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Posted by: Kelly Goles
This is a guest post by Ann Hemmens, a senior legal reference librarian with the Law Library of Congress. Ann has contributed a number of posts to this blog, including posts on Free Public Access to Federal Materials on Guide to Law Online, U.S. Supreme Court: Original Jurisdiction and Oral Arguments, and Domestic Violence: Resources …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
A blog article detailing the life of a locally known and nationally forgotten figure: Thomas Mundy Peterson who was the first African American to vote in the United States following the ratification of the fifteenth amendment in 1870.
Posted in: Law Library, Guest Post
Posted by: Jennifer González
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
Posted by: Jennifer González
One of our spring 2023 projects is working on the CRS Bill Summaries and this is a description of the project and the volunteers and interns that are making it happen.
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
Posted by: Jennifer González
One of our spring 2023 projects is working on the foreign legal gazettes. This is a description of the project and the volunteers and interns that are making it happen.
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
Posted by: Anna Price
This is a guest post by Olivia Kane-Cruz, the current librarian-in-residence at the Law Library of Congress. As the current librarian-in-residence, I am constantly learning from the more experienced legal reference librarians. During my very first week, I had the opportunity to shadow other librarians at the reference desk in the Law Library Reading Room. …
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Guest Post
Posted by: Jennifer González
An introduction to the fall 2022 fall cohort of remote interns working on the metadata for foreign legal gazettes.
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
In a post last month, I highlighted a document that the Law Library acquired for its rare book collection: a sea letter signed by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in 1794 for the schooner Two Friends. In that post, I mentioned the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. In this post, I …
Posted in: Law Library, Collections
Posted by: Kelly Goles
Today’s interview is with Heather Casey, a writer/editor in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born in Virginia but moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, as a kid. After I received my undergraduate degree, I lived in France for about two years and I think that experience …
Posted in: Law Library, Interview