The German National Library, Leipzig – Pic of the Week
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The picture of the week highlights the German National Library.
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The picture of the week highlights the German National Library.
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This video is the first in a series that will take you inside the Law Library’s vault to explore our collection of rare books and manuscripts. The first installment features a Law Library favorite, George Washington’s copy of the Acts of the First Session of the First Congress under the Federal Constitution. Please leave a comment if …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
National Entrepreneur’s Day is a commemorative day to encourage innovative business people creating new jobs and economic growth in the United States. Today’s holiday was created by presidential proclamation and first celebrated in November 2010; an enthusiastic startup lobbied for the day. As the commemoration falls right before Small Business Saturday, the timing could not …
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
Andrew recently brought you an update concerning our work on a unified Congressional Committee Calendar. So, what’s new for Congress.gov in November? The latest enhancements include an update to the legislation and committee report search forms. Both forms now display committee selection lists that reflect committee name changes throughout the years. Also, legislation search results for a single Congress now include a subcommittee filter so you …
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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post describes the buildings that comprise the Judicial City in Luxembourg.
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
A brief description of the Indian Child Welfare Act and a list of resources for those researching the ICWA.
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
This post is coauthored by Jim Martin, senior legal information analyst, and Robert Brammer, senior legal information specialist. The Law Library of Congress would like to take the opportunity to remember the sacrifices of our brave veterans who proudly served the cause of freedom over a century ago in World War I. The Law Library invites you to …
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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a guest post by Mirela Savic-Fleming, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Several days ago, in the middle of a conversation about our everyday lives and the upcoming midterm elections, a friend of mine looked at me, and asked out of the blue, “Do you know that there is a …
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
The Congress.gov team recently improved saved search alerts for legislation. This improvement applies to searches that are performed from the legislation homepage search form and the advanced search form. Initially, saved search alerts for legislation provided you with a list of new items added to your search results list, as well as of items already in your …
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