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Posted by: Ruth Levush
Today’s interview is with Elizabeth Boomer, a legal research analyst in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born in Kansas and grew up in a small university town in Illinois, home of Western Illinois University. As a teenager, I couldn’t wait to move to the “big city,” but I …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Describe your background. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio with four younger brothers. Most of my family are active in the Croatian folk music scene, which I participated in as part of the Cleveland Junior Tamburitzans. I was also a Boy Scout and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. What is your academic/professional history? I …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The following is a guest post by Colleen Shogan, the Assistant Deputy Librarian of Collections and Services at the Library of Congress. She is also the Library’s designee on the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. The Library of Congress opens its newest exhibition, Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote, on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. This …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jim Martin
In the fall of 1848, a one-term congressman from Illinois returned home from Washington, D.C.,via a trip through the Great Lakes. While on the Detroit River, Congressman Lincoln observed the crew of a steamer that had run aground wedge empty casks and barrels under the vessel’s gunwales to increase its buoyancy. The attempt worked and gave …
Posted in: Education, Law Library