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Posted by: Andrew Weber
What an exciting year it has been for In Custodia Legis! We added Jennifer and Betty to our blog team. We published over 200 posts (go back and read any of them you might have missed, I’ll wait). The three most-viewed months in our blog’s four year history came in September, October, and November. Towards the …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
I love end of the year lists. It is nice to take a step back from the day to day or month to month and look at trends over time. Last year I surveyed the top 13 in 2013 and decided to add another item to the list this year. This has been an eventful …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
On Monday, I learned the Law Library’s blog, In Custodia Legis, has earned a spot in the 2014 ABA Journal’s Blawg 100, the annual list of “the best in blogs about lawyers and the law.” We have reviewed the ABA nominations list in the past for possible blawgs to include in our archive. Being nominated, …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today’s interview is with Stephen Wesson. He’s an educational resources specialist at the Library of Congress. Stephen manages a number of the Library’s K-12 initiatives and blogs for Teaching with the Library of Congress. He does a fantastic job of providing teachers with information about Congress.gov and other areas of overlapping interest such as Magna Carta. …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
For those of you who follow our @LawLibCongress Twitter account, you may already be aware that most everything has been removed from our Reading Room. Robert and I tweeted many pictures as books and shelves left, using the hashtag #ReadingRoomRedo. The Law Library has a temporary Reading Room set up on the ground floor of …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The Library of Congress launched Congress.gov in beta two years ago. Today, I’m happy to announce we officially removed the beta label. That’s roughly three years quicker than Gmail took to remove its beta label, but we won’t give you the option of putting it back on Congress.gov. URLs that include beta.Congress.gov will be redirected …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Everett Wiggins, a metadata technician here at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I am the oldest of three siblings, born and raised in rural mid- Michigan, where people generally either make corn flakes or cars. It was an idyllic childhood, full of books and open space to explore. …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We recently started to do some user testing on our website, Law.gov. It has been interesting to listen to the feedback because I know the answers and sometimes people are close but miss what I can clearly see. I’m sitting in my office occasionally saying things to the screen (while my phone is muted). I have sat …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
I was recently in Paris for my friends’ wedding and thought it might be a great opportunity to find something to photograph for a pic of the week. I recalled that we previously posted a pic of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, so that option was out. Then, during a walk around the city, I noticed …
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