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Archive: 2024 (5 Posts)

Image depicts three newspaper advertisements in Telugu and English.

Finance, Flight, and Fridge: Exploring the advertisements in “Iṇḍiyā Tuḍē: Vārṣika Sāhitya Sañcika”

Posted by: Joshua Kueh

Asian Division 2024 Junior Fellow Akhila Gunturu shares her experience inventorying serials on microfiche in the South Asian Collection. The post highlights the collection’s various uses through an analysis of the advertisements in the Telugu periodical Iṇḍiyā Tuḍē: Vārṣika Sāhitya Sañcika (India Today: Annual Literary Issue).

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Southeast Asian Collections at the Library of Congress: Reference Librarians Answer Frequently Asked Questions

Posted by: Joshua Kueh

This post features answers to frequently asked questions about the Southeast Asian collections at the Library of Congress provided by the Library’s Southeast Asian reference librarians. Librarians touch on types of Southeast Asian materials available, who uses the collections, how the Library acquires its holdings, and how to access them.

Two pages of Braj book with illustrations on both pages showing Hindu god Krishna and other figures captioned with text in Devanagari script.

Now Online: South Asian Digital Collection

Posted by: Joshua Kueh

With 900 freely accessible online items at launch, the South Asian Digital Collection features primary sources on a variety of subjects. This blog looks at the new collection’s items related to colonialism in South Asia, vernacular literature, religion and philosophy, grammar and linguistics, the Rebellion of 1857, and travel accounts by European and American authors.