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Posted by: Andrew Weber
I seem to really love lists. I look through lists of stats daily for a variety of our websites (THOMAS, Law Library of Congress, and In Custodia Legis). A lot of people viewed the recent post Top Law Library of Congress Web Pages where I stepped back and showed our most popular Law Library pages …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress. The complete Law Library of Congress Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2011-2016 is available in PDF. The Law Library is proud to present its 2011–2016 Strategic Plan. We have taken the overall goals set out in the Library of Congress Strategic Plan as …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on the night of April 14, 1865. He died the next day, 146 years ago today. This picture is from one of our digitized books on the trial of assassination conspirators. We have twenty-two digitized items on our Lincoln and the Law site, many of which are books. The site …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As the people of some African countries take to the streets to unseat their leaders, Nigerians get the opportunity to do the same this month – but instead of needing to protest, they can affect change by going to polling stations. It’s election season in Nigeria. The country, a federation of 36 states with a …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with one of our former interns from last summer, Sharon Pia Hickey. Describe your background. I spent the summer of 2010 in Washington DC as part of the Washington Ireland Program. This program is designed to select the brightest young minds in Ireland and bring them to DC for a …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Christine Sellers
April 10-16, 2011, is National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Create your own story @ your library.” John Grisham is the Honorary Chair. April 12th was also National Library Workers Day . “First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This blog post discusses the Sorcery Act 1971 of Papua New Guinea.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, In the News, Law Library, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
The genesis of this post lies in research that led me to the Law Library stacks and into one of my favorite locations: the section containing English trials. Long before the arrival of soap operas and reality television programs, people (well, us Brits, anyway) used to be titillated by sordid criminal trials. I suppose to …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Andrew Weber
When I stopped by Hanibal Goitom’s office, I was interested to see this book that he was using. As you can imagine some of our books are in better shape than others. When you have the largest collection of legal materials in the world, some of them are bound to show wear and tear. Hanibal …
Posted in: Pic of the Week