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Posted by: Jennifer González
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This blog post is a bibliography of materials acquired since 2019 for the jurisdictions of Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The following is a guest post by Steven Hughston Vasil, a 2020 summer intern working remotely with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. He is a current graduate student pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science degree at the University of Maryland, College Park. On December 19, 1977, President Jimmy …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
The following is a guest post by Jacquelyn Deppe, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a graduate student of the Masters of Information program at Rutgers University. International Coffee Day is celebrated in the United States on September 29, and internationally on October 1. According to …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The Law Library of Congress highlights new titles concerning Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Francisco Macías
This is a blog post by the Law Library of Congress about the Pyramid of Niches at El Tajín--a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Donna Sokol
On this day 196 years ago, September 15, 1821, the Acta de Independencia de Centro América declared independence from Spain for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer González
The following is a guest post by Carla Davis-Castro, a librarian who has been working on our Indigenous Law Portal. The Indigenous Law Portal, launched on the Law Library’s website in June 2014, provides an open access platform to legal materials regarding how indigenous peoples govern themselves. Currently featuring North America (Canada, the United States, and Mexico), …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Earlier this year we reflected on Hispanic Heritage Month with a post by my colleague Francisco Macias. He and I have explored the origins of the month in previous years’ posts. You can read this year’s Presidential Proclamation online too. Once you know all about it, how will you commemorate this month? It begins each …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library