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Posted by: Joshua Kueh
The Library gathers many stunning examples of the great poetic traditions across the globe, one of them being the Urdu masnavi, "Sihr ul-Bayan," by the Indian poet, Mir Hasan.
Posted in: South Asia, Uncategorized
Posted by: Ryan Wolfson-Ford
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.
Posted in: Asian Division, Junior Fellows, South Asia
Posted by: Ryan Wolfson-Ford
On Friday September 29, the Asian Division of the Library of Congress will be hosting a partial day display and talk in the Thomas Jefferson Building (rooms LJ110/119) celebrating the diversity of the Library’s collections through textiles, in collaboration with the African and Middle Eastern, Prints & Photographs, Geography & Maps, and Rare Books and Special Collections Reading Rooms.
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Asian Division, Events, Rare Books and Special Collections, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Posted by: Ryan Wolfson-Ford
While staff work is what allows researchers to conduct research, their presence in the Library of Congress is foundational to the creation of the culture at the Library. This blog is an interview with Phong Tran, a librarian, and currently, Deputy Director of the New Delhi Overseas Operations Field Office, conducted by Charlotte Giles.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia
Posted by: Joshua Kueh
This blog celebrates the New Delhi Overseas Operations Field Office’s 60th anniversary, looking to the office’s past, present, and future operations of acquiring and processing library materials in multiple South Asian languages and formats.
Posted in: Asian Division, South Asia, Uncategorized