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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Amanda Quinn, a summer intern in the Collection Service Division of the Law Library of Congress. Amanda is working on our gazette database and we couldn’t be happier with the progress she is making! Describe your background. I was born and raised in Columbia, Maryland, and recently graduated from the University …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Josh Darland, an assistant project manager in the Law Library, brought me this book on Minnesota law, written in Danish and published in the United States in 1896. He thought it would make a good post for our On the Shelf series because it was so unexpected. And he was correct. Though it’s not as …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Law Library has put on a display of items from the Jewish American collection for Jewish Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Jewish American History, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Though courtroom drawings in the United States reportedly go back to the Salem Witch Trials, the idea of sketch artists in the courtroom has fluctuated in popularity within the judicial branch, at times tolerated, at other times banned, from the proceedings. Courtroom artists are in no way affiliated with the legal system. They are usually …
Posted in: Collections, Education
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This installment of On the Shelf features the Session Laws of the State of Minnesota. The title caught my attention when technicians inventorying and reviewing it brought up several questions (leading to one incorrect answer on my part). The initial question was in reference to the first three volumes which had a different title than …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
For today’s Pic of the Week, the blog team asked me to do something in honor of the Super Bowl this Sunday (as if writing about baseball meant I’d enjoy doing a football post instead!). So I went into our catalog and tried to find some interesting items that were not related to antitrust law. …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
It seems as though Collection Services Division’s staff have been composing On the Shelf posts for ages. Since we’ve started posting, I’ve been reminded by colleagues about items found years ago that we would pass around or send photos of or talk about over lunch. One such item is a book Brian Kuhagen found a …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Well, winter finally hit the D.C. metropolitan area. And it came with a bang. The temperatures on Tuesday morning dipped down into the teens with “feels like” temps in the single digits. You’d think that on a day like that staff would stay indoors sipping hot tea or coffee while they work, and for the …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week