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The Marie Halun
Bloch Library provides materials for education and research.
Membership in UCI entitles check out privileges for six months.
 Subjects Available are:
Directories/Handbooks/Encyclopedias, Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Language,
Dictionaries, Linguistics, Religion & Theology, Humanities, Folklore & Folk
Art, Traditions & Life Style, Architecture, Music, Cinema, Social Sciences,
History, etc...
The library listings
are a gift to UCI by Hilary Hopkins. The library is a collection of
rare and current tomes from the collection of her mother, Marie Halun Bloch.
A number of books authored by Ms Bloch are in secure section of the library.
(Inquire to see these). UCI's accumulation are purchases from Harvard
University duplicates, books from the Gorham and the Belfield Orthodox
Churches Prosvita Libraries, gifts from Dr. & Mrs. Bohdan Hordinsky, Fr.
Michael Bobersky and new releases.
The UCI Archives
were established to safe keep the transcripts of interviews conducted in
1940's and 1983-1984. AMong this collection are biographies of
veterans, pioneers, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Churches, studio and
candid photos (many photos are wedding pictures), pictures and slides taken
in Ukraine during the tours in 1984, 1990, 1996 ans 1999, and interviews on
cassettes and CE's. Recent acquisition is the East European
Genealogist.
Thirty three
portraits of pioneers, 10x12, framed in acid free paper are in the UCI
collection. The portraits were taken by Clay Jenkinson aka Thomas
Jefferson.
 The North
Dakota Ukrainians early history is recorded in the following books held in
the Marie Halun Bloch UCI Library:
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Pilgrims of the Prairie - Pioneer
Ukrainian Baptists in North Dakota by Andrew Dubovy. Translated from
the Ukrainian and Edited by Marie Halun Bloch.
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North Dakota Ukrainians - A
compendium of research papers delivered at the Ukrainian Symposium in
1985.
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Transcripts of the Interviews
conducted in 1945 and 1983. Available in CD's in the UCI Archives
and at the North Dakota Heritage Library, Bismarck, ND.
Ukrainians from the Astro-Hungarian Empire
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North Dakota Ukrainians - A
compendium of research papers delivered at the Ukrainian Symposium in
1985.
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Transcripts of the Interviews
conducted in 1983. Available in transcripts and CD's. Held in
the UCI Archives and at the North Dakota Heritage Library, Bismarck, ND.
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