@article{bibcite_9639,
  author = {Harold M. Leich},
  title = {So Ample a Collection, So Well Balanced: The Yudin Collection at the Library of Congress},
  abstract = {<p>The Yudin Collection, a private library of approximately 80,000 volumes purchased in November 1906 by the Library of Congress (LC) from Siberian collector, bibliophile, and merchant Gennadii Vasil{\textquoteright}evich Yudin (1840-1912), arrived at LC in April 1907, after a long journey via rail and sea from Krasnoiarsk, Siberia. Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam, in his 1907 report on the Library, termed the collection "the most important accession to the Library" of the year, "so ample a collection, so well balanced." This paper will discuss what happened to the collection after its arrival at LC in April 1907 and examine claims made in the 1990s that the Library deliberately destroyed all or most of the collection. I will also mention other aspects of how the collection has been handled since its arrival in Washington one hundred years ago.</p>},
  year = {2008},
  journal = {Slavic \& East European Information Resources},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {127-42},
  language = {English},
}