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Archive: August 2014 (4 Posts)

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Ode to a Comb – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Donna Sokol

Today’s guest post is by Betty Lupinacci, supervisor in the Processing Section of the Law Library Collection Services Division. I can’t tell you how delighted I was to receive the object pictured above in the mail.  The Collection Services Division has been trying to get hold of this elusive item, and it finally arrived!  I was …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Junior Fellow at the Law Library of Congress

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Betty Lupinacci, now the supervisor in the Processing Section of the Law Library Collection Services Division.  I love summers at the Library of Congress. That’s when, for ten weeks, the Junior Fellows take over the collections and fill the place with enthusiasm and a thirst for knowledge. Once again the Law Library …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Posted by: Donna Sokol

Yesterday we celebrated the fourth birthday of In Custodia Legis, and today we have reached another milestone: this is the 1,000th blog post that we’ve published!  We asked David S. Mao, the Law Librarian of Congress, to write the 1,000th post.  In it, he highlights some of the many different areas of interest for the Law Library …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Tunisian Constitution – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Donna Sokol

   The National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia adopted its first democratic constitution on January 26, 2014.  We were fortunate to recently acquire a copy of the new constitution of Tunisia. Not only did we acquire the volume for our collection, Dr. Mustapha Ben Jaafar (Mustafá Bin Ja’far), the president of the National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, personally …