09-10 Jacyk Fellow Named
The PJRC has announced its 09-10 Jacyk Library Fellow. Yuliya Halushka is the second recipient of the University of Toronto Library's library fellowhip in Ukrainian studies.
Ms. Halushka is a librarian at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in Lviv, Ukraine, where she has worked since 2003 in its cataloguing and reference departments. She received her Diploma in Theology and Philosophy from UCU in 2003, and her M.A. in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa in 2008, which she attended on a Fulbright Scholarship. In addition to her work experience, Yuliya has traveled extensively and taken part in numerous programs throughout Ukraine, and in Poland, the United States, and Canada. For example, she spent one year volunteering at the State Historical Society of Iowa; served as a volunteer cataloguer for the Slavic History and Literature Cataloguing Division of the Library of Congress; and was a participant in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute held at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. This wide-ranging experience and diversity of contacts has led Yuliya to initiate innovations at the UCU Library, including the implementation of Web 2.0 technology, the creation of a Library blog (please visit: www.uculib.blogspot.com), and the introduction of standardized name and subject headings for the Library's catalogue.
Yuliya's term as Jacyk Library Fellow will run from March 15 to June 11, 2010. During her three months at the University of Toronto Library, she will be cataloguing serials in the John Luczkiw Collection held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. This material was published by Ukrainians living in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria from about 1945 to 1954. The content of the periodicals varies widely ranging from the literary to the political or from the academic to the satiric. Yuliya will also work shifts on the Reference Desk of the Robarts Library's Research Services on the 4th floor, and work on a small metadata cataloguing project for Materials Processing.
The library fellowship is financially supported by the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation. The Foundation established the program to provide information and library professionals from Ukraine opportunities to learn new skills and to establish professional contacts that will be of help to them and their colleagues at their home institutions in Ukraine.
For more information about the Petro Jacyk Library Fellow program, or to arrange a meeting with Yuliya Halushka, please contact: Ksenya Kiebuzinski ksenya.kiebuzinski@utoronto.ca or 416.978.1288.
