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The Library holds a variety of materials on Belgian history and culture, all of which can be located through the Library of Congress Online Catalog or the Library of Congress Digital Collections.
The Library of Congress Online Catalog is a great place to begin your research since it provides bibliographic descriptions for the vast majority of collection items available at the Library.
All searches can be narrowed down by adding filters to your search using the "Add Limits" button. Limit searches with the following options:
The Library of Congress Online Catalog represents a collection of over 18 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections. The vastness of the Belgian collections makes it imperative to use limits and more refined searches to wade through the volume of material. In some cases—where a title or author is known in advance—it is easy to do a title or author search. However, when looking for material on a given topic (Browse Search using "Subject Beginning with") it will help to use the assigned Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). It is essential to determine the LCSH that was used to group subject material and this is not always intuitive. There are printed volumes that provide alphabetized lists of the LCSH.
Relevant LCSHs on the German occupation of Belgium during WWII are as follows:
When searching for individuals, it is recommended that you locate the authoritative name used by the Library's catalogers. For example, to find all forms of the name Maurice Polydore-Marie-Bernard Maeterlinck, browse "AUTHORS/CREATORS (Containing)":
This guide is for students of French language and culture. It offers a selection of books in French including: comics (bande dessinée) & graphic novels, children's and young adult literature, crime novels, contemporary fiction, and contemporary issues.
This guide is a starting point for research on women in the French Revolution of 1789. It includes English and French-language bibliographies, open-access digital resources, images, and biographical information on key figures in the Revolution.
The Library of Congress has collected a rich array of resources for learning about films and genres from throughout the French-speaking world, from early silent films to New Wave cinema; from Francophone African films to contemporary French blockbusters.
