New reference works are regularly added to the Library's collections in all formats. Because of the physical limitations of Doe's North Reading Room and other reference locations, the majority of these books are shelved elsewhere. Here's a capture of some noteworthy print reference titles in the area of Romance languages acquired over the past year:

Biblioteca de al-Andalus / dirección y edición, Jorge Lirola Delgado. Almería: Fundación Ibn Tufayl de Estudios Árabes, 2004-<2009>

The Cambridge History of French Literature / edited by William Burgwinkle, Nicholas Hammond and Emma Wilson. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do modernismo português / coordenação, Fernando Cabral Martins. Lisboa: Editorial Caminho, c2008.

Diccionari de la traducció catalana / Montserrat Bacardí i Pilar Godayol (dir.). Vic : Eumo, 2011.

Diccionari ortografic, gramatical e morfologic de l'occitan = Dictionnaire orthographique, grammatical et morphologique de l'occitan: segon los parlars lengadocians, circa 109000 intradas = selon les parlers languedociens, circa 109000 entrées. Précédé de introduccion a la lexicografia occitana = introduction à la lexicographie occitane. Fautas e cauquilhas del diccionari d'Alibèrt = Fautes et coquilles du dictionnaire d'Alibert / Josiana Ubaud. Canet: Trabucaire, 2011.

Diccionario biográfico del exilio español de 1939: los periodistas / Juan Carlos Sánchez Illán (dir). Madrid: Fondo de Cultura Económica : Cátedra del Exilio, c2011.

Diccionario del cine iberoamericano: España, Portugal y América / editor y coordinador: Emilio Casares Rodicio; directores de España, Carlos F. Heredero, Eduardo Rodríguez Merchán; director de América, Iván Giroud; director de Portugal, João Bénard da Costa; subdirector de España, José Enrique Monterde. Madrid: SGAE: Fundación Autor, 2011-

Diccionario filológico de literatura española. Siglo XVII / dirección de Pablo Jauralde Pou; coordinación de Delia Gavela, Pedro C. Rojo Alique. Madrid : Editorial Castalia S.A., 2010.

Diccionario histórico, geográfico y cultural de Filipinas y el Pacífico / Leoncio Cabrero Fernández, Miguel Luque Talaván, Fernando Palanco Aguado, coordinación y dirección. Madrid: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional : Fundación Carolina, 2008.

Dictionary of African Biography / Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editors in chief. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Dictionnaire de la contre-révolution: XVIIIe-XXe siècle / sous la direction de Jean-Clément Martin. Paris: Perrin, 2011.

Dictionnaire de la violence / publié sous la direction de Michela Marzano. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, c2011.

Dictionnaire des gens de couleur dans la France moderne: Paris et son bassin: entrée par localités et par année (fin XVe siècle-1792), Paris suivi des provinces classées alphabétiquement / dirigé par Érick Noël. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A., 2011, ©2011.

Dictionnaire des orientalistes de langue française / François Pouillon (éd.). Paris: IlSMM: Karthala, c2008.

Dictionnaire encyclopédique du livre / sous la direction de Pascal Fouché, Daniel Péchoin, Philippe Schuwer ; et la responsabilité scientifique de Pascal Fouché, Jean-Dominique Mellot, Alain Nave... [et al.] ; préface de Henri-Jean Martin ; [direction générale Pascal Fouché]. Paris: Édition du cercle de la librairie, c2002-c2011.

Dictionnaire Gide / sous la direction de Pierre Masson et Jean-Michel Wittmann. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011.

Dizionario della lingua veneta / Gianfranco Cavallin; prefazione di Sabino Acquaviva, Giovan Battista Pellegrini. Teolo, Padova: Zephyrus, 2010.

Dizionario storico dell'Inquisizione / diretto da Adriano Prosperi; con la collaborazione di Vincenzo Lavenia e John Tedeschi. Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, c2010.

Historical Dictionary of French Theater / Edward Forman. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema / Alberto Mira. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2010.

Iberian Books: Books Published in Spanish or Portuguese or on the Iberian Peninsula before 1601 = Libros ibéricos: libros publicados en español o portugués o en la Península Ibérica antes de 1601 / edited by Alexander S. Wilkinson. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010.

Medioevo latino. Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 1980- Latest received 2011 v.32.

Nueva gramática de la lengua española / Real Academia Española, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. Madrid: Espasa Libros, 2009-2011.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages / edited by Robert E. Bjork. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

*Lists of recent acquisitions for French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese (Iberian) and other subjects/areas are updated daily.

Érudit is the only North-American dissemination platform of scholarly and cultural journals in the French language.  This publishing platform for scholarly and cultural journals, books, proceedings, theses, documents and data developed by a non-profit Canadian publishing consortium founded in 1998. Archival runs of journal publications published prior to a moving wall of current content are available through open access, while the remainder is available through subscription.

UC Berkeley will have trial access to Érudit through June 30, 2012.  Please send comments to cpotts[at]library.berkeley.edu.

Patricia Figueroa at Brown University has recently launched a bilingual blog titled Nuevas referencias: retratos de nuevos autores hispanohablantes.  It's dedicated to new published authors from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America. Each entry consists of an interview with a featured author. The questions (the same set throughout) are designed to get librarians (and anyone else interested in emerging writers in the Spanish language) acquainted with the authors’ publications, their upcoming projects, their views on new technologies and libraries, and their recommendations for web-based literary resources devoted to new talent.

Interviews available to date include Ezio Neyra Magagna (Lima, 1980-), Antonio Jiménez Morato (Madrid, 1976-), Joserra Ortiz (San Luis Potosí, 1981-), Mercedes Cebrián (Madrid, 1971-), Carlos Yushimito (Lima, 1977-), Carlos Labbé (Santiago de Chile, 1977-), and Federico Falco (General Cabrera, 1977-).

This year, Doe Library celebrates the centennial of its dedication. The estate of Charles Franklin Doe funded the construction of the library building, designed by architect John Galen Howard who was trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Ground was broken for the library in 1905, the cornerstone laid in 1908, and it was completed in the summer of 1911 and formally dedicated on Charter Day of 1912.

Throughout the year—including a big birthday party on Wednesday, March 12—the Library will host an array of events. Last week, an exhibit titled Heart of the Campus: Doe Library 1912-2012 was installed in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery on the first floor. Curated by Steve Mendoza, assistant for the Romance Language Collections, the exhibit puts on display some of the Library's earliest acquisitions. Founding donors to the Doe Library included Henry Douglas Bacon, Michael Reese, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Mrs. Benjamin Avery, the Class of 1883, and the estate of Marius Spinello, a Berkeley professor in Romance languages from 1902-1904.

It is no surprise that many of Doe's first tomes were in French and Italian. Works on display include the 1823 edition of  Voltaire's Oeuvres complètes, Tommaso Piroli's Les monumens antiques du Musée Napoléon (1804), Litré's Histoire de langue française (1869), Notizie per la vita di Lodovico Ariosto (1896), Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle (1820), and the Journal des sçavans (savants) - the world's oldest scholarly journal first published in 1665 and still active today.

Hyperlinked titles listed above take you directly to the Berkeley-owned texts (now in public domain) that have been digitized and are freely available for the world to use through the HathiTrust Digital Library.