The e-book collection now contains more than 10,000 Dutch and English titles. 112 Ukrainian and 57 Russian titles are now added, including George Orwell, Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Stephen King. In doing so, the library sector shows its solidarity with the Ukrainian and Russian communities. At the same time, your library can reach and help people from Ukraine in these difficult circumstances.
Ukrainian and Russian titles in the collection
Currently, the collection includes a selection of Ukrainian translations of classics, such as George Orwell’s ‘1984’ or Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’, supplemented by popular titles such as Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s ‘The Angel’s Play’ or Stephen King’s ‘Joyland’. . In addition, a limited collection of Russian titles and translations is available in the e-book range. Russian is the second language in Ukraine. Moreover, the library sector also shows solidarity with Russian residents, who have not asked for a war either.
Those who like to read more about Ukraine and Russia in Dutch will find many interesting non-fiction titles about Ukraine and Russia on the bookshelf ‘Backgrounds to the war in Ukraine’. In this way, borrowers can properly inform themselves and be critical of reporting about the war in Ukraine, especially in times of fake news, filter bubbles and propaganda.
The Ukrainian collection was compiled in collaboration with Naple, a European working group on e-books and e-book policy in public libraries. Several European countries will purchase a selection of Ukrainian titles. The Ukrainian community of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre was involved in the collection. The collection of Ukrainian titles and translations on the e-book platform will be further expanded in the near future.
We are a group of cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack. We are using a combination of technologies to crawl and archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler and the ArchiveWeb.page browser extension and app of the Webrecorder project
Submit important URLs for collections in cultural heritage institutions in Ukraine
If you can read Ukrainian or Russian, or if you can run the Browsertrix crawler (check out our Browsertrix documentation to see if it’s something you’d be up for trying), fill out the volunteer form.
We are currently at capacity for people to help with Wayback Machine / Internet Archive tasks or manual Webrecorder tasks, but you can still help by submitting URLs.
You’ll need to wait until we add you to the Slack to actually get started, but if you want to read about the process, here’s our workflow and a orientation for new volunteers.
You can reach all the admins at info@sucho.org. If you are a Ukrainian scholar who needs free storage for your research materials, please email storage@sucho.org to be connected with our partners at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the University of Alberta.
Please see our contributors page for more info on the team and our financial supporters!
