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Ewa Dzurak

Cataloging Services Librarian

Degrees

M.A. Anthropology, Warsaw University, Poland

M.L.S. Simmons College, Boston

Scholarship and Publications

Selected Publications

"History of the three major academic libraries in Partitioned Poland. The Polish Review 63, no 1 (2018): 29-48. 

"Evaluating and planning for interdisciplinary Collection development, a case of East Asian collection at the College of Staten Island" Collection Building 34, no. 2 (2015): 51-58. 

“Antecedents of Warsaw Public Library.” Library and Information History 27, no.1 (2011): 17-31.

"Metamorphosis of academic libraries in post-communist Poland: focusing on access.” Journal of Academic Librarianship 36, no.4 (2010): 354-358.

“Academic libraries in Poland. University of Warsaw Library as an example of library transformation in post – communist Poland.” LIBRI 59, no.3 (2009): 135-144.
    
“The role of NUKAT union catalog in shaping the society of knowledge in Poland, January 2008 conference report.” Slavic & East European Information Resources (SEEIR) 9, no.3 (2008): 234-238.    

“Sula Benet.” In Etnografowie i ludoznawcy polscy : sylwetki, szkice biograficzne. t III [Polish ethnographers and folklorists, v. 3]]. Wroclaw: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, 2010

“The challenge of evaluating and developing an interdisciplinary collection : The East Asian Collection at the public college”. The importance of being earnest: Charleston Library Conference Proceedings, Charleston, SC. 2014. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1664&context=charleston

“Antropolodzy na wojnie. Michał Kowalski: Antropolodzy na wojnie: o „brudnej” użyteczności nauk społecznych. [Anthropologists at war – about „dirty” usefulness of social sciences]  Stan rzeczy  11, no 2 (2017) (Book review)

“Literatura Polska w Izraelu: leksykon.” [Polish literature in Israel; lexicon] Slavic & East European Information Resources (SEEIR) 15, no.4 (2014): 260-261. ) (Book review)

“Antropolog z karabinem na ramieniu.” [Anthropologist with a rifle on his shoulder] OP.CIT 4, no. 41 (2008): 36-40.

“The role of NUKAT Warsaw Poland 23-25 January 2008, report.”International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control (ICBC)37, no.3 (2008): 42, 59.

“W kręgu Indiańskich babek: Paula Gunn Allen 1939-2008.” [In the circle of Indian grandmothers: Paula Gunn Allen 1939-2008] TAWACIN  82, no.2 (2008): 5-8.

“Open stacks at the University of Warsaw Library: a historical change.” International Leads: A publication of the International Relations Round Table of the American Library Association 22, no.1 (2008): 1, 7.

“Kobieta Pająk : o twórczości Leslie Marmon Silko.” [Spider Woman: Introduction to the works of Leslie Marmon Silko.] TAWACIN 77, no.1 (2007): 40-43.

“Ukołysać popękany świat.” [Lullaby for a broken world. An analysis of a short story Lullaby by Leslie Marmon Silko.] TAWACIN78, no.2 (2007): 8-9.

TRANSLATIONS (English to Polish)  

BOOKS  

Turner, Victor W. Ritual Process. Warsaw: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 2010. [Polish title: Proces rytualny]

Douglas, Mary. Natural symbols. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2004. [Polish title: Symbole naturalne] 

Geertz, Clifford. Works and lives: anthropologist as an author. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo KR, 2000. [Polish title: Dzieło i życie:Antropolog jako autor]

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Turner, Victor. “Liminality and Communitas.” In Ritual process; structure and anti-structure. In Badanie Kultury. Elementy teorii antropologicznej, edited by Ewa Nowicka, Marian Kempny. v.2, 240-266. Warsaw: PWN, 2004. [Polish title: Liminalność i communitas]

Sahlins, Marshall. “Other times other customs.” In Badanie Kultury. Elementy teorii antropologicznej, edited by Ewa Nowicka, Marian Kempny,v. 1, 117-145. Warsaw: PWN, 2003. [Polish title: Inne czasy, inne zwyczaje]

Clifford, James. “Identity in Mashpee.” In The Predicament of Culture. Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. In Kłopoty z Kulturą, 299-370. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo KR, 2000. [Polish title: Tożsamość w Mashpee]

ARTICLES

Clifford, James. “The tropological realism of Michel Leiris.”KONTEKSTY  59, no.3-4 (2007): 48-56. [Polish title: Metaforyczny realizm Michela Leirisa]

Wright, Terence. “Shadows of reality projected on the screen of appearances; Malinowski, Witkacy and photography.”  KONTEKSTY54, no.1-4 (2000): 17-21. [Polish title: Cienie rzeczywistości rzucone na ekran zjawisk]

SHORT STORY translations:

Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Storyteller.” TAWACIN 81, no.1 (2008): 3-11.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Kołysanka.” [Lullaby] TAWACIN 78, no.2 (2007): 3-8.

TRANSLATIONS (Polish to English)

ARTICLES
Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna. “Obsessed with innocence.”In The Neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne massacre in Poland, edited by Anthony Polonsky, Joanna Beata Michlic, 75-86. PrincetonNJ: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2004.

 

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