Fwd: Query: Telephone Directories from the former Yugoslavia
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Fwd: Query: Telephone Directories from the former Yugoslavia
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From: Victor Hugo Lane Iv <[email protected]>
Query: Telephone Directories from the former
Yugoslavia
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Dear Colleagues,
It is a rare occasion when the answer to a bibliographic query has the
potential to make a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of
people. This is such an occasion and the reason I'm posting this query
to this list. Please pass it on to potentially interested colleagues
and to other library-related lists.
What we are urgently seeking is libraries or other institutions that
have holdings telephone directories from the former Yugoslavia, dating
from 1969 to the present. We are especially asking colleagues in
European libraries to check their collections to see if they have any
holdings.
These phonebooks are needed to help us complete a set of such
directories, for a project designed to assist refugees returning to
Kosovo who have been deprived of other forms of personal
identification. Our project is described in article in this week's
issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Using Phone Books,
Scholars Build a Data Base for Resettling Kosovars," by Kelly
McCollum.
Norman Ross Publishing Inc. ( http://www.nross.com ) has undertaken to
film these phonebooks. The entries for Kosovo are being scanned from
the microfilms and will be turned into a searchable database, using
OCR and other software. Microfilming and preserving a series of
telephone directories for all of the former Yugoslavia will also
assist researchers in tracking demographic changes in a region that
has been radically transformed by war and "ethnic cleansing."
We have located about 20 vols. of directories in North American
collections, but need more to complete our series. Our hope is that
libraries we have not contacted so far (esp. in Europe) will have
holdings that can help us to fill crucial gaps. Below is a list of
phone books we have identified that we do not yet have for this
project:
* 1970-1978 for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
* 1981-1982 for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
* 1985-1986 for Macedonia and Montenegro only
* 1987-1988 for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
* 1989-1990 for all the republics except Bosnia
* 1991+ for all republics of the former Yugoslavia
If you know of the location of any of the above telephone directories,
please notify, as soon as possible:
Norman Ross Publishing Inc.
330 West 58th Street
New York, NY 10019 USA
tel: 1-212-765-8200 / fax: 1-212-765-2393
e-mail [email protected]
For more information, contact project coordinators Janet Crayne or
Andras J. Riedlmayer:
Janet Crayne
University of Michigan Library
111G Hatcher North
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205
[email protected]
tel. 734-936-2348 / fax 1-734-763-6743
Andras Riedlmayer
Fine Arts Library
Harvard University
[email protected]
tel. 617-495-3372 / fax 1-617-496-4889
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