(This post is by Michael Neubert, Head of the European Reading Room.) In the European Reading Room college and graduate students often look for primary sources that they can use to support their research projects. Primary sources such as photographs, letters, and newspaper articles “provide an original source of information about an era or event.” …
A discussion on the Library of Congress’ collections of works by and about Luís de Camões, Portugal’s national poet, and his impact on English-language, through translation, early American music, and the works of authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Herman Melville
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 midnight Sunday, January 12, 2025.
(The following is a collaborative post with contributions from Elli Kim, Korean Reference Librarian; Joshua Kueh, Southeast Asian Reference Librarian; Cameron Penwell, Japanese Reference Librarian; and Ryan Wolfson-Ford, Southeast Asian Reference Librarian) With Halloween now upon us, we thought it would be interesting to learn more about ghosts, ghouls, and things that go bump in …
This post describes the evolution of the Library's approach toward the preservation of newspapers, especially the transition from microfilm to digitization and the use of the Stacks system in the European Reading Room.
A discussion of Candido Portinari’s artwork in the Library of Congress’s collections and the part it played in the Hispanic Reading Room’s activities during Hispanic Heritage Month 2024.
This blog post spotlights books, journal articles, conference papers, and lectures dedicated to Armenian manuscripts and other rare items housed in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.
This post uses the work of the Norwegian Nobel literature laureate Jon Fosse as a departure point for an explanation of Nynorsk and other aspects of Norway's linguistic history.
“World War II Records from Burma” is a diverse and unique grouping of documentary materials in the Southeast Asian Rare Book Collection. This post highlights documents from the collection concerning the Indian Independence League and Indian National Army, two Indian diaspora organizations that emerged prior to and during World War II.
