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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following is a guest post by Agata Tajchert, one of the collections technicians in the Processing Section of the Law Library’s Collection Services Division. Agata heads up our preservation efforts to microfilm material that is too fragile to remain in paper form. A few years ago, after a major inventorying project, the Law Library’s …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Pamela Oliver, one of our summer interns in the Collection Services Division. Pam is working on our Gazette Guide, inventorying our holdings one country at a time for inclusion in what will eventually be a complete database of all of our foreign gazette holdings. Pam jumped right in, working on …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Typical depictions of librarians (on the nicer end of the spectrum) include people who are fastidious and exacting and who keep cats. In the Law Library, we may have to add “those who are magical” to the list. (Hmm, maybe that explains the whole cat thing.) Last October I wrote about stage 1 of our …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This week is National Police Week. President John F. Kennedy is credited with creating the commemoration as part of a proclamation signed in 1962, which designated May 14th as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which it falls as Police Week. If you recall my recent post, it takes Congressional action to make …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
I read with interest Kelly’s post last week regarding cricket and the law, especially the section on the Indian case where the plaintiffs stated that watching the sport was a matter of “right to life and personal liberty.” Today being the Washington Nationals‘ Opening Day, it got me thinking about our National Pastime and how …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Looking for a good legal dictionary? Well the Law Library has over 4200 of them, covering countries and languages from Chinese to Estonian to Cameroon. Many of these titles contain more than one language. So you could even draft your motion, translate it to French, and then from French to Portuguese, if you were so …
Posted in: Collections, Education
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Suneewan Creech, the newest technician in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library. Although she’s not really new, Ms. Creech has been a contractor at the Law Library since 2008, managing the contract accessioning new materials into the collection. We are very happy to add her to our staff. …
Posted in: Collections, Interview
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following is a guest post by Brian Kuhagen, now the law serials cataloger in the Collection Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Brian mostly works on classifying older serial titles in our foreign law collections. In mid-December, I traveled to Oslo for the holiday season. While there, I was able to take …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Armed with the extensive research on the background, content and effects of Magna Carta provided to docents, coupled with the “road map” provided by Nathan Dorn in his Gallery Talk, I have truly enjoyed giving tours of the Law Library’s Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor exhibit. None so much though as the one I gave …
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