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Today’s interview is with Mary Thurston, a summer intern working in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is one of two interns we have this summer from the same program that brought us Ashley Sundin last year and of which I am also an alumna. Describe your background. I am interning …
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By: Hanibal Goitom
This week’s interview is with Julia Heron, one of our summer interns in the Global Legal Directorate. You may already know Julia from a post she co-authored for In Custodia Legis, “National Holiday of Quebec: An Introduction to Quebec Dual Legal System.” Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal. I recently completed …
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By: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Lucy Baker, an intern in the Collection Service Division. Ms. Baker is working on the foreign legal gazettes gifted to us by the Dag Hammarskjold Library at the United Nations. She has worked on material in various languages and is undaunted by the challenge. Describe your background. Born and raised …
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By: Laney Zhang
This week’s interview is with Shi Qiu, one of several interns working in the foreign, comparative, and international law divisions of the Law Library this summer. Describe your background I’m from China, and currently a third year JD candidate at Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to coming to the United States, I …
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By: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Pamela Oliver, one of our summer interns in the Collection Services Division. Pam is working on our Gazette Guide, inventorying our holdings one country at a time for inclusion in what will eventually be a complete database of all of our foreign gazette holdings. Pam jumped right in, working on …
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By: Andrew Weber
This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas wrote FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and my first language is …
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By: Ruth Levush
This week’s interview is with Jenny Gesley, our newest foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress Jenny provides research and reference services related to Germany and other German-speaking countries. Describe your background I am a native of Düsseldorf, Germany. During high school, I spent a year as a foreign exchange student at Buffalo …
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By: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Bill Wallace, an assistant general counsel from the Office of the General Counsel in the Library of Congress. Describe your background. I moved to D.C. from New York City approximately 6 years ago to attend law school. After so many years in NYC, the move was somewhat jarring. D.C. felt …
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By: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Andrew interviews the Virginia State Law Librarian, Gail Warren. We have previously interviewed another state law librarian, Jennifer Frazier, from Kentucky. How long have you been the Virginia State Law Librarian, and …
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By: Kelly Buchanan
April is National Poetry Month! Today we interview Rob Casper, who is the head of the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress. Rob blogs for the Center at From the Catbird Seat. We have previously cross-posted blog posts related to both the Center and the Law Library: The Capitol Building from the …
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