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By: Taylor Gulatsi
Today's blog post introduces the upcoming webinars for September 2024 including a presentation from the Washington State Law Library as part of the 50 State Law Libraries Outreach Project.
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By: Taylor Gulatsi
Today, senior reference librarian Louis Myers, explains the premise of the newly published legal report titled, Book and Media Censorship in Selected Countries.
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By: Sarah Friedman
Today's blog post is an introduction to the newly published Law Library Research Guide on Federal Civil Service Employment Law.
Posted in: In Custodia Legis
By: Sarah Friedman
This post looks at some examples of bar exam questions from yesteryear.
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By: Bailey DeSimone
While traveling through Europe, Bailey encounters a small bat (from a distance) in a Czech castle. Though not royalty, the bat has its own protections under a European agreement known as EUROBATS, as well as federal and state protections here in the the United States.
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The Library of Congress Music Division and Koussevitzky Music Foundation commemorate Serge Koussevitzky's 150th birthday with new commissions, the launch of a digital collection, a collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and more. Learn about this legendary composer and conductor who is responsible for commissioning and premiering many 20th century masterworks, including music by Leonard Bernstein, Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten, and more.
Posted in: In The Muse
This spring, the Law Library of Congress added two new foreign legal gazette collections to our website, namely Panama and Czechia, and also released a new Bite-Sized Legal Research Tutorial featuring guidance to researchers on how to use the Foreign Legal Gazettes Guide.
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By: Taylor Gulatsi
Today's blog post is an interview with Janeris Jackson, a Public Services Assistant at the Law Library of Congress.
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By: Libby Smigel
Rockettes dancer Ann Murphy (born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1942) danced with the precision tap dance company from the 1960s through the 1970s. Now her photographs, programs, and other Radio City Music Hall memorabilia are available to the public in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room, thanks to Murphy's generous gift of her legacy materials.
Posted in: In The Muse
By: Jennifer Davis
This July, the Indian Defense League of America (IDLA) and local community members will cross the border at Niagara Falls. This event is an annual celebration of the rights of all Indigenous peoples of North America to cross the border between Canada and the United States freely. Indigenous people lived, worked, and socialized throughout the …
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