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Intern Cecilia Contreras Discusses Her Work with Law Library Special Collections

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following is a guest post by Cecilia Contreras, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. As an intern with the Digital Resources Division through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HNIP), I was given the opportunity to work with a collection of miscellaneous legal …

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Marking the 474th Anniversary of the Commencement of the Ecumenical Council of Trent

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Recently, I was reviewing a full cart of canon law books and found interesting materials related to the Catholic Church’s ecumenical councils. Ecumenical councils are “legally convened assemblies of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts for the …

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An Interview with Bailey DeSimone, Library Technician (Metadata)

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

Today’s interview is with Bailey DeSimone, a Library Technician (Metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. What is your academic/professional history? I received my bachelor’s degrees in history and global studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From my second week of classes as a first-year to my final …

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Spanish Legal Documents (15th – 19th Centuries): Laws and Statutes; Notarial Instruments

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following post was written in collaboration with Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Today we bring you another big update from our Spanish Legal Documents series. For more on the history of this collection, as well as our ongoing efforts to present the full collection online, see our previous posts describing …