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The East European History and Slavonic Studies Library of the Vienna University Library owns approximately 1.500 volumes of rare specialty books. These originate from two private collectors' libraries, which were bought by the seminar for Eastern European History at the beginning, of the 20th century: the library of Vasilji Alekseevic Bil'basov and the library of the polish noble family Jodko. One main focus of this work which developed from a project of the postgraduate university course Library and Information Studies 2010/11, was to review the bibliographic records for all these volumes, to identify missing records and to enrich the existing records with additional data. By way of local holdings, information on noteworthy features, e.g. binding design, indicators of provenance, special characteristics like illustrations, printer's devices, marginal notes, old shelf marks, handwritten ownership marks and property stamps was included in the Austrian library union cataloguing system Aleph 500 and was thereby made visible for library users. Additionally, every project team member chose five rarities to describe in closer detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]