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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
On January 30, 2016, Mexico News Daily printed an article stating that President Enrique Peña Nieto had officially announced that what had been the Federal District would now be known as Mexico City. So why does that matter to the Law Library’s Collection Services Division? Looking at two consecutive issues of the gazette for …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following post is cross posted on the In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. As promised, we present Part 2 of our look into Music and the Law where we polled our staff to determine their favorite songs/musical works regarding the law. The submissions were very diverse! Here we take a look at those that fit …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following post is cross posted on the In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. As much as I love Christmas carols, I’m usually tired of them by mid-December as they seem to have been playing continuously since before Thanksgiving. Well, it’s the Law Library to the rescue. We polled our staff for their favorite songs about …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Okay, so this is not actually another of Andrew’s clever posts with videos showing you how to say “law” or “book” in multiple languages. However, when our serials cataloger, Brian Kuhagen, showed me a title he was classifying, I immediately thought of Andrew’s posts and tying that theme (a single word in multiple languages) to …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
As I wrote last June, we have been installing new compact shelving in the smallest of the four quads which house the bulk of our collection. Well, the new shelving is in and it looks great! Not only does it look good, but the mechanics are much smoother than its aging counterparts, making the units …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, foreign law specialist for the United Kingdom and a number of Commonwealth jurisdictions at the Law Library of Congress. Clare has previously written many interesting posts, most recently: FALQs: Brexit Referendum and The Case of a Ghost Haunted England for Over Two Hundred Years. Frequently, the four …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Jasmine Stewart, one of this year’s stellar summer interns in the Collection Services Division. Jasmine has been busy inventorying and creating metadata for a collection of no-longer-available-in-print National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) decisions. She is also continuing work on accessioning our collection of foreign legal gazettes gifted by the Dag Hammarskjold …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
For this edition of On the Shelf, we travel to one of the lesser-known French overseas collectivities, Saint Pierre & Miquelon. This material was brought to the forefront by a combination of projects in the Collection Services Division. As we have mentioned before, we are still chipping away at classifying over a million volumes that …
Posted in: Collections
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Once again, the Law Library is playing host to another stellar group of summer interns. They come from as far away as Pakistan and as close as Rockville, MD, yet they all share the same enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge. We here in the Law Library thoroughly appreciate their hard work and dedication to their …
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