BOOK NOTES: Bibliographic guide to key publications (01/14/01)

BOOK NOTES

Bibliographic guide to key publications

"Independent Ukraine: A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Publications, 1990-1999" Englewood, Colo.: Ukrainian Academic Press, 2000. 552 pp. $85 (cloth).

Interest in all things Ukrainian has heightened immeasurably during the nation's first decade of independence. So, too, has the need for a guide to the ever-growing volume of Ukrainian literature and analyses.

Ukrainian-born scholar Dr. Bohdan S. Wynar has addressed this need. He spent five years locating and evaluating works covering all important aspects of Ukrainian history and culture. The result is this work's approximately 1,700 evaluative annotations that describe key books, articles, scholarly essays and doctoral dissertations published about Ukraine in the past decade. Several thousand other resources are cited within the annotations. As an added benefit, these subsumed entries are listed in the index.

Material is arranged in chapters by broad subject categories (e.g., economics, linguistics, literature, religions). Each chapter opens with a brief introduction outlining recent developments and citing important authors and their works. Subdivisions within chapters offer more detailed categorizations and an extensive index concludes the work.

Almost half of the book is devoted to works dealing with Ukrainian history and political science, with special sections focused on issues such as the disintegration of the Soviet Union, post-Soviet nationality policies and Ukrainian nationalism.

Dr. Wynar also describes valuable works that explore Ukrainian problems in nation-building, legislative policies and elections, national security and military problems, and international relations with countries such as Russia, Poland, Germany, the United States and Canada.

This volume complements and supplements Dr. Wynar's widely acclaimed previous work, "Ukraine. A Bibliographic Guide to English-Language Publications." The original volume was published in 1990 and covers works mainly from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, although some high-quality and singular resources from as far back as the 1950s are included. Together the two volumes provide a standard of bibliographic control and a comprehensive overview of the intellectual activity in the field.

Valuable to scholars, faculty and students of Slavic studies, the books are unique and unparalleled research tools, as well as outstanding collection development tools.

Dr. Wynar is the founder of Libraries Unlimited Inc. and Ukrainian Academic Press. He is editor-in-chief of American Reference Books Annual and is a recipient of ALA's Isadore Gilbert Mudge Citation for distinguished contributions to reference librarianship and publishing. His many published articles and books include Introduction to Cataloguing and Classification and Dictionary of American Library Biography. Dr. Wynar is a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in New York.

The book may be purchased for $85 ($102 outside North America) from the sales department at Libraries Unlimited, (800) 237-6124, or via e-mail, orders@lu.com. ISBN 1-56308-670-0 PRS970/DC/2/00.

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