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Archive: August 2018 (5 Posts)

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4 Corners: International Collections Program Calendar, 8/31/2018

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 (Voice/TTY) or email [email protected]. Directions Floor Plans Tuesday, September 4, 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Orientation to the European Collections of the Library of Congress A tour of the European Reading Room, and an orientation to the Library’s European collections, is being offered on …

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Good Neighbors: Stories from Latin America in World War II

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The is a repost from the Headlines & Heroes Blog. The author is Victoria Giron, an intern in the Serial & Government Publications Division from the University of Virginia. Victoria majors in Foreign Affairs and is fluent in Spanish. She spent her summer working with the Latin American newspaper portfolios.) Many people who learn about World …

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New Online: Database Expands Access to North Korean Serials

Posted by: Cameron Penwell

(This is a repost from the Library of Congress Blog. The authors are Sonya Lee, a Korean reference specialist in the Asian Division, and Cameron Penwell, a Japanese reference librarian. ) The Library’s Asian Division is home to one of the most prominent North Korean collections in the Western Hemisphere. While a growing number of scholars have …

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Royal weddings of yore

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, reference specialist, European Division.) Inspired by the glamorous wedding earlier this year of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, we researched some other famous European royal couples featured in our collections. The Library of Congress holds a large amount of material on current and …