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We Are Moving the Reading Room Collection Again!

Posted by: Margaret Wood

As you may have seen from Andrew’s pics over the last several months, work on our Reading Room has been coming along apace.  We are in the home stretch now as the new reference desk and other furniture are being installed.  However, before we can transfer operations back to the renovated space on the second …

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The Revised Statutes of the United States: Predecessor to the U.S. Code

Posted by: Margaret Wood

The following is a guest post by Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian with the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress.  Andrew has previously provided an interview with this Virginia State Law Librarian for the blog. Imagine researching federal statutory law without using the United States Code, the official, current, subject-organized codification …

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King v. Burwell, a Law Librarian is Sighted? – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Margaret Wood

As we have mentioned in previous posts, the Law Library of Congress is a Supreme Court depository library.  This means that we collect the records and briefs filed in cases before the court.  We also receive copies of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions hot off the presses.  Yesterday we received a bench opinion for King …

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Baking at the Capitol

Posted by: Margaret Wood

No, this is not a post about summer temperatures in Washington, D.C.  Rather, this is a post that a number of us have been dreaming about for several years.  For some curious reason, baking and law librarianship seem to be inextricably linked: many law librarians are master bakers, and those that are not are master …

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The Palace of Justice in Paris – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Margaret Wood

This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress.  Nicolas has previously blogged FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. I took a few days of vacation to visit relatives in France back in …

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End of the War in Europe

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Living in the nation’s capital can make one rather jaded.  Another presidential inauguration – another day of clogged metro and closed streets!  The Cherry Blossom Festival – the cherry blossoms are always beautiful – but again the traffic is horrendous.  But last Friday, May 8th, I witnessed a flyover of 15 World War II aircraft …

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Henry VIII by William Shakespeare

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Since it is April, and today is Shakespeare’s birthday, it is time for our annual post on this great playwright.  Last year, in  honor of our upcoming Magna Carta exhibit, I blogged about the play King John.  This year, in honor of Wolf Hall, I thought it would be fun to read and write about …

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April Fools’ Day Quiz Answers

Posted by: Margaret Wood

As promised, here are the answers and the citations for yesterday’s post, April Fools’ Day Quiz – Star Trek Court Cases.  Although some of the cases have been cited by elsewhere, I also tried to find others that are less familiar.  And I discovered that composing made-up opinions was quite difficult!  The best method seemed …