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<h2><A name=computer>Cyrillicizing Your Computer</a></h2>
This section links to guides on the Web which describe how to set up your computer to type in Russian, or read Russian fonts.

<h3>&nbsp; &#149; Macintosh &#149;</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.aatseel.org/macintosh_cyrillic">Macintosh Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers</a> (AATSEEL)
<li><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/cyrillic.html">Cyrillic for Computers: Mac OS X</a> (George Washington University)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/rusmac/">Russification of the Macintosh</a> (Matvey B. Palchuk)
<li><a href="http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/">Russify Everything</a> (Siber Systems Inc.)
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<h3>&nbsp; &#149; Windows &#149;</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://shininghappypeople.net/deljr/gringos/vista/index.htm">Russian for Gringos 3</a>:  Windows Vista
<li><a href="http://shininghappypeople.net/deljr/gringos/xp/index.htm">Russian for Gringos 2</a>:  Windows XP
<li><a href="http://www.aatseel.org/windows_cyrillic">Windows Cyrillic Fonts and Keyboard Drivers</a> (AATSEEL)
<li><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/gw-cyrillic/cyrilize.htm">Cyrillicize Windows: For Windows Vista and XP Computers</a> (George Washington University)</li>
<li><a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PaulGor/">Russian keyboard etc. - Cyrillic (Russian): instructions for Windows and Internet</a> (Paul Gorodyansky)
<li><a href="http://www.siber.com/sib/russify/">Russify Everything</a> (Siber Systems Inc.)
<li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/cyrillic.html">Cyrillic for Windows</a> (Gyula Zsigri)
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<h2><A name=transliteration>Dictionaries</a></h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/slavic.html">Slavic Language Dictionaries (online)</a> (an excellent list of links)
<li>Russian-English Dictionaries (paper):  look under the call number PG2640 in the Reference collection or the circulating collection.
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<h2><A name=transliteration>Transliteration Tables</a></h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/russian.pdf">Russian Transliteration Table</a> (Library of Congress)
</ul>


<h2><A name=news>Russian News Sites</a></h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/webcast/">NCRLC Russian Webcasts</a> -- this is the site your teachers use for the listening assignments
<li><a href="http://dni.ru">дни.ру електроная газета / dni.ru elektronaia gazeta</a>
<li><a href="http://gazeta.ru">Газета.Ru / Gazeta.Ru</a>
<li><a href="http://lenta.ru">Лента.Ру / Lenta.Ru</a>
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<h2><A name=news>Quick Research on the Russian Web</a></h2>

Note:  If you need scholarly articles in Russian, please ask a librarian for help.  The resources below are not for scholarly research.

<ul>
<li><a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/">Википедия / Vikipediia</a> -- Russian version of Wikipedia
<ul>
<li>Tip: if you can't enter the search in Russian, or don't know what something is called in Russian, try searching the English version of <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>.  When you find an article, look in the "in other languages" section at lower left to see if there is a Russian article on the topic.  Click on "Русский" to see the article.
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<li>Russian-language search engines:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/intl/ru/">Google на русском / Google na russkom</a> (Note: you can also search regular Google in Russian by just entering the search in Russian)
<li><a href="http://ru.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! по-русски / Yahoo! po-russki</a>
<li><a href="http://www.aport.ru/">Апорт / Aport</a> 
<li><a href="http://www.rambler.ru/">Рамблер / Rambler</a> 
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