Correspondence of the Director of the Library of Congress with the President of the United States: on the History of Acquisition of the Collection of G.V. Yudin
https://doi.org/10.25281/0869-608X-2013-0-4-82-86
Abstract
The article presents the unpublished correspondence of October, 1906, between the Librarian of Congress and the President of the United States, where there are discussed the advantages and disadvantages of acquiring by the Library of the large personal library (81,000 volumes) of G.V. Yudin, Krasnoyarsk merchant. The article also presents the Memorandum from a previous Librarian of Congress, arguing strongly against the purchase of the collection.
Keywords
Геннадий Васильевич Юдин,
Герберт Патнэм,
Теодор Рузвельт,
Библиотека Конгресса США,
Эйнсуорт Рэнд Споффорд,
Русские фонды американских библиотек,
Gennadii Vasil'evich Yudin,
Herbert Putnam,
Theodore Rossevelt,
Library of Congress,
Ainsworth Rand Spofford,
Russian Collections at American Libraries
About the Authors
Harold Leich
Library of Congress
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anastasia A. Korniyenko
All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Leich H., Korniyenko A.A. Correspondence of the Director of the Library of Congress with the President of the United States: on the History of Acquisition of the Collection of G.V. Yudin. Bibliotekovedenie [Russian Journal of Library Science]. 2013;(4):82-86. https://doi.org/10.25281/0869-608X-2013-0-4-82-86
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