Szathmary Hungarica Collection (fwd)

[alan p. pollard]

In 1991, the University of Chicago Library received a gift of more than
15,000 volumes on the history and culture of the Hungarian people, donated
by Louis Szathmary, a noted Chicago bibliophile and restauranteur.  The
majority of materials are in the Hungarian language, including the
collected works of a wide variety of Hungarian writers of the 16th-20th
centuries.  In 1994, the University of Chicago Library was awarded a U. S.
Department of Education grant for the original cataloging of 3,038 unique
Hungarian titles with no reported United States library locations.
Through the use of OCLC's TECHPRO service, all 3,038 titles have now been
cataloged and their bibliographic records loaded into the OCLC and RLIN
national databases.  They are accessible through WorldCat and Eureka, as
well as through the University of Chicago's Online Catalog.  In the
upcoming months, a list of these 3,038 unique titles will be available at
the Slavic and East European home page of the University of Chicago
Library WWW site:

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/LibInfo/SourcesBySubject/Slavic/

Please contact June Pachuta Farris (jpf3 at midway.uchicago.edu) if you have
any questions about the collection.
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June Pachuta Farris                           jpf3 at midway.uchicago.edu
Bibliographer for Slavic                          (312)702-8456 (phone)
and East European Studies                         (312)702-6623   (fax)
Room 263, Regenstein Library
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, Illinois  60637