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Archive: December 2025 (5 Posts)

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Dr. Tung-li Yuan and the Library of Congress: A Four-Decade Relationship

Posted by: Cameron Penwell

Dr. Tung-li Yuan (1895-1965) made profound contributions to the development of modern librarianship in China and Chinese bibliographic studies in the West. For over four decades, his career was closely intertwined with the Library of Congress, as an intern, a collaborative partner while leading the National Library of Peiping, and a librarian.

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Conveyances: autora brasileira Vanessa Bárbara sobre e através da tradução

Posted by: Henry Granville Widener

Na série de blog Conveyances, as salas de leitura das coleções internacionais da Biblioteca do Congresso exploram as formas em que a palavra traduzida nos conecta através de continentes, culturas, e séculos. O presente blog é uma entrevista escrita entre Henry Widener (HW), Bibliotecário Lusófono de Referência, com a autora e tradutora brasileira Vanessa Bárbara …

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Conveyances: Brazilian Author Vanessa Bárbara on and in Translation

Posted by: Henry Granville Widener

A written interview between Henry Widener, Portuguese Language Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Reading Room, and Brazilian author and translator Vanessa Bárbara on the author’s lifelong engagement with translation, both through translating authors like Lewis Carroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Virginia Woolf, and her own award-winning novel Noites de Alface.

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Italian Cuisine: From Medieval Fragmentation to Global Heritage

Posted by: Alyson Williams

This is a guest blog post by Lucia Wolf, Italian Specialist and Reference Librarian in the European Reading Room Reflections on the Tenth Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, November 2025 As the tenth anniversary of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World concludes under the theme “Italian Cuisine: Health, Culture, and Innovation,” …