Russian National Library

The list of criteria included in this document has been left open-ended. Additional attributes can be added to the list so that expanded versions can be produced at any time without causing major programming problems in the computer. As new data become available and is supplied by an investigator, updating of the data files is done. Examples of new information are records of new strains, additional test information bn old strains, recent publications, isolation and/or accession of strains, etc. Lists of culture collections, literature references as in the U. S. National Library of Medicine, synonyms, other systems of taxonomy, whether in French, Russian, Japanese, or other languages can be entered into the microbiological data bank as it is presently designed. 

In the United States the main national libraries are the Library of Congress in Washington and the Scientific Library of the Patent OfiSce. The Library of Congress is the largest collection in the world and its Science and Technology Division is particularly rich in Russian language publications and rare journals. It is also an official depository for atomic energy reports and for much... 

Malyshev, S. I. (1968) Genesis of the Hymenoptera and the Phases of Their Evolution (Richards, O. W. and Uvalrov, B., eds) Translated from Russian by the National Lending Library for Science and Technology. Methuen, London. 

G. V. Kukolev, Chemistry of Silicon and Physical Chemistry of the Silicates. Vols. 1-3. translated from Russian by E. H. Murch, National Lending Library of Science and Technology. Boston Spa. England, 1971 reviewed in7. Am, Ceram. Soc., 55, 126 (1972). 

The main collection of translated Russian literature in Great Britain is held by the National Lending Library which receives over 200 translated journals including abstract journals and has a vast collection of translated books and individual articles, including microfilm copies of those deposited in the Special Libraries Association collection. 

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