id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15655 Lutz, Maija M. Libraries in Open Societies: Proceedings of the Fifth International Slavic Librarians’ Conference. Ed. Harold M. Leich. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth, 2002. 264p. alk. paper, $39.95 (ISBN 078901968X). LC 2002-5936. 2004-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 2536 181 47 As Marianna Tax Choldin points out in the opening essay of the volume, the international network- ing of Slavic librarians today is a far cry from the early efforts of a handful of li- brarians to attain an international presence in 1974 as part of the newly formed Inter- national Committee for Soviet and East European Studies. Without a doubt, for many libraries and collections exchange is no longer the cost-effective acquisitions tool that it once was. cache/crl-15655.pdf txt/crl-15655.txt