U of M Slavic Collection Marks 60th Anniversary

Slavic Collection - Elizabeth Dafoe Library

The year 2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Elizabeth Dafoe Library's Slavic Collection. For 60 years, the University of Manitoba Libraries has fostered a special relationship with the Slavic communities in Manitoba. The collection was established in 1949 to support the then newly created Department of Slavic Studies.

The Collection has grown to nearly 60,000 volumes of books, periodicals, newspapers, electronic resources, and microforms (both microfilm and microfiche formats), – all this from the original 2,000 volumes back in 1949. It comprises material in all fourteen Slavic languages, with the majority in the Ukrainian, Polish and Russian languages. These materials support courses and research not only in the Department of German & Slavic Studies, but also the interdisciplinary Central and East European Studies program, and the Centre for Ukrainian Canadian Studies located in St. Andrew’s College.