Below is a picture of the preamble as contained in the limited print edition of the Constitution of India, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly in 1949 and came into force on January 26, 1950. The World Digital Library states that “the original of this elaborate edition took nearly five years to produce” and …
One primary area that I work on is THOMAS and legislative information. Because of that, I am very pleased to announce several joint initiatives between the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office (GPO). I’ve met a lot of great people at GPO over the last few months as some of the details of …
This week’s interview is with Robert Gee, Chief of Law Library Public Services (and my immediate supervisor). Describe your background. I serve as Chief of Law Library Public Services, a position I have held for nearly 17 years. I was hired as a temporary legal reference librarian almost 27 years ago (in 1984) to fill …
Robert Newlen, the Assistant Law Librarian for Collections, Outreach and Services, and I gave a presentation on Friday, February 11, 2011, at the ABA Midyear Meeting in Atlanta, GA. We focused on the legal research services and resources available from the Law Library of Congress and other free online collections. You may have heard of …
As we’ve mentioned previously, the Law Library has a great news service called the Global Legal Monitor. Often these stories about legal developments in many different jurisdictions are ones that don’t feature in U.S. newspapers or news programs, and they link or refer to a wide range of different sources of information. On the homepage …
I took a trip to the Capitol Building earlier this week using the tunnels that connect our buildings here on Capitol Hill. In the tunnel between the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress and the new Capitol Visitor Center, hangs this poster with highlights of the Law Library‘s collection. P.S. You can also follow …
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. On January 25, all across Egypt, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak responded to these demands by firing his cabinet and appointing a new …
This week’s interview is with Agnieszka “Aga” Pukniel, a Library Technician in our Collection Services Division. Describe your background. I was born in a nice little town near Gdansk, located by the Baltic Sea in Poland. I lived there till I was 19, when I moved to the United States. I spent four years in …
I’ve previously written about finding aids on the Law Library’s website, including our Guide to Law Online, Current Legal Topics, Finding U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, and How Do I Find…?. The Law Library of Congress also offers a Databases and eResources page to help patrons find electronic materials that are contained within databases …
Waitangi Day – New Zealand’s national day, commemorated with a public holiday on February 6 each year – is different from the national days of many other countries. It doesn’t celebrate a declaration or statute of independence at the end of a conflict or revolution or following a decolonization process, and it doesn’t celebrate a …