Untangling a record for a Ukrainian book

It crossed my mind today to look up in our staff cataloguing system books published in Ukraine and coded as being in Russian, to see whether any of them had been incorrectly coded.  The fifth result was exactly that – a Ukrainian title mangled in transliteration performed in keeping with the rules for Russian:

  • Мистецтво стародавнього Києва [by]  Ю.С. Асєєв –>
  • Mystet︠s︡tvo starodavnʹoho Kyi︠e︡va [by]  I︠U︡.S. Asi︠e︡i︠e︡v (correct)
  • Mistet︡s︠tvo starodavnʹogo Kieva [by] I︠U︡.S. Aseev (very incorrect)

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Recent Ukrainian language and literature additions in the University Library

This post looks in brief at some of the most recent Ukrainian arrivals in the UL.  For obvious and awful reasons, we do not expect more books from Ukraine for some considerable time, but we will keep back money for Ukrainian material so that we can support publishers and vendors through purchases when Ukraine can again turn to peace-time activities. Continue reading