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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following Congress.gov interview is a guest post by Kelly Yuzawa, a specialist in legislative information systems management within the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. Read the Congressional Tribute to Juanita Campbell. Briefly describe your 42 years at the Library of Congress and CRS. My 42 years at the Library of Congress have …
Posted in: Congress, Guest Post
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is an interview with Jim Martin, senior legal information analyst with the Public Services Division. Describe your background. I am a senior legal information analyst with the Law Library. I was originally hired as a reference librarian in June of 1992. I also served as head of the Law Library Reading Room for almost …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
After announcing legislation, Members of Congress, and the Congressional Record email alerts last year, I began to see requests for saved search email alerts. This is a feature that was not available on THOMAS that we are excited to now offer on Congress.gov. How do you get the new Saved Search Alerts? Do you have a Congress.gov …
Posted by: Ruth Levush
This week’s interview is with Jill James, chief of the Digital Resources Division at the Global Legal Collection Directorate. Welcome on board, Jill. Describe your background I live in College Park, Maryland, with my husband, and our young daughter and son. I grew up in northern Delaware. My parents, younger sister, and most of my …
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Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Roberta I. Shaffer, the Law Librarian of Congress. Download the PDF version of the FY2016 Law Library Annual Report. New Opportunities and Perspectives The year 2016 witnessed a historic change at the Library of Congress – the installation of the first woman and first African-American Librarian of Congress. Chief Justice …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
It’s almost time for the National Book Festival (#NatBookFest)! I have looked through the line-up, which you can browse by author or schedule, and am excited to try to see the authors of “Rosie Revere, Engineer,” “The Princess in Black,” and “I am Blop!” while there. (Can you guess the ages of the people I will …
Posted in: Education, Event, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Roberta I. Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress, whose posts include 2016 New Year’s Greetings from the Law Librarian of Congress and An Interview with Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress. For so many people, including me, the swearing in ceremony of Carla Hayden as the 14th Librarian of Congress …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We are back from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2016 Annual Conference in Chicago. I was happy to present with Abbie Grotke at the Legal Information Preservation Alliance’s annual meeting. I discussed several Law Library related web archiving initiatives, including: adding the historic Congressional Record from THOMAS to Congress.gov; the recent Archives Unleashed event; using Perma.cc in our research …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
A version of the following article originally appeared in the July 1, 2016, edition of Library of Congress staff newsletter, The Gazette. THOMAS, which launched with great fanfare on January 5, 1995, twenty-one and a half years ago, is nearing its retirement on July 5, 2016. Back when it launched, then-Librarian of Congress James H. …