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Happy 500th Anniversary, Old San Juan! Acquisitions about Puerto Rico at the Library of Congress

Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés

Puerto Rico is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the founding of Old San Juan, the oldest city in the United States, and we could not be more excited to share two recent acquisitions by the Latin American, Caribbean & European Division (LAC&E) which shed light on the historical details of Old San Juan and the …

Lembrando a Escritora Brasileira Lygia Fagundes Telles

Posted by: Giselle M. Avilés

An English version of this blog post is available here.  Esta postagem é de Henry Granville Widener, Bibliotecário de Referência de Língua Portuguesa, da Sala de Leitura Hispânica da Divisão Latino-Americana, Caribenha e Européia.  No dia 3 de abril de 2022, encerrou-se uma monumental carreira nas letras brasileiras com o falecimento da escritora Lygia Fagundes …

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Celebrating Indigenous Voices: New Poetry and Literature Recordings in the PALABRA Archive

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

The Hispanic Reading Room of the Library of Congress launches The PALABRA Indigenous Voices Project, a new initiative to increase the presence of Indigenous poetry and literature in the historic PALABRA Archive. Through partnerships with scholars and organizations with direct access to Indigenous communities around Latin America, curators hope to shine a light on a formerly under-represented group in this collection.

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Hispanic Audio Archive Rebrands as the PALABRA Archive and Releases New Recordings

Posted by: Taru Spiegel

Effective September 2020, the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (AHLOT) will become the PALABRA Archive. With the new brand, the Library of Congress marks this archive’s transition from an analog archive to a digital one. Fifty new audio recordings from the PALABRA Archive will be made available for online streaming.

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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.

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A Literary Gem: The History and Future of the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Amalia Castaneda, 2017 Library of Congress Junior Fellow, Hispanic Division.) This summer, as a Junior Fellow in the Hispanic Division at the Library of Congress, I worked on the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape under the direction of Catalina Gómez, Hispanic Division Reference Librarian, who co-curates the Archive …

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The Legacy of Writer José Donoso

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(The following is a post by Georgette Dorn, Chief of the Hispanic Division.) On Dec. 7, 2016, the Hispanic Division honors the great Chilean writer José Donoso on the 20th anniversary of his death. I recorded Donoso on three different occasions for our Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape — twice at the Library of …