Staff DirectoryAlena Aissing

Alena Aissing

Librarian/Curator for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
  • International and Area Studies
aaissing@library.ucla.edu

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  • Balkan Studies
  • Baltic Studies
  • Caucasus Studies
  • Central Asian Studies
  • Current Affairs
  • European Studies
  • History
  • Indo-European Studies
  • Literature and Languages of Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, the Russian Federation, the Baltic States, the Balkan States, the Caucasus, Central Asia, European Union
  • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • Near Eastern Studies
  • Politics
  • Russian Studies
  • Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures
  • Ukrainian Studies

Publications

  • Aissing, Alena. “Detecting and Debunking Disinformation: The Role of University Libraries in Promoting Information Literacy,” Contemporary Mediterranean 3 (1) 2024. p. 35-47.
  • Aissing, Alena. “Robot is 100! Science-Fiction that Changed the World of Literature and Performing Arts.” Zprávy Společnosti bratří. no. 140, p. 7. March 2021. (Written and published in the Czech language).
  • Alena Aissing. “How Brands Connect with Consumers: Building Library’s Community with Social-Business Media Tools.” Information in e-motion. Proceedings BOBCATSSS 2012 – 20th International Conference on Information Science. Amsterdam, 23-25 January 2012. Bock+Herchen Verlag, Bad Honnef, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-88347-287-4.
  • Alena Aissing, “International Education Week: Celebrating the Benefits of International Education and Exchange.” Invited writer: Book chapter for a book entitled International Students and Academic Libraries: Initiatives for Success. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). 2011. ISBN: 978-0-8389-8593-9
  • Aissing, Alena, Richard Saltzburg. “European Romanies: A Collaborative Educational Program at the University of Florida Libraries.” Slavic and East European Information Resources. Vol. 10, issue 1, 2009, pages 61-72.
  • Aissing, Alena. “Bibliographic Control of Foreign Languages: The Case of Displaying Cyrillic Characters in Online Catalog at the University of Florida Libraries.” Bridging the Digital Divide: Libraries Providing Access for All -18thBOBCATSSS 2010 Symposium: University of Parma, Italy, January 25-28, 2010. University of Parma: Università degli Studi di Parma:

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