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4 Corners: International Collections Program Calendar 10/7/2016

Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 11 a.m. (ET) HISPANIC READING ROOM RESEARCH ORIENTATION Sign up for our research orientation and learn about the Hispanic Reading Room services and collections. Orientations...

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Just Launched! – Library of Congress International Collections Facebook Page

We, the four area studies divisions of the Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern, Asian, European, and Hispanic, are very excited to announce that the Library of Congress International...

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“Lions and Tigers and Bears”: Natural History Illustration and Ephemera in...

(The following is a post by Bethany Wages, 2016 Junior Fellow, with Barbara Dash, Rare Book Cataloger.) The Library of Congress acquired the Yudin Collection from the Siberian bibliophile Gennadii...

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4 Corners: International Collections Program Calendar 10/14/2016

Tuesday, October 18, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) “The Persian Book Lecture Series” 2016 Focus: Literature and Performing Arts Featuring Film: Isfahan to Irvine – Documentary Film Screening by Hossein...

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James Gale and the Korean Rare Materials at the Korean Collection, Library of...

(The following is a post by Sonya Lee, Reference Specialist, Korean Collection, Asian Division.) Even though the Library of Congress did not start collecting Korean materials earnestly until the early...

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4 Corners: International Collections Program Calendar 10/21/2016

Tuesday, October 25, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. (ET) “The Persian Book Lecture Series” 2016 Focus: Literature and Performing Arts Featuring Lecture: The Return of the Masters: Connections, Contestations, and...

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333: A Film on the Manuscripts of Timbuktu

(The following is a post by Marieta Harper, Area Specialist, African Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) “Risalah ila al-Qaba’il al-Mutaqatilin” (Letter to the Warring Tribes). Alternative...

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4 Corners: International Collections Program Calendar 10/28/2016

Friday, November 4, 2016, noon (Newly Added!) Conversations with African Poets and Writers: Shenaz Patel The Poetry and Literature Center and the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of...

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