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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 …
Posted in: Calendar of Events
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 …
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room
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 …
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
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 …
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic Specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division.) In the world of rare books, unicorns are frequently sighted on the pages of older works printed in the European countries, in languages such as Latin or French or English. There, in the guise of what is known …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section