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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Tammie Nelson, project manager of Congress.gov and an Information Technology Specialist at the Library of Congress. It is cross posted on Teaching with the Library of Congress. As part of my job, I read all of the comments that come to the Library about our online legislative information. My favorite comment is this …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We are hard at work preparing for the day that THOMAS will be retired and Congress.gov will be the system for everyone. We are really proud of Congress.gov. So proud that starting in November, when someone types in the URL THOMAS.gov they will be redirected to Congress.gov. THOMAS.gov will remain accessible from the Congress.gov homepage …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
In less than two months, Congress.gov will reach its first birthday! During the last ten months, we launched Congress.gov, added the Congressional Record in January, and upgraded from Major Actions to All Actions in April. Today marks the next wave of enhancements! And there are several. Those watching our @LawLibCongress Twitter account closely got to …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Tammie Nelson, project manager of Congress.gov and an Information Technology Specialist at the Library of Congress. I spoke earlier today at the Committee on House Administration’s Legislative Data and Transparency Conference on recent progress and coming updates to Congress.gov. For those who were not able to attend the conference or to see it …
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
This week’s interview is with Linda Klein. Linda is chair of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates and a managing shareholder with the law firm, Baker Donelson. Describe your background. As a child I was fortunate to have known all four of my grandparents. Each of them taught me wonderful lessons. Amazingly, while each of …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
It has been six months since we introduced Congress.gov. During that time we’ve been busy working to develop the beta into a full system. The first update after the September launch was in October when we made searching variants of citations easier. In November we continued to revise Congress.gov. With the start of the 113th Congress …
Posted by: Tina Gheen
This week’s interview is with Jill MacNeice, an Information Architect in the Office of Strategic Initiatives of the Library of Congress. What is your professional history? I grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. I went to college at Brown University in Rhode Island, where I studied something completely unrelated to what I do now. I …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Rick Fitzgerald, a Librarian in the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate of the Library of Congress. I grew up in Sparta, New Jersey, and moved to Arizona in 1994, where I lived on and off for nine years. I have also lived overseas for brief periods – in the Netherlands and …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As I said in my post last week on the foreign and comparative law reports we published in 2013, December is a good time to look back and evaluate the year. This has been a busy year for the In Custodia Legis blog team. So far in 2013, we have published 233 posts and May …
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