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Posted by: Andrew Weber
In May, a lot of people learned about the actual date of Mexico’s Independence Day, in what turned out to be our most popular post of the month, Cinco de Mayo is Not Mexican Independence Day? We also celebrated with Law Day, Jewish American Heritage Month, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and Eritrean Independence Day this month. It must be because …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Mike Newman, an Information Technology Specialist at the Library of Congress. Mike works with Tammie in Information Technology Service of the Library. He knows all the technical ins and outs of THOMAS.gov. Chances are if I get a call about how THOMAS works that I can’t answer, I can ask Mike …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Tammie Nelson. Tammie is an Information Technology Specialist in ITS (which stands for Information Technology Service) here at the Library of Congress. She is wonderful at managing projects and plays a key role in our completion of so many enhancements to THOMAS.gov. Describe your background. I grew up in New …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Over the last few years the Law Library of Congress has taken dramatic steps to reach beyond our traditional website to ensure that people are aware of our services and products. We started an official Law Library of Congress Twitter account in October 2009. The account slowly acquired new followers over the first year and …
Posted in: Gov 2.0, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
In Custodia Legis surpassed 14,000 email subscribers in April. We also celebrated our 200th post! During the month, Roberta wrote a guest post on the release of our strategic plan. The strategic plan has been mentioned a few times since the post was published including by INFOdocket, Federal Computer Week, Library Research, and Slaw. And …
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