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Posted by: Jennifer González
This is the final part of our four-part mini-series containing mini-biographies of the summer remote interns working with the Digital Resources Division. (Read parts one, two, and three if you missed them!) The interns’ research and writing has been extraordinary and we can’t wait to share their work. Topics this summer have spanned pigeons, alchemy, …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
This summer, the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress had the honor of hosting over 100 remote interns. Several of them worked on the Herencia project, and many more worked on other digital projects. Over the next few blog posts, we will highlight those remote interns that worked on the Data and …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Britney Spears’ plea to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to end her conservatorship has drawn global attention to the legal arrangement of conservatorship, also known as guardianship, existing under the laws of many countries. Spears has been subject to conservatorship since 2008, following highly-publicized mental health problems. As a result, she has had no …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today’s interview is with Willa Armstrong. Willa is a digital accessibility specialist in the Library of Congress. Describe your background. I knew I wanted to be in libraries for life so I went to graduate school to study information and library science. Afterwards, I did a stint in academic publishing; but I made my way back …
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
This blog post describes women's suffrage in Sweden.
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Anna Price
The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, the current Librarian-in-Residence at the Law Library of Congress. Louis has recently authored blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including New Acquisition: The Trial of Governor Picton, A Case of Torture in Trinidad, Research Guides in Focus – Municipal Codes: A Beginner’s Guide, and Research Guides …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
The Law Library of Congress is proud to announce our all-virtual festivities to celebrate the first anniversary of our crowdsourcing campaign, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. In a year, we were able to complete over 2,000 pages! We are so grateful and proud of all of our volunteers for helping us reach our goal …
Posted in: Event, Law Library