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Posted by: Andrew Weber
A lot has happened to our reading room over the last few months. One of the final steps is to have the new furniture assembled and arranged. You can see our new entrance, the beginning of the new reference desk, lots of chairs, tables, a little trash, and the microfilm reading room in the pictures …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This post is coauthored by Jeanine Cali and Andrew Weber. It seems like only yesterday we were running around Philadelphia for the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries. The week before the conference, Kelly wrote a post previewing the programs in which our staff would make presentations on subjects from content management, to …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
I love to walk around Capitol Hill. From the Library of Congress and the Capitol Building, there are numerous views of the many beautiful buildings and fun and unusual things to see here. Today’s photos feature the statues in front of the Rayburn House Office Building. The building is a short walk from the Law Library’s home in the …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Now that we are midway through the year I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at our metrics at this point. What In Custodia Legis blog posts have been popular? What Law Library of Congress reports? What legislation? The mix of the top ten new blog posts highlights both our foreign and …
Posted in: Congress, Global Law, Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Andrew Weber
With each release of Congress.gov, THOMAS is one step closer to retiring to Monticello. Tina has recently joined the Congress.gov team and has been working on a gap analysis between the two systems. She is identifying items such as the Senate Executive Communications and Congressional Record Index that exist only on THOMAS as things to …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
With each update the new Law Library of Congress Reading Room comes more into focus. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) has continued to do great work in the space. If you are following along at home, first the space was emptied and then it was gutted. The previous batch of photos provided the first glimpse of …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas wrote FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and my first language is …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
So far, 2015 has been a great year for Congress.gov. First, we launched email alerts in February. Then, we added treaty documents and more in March. With today’s update, improvements have been made to search (results, command line and advanced), alerts, browse, and accessibility. The Federalist Papers have remained a perennially popular item on THOMAS with …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Bill Wallace, an assistant general counsel from the Office of the General Counsel in the Library of Congress. Describe your background. I moved to D.C. from New York City approximately 6 years ago to attend law school. After so many years in NYC, the move was somewhat jarring. D.C. felt …
Posted in: Interview