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 …
Today’s interview is with Jeremy McCabe, a summer intern working in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. He is one of two interns working here this summer from the University of Washington Law Librarianship program. Describe your background. I grew up in Hammond, Indiana, which is a suburb of Chicago. I attended …
Today’s interview is with Mary Thurston, a summer intern working in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is one of two interns we have this summer from the same program that brought us Ashley Sundin last year and of which I am also an alumna. Describe your background. I am interning …
June 21st is National Aboriginal Day in Canada, and in celebration of this event, we are proud to open the Canadian portion of the Indigenous Law Portal. This new segment of the portal expands our coverage for the first time beyond the United States. The Canadian portion of the Indigenous Law Portal is divided into three regions: Eastern, Western, and Northern Canada. These …
In an effort to highlight the legal reports produced by the Law Library of Congress, I have revamped our display of the reports on our website. The new Comprehensive Index of Legal Reports will house all reports available on our website. This will also be the exclusive location to find reports written before 2011, including some of our …
For the last week, I have had the pleasure of working with two library students from the University of Texas at Austin, Laura Fry and Megan Martinsen. They spent their spring break in Washington, D.C. as part of the “Horns on the Hill” internship program, learning about the Library of Congress and our projects to provide …