AUTHOR: Taru Spiegel

Taru Spiegel worked at the Library of Congress for many years and held positions such as special assistant, program officer, and copyright examiner, and worked special assignments in the John W. Kluge Center, Law Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center. She was born in Vaasa, Finland and has lived in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Her Ph.D. in political science is from the University of Maryland. She concluded her career in the Library’s European Division as a reference specialist for Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Flemish-speaking Belgium, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, as well as an author for the Library’s “4 Corners of the World” blog, until her untimely passing in 2021.

Most Recent Posts

• My Journey of Language Learning: French September 9th, 2021
• “In Search of Melancholy Baby”: Vasilii Aksenov and Soviet Émigré Life in Washington, DC August 18th, 2021
• The Franco-American Revolution – Part 2 July 14th, 2021
• International Reading Rooms Open for Researcher Appointments Starting July 12, 2021 July 12th, 2021
• A Japanese American Journey: Kazue Mizumura June 28th, 2021
• The Franco-American Revolution – Part 1 June 19th, 2021
• From Photographer to Printmaker: Prokudin-Gorskii’s “artistic-photomechanical” illustrations for Gogol’s folk stories May 17th, 2021
• Early Baltic German Printers in the Lands of Present-Day Latvia April 26th, 2021
• Ravens, Lemons, and Peste: 19th-Century Maritime Health Certificates in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress April 7th, 2021