In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ARLIS/NA New York has compiled the following resources to help members stay informed and find ways to get involved.  

What is going on?

• Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute: Russia’s War on Ukraine 

• Documenting the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Ukraine (managed by Art Historian, Konstanin Akinsha).
  
  

• Library of Congress: Resources on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine 

• NYPL: Understanding the History of Ukraine
  
  

• NYU: Ukraine Research Guide

• Princeton University Library Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Information Resource Guide 

What are Libraries doing?

• ALA’s Statement on the Ukrainian Library Community
  
  

• ARL Statement on Ukraine
  
  

• ARLIS/NA: Endorsement of statements of solidarity with Ukrainian Libraries

• IFLA Statement on Ukraine

• NPR Story on Ukrainian Libraries

• VICE: “Ukrainian Websites are going dark. Archivists are trying to save them”

What you can do

• Archive-IT: “Want to contribute to efforts to collect and preserve Ukrainian cultural heritage resources? Archive-It is offering free sponsored accounts to organizations interested in archiving Ukrainian web resources. To learn more, contact us at ait@archive.org”.  

*ARLIS/NY members can also recommend cultural websites to the Collaborative ART Archive.  (CARTA)

• Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' (ASEES)Resources to Help Displace Scholars: ​​”ASEEES is working with the newly created International Task Force for Displaced Scholars (ITFDS), established by a group of scholars and graduate students. Read the inaugural meeting minutes. For more information, email displaced.scholars@gmail.com.”

• NYPL-Ukraine How you can help: “As the war in Ukraine continues, it can be difficult to know how best to help, as well as which resources are best to consult. The Library is here to help guide your questions and point you to trustworthy sources of information and support for those in need in Ukraine. “

• Saving Ukrainian Culture Heritage Online (SUCHO): “We are a group of cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack. We are using a combination of technologies to crawl and archive sites and content, including the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Browsertrix crawler and the ArchiveWeb.page browser extension and app of the Webrecorder project.”

If you have suggestions for this list please reach out to us at info@arlisny.org or fill out our Chapter Feedback Form.