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Herencia y el patrimonio cultural: La importancia del trabajo comunitario en los servicios de la División Hispánica

Posted by: Taru Spiegel

[Haz clic aquí para versión en inglés] La División Hispánica apoya con entusiasmo la nueva campaña de crowdsourcing de La Biblioteca Jurídica del Congreso y By the People (BTP): #Herencia: una iniciativa cuyo propósito será mejorar el acceso a la importante colección de documentos jurídicos españoles de la Biblioteca del Congreso. Este es el primer proyecto …

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Herencia and Cultural Patrimony: The importance of community work in Hispanic Division Services

Posted by: Taru Spiegel

[Haz clic aquí para la versión en español] The Hispanic Division is excited to support the Law Library of Congress and By the People (BTP) in their invitation to improve access to a collection of Spanish Legal Documents. The Herencia BTP crowdsource campaign is the first at the Library of Congress to focus on Spanish, …

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An Evening of Collective Art-making with Chicano Artist Mario Torero

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Catalina Gómez, Reference Librarian, Hispanic Division.) On Friday, May 3, 2019, together with the Prints & Photographs Division, we had the pleasure of hosting, here in the Hispanic Reading Room, a stimulating collective art session with Mario Torero, one of California’s most important muralists and activists from the Chicano …

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Tequila, Tarahumara, and Turkeys: Recent Research Topics in the Handbook of Latin American Studies

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

 (The following is a post by Tracy North, Reference Librarian and Social Sciences Editor, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Hispanic Division.) In the blog post to announce the publication of Volume 71 of the “Handbook of Latin American Studies” (HLAS), we drew attention to a study of pisco, the popular South American brandy. In Volume …