European Division Says Goodbye to Summer’s Virtual Interns
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Virtual interns at the European Division of the Library of Congress, summer 2020.
Posted in: European Reading Room, Junior Fellows
Category: European Reading Room
A Journey from St. Petersburg to Siberia to Washington, DC
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Rare Book & Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress has one of only thirteen known copies of the radical Alexander Radishchev’s banned 1790 novel “Puteshestvie iz Peterburga v Moskvu” (A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow).
Posted in: European Reading Room
Women in the French Revolution: From the Salons to the Streets
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
From salonnières to revolutionaries, French women played a variety of roles in the the French Revolution.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Rare Srbulja from Venice in the Library of Congress
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
The Library of Congress has acquired a 1538 menologion, or Orthodox Eastern ecclesiastical calendar, from the influential printing press of Božidar Vuković (ca. 1460-1540) whose works were known for their beauty and technical achievement.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Unlocking the Secrets of German Handwritten Documents
Posted by: David Morris
It takes a special skill to transcribe old German handwriting, or die deutsche Schrift, for the Library of Congress' "By the People" crowdsourcing initiative.
Posted in: European Reading Room
“The Coming Spring”
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
Stefan Zeromski’s “Przedwiosnie” is of symbolic interest to the Polish nation. The Library of Congress has various versions of the book.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Celebrating International Workers’ Day
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
Souvenirs from a Visit to Online International Treasures at the Library of Congress
Posted by: Taru Spiegel
If you feel like a bit of virtual browsing, consider sampling the “4 Corners of the World” blogposts from the International Collections at the Library of Congress. A number of the posts feature online works.
Posted in: European Reading Room
Celebrating the Library’s 220th Anniversary with Open Access Digital Gifts from the International Collections
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