08-09 Jacyk Fellow Named
Lyuba Pidtserkovna joins the University of Toronto Library as the 2008-2009 Jacyk Library Fellow
The
University of Toronto Library is delighted to announce that Lyuba
Pidtserkovna, librarian at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv,
has been nominated as the 2008-2009 Petro Jacyk Library Fellow. Ms.
Pidtserkovna comes to the University of Toronto with over ten years
cataloguing experience, and with a wide range of academic experience
having previously interned at the libraries of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy,
Warsaw University, and Louvain University. She will be in Toronto from
February to June, 2009, to work on cataloguing the John Luczkiw
Collection of Ukrainian Canadiana housed in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book
Library.The Luczkiw Collection contains material on Ukrainians and published in Canada from about 1900 to 1950. It is in part a record of the life and times of the first two waves of Ukrainian immigrants who often with great effort maintained their cultural heritage under adverse conditions far from their homeland. Their past is recounted in histories and in novels, plays, poetry, and song; and documented in polemical, educational, legal, and statistical works.
This collection of Ukrainian Canadiana was assembled by the late John Luczkiw (1923-1974), a prominent University of Toronto alumnus, and a former World War II refugee, who came to Canada in 1950. His family donated the collection to the Fisher Library in 1982. Over the years the collection has been supplemented by gifts from other donors living in the Greater Toronto Area.
The library fellowship is being supported through the generosity of the Petro Jacyk Education Foundation. The Foundation established the program to allow for information and library professionals from Ukraine to spend several months at the UTL to learn new skills, to establish professional contacts, and to learn different methods of librarianship 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 Lyuba Pidtserkovna, please contact: Ksenya Kiebuzinski ksenya.kiebuzinski@utoronto.ca or 416.978.1288.
