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HOW TO ACCESS FOREIGN-LANGUAGE MATERIAL IN AREA STUDIES READING ROOMS
Thomas Jefferson Building 2nd floor, room LJ 220 Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tel: 202 707-4188 Fax: 202 252-3180 Address: Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540-4820 E-mail: amed@loc.gov Web site: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/amed>
REFERENCE SERVICES Sub-Saharan Africa (African American reference services are available in the Main Reading Room). LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Chichewa, French, Kinyarwanda, Malagasy, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Portuguese, Rundi, Somali, Sotho,
Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu, and other languages of sub-Saharan Africa. BOOKS Africana books in all languages are part of the General Collections and may be requested for use in the AMED Reading Room,
Main Reading Room, or Science and Business Reading Room. PERIODICALS Current unbound periodicals must be requested and used in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. Bound periodicals are
part of the General Collections and may be requested for use in the AMED Reading Room, Main Reading Room, or Science and Business
Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in all languages must be requested and used in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform for Africana must be requested and used in the Microform Reading Room. SPECIAL MATERIALS With some exceptions, special materials such as photographs, sound recordings, and films, are in special-collections reading
rooms. They are available subject to the hours and restrictions of those reading
rooms.
REFERENCE SERVICES Israel, Ancient Near East, Diaspora Jewry LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. BOOKS Books and manuscripts in Hebrew script and related vernacular languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room. PERIODICALS Periodicals in Hebrew script and related languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in Hebrew script and related languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform in Hebrew script and related languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room.
REFERENCE SERVICES Islam, Arab World (including North Africa), Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Malta, Central Asia, Caucasus. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Thirty-five languages, primarily Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Georgian. BOOKS Books and manuscripts in Arabic script and related vernacular languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room. PERIODICALS Periodicals in Arabic script and related vernacular languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in Arabic script and related vernacular languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform in Arabic script and related languages must be requested and used in the AMED Reading Room.
Reading Room Thomas Jefferson Building lst floor, room LJ150 Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tel: 202 707-5426 Fax: 202 707-1724 Address: Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540-4810 E-mail: asian@loc.gov Web site: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/asian>
REFERENCE SERVICES South Asian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to China, Korea, and Japan. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Chinese, Manchu, Mongol, Moso (Naxi). BOOKS Books and manuscripts in Chinese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. PERIODICALS Periodicals in Chinese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in Chinese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform in Chinese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. SPECIAL MATERIALS With some exceptions, special materials such as photographs, sound recordings, and films, are in special-collections reading
rooms. They are available subject to the hours and restrictions of those reading rooms.
REFERENCE SERVICES Japan. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Japanese. Books and manuscripts in Japanese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. PERIODICALS Periodicals in Japanese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in Japanese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform in Japanese script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room.
REFERENCE SERVICES Korea. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Korean. BOOKS Books and manuscripts in Korean script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. PERIODICALS Periodicals in Korean script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in Korean script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform in Korean script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room.
REFERENCE SERVICES South and Southeast Asia. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Languages of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri
Lanka, Thailand, the Philippines, Tibet, Vietnam, Pacific Islands. BOOKS Books and manuscripts in South Asian scripts must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. PERIODICALS Periodicals in South Asian scripts must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers in South Asian scripts must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform in South Asian scripts must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room.
REFERENCE SERVICES
Tibet. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS
Tibetan. BOOKS
Books and manuscripts in Tibetan script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. PERIODICALS
Periodicals in Tibetan script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS
Newspapers in Tibetan script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL
Microform in Tibetan script must be requested and used in the AD Reading Room.
Thomas Jefferson Building 2nd floor, room LJ 250 Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tel: 202 707-4515 Fax: 202 707-8482 Address: Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540-4830 E-mail: eurref@loc.gov Web site: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/european>
REFERENCE SERVICES Europe (Reference services for the United Kingdom and Ireland are available in the Main Reading Room. Luso-Hispanic reference
services are available in the Hispanic Reading Room). LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Czech and Slovak, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic and Faroese, Italian, Polish, and Russian, South Slavic, and
Ukrainian. BOOKS Books in all languages are part of the General Collections. They may be requested for use in the European Reading Room, Main
Reading Room, or Science and Business Reading Room. PERIODICALS Current unbound periodicals except for those in Russian/Slavic languages must be requested and used in the Newspaper and Current
Periodical Room. Bound periodicals are part of the General Collections and may be requested for use in the EUR Reading Room,
Main Reading Room, or Science and Business Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Newspapers except for those in Russian/Slavic languages must be requested and used in the Newspaper and Current Periodical
Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform material in all languages must be requested and used in the Microform Reading Room. SPECIAL MATERIALS With some exceptions, special materials such as photographs, sound recordings, and films, are in special-collections reading
rooms. They are available subject to the hours and
restrictions of those reading rooms.
Thomas Jefferson Building 2nd floor, room LJ 240 Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tel: 202 707-5397 Fax: 202 707-2005 Address: Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540-4850 E-mail: hispref@loc.gov Web site: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic>
REFERENCE SERVICES Caribbean, Latin America, Iberia; Latinos in the United States; peoples of Portuguese or Spanish heritage in Africa, Asia,
Oceania; peoples influenced by Luso-Hispanic culture. LANGUAGES AND SCRIPTS Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Arabic, German, Catalan, Galician. BOOKS Books in all languages are part of the General Collections and may be requested for use in the Hispanic Reading Room, Main
Reading Room, or Science and Business Reading Room. PERIODICALS Current unbound periodicals in all languages must be requested and used in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. Bound
periodicals are part of the General Collections and may be requested for use in the HISP Reading Room, Main Reading Room,
or Science and Business Reading Room. NEWSPAPERS Luso-Hispanic and Caribbean newspapers must be requested and used in the Newspaper and Current Periodical Room. MICROFORM MATERIAL Microform material in all languages must be requested and used in the Microform Reading Room. SPECIAL MATERIALS With some exceptions, special materials such as photographs, sound recordings, and films are in special-collections reading
rooms. They are available subject to the hours and restrictions of those reading rooms.
