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Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Starting July 12, the Library will reopen four additional reading rooms – African & Middle Eastern, Asian, European, and Hispanic – for a limited number of registered readers by appointment only. This blog will guide you through the process of making advance appointments.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Tested by hardship and sorrow, Kazue Mizumura survived to become a teacher, painter, textile designer, jewelry maker, advertising artist, and, finally, an illustrator and writer of children’s books.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
On the first day of May, International Workers’ Day, 2020, staff of the international collections divisions at the Library of Congress celebrate workers everywhere by sharing a tribute to workers who have engineered and implemented innovations like paper, movable print, video, internet, and crowd sourcing to make information sharing possible!
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
To honor the Library’s 220th anniversary, this blog looks at some freely accessible digital collections and projects from four divisions: African & Middle Eastern, Asian, European, and Hispanic.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, Asian Division, European Reading Room, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Hispanic Reading Room, PALABRA Archive
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blogpost offers a reminder that the Ask a Librarian service and the online catalogs with rich international content are still available while the Library of Congress buildings are closed to the public.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, European Reading Room, Hispanic Reading Room
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Is there science fiction in North Korea? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. This blog looks at some of its characteristics.
Posted in: Asian Division
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Anandibai Joshee (1865-1887) was the first woman from India to earn a degree in western medicine in the United States.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog describes the digitized Chinese rare book “The Illustrated Album of the Kemeng Guyang Miao People,” an ethnographic work describing the indigenous Miao people of southwest China.
Posted in: Asian Division, East Asia
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
This blog discusses the 250 microfilmed newspapers in South Asian languages in the Asian Division and the 2019 Junior Fellow project to inventory this collection.
Posted in: Asian Division, Junior Fellows, South Asia