This page contains research guides that help patrons navigate the rich European collections available at the Library of Congress, including those that are housed and available in the European Reading Room as well as those available in special collections reading rooms.
Research Guides
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Research GuideAlbania: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone and address directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists uncataloged and cataloged directories from Albania in the Library of Congress collection.- Date: 2021-11-01
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Research GuideAlbanian Collections at the Library of Congress Albanian materials are held throughout the Library of Congress and the European Reading Room is the central reference point. This guide gives an overview about the Albanian general and special collections materials and their different formats.- Date: 2022-03-17
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Research GuideAustria: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone and address directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists directories from Austria in the Library of Congress collection.- Date: 2024-01-24
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Research GuideBelarus: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists the directories from Belarus in the Library of Congress collections.- Date: 2020-02-28
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Research GuideBelgium & Belgian Collections at the Library of Congress This guide provides curated Library of Congress resources for students researching Belgium, including digitized primary sources, books and periodicals, online databases, special collections, telephone directories and contemporary cultural figures.- Date: 2021-07-02
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Research GuideBelgium: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists the directories from Belgium in the Library of Congress collections.- Date: 2022-01-05
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Research GuideBosnia & Herzegovina: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists the directories from Bosnia & Herzegovina in the Library of Congress collections.- Date: 2020-01-12
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Research GuideBosnia & Herzegovina and the Bosnian Collections in the Library of Congress Bosnian materials are located throughout the Library of Congress with the European Reading Room as the main point of contact. This overview of the collections describes books, electronic resources, journals, visual materials, and other special formats.- Date: 2022-02-23
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Research GuideBosnian Newspapers in the Library of Congress This guide covers Bosnian newspapers in all formats and languages in any division of the Library of Congress. The European Division is the main point of contact for research on Bosnia & Herzegovina. Newspapers are primary sources for research.- Date: 2019-08-08
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Research GuideBulgaria: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists the directories from Bulgaria in the Library of Congress collections.- Date: 2020-01-12
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Research GuideBulgarian Collections in the Library of Congress Bulgarian materials are located throughout the Library of Congress with the European Reading Room as the main point of contact. This overview of the collections describes books, electronic resources, journals, visual materials, and other special formats.- Date: 2020-12-10
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Research GuideBulgarian Newspapers in the Library of Congress Newspapers are essential primary sources for both current and historical study. This guide lists newspapers published in Bulgaria or the diaspora held by the Library along with links to external databases and websites for expanded research.- Date: 2019-12-12
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Research GuideBulgarian Statistics: A Resource Guide This guide to Bulgarian statistical publications covers major sources for demography, agriculture, public finance, and general statistics. The selection is based mostly on the collections of the Library of Congress, but other sources are also included.- Date: 2019-08-24
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Research GuideCaucasus: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists the directories from the countries of the Caucasus in the Library of Congress collections.- Date: 2020-01-12
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Research GuideCentral Asia: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists directories from the countries of Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia in the Library of Congress collection.- Date: 2020-01-12
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Research GuideChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine: A Resource Guide On April 26, 1986, a safety test at a power plant near the town of Chornobyl escalated into the worst nuclear accident in history. This guide provides information about print and electronic resources relevant to the event.- Date: 2019-12-12
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Research GuideCold War Military Archives from Hungary, Poland, and Romania This guide provides indexes to the Library of Congress microfilm collections of formerly classified records from the military archives of Hungary, Poland and Romania. Also includes papers from the conference "Cold War Archives in the Decade of Openness"- Date: 2024-03-07
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Research GuideCommunist International (Comintern) Archives at the Library of Congress The Comintern operated from 1919-1943 to foment world revolution. This guide describes a project to make metadata and materials from the Russian State Archives for Social and Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow available at the Library of Congress.- Date: 2021-09-07
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Research GuideCroatia and the Croatian Collections in the Library of Congress Croatian materials are located throughout the Library of Congress with the European Reading Room as the main point of contact. This overview of the collections describes books, electronic resources, journals, visual materials, and other special formats.- Date: 2022-02-23
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Research GuideCroatia: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists the directories from Croatia in the Library of Congress collections.- Date: 2020-01-12
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Research GuideCroatian Newspapers in the Library of Congress This guide to Croatian newspapers in the Library of Congress includes titles published within the current territory of Croatia, regardless of language, as well as Croatian-language titles published in the Balkan and world diasporas.- Date: 2019-07-18
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Research GuideCyprus and Greek Cypriot Collections at the Library of Congress Cypriot Collections are held throughout the Library of Congress, and the European Reading Room is the main reference point for Greek Cypriot materials. This guide provides an overview of the collections in different formats.- Date: 2022-04-11
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Research GuideCyprus: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone and address directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists uncataloged directories from Cyprus in the Library of Congress collection.- Date: 2021-11-01
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Research GuideCzech and Slovak Collections at the Library of Congress Czech and Slovak materials are held throughout the Library of Congress. The European Reading Room is the reference point for these holdings. This guide provides an overview of materials, in different formats, in the general and special collections.- Date: 2024-03-13
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Research GuideCzech Republic: Address and Telephone Directories Telephone and address directories are used by genealogists and historians to identify people and businesses from a particular place and era. This guide lists directories from the Czech Republic in the Library of Congress collection.- Date: 2024-01-24