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Posted by: Margaret Wood
I love history and recently I have been researching congressional apportionment. But what you ask, is apportionment? According to Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, one of the definitions is to “divide and share out according to a plan.” I can see how this might apply to pizza and pie but what does this have to …
Posted in: Congress, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Throughout the year, the Library of Congress provides information about a number of commemorative observances. May is always a busy month with the Asian/Pacific American Heritage and Jewish American Heritage observances while in the Law Library we also observe Law Day. In June we observe a more recently added commemorative observance for Lesbian Bisexual Gay …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
April 2014 marks the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. As a way of combining a salute to Shakespeare and continuing our fascination with all things Magna Carta, I thought I would take a look at Shakespeare’s play, “King John.” The play is believed to have been written in the 1590s, but it was not …
Posted in: In the News
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This week’s interview is with Anne Guha, an intern with the Public Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born in Boston and grew up in various places all along the East Coast. I spent most of my childhood in New York City, North Carolina, and Florida, finishing high …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Since our post on Christmas Movies and the Law was so successful, we decided to try our hand at a post about movies, love, and the law in celebration of Valentine’s Day. As with our Christmas post, we found some of our colleagues were cynics, but although they may have a jaundiced eye regarding love they …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following post is cross posted on the From the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Literature blog. Magna Carta is coming to the Library of Congress in November 2014! This document is regarded as being one of the foundations of representative government and at the same time marked a defeat of the king by his barons. But long before 1215, …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library