University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collects broadly in Czech, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. The Library also makes significant subject-specific acquisitions in Belarusian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovak, and maintains sizeable legacy holdings in Hungarian literature. Collection strengths and areas of growth include Czech history and literature, Polish contemporary visual culture and social movements, Polish graphic novels, Russian and Soviet history and literature, Russian diaspora publications, and contemporary Ukrainian literature and visual arts. Notable special collections include the André Savine Collection, devoted to the first three waves of Russian emigration and the Czechoslovak Legion Collection.

Representative: Kirill (Kyrylo) Tolpygo