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Posted by: Joshua Kueh
The Asian Division is now accepting applications for its Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, which supports short-term research visits to the Asian Reading Room at the Library of Congress. This year's application deadline is January 28, 2024.
Posted in: Announcements, Asian Division
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
The following is a post by Catalina Gómez, Reference Librarian and Curator of the PALABRA Archive in the Latin American, Caribbean and European Division. Click here to read in Spanish. Following its annual National Hispanic Heritage Month tradition, the Hispanic Reading Room in the Latin American, Caribbean and European division (LAC&E) announces the digital release …
Posted in: Collaborations, Collection Acquisitions, Digital Content, Events, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Interviews, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, National Hispanic Heritage Month, PALABRA Archive
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
Este artículo fue escrito por Catalina Gómez, bibliotecaria y curadora de Archivo de la PALABRA de la Sala Hispánica de Lectura de la Biblioteca del Congreso. Para leer en inglés, haga clic aquí. Tal como es tradición durante el Mes de herencia hispana, la Sala Hispánica de Lectura de la Biblioteca del Congreso (EE.UU.) anuncia …
Posted in: Collaborations, Collection Acquisitions, Digital Content, Events, Hispanic Reading Room, Interviews, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, National Hispanic Heritage Month, PALABRA Archive
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
(The following is a guest blog post by Dani Thurber, Reference Librarian and Latino Studies Collection Specialist in the Hispanic Reading Room of the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division.) This Hispanic Heritage Month, we are thrilled to share the release of the Latinx Representation in Film Research Guide. This guide is part of the …
Posted in: Collaborations, Digital Content, Film, Finding Aids, Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Interviews, Junior Fellows, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, National Hispanic Heritage Month, Research Guides
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
This is a guest post by Spanish musician Francesc de Paula Soler in commemoration of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s birthday, September 29. / Este artículo fue escrito por el músico español, Francesc de Paula Soler con el motivo del cumpleaños de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 29 septiembre. Se ha dicho que Cervantes, a nivel cultural, …
Posted in: Hispanic Reading Room, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, Spain, Uncategorized
Posted by: Ryan Wolfson-Ford
On Friday September 29, the Asian Division of the Library of Congress will be hosting a partial day display and talk in the Thomas Jefferson Building (rooms LJ110/119) celebrating the diversity of the Library’s collections through textiles, in collaboration with the African and Middle Eastern, Prints & Photographs, Geography & Maps, and Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Rooms.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, Events, Rare Books and Special Collections, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Suzanne Schadl
This is a guest post Catalina Gómez, Reference Librarian and Curator of the PALABRA Archive in the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE). It all started in the Library’s recording studio in 1943. Then Librarian of Congress, Archibald MacLeish, who was a prominent American poet, asked Francisco Aguilera, who was serving as the Hispanic …
Posted in: Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Hispanic American History, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Reading Room, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Poetry Month, PALABRA Archive, Uncategorized
Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés
This is a guest post written jointly by Tiffany Brown-Louis and Crispin Beyogle, graduate students from the Center of Latin American Studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, who completed capstone research in consultation with staff in the Hispanic Reading Room. Tiffany In the Fall of 2022, we were preparing for our capstone …
Posted in: Brazil, Collaborations, Collection Acquisitions, Hispanic Reading Room, Interns, Interviews, Latin America, Latin American, Caribbean and European Division
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This blog post announces a panel discussion on Mangyan writing from the Philippines, scheduled to take place via Zoom on September 20, 2023. Presenters will speak about Mangyan scripts and holdings at the Mangyan Heritage Center, Newberry Library, Yale Peabody Museum, and the Library of Congress. The post also highlights some Mangyan-related resources at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Announcements, Asian Division, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized