Alena Aissing

Librarian/Curator for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Interim Librarian/Curator for Western European Studies and Classics
  • International and Area Studies
aaissing@library.ucla.edu
(310) 206-0324

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  • Balkan Studies
  • Baltic Studies
  • Central Asian Studies
  • Classics
  • European Studies
  • 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
  • Russian Studies
  • Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages and Cultures
  • Ukrainian Studies
  • Western European Studies

Biography

Alena Aissing is a librarian/curator in the International and Area Studies department at UCLA Library. She is responsible for collection development, research support and outreach in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, as well as Western European Studies and Classics. Her work focuses on building distinctive research collections, supporting faculty and student scholarship and developing academic and cultural programs in collaboration with campus and international partners.

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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