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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
60, 1999
Liburutegitik · From the
Basque Library
by Marcelino Ugalde
The Basque Library is busy adding material to their
web site. The works which have been digitized are: La
Historia de los Vascongados en el Oeste de los Estados
Unidos by Sol Silen, published in 1918, and the Basque
periodical, Basques: Bulletin of the Basque Delegation in
the U.S.A., published by the Basque Government from New York
City, no. 1 (March 1943) to no. 6 (August 1944). Future
projects include Archivo Guerra Civil-Frente del Norte and
an additional Spanish civil war archive. Further work will
be done with the Basque library’s local database by
including a reply box and enhanced searching capabilities.
Many other digital projects need to be identified and
organized to be added to our web site.
The university libraries have provided added space
for the Basque Library’s collections and the Basque
Studies Program. With the recent relocation of the
University Studies Abroad Consortium to the old gym on
campus, vacated space in Getchell Library (room 281) will be
used by Basque Studies. Remodeling plans for this space are
underway. The Basque Library has received additional space
(to be shared with Special Collections) adjacent to its
current location. It will allow expanding our print and
non-print collections. This will ease current space
constraints for the next few years.
In June, I made a very busy and productive trip to
Euskadi and London, England. My visits included the Sancho
el Sabio Library in Gasteiz, the University of Deusto,
Urretxindorra Megadenda, Axular Liburudenda, the Catholic
Archives for the Diocese of Bizkaia in Bilbao, and Euskadiko
Filmategia in Donostia. In addition, I participated in a
press conference with Joseba Etxarri and Chris Upchurch to
promote the Renoko Aste Nagusia for the Reno Basque Club.
The visit to the Catholic Diocese of Bizkaia was made to
return some 18th - 20th century archival documents from the
Catholic parish of San Pelayo of Bakio, Bizkaia. The
auxiliary bishop and his staff were very appreciative and
impressed that we were willing to return documents which
were purchased in the 1970s by Basque Studies. The travel to
London was necessary to identify Basque-related documents
found in the Public Records Office and to meet with Basque
community representatives regarding the establishment of
their Institute of Basque Studies.
The following is a short list of Marcelino’s
noteworthy titles in the Basque Studies
Library:
Conroy, Joseph. Basque-English English-Basque
Dictionary and Phrasebook. New York: Hippocrene Books,
1998.
Hirigoyen, Gerald. The Basque Kitchen: Tempting
Food from the Pyrenees. New York: HarperCollins,
1999.
Kurlansky, Mark. The Basque History of the
World. New York: Walker & Company,
1999.
Laxalt, Robert. A Private War: An American Code
Officer in the Belgian Congo. Reno: University of Nevada
Press, 1998.
Etulain, Richard W. and Jeronima Echeverria (eds.).
Portraits of Basques in the New World. Reno:
University of Nevada Press, 1999.
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