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Archive: August 2015 (20 Posts)

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An Interview with Faith Hamby, Metadata Technician

Posted by: Jennifer González

Today’s interview is with Faith Hamby. Faith worked with us last year and we were very happy she came back this year to continue working on the Statutes at Large as a metadata technician. Describe your background. During my undergraduate days, I worked at Marquette University’s Memorial Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Intrigued by the J.R.R. Tolkien …

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How to Locate a Published Congressional Hearing: A Beginner’s Guide

Posted by: Robert Brammer

This post is coauthored by Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer, senior legal reference specialists. In 1947, aviation and film industry executive Howard Hughes testified before a hearing of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. The hearings that followed were contentious, with the committee investigating Kaiser-Hughes Aircraft for receiving taxpayer dollars for …

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Cooking Up a Solution to Link Rot

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by the Law Library’s managing editor, Charlotte Stichter. When Charlotte is not at her day job she loves to cook, and is currently on a quest to find the perfect recipe for clafouti. For those with vivid imaginations, the terms “link rot” and “reference rot” might conjure images of …

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An Interview with Agata Tajchert – Collection Services Technician

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

Today’s interview is with Agata Tajchert, a technician in the Processing Section of the Collection Services Division.  Agata recently wrote about our collection of House of Lords’ records and briefs. Describe your background. As probably most of my colleagues know, I am originally from Poland. I grew up in Warsaw in a neighborhood that during …

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Hong Kong Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights

Posted by: Laney Zhang

The following is a guest post by Shi Qiu, a foreign law intern at the Law Library of Congress. July 1, 2015 marked the 18th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. On this anniversary we published a post about the Basic Law of Hong Kong. For non-legal information on Hong Kong, you can read an article …