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Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog discusses the 250 microfilmed newspapers in South Asian languages in the Asian Division and the 2019 Junior Fellow project to inventory this collection.
Posted in: Asian Division, Junior Fellows, South Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The history of Russian-language comic books and graphic novels, and collecting them at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
This blogpost highlights a single parchment leaf in Hebrew letters that has survived the centuries as binding for a Latin book printed in Frankfurt am Main in the late 16th century. The Hebrew leaf comes from a manuscript copy of "Beit Yosef" [The House of Joseph], a monumental code of Jewish law composed by Joseph Karo (1488-1575), one of the most important Jewish figures of all time.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Washington DC Spanish teacher, Sirianna Santacrose, uses the Library of Congress’ Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) in her classroom syllabus.
Posted in: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, PALABRA Archive
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
(The following post is by Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division) The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed 2019 to be the International Year of Indigenous Languages. These languages are being lost at a rapid rate, together with the cultures they represent. According to a UN assessment, about 40 percent of the estimated 6,700 …
Posted in: European Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog introduces a faithful copy of the Mu family ancestors’ portraits from the first to the thirty-third generation in accordance with style of the original illustrations.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Librarian-in-Residence in the Hispanic Division reflects on her experiences at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Luisa Capetillo was a Puerto Rican feminist, advocate for worker’s rights, unión activitist, and writer who believed in the power of education to advance the rights of women and workers.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: David Morris
A history of the Berlin Wall, why it was built and why it fell.
Posted in: European Reading Room