian and Western historians.

In addition to general and specialised dictionaries and yearbooks, the reference section contains Ukraïns´ka radians´ka entsyklopediia, 17 vols., Kyïv, 1960-68; Ukraine: a concise encyclopedia, 2 vols., Toronto, 1963-71; Entsyklopediia ukrainoznavstva, Paris, 1955-1984, and its English language complement, Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Toronto and London, 1984-1993.

In the Library's collection of early Church Slavonic material are volumes printed in the Ukraine, such as Evkholigion, Kyïv, 1646, and Apostol, Lvov, 1654. Periodicals worthy of mention are Movoznavstvo, Kyïv, 1934- and Zapysky Istorychno-filolohichnoho viddilu Ukraïns´koï Akademiï nauk, Kyïv, 1919-31.

The Library subscribes to a number of current newspapers from Ukraine including Holos Ukraïny and Uriadovyi Kur´ier.

The Ukrainian collection is located on the Second Floor of the Library. Books in this section have the classmark U.

Library staff also maintain a page of Internet resources on Ukraine.

This page last modified Monday 3 December 2007.