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Archive: October 2016 (17 Posts)

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1066 and the Bayeux Tapestry

Posted by: Margaret Wood

Last Friday, October 14th, marked the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings.  On October 14, 1066, William the Conqueror invaded England and overthrew the last Anglo Saxon king, Harold Godwinson. The Bayeux Tapestry commemorates the events of that turbulent time.  My colleague Emily has a fold-out book of the tapestry, and I thought it …

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An Interview with Yolanda Patrice Jones, Law Librarian

Posted by: Donna Sokol

Describe your background. I grew up in Chicago, Illinois. When I was growing up, I would always find my way to a local Chicago Public Library branch.  My favorite was the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library on 95th and Halsted, which became a kind of refuge for me.  I hung out so much at my …

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New Law Library Reports Cover Access to Encrypted Communications and Intelligence Gathering

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

More and more internet traffic is encrypted. Encryption is a method of protecting electronic information by converting it into an unintelligible form (encoding) so that it can only be decoded with a key. Google stated in its latest transparency report that 85% of requests from around the world to Google’s servers used encrypted connections in …

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An Interview with Molly O’Casey, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

Today’s interview is with Molly O’Casey, a foreign law intern working with Nicolas Boring on research related to the laws of France and other French-speaking jurisdictions and with Clare Feikert-Ahalt on research related to the United Kingdom and a number of Commonwealth jurisdictions. Molly has recently graduated from a dual law degree (civil law/common law) …

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Law Library of Congress and Poetry and Literature Center to Host Award-Winning Poet Monica Youn

Posted by: Liah Caravalho

On the evening of Thursday, October 20, 2016, the Library of Congress will host award-winning poet and attorney Monica Youn. Youn will read from her latest collection of poetry, Blackacre (Graywolf Press, 2016), which has been longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry. Youn will also participate in a conversation with Martha Dragich, professor …

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Crowdsourcing at the Law Library

Posted by: Jennifer González

The Law Library acquired a large collection from William S. Hein & Co., Inc. to make all volumes of several collections (like the Federal Register) available in open access to researchers. Preparing these files by adding metadata for easy searching takes a lot of work, so this summer we asked law students and library students from …