This subject guide lists selected information sources for Czech and Slovak Language and Literature.

Finding Czech and Slovak Literature at UBC Library

The Czech and Slovak literature collection is split between the 4th floor of Koerner Library and The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC). The call number range for Czech is PG 4955-5025; Slovak is PG 5400-5599. In general, newer items and works in translation are on the 4th floor of Koerner Library, while older materials (pre-1975) in Czech or Slovak are at IKBLC.

Research Guides (all located in Koerner Reference unless otherwise noted)

• Reader's encyclopedia of Eastern European literature PN849.E9 R38 1993
• Bibliography of Slavic Literature PG501 .N57 2001
• Slovník zakázaných autoru 1948-1980 PG5006 .S46 1991 Main stacks (IKBLC)
• Pruvodce po dejinách ceské literatury PG5001 .H722 1984 Main stacks (IKBLC)

To find books in the library catalogue, search for a specific author or try a Subject Heading search:

• Czech Fiction or Slovak Fiction
• Short stories, Czech or Short stories, Slovak
• Czech poetry or Slovak poetry
• Czech drama or Slovak drama
• Czech literature or Slovak literature

• for English editions, add the phrase "Translations into English" to any of the Subject Headings above:
• ie: Czech Fiction - Translations into English

Czech and Slovak Literature Websites

• Czech and Slovak Literature Resources James Naughton
• Portál ceské literatury News and information on contemporary Czech writers
• Brown University Online Czech Literary Anthology
• Ceská elektronická knihovna Fulltext database of 19th-century poetry
• Encyklopédia súcasných spisovatelov na Slovensku Encyclopedia of Contemporary Slovak Writers
• Slovak Online Library

Grammar

print resources at Koerner Library

• Czech PG4580 .M3 1968
• Ceský jazyk : rozsírený prehled uciva základní skoly s cviceními a klícem PG4112 .M445 1974
• A grammar of contemporary Slovak PG5233 .M577 1988

  online resources

• Czech Grammar by Laura Janda and Charles Townsend; at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
• Czech Language Resources at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
• The Czech Language
• Slovak Language Resources at the Slavic and East European Language Resource Center (SEELRC)
• Let's Learn Slovak - Language Course

Dictionaries

print resources at Koerner Library

• Anglicko-ceský, cesko-anglický slovník PG4640 .A484 1998
• Slovník ceské frazeologie a idiomatiky : výrazy neslovesné PG4689 .S58 1988
• Slovník staroceský Koerner Ref PG4728 .G4

  online

• Martin Vít / LangSoft (enter Czech with or without diacritics)
• Moravia IT Dictionary (enter Czech with or without diacritics)
• Ectaco (diacritics required)
• Krátky slovník slovenského jazyka
• EuroWeb

Etymology

print resources at Koerner Library

• Etymologický slovník jazýka ceského PG4580 .M3 1968 Main
• Historický slovník slovenského jazyka PG5363 .H577 Main

Looking for journal articles? Start here:
• MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  indexes literature, language, linguistics, and folklore; coverage from 1963 to the present
• American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
  indexes Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies published in North America.
• European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
  indexes material on Eastern Europe published in Western Europe.

  For help finding articles, take a look at the online guide, How to Find Articles