(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.” …
(This post is by Hannah Benson, former intern in the European Reading Room.) Zinaida Gippius was one of the many women writers in nineteenth-century Russia who ignored the societal restrictions placed upon her. Although born into privilege as the daughter of a well-respected lawyer, she had an undeniable talent and a fearless personality all her …
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.
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.
This post describes the Library's, Ostroh Bible, the first complete printed bible in Church Slavic and the first one in Cyrillic type, which has been recently digitized by the Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
A personal account of the author’s time as a student in France, followed by a discussion of Arthurian romances in Old French, regional dialects in France, and medieval images in modern cinema.
The following post is by Troy Smith, Nordic Area Reference Librarian in the European Reading Room of the Latin American, Caribbean and European Division Today is Greenland’s National Day. The holiday takes place on June 21 because that is the summer solstice, or the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere. In Nuuk, Greenland’s capital city, …
