For the 20th anniversary after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Guardian has gathered a number of online projects reflecting its history and present.

Videos  documenting the Wall’s history (The Guardian)
Photographs submitted by readers (The New York Times)
Interactive map tracing bits and pieces of the actual wall (BBC)
Berlin Twitter Wall (Twitter)
The Berlin Project
Mauer Mob (Performance [...]

This year’s SALALM conference was hosted by the Ibero-Amerikanische Institut (IAI), and I had the opportunity to take a tour of the library. The IAI hosts the largest collection on Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Caribbean in Europe. The library’s holdings cover material about belles-lettres, humanities, social sciences, economics, as well as legal material.
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This morning I started exploring Berlin, and one of the sites I wanted to make sure I visited was the memorial for the book burning event that took place on May 10, 1933, when students burned over 25,000 books considered “un-German”. It took [...]