Orientation to Legal Research Webinar: Tracing Federal Regulations
Date: Thursday, April 7, 2022, 11:00 a.m. EDT – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Content: This entry in the series provides an overview of U.S. federal regulations, including information about the notice-and-comment rulemaking process, the publication and citation of regulations, and the tracing of regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, to the proposed rule in the Federal Register, to the regulation’s docket.
Instructor: Margaret M. Wood – senior legal reference librarian. Margaret holds a BA in history from Oberlin College and a Master of Science in Library Science from Catholic University.
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Congress.gov Webinar
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2022, 2:00 p.m. EDT – 3:00 p.m. EDT
Content: This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will also be highlighted.
Instructors: Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer. Barbara is the bibliographic and research instruction librarian at the Law Library. She holds a BA in history from Duke University, a JD from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science with a specialization in law librarianship from Catholic University. Robert is the chief of the Law Library’s Office of External Relations. He holds a BA in political science from the University of Kentucky, a JD from Wayne State University, and a Master of Library Science from Florida State University.
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Comments (2)
Will registrants receive a link to watch the webinar after the fact if they are unable to attend live? If you archive your webinars, where might I find the?
Hi Suzanne,
Our past presentations can be found on our Legal Research Institute page here: https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/researcher-resources/legal-research-institute/past-presentations/