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May Retrospective

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 …

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An Interview with Mike Newman, Information Technology Specialist

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 …

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An Interview with Tammie Nelson, Information Technology Specialist

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 …

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Building our Law Library of Congress Community

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 …

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April Retrospective

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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Dog Law! – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Our collection often surprises me, and this week’s pic is no exception.  As I walked by a shelf I had passed many times before, there they were: not one, but two books on dog law.  These are just the items in our Reading Room, most of our items you have to request from the stacks. …

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@THOMASdotgov

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Twitter is a fun, effective tool for communicating.  There’s a reason why I use it both professionally and personally.  I’ve been tweeting away for the Law Library’s @LawLibCongress account for about a year and a half now. In one of my previous blog posts, I discussed “Tweeting THOMAS and Connecting with Congress.”  And now, the …

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My Trip to the Future

Posted by: Andrew Weber

The following is a guest post by Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress. Roberta has posted to the blog on multiple occasions including: Greetings from the Law Librarian of Congress, Happy Old Year, and The Law Library of Congress Strategic Plan Released. From the moment that I arrived in Seoul, Korea until the day I …

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Happy Earth Day – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Today is the 41st celebration of Earth Day (which I know thanks to a 40th anniversary of Earth Day post by Jennifer from last year).  Just like with our Cherry Blossom pic, the picture below was taken by a Library of Congress employee, Chris Carlson.  He has a great photo blog. President George Bush said …