Ilse Cirtautas, a retired professor specializing in Central Asian languages and retired professor, contributed her large collection of Central Asian materials to the University of Washington Libraries upon her death.  After sorting and de-duping, about 2750 newspaper issues remain that need preservation.  Most of the newspapers were published between 1968 and 2000, with greater concentrations in the 1970s and early 1990s.  The remaining issues do not duplicate the issues SEEMP microfilmed from the similar collection William Fierman donated to Indiana University, Bloomington.  Like Prof. Fierman, Prof. Cirtautas’ collection includes Uzbek and Kazakh newspapers, but unlike his collection, she collected many Kyrgyz newspapers.  This collection includes longer runs of core journals like Uzbekiston adabieti va sanati, Uzbekiston madaniiat and Qazaq adabieti, respectively published by the writer’s unions in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; major newspapers like Khalq suzi, the organ of the Olii Majlis, or Parliament of Uzbekistan; and numerous shorter runs of local and more specialized newspapers.  Specific titles and holdings are listed in the attachments.