SJSU Professor Works to Preserve Ukrainian Art And Culture

As war continues to ravage Ukraine, one San Jose State University assistant professor is working to preserve the country’s culture.

Assistant professor Ulia Gosart of SJSU’s School of Information and her colleagues have been raising money to buy equipment and technology to digitize rare books, ethnographic materials and 3-D objects like cultural linens for the Cherkasy Library in central Ukraine, which has remained relatively safe during the war.

Gosart, who grew up in Ukraine, trained as a librarian at the University of Kyiv. She said that digitizing Ukrainian culture was a practical way for her to help people who have been displaced by the yearlong war.

Gosart and her

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