Register of Members
This is not a full list of COSEELIS members. This version of the Register
contains only those details which members have specifically given me
permission to mount on the web for public view. A fuller version of the
Register was circulated separately to COSEELIS members only.
Members listed in alphabetical order:
BONE, Mary
Royal Institute of International Affairs
Chatham House
10 St James's Square
London SW1Y 4LE
Tel: 020 7957 5723
Fax: 020 7957 5710
Professional responsibilities: Particular interest in foreign relations of
area; acquisitions in West European languages and in Russian; selection of
Russian newspapers and journals; support for in-house research programme on
Russia and Eurasia, including the Caucasus and Central Asia. Also contact for
research access to the Institute’s archives.
BOWLES, John
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EW
Tel: 0131 623 3839
Fax: 0131 623 3701
Email: j.bowles@nls.uk
Professional responsibilities: Collection development/promotion for
Russia/Eastern Europe.
Personal/research interests: none given.
BRIGGS, Norman
ILIAC UK Ltd
Reading Central Library
Abbey Square
Reading RG1 3BQ
Tel: 0118 987 1115
Fax: 0118 921 0604
Email: nwbriggs@iliacuk.co.uk
Professional responsibilities: Development of cooperation between UK and
Russian libraries; contact point for Russian library conferences.
Personal/research interests: Information professional CPD through distance
learning; Russian waterways.
BRINE, Jenny
Lancaster University Library
Bailrigg
Lancaster LA1 4YH
Tel: 01524 592545
Fax: 0152 4063806
Email: j.brine@lancaster.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Formerly UK Editor for the European
Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Now Subject Librarian for
Health and Medicine, but assist other library staff occasionally with Russian
queries. Continue to be interested in Russian and East European bibliographic
and library matters
CAMFIELD, Graham
Library
London School of Economics and Political Science
10 Portugal Street
London WC2A 2HD
Tel: 0207 955 7942
Fax: 0207 955 7454
Professional responsibilities: Team Leader Collection Development; collection
development for FSU and Eastern Europe.
Personal/research interests: Life and work of Prince D. A. Khilkov, Tolstoyism,
and Russian sectarianism.
DAVIES, Richard
Leeds Russian Archive,
Brotherton Library
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 343 3289
Fax: 0113 343 5561
Email: r.d.davies@leeds.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Collection development, Leeds Russian Archive.
Personal/research interests: Russian history, literature, culture
(C19th-C20th), Russian émigré culture (C20th), Russian émigré archives,
Anglo-Russian relations and contacts (C19th-C20th).
DAVIS, Mirka
Modern and Medieval Languages Library
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
Tel: 01223 335041
Fax: 01223 335062
Professional responsibilities: Russian language, literature and history, other
Slavonic languages
Personal/research interests: Czech language and culture.
FRENKIEL, Zara
Exchange Librarian
Exchange Section LIS
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD
Fax: 0207 942 5559
Email: acq@nhm.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Exchange of publications worldwide relating to
natural history (i.e. natural sciences), earth sciences, physical
anthropology, ecology and the history of science with emphasis on Russia,
Central Asian republics, Baltic republics and Eastern Europe. Transliteration
from Cyrillic, Central Asian and Modern Greek. Languages most used: Russian,
French, Italian.
Personal/research interests: none given.
GRBA, Milan
Slavonic and East European Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 0207 412 7590
Fax: 0207 412 7784
Email: milan.grba@bl.uk
Professional responsibilities: British Library Southeast European collections
(Former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Albania)
Personal/research interests: History of the British Library Slavonic and
Southeast European collections; Southeast European history and politics; Great
Britain and the Balkans in the First World War; Anglo-Serbian relations and
contacts.
HARDWARE, Nigel
European Resource Centre,
Library Services
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: 0121 414 3614
Email: n.m.hardware@bham.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Working in the European Resource Centre
Personal/research interests: Contemporary Russian politics and economics.
HUNTER, Brian
17 Leinster Avenue
East Sheen
London SW14 7JW
Tel: 0208 392 1887
Fax: None
Email: brianreadhunter@supanet.com
Professional responsibilities: 1960-88 Assistant Librarian at LSE for Slavic &
East European acquisitions, cataloguing and reference. 1990-97 editor of
Statesman's Year-Book. Now retired.
Personal/research interests: Slavic linguistics.
KONN-ROBERTS, Tania
Glasgow University Library
Hillhead Street
Glasgow G12 8QE
Tel: 0141 330 6735
Fax: 0141 330 4952
Email: t.konn-roberts@lib.gla.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Head of Russian and East European Collections.
Personal/research interests: EU enlargement; history of White Russian émigré
communities.
PAVLIK, Devana
email: devana.pavlik@bl.uk
Professional responsibilities: Retired
Personal/research interests: Pre-1800 Czech and Slovak imprints; Czech and
Slovak material published in Britain during WW2.
PEACOCK, Lenka
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Tel: 0207 6798711
Email: l.peacock@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Deputy to Chief Cataloguer / Systems Librarian.
Responsible for cataloguing Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Finnish,
General (Miscellaneous) and rare books collections.
Personal/research interests: Czech literature, history and culture.
PINDER, Maureen
Faculty Team Librarian,
Arts Faculties Team,
Brotherton Library,
University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT.
Tel: 0113 343 4985
Fax: 0113 343 5561
Email: m.j.pinder@leeds.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Russian language, literature and culture and
history (including Siberia, Anglo-Russian relations and Russian émigrés);
smaller collections of material in other Slavonic languages e.g. Bulgarian;
Treasurer of COSEELIS.
Personal/research interests: none given.
PITMAN, Lesley
Librarian and Director of Information Services
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Tel: 020 7679 8701
Email: l.pitman@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Responsible for Library, Computing and
audio-visual services at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
University College London; Chair of COSEELIS.
Personal/research interests: none given.
RICCI, Claudia
The London Library
14 St James's Square
London SW1Y 4LG
Tel: 020 7766 4737
Fax: 020 7766 4766
Email: Claudia.ricci@londonlibrary.co.uk
Professional responsibilities: Russian cataloguing and acquisitions;
retrospective conversion with special responsibility for Slavic and Eastern
European materials; user education.
Personal/research interests: None given.
ROBINS, Philippa
UCL SSEES Library
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Tel: 020 7679 8707
Fax: 020 7679 8710
Email: p.robins@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Area specialist S.E. Europe responsible for
development of the Library’s collections on the countries of former
Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania and the Balkan Peninsula in general.
Chief Cataloguer/Systems Librarian SSEES Library.
Personal/research interests: none given.
ROGATCHEVSKAIA, Ekaterina
European Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7587
Fax: 020 7412 7784
Email: katya.rogatchevskaia@bl.uk
Professional responsibilities: Curator of Russian Collections, acquiring and
cataloguing monographs and serials from Russia and published in Russia in
other countries, maintaining and developing links with exchange partners,
suppliers, cultural institutions and universities, dealing with enquiries, and
raising awareness of both collections at a national and international level.
Personal/research interests: Medieval Russian literature, Émigré literature of
the 1st wave, Russian émigré publications of the 19th century in the BL
collection, History of the Russian collection at the BL, publishing and
information policy in Russia.
SCRIVENS, Ray
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR
Tel: 01223 333114
Fax: 01223 333160
Email: rs10002@cam.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Slavonic and East European Specialist
Personal/research interests: none given.
SMITH-MESA, Vladimir Alexander
SSEES Library-UCL
16 Taviton Street
London WC1H 0BW
Tel: 0207 679 8707
Fax: 0207 679 8710
Email: vsmith@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Senior Library Assistant (Cataloguer) for
Russian, Baltic, audiovisual (DVD/Videos) and General (Miscellaneous)
collections
Personal/research interests: Film studies, particularly film co-productions
and the cinematic exchange between the countries of the Soviet bloc and Cuba,
during 1959-91. Founder and curator of the UCL Festival of the Moving Image
(please see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0811/08111704 )
SMYTH, Neil
The Hallward Library
University Park
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
Tel: 0115 9514584
Email: neil.smyth@nottingham.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Arts Faculty Team Leader in Information
Services at the University of Nottingham, including Russian and Slavonic
Studies.
Personal/research interests: none given.
STABLEFORD, Tom
Taylor-Bodleian Slavonic Library
University of Oxford
47 Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JF
Tel: 01865 270467
Email: tom.stableford@bodley.ox.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Regional specialist for the Baltic States,
Central Europe, Former Yugoslavia and Albania.
Personal/research interests: The Fortunes of War: a diachronic study of the
processes of the lexical impact of invasion, i.e. languages in forced contact,
with reference to German on the Baltic Languages, French on English, and
Arabic on Persian.
SZKUTA, Magda
The British Library
Slavonic and East European Collections
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 0207 412 7585
Fax: 0207 412 7784
Email: magda.szkuta@bl.uk
Professional responsibilities: British Library Polish collections; compiler of
the Union List of Slavonic and East European Newspapers in British Libraries.
Personal/research interests: Polish history, language and culture.
TONG, Shenxiao
Main Library
University of Edinburgh
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ
Tel: 0131 6503370
Email: shenxiao.tong@ed.uk
Professional responsibilities: Liaison Librarian, School of Literatures,
Languages and Cultures.
Personal/research interests: none given.
WALKER, Gregory
22 Old London Road
Wheatley
Oxford
OX33 1YW
Tel: 01865 873388
Email: gregory@bibliotheca.demon.co.uk
Professional responsibilities: Editor of the MHRA online bibliographical
database of British theses in Russian and East European Studies (to be
launched in 2009, title to be confirmed).
Personal/research interests: Russian and East European bibliography. Library
collections for Russian and East European studies.
WARREN, Isabella
Scott Polar Research Institute
Lensfield Rd
Cambridge CB2 1ER
Tel: 01223 336565
Fax: 01223 336549
Professional responsibilities: Russian Bibliographer: responsible for
acquisition and cataloguing of material on Russian North and in Russian on
Arctic and Antarctic
Personal/research interests: none given.
WATKINS, Gerald
Main Library
Library Services, University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
Tel: 0121 414 7574
Fax: 0121 471 4691
Email: g.g.watkins@bham.ac.uk
Professional responsibilities: Subject Advisor with responsibility for School
of Government and Society; which includes the Centre for Russian and East
European Studies, and the School of Social Policy.
Personal/research interests: none given.
WILKINSON, Esther
Albert Sloman Library
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Tel: 01206 873181
Fax: 01206 872289
Professional responsibilities: Subject librarian for Language and Linguistics,
Philosophy, Art History and Slavonic/East European Studies. Ordering and
cataloguing of books on Russian/Eastern European politics, history, language
and literature
Personal/research interests: none given.
WOLLNER, Ildiko
European Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 020 7412 7583
Fax: 020 7412 7784
Email: slavonic@bl.uk
Professional responsibilities: Selecting, acquiring and cataloguing Hungarian
material; answering enquiries concerning the Hungarian collections; creating
and maintaining the BL Slavonic and East European webpages
Personal/research interests: Hungarian language, culture and law; online
resources.
ZMROCZEK, Janet
European Collections
The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
Tel: 0207 412 7586
Fax: 0207 412 7784
Email: janet.zmroczek@bl.uk
Professional responsibilities: Head of European Collections; selection of
Russian-language materials from Central Asia and the Caucasus; secretary of
COSEELIS.
Personal/research interests: Polish émigré publishing in 19th century Britain;
history of the BL Polish and Baltic collections; history and cultures of
Central Asia.
Register updated 24 March 2009 by Maureen Pinder, COSEELIS Treasurer.
