Collecting Bulgarian print materials in an era of shrinking library materials exchange budgets and changing collection development priorities represents a unique set of challenges and opportunities for librarians who are responsible for East European collections in North American academic libraries. Bulgarian Studies as a discipline often forms a part of a larger and traditionally Russian-dominated field of Slavic and East European Studies. In the case of the University of California system, Bulgarian print materials are collected by only two campuses, i.e., UC Berkeley and UCLA. This article has two goals. The first is to provide a brief survey of current collection development levels of Bulgarian language materials since the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. Second, I aim to highlight some key web resources that can potentially be used and adapted as collection development tools by selectors in Area Studies.

The Portuguese Inquisition in the colonies of the Empire remains understudied due to a lack of primary source materials that are available the researchers and educators. The advances in digital technologies and the current drive to foster Open Access have allowed us to understand better the relations among the complex set of circumstances as well as the mechanisms that, in their totality, represent the Portuguese Inquisition. The present paper seeks to answer questions that vary from describing these resources to identifying the institutions that created them. Digitized resources serve as a surrogate of the originals, and we can leverage the access to these electronic surrogates and enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of inquisition through E-Inquisitional objects in pedagogy and research.

The author creates a bibliographic picture of the various Turkic-language dictionaries from the eleventh to the end of the nineteenth centuries, in various languages, and describes their structure. He then focuses specifically on printed Turkic dictionaries of the nineteenth century, discussing their historical context and a statistical survey that he conducted. A number of these dictionaries have been digitized; he examines some sites where they are accessible. In the appendix is a list of the dictionaries that he found in the course of his research.

The question of Open Access (OA) in the Polish context remains relatively understudied in current North American, European, and Library and Information Studies Literatures with respect to Polish policies that regulate OA in the Sciences. This article does not try to provide a comprehensive picture of OA in Poland, as the issues of access to publicly funded scientific information are dynamic. Rather, I focus on three important aspects of Open Access in the context of contemporary Poland. First, I briefly examine the policy directives and premises that guide the development of OA in Poland. Second, I selectively analyze the content of the website, "Biblioteka Otwartej Nauki (Library of Open Science)." Lastly, I will look at the indexing databases that provide some insights into the status of OA in the Polish context. Particularly, I focus on the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROARMAP) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

As COVID-19 upended our activities as librarians in unprecedented and unexpected ways, the LAUC-B conference committee was faced with the prospect of organizing a successful bi-annual virtual conference. The use of virtual technologies in conference planning during public health-mandated work from off-campus remains minimally documented. Several studies, such as Romano (2020); and Peters and Dickinson (2020), focus on in-person conference planning workflow, but none address the processes of organizing a virtual scenario. The organizing committee, led by Corliss Lee and Shannon Kealey, formed a distinct subcommittee, composed of Kristina Bush, Natalie Marquez, and Liladhar Pendse, to investigate virtual platforms. In this presentation, Natalie and Liladhar will narrate the story of the subcommittee’s work in choosing a virtual platform that would simulate and embody normal and important in-person conference activities and experiences. To establish a baseline, the subcommittee scanned LIS literature for clues regarding conference attendees and planning committee priorities in order to draft a list of salient features needed for a virtual conference. The committee used this list of features to select platforms to review fully and then presented these platforms to the larger committee for collective decision-making. This presentation will highlight the values of proactive collaboration and professional “thinking out loud” among the subcommittee members as well as reporting out to our committee peers.