Asian Division 2024 Junior Fellow Akhila Gunturu shares her experience inventorying serials on microfiche in the South Asian Collection. The post highlights the collection’s various uses through an analysis of the advertisements in the Telugu periodical Iṇḍiyā Tuḍē: Vārṣika Sāhitya Sañcika (India Today: Annual Literary Issue).
In this blog post, 2023 Junior Fellow Amina Malik discusses her project to inventory the Asian Division’s serials in South Asian languages. The post also offers insight into this collection by looking at the Urdu publication “Ak̲h̲bār-i k̲h̲avātīn,” a serial for Pakistani women on education, society, international news, and many other topics.
(The following is a guest blog post by Dani Thurber, Reference Librarian and Latino Studies Collection Specialist in the Hispanic Reading Room of the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division.) This Hispanic Heritage Month, we are thrilled to share the release of the Latinx Representation in Film Research Guide. This guide is part of the …
La versión en Español de este artículo puede leerla aquí. This is a guest post by A.B. Bejar, 2022 Junior Fellow, who holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Affairs from The George Washington University and Master’s degree in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. Working at the Library of Congress this …
An English version of this blog post is available here. Este es un artículo de A.B. Bejar, 2022 Junior Fellow, quien tiene una licenciatura en Relaciones y Asuntos Internacionales de la Universidad George Washington y un máster en Educación Internacional y Multicultural de la Universidad de San Francisco. Trabajar en la Biblioteca del Congreso este …
La versión en Español de este artículo puede leerla aquí. This is a guest post by Monica Soto, 2022 Junior Fellow, who has a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of William and Mary and is pursuing a master’s degree in library and information science at the University of Denver. This interview was previously published …
An English version of this blog post is available here. Este es un artículo de Monica Soto, 2022 Junior Fellow, quien tiene una licenciatura en historia de College of William and Mary y está cursando un máster en bibliotecología y ciencias de la información en la Universidad de Denver. La entrevista se publicó anteriormente en …
The recently-cataloged Malay and Indonesian titles in the Franklin Book Program reflect the geopolitical and linguistic shifts in island Southeast Asia in the 1950s–1970s.
The Hispanic Reading Room is excited to announce the launch of Season 2 of La Biblioteca Podcast, Exploring Latinx Civil Rights in the United States. Catch the six new episodes coming out each Tuesday, starting on October 5th.
