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cherniavskaFrom the press release:
The Library of Congress has completed a major expansion of the Meeting of Frontiers website, the seventh since the site was first launched in December 1999. Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, English-Russian collaborative project that chronicles the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers as well as the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It features rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, sheet music and other materials from libraries in the United States, Russia and Germany. The site is widely used in schools and libraries in the United States and Russia. It is available at http://frontiers.loc.gov
The latest expansion includes 24 collections from 14 different libraries and archives in Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoiarsk, Novosibirk, Tomsk, and other Siberian cities, as well as additional collections from the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, the Russian State Library in Moscow, and the Library of Congress. Digitization of materials in Siberia is undertaken by a mobile scanning team based in Novosibirsk that works in cooperation with the Library of Congress to identify rare materials of special interest to American and Russian scholars, teachers, and students.
Among the items included in the latest expansion are photographs of the indigenous peoples of eastern Siberia taken by scientific expeditions to remote regions of Siberia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographs depicting the life of the Russian emigrŠ community in Harbin, China in the 1920s-1940s, albums and photograph collections relating to icebreaking on Lake Baikal and to fire-fighting in Irkutsk, manuscripts and photographs that document the persecution of Russian Old Believer religious communities under the communist authorities. Also included are sketches, drawings, and watercolors of the Siberian landscape by several local artists, and documents and photographs relating to the Cheliushkin, a Soviet scientific research vessel that sank in February 1934 while attempting to sail the Northern Sea route from Murmansk to Vladivostok.
With the most recent additions, the Meeting of Frontiers website includes more than 580,000 digital images relating to the history of Siberia, Alaska, and the American West.
Meeting of Frontiers is funded by Congressional appropriations in the Library's FY 1999 and FY 2004 budgets. Additional support for development of the project in Russia has been provided by the Open Society Institute of Russia. The project is part of the Library's Global Gateway initiative of digital library partnerships with leading libraries around the world, including the national libraries of Brazil, France, the Netherlands, and Spain.
The Library of Congress, founded April 24, 1800, is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. It preserves a collection of 128 million items -- more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map and film and television collections in the world. In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular Web site (www.loc.gov) and its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill.
The Library of Congress has completed a major expansion of the Meeting of Frontiers website, the seventh since the site was first launched in December 1999. Meeting of Frontiers is a bilingual, English-Russian collaborative project that chronicles the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in exploring, developing and settling their frontiers as well as the meeting of those frontiers in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. It features rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, sheet music and other materials from libraries in the United States, Russia and Germany. The site is widely used in schools and libraries in the United States and Russia. It is available at http://frontiers.loc.gov
The latest expansion includes 24 collections from 14 different libraries and archives in Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoiarsk, Novosibirk, Tomsk, and other Siberian cities, as well as additional collections from the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, the Russian State Library in Moscow, and the Library of Congress. Digitization of materials in Siberia is undertaken by a mobile scanning team based in Novosibirsk that works in cooperation with the Library of Congress to identify rare materials of special interest to American and Russian scholars, teachers, and students.
Among the items included in the latest expansion are photographs of the indigenous peoples of eastern Siberia taken by scientific expeditions to remote regions of Siberia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, photographs depicting the life of the Russian emigrŠ community in Harbin, China in the 1920s-1940s, albums and photograph collections relating to icebreaking on Lake Baikal and to fire-fighting in Irkutsk, manuscripts and photographs that document the persecution of Russian Old Believer religious communities under the communist authorities. Also included are sketches, drawings, and watercolors of the Siberian landscape by several local artists, and documents and photographs relating to the Cheliushkin, a Soviet scientific research vessel that sank in February 1934 while attempting to sail the Northern Sea route from Murmansk to Vladivostok.
With the most recent additions, the Meeting of Frontiers website includes more than 580,000 digital images relating to the history of Siberia, Alaska, and the American West.
Meeting of Frontiers is funded by Congressional appropriations in the Library's FY 1999 and FY 2004 budgets. Additional support for development of the project in Russia has been provided by the Open Society Institute of Russia. The project is part of the Library's Global Gateway initiative of digital library partnerships with leading libraries around the world, including the national libraries of Brazil, France, the Netherlands, and Spain.
The Library of Congress, founded April 24, 1800, is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. It preserves a collection of 128 million items -- more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map and film and television collections in the world. In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the Library serves all Americans through its popular Web site (www.loc.gov) and its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill.
