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Posted by: Andrew Weber
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
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 …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Christine Sellers
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
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 …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The picture of the week is the cover of the Treaty of Wanghia, a treaty establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1844.
Posted in: Asian American History, Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Steve Clarke, Senior Foreign Law Specialist. In Custodia Legis wasn’t around last year when our fellow Library of Congress blogs, Inside Adams and In the Muse, discussed advertising and music surrounding the big game. So I thought this year we should follow the trend and write about one …
Posted in: Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Christine Sellers
February is African American History Month. The month celebrates the contributions that African Americans have made to American history in their struggles for freedom and equality and deepens our understanding of our Nation’s history. On the Law Library’s Commemorative Observations page for African American History Month, you can find an overview of the day as …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Christine Sellers
This week’s interview is with Matthew Braun, a Legal Reference Librarian in the Public Services Division. Describe your background. I have been Legal Reference Librarian at the Law Library of Congress since February 2009. My roots are in the Midwest, as I was born in South Bend, Indiana, have most of my extended family in …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library