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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: Andrew Weber
Washington, DC is such a beautiful city. Occasionally, you get to see it from a new perspective. Recently, I was fortunate to have this lovely view as the sun was starting to set. This view brings the White House, the Washington Monument, and the Jefferson Memorial almost into alignment. Do you have a favorite view of …
Posted in: Pic of the Week
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 …
Posted in: Global Law
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 …
Posted in: Interview
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 …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
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) …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview, Law Library
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 …
Posted in: Event
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a tale of World War I legal history with a literary twist. (Working at the world’s largest library, with books on every subject, I could hardly leave the literary aspect out, could I?) I have previously written about New Zealand’s involvement in World War I, particularly in the Gallipoli campaign, and related …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, World War I
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This post is by Agnieszka “Aga” Pukniel, a technician in the Collection Services Division, who has contributed to several posts including How do you say “Library” in …, Nothing keeps us down – Pic of the Week and What is the most interesting fact …? Working directly with legal material often enables me to find …
Posted in: Collections