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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Leah K. Ibraheem, web metrics analyst within the Office of the Chief Information Officer of the Library of Congress. Describe your background. This is at least my fifth career in the past 20 or so years. I have also worked as a meeting & convention planner, an inventory manager, a database marketing manager, a …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
A manager who oversees Congress.gov, Bill Kellum, was visiting the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park when he noticed the following legislation from the Library of Congress website.
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We just passed the two year anniversary of when THOMAS was retired to make way for Congress.gov. Robert recently shared our second set of enhancements that we had for Congress.gov in June. One area where we have focused is on enhancing committee data. With this release we are adding a legislative interest column to the House: Legislation with …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Back in May, Robert provided an update on the Congress.gov enhancements including “the ability to browse legislation using subject terms on ‘all information’ bill detail pages.” One of the new features in the Congress.gov enhancements released today is that the date of the “Previous Meeting” on the homepage will now be linked to a list of …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Those of us who work at the Library of Congress tend to love libraries. When traveling, it is fun to explore new library spaces. I recently had the opportunity to visit The Black Diamond, an extension of The Royal Danish Library. It is an iconic library building on the waterfront in Copenhagen, Denmark. If you …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Robert shared the news about our first release in April, which included enhancing the search result sorting. With this release, we add some additional new features for alerts, such as the ability to edit and change your saved search. One goal we have is to provide you with timely legislative information. Another alert enhancement is …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
It seems like just yesterday that Robert was sharing the Congress.gov updates for February, which included doubling the downloads of search results from 500 to 1,000 items. New Enhancements for March 2018 One item we are working on is how to improve our Congress.gov alerts and saved searches. In this release we take a step forward by …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
It’s enhancement time for Congress.gov! You have submitted a lot of feedback on how you search on our website, and we have listened. Based on a variety of user comments, we have improved the search interface and streamlined the header. Rather than just list the details, let’s take a look first. The new Search Bar …
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