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Archive for the Collections Category (484 posts)

A Recording of the Law Library’s Foreign Legal Gazettes Database Webinar is Now Available

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On December 8, 2020, Law Library staff presented a webcast on our new Foreign Legal Gazettes Database. The participants included Kurt Carroll, chief of the Collection Services Division; Elina Lee, metadata technician in the Digital Resources Division; Ken Sigmund, lead technician in the Collection Services Division; and me, Betty Lupinacci, supervisor in the Collection Services Division. Robert Brammer, chief of the Office of External Relations, hosted the event.

The database serves as an index to the Law Library’s holdings of official foreign government newspapers, where most jurisdictions first publish their laws. Users are directed to the appropriate bibliographic record in the Library’s online catalog (OPAC) for detailed holding information and from there to any digital copies of gazette issues that may exist or to the form for requesting physical items to be pulled for use on site.

The webinar is designed to show users how to navigate the database as well as relay information on the history and building of the program on the ArcGIS platform.

If you missed the live webcast, we are excited to announce that you can now watch a recording of the event online.

 

Law Library Story Map Collection Begins

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The Digital Resources Division is proud to introduce the first two Story Maps highlighting our collections. These Story Maps are a preview to the information contained in the United States Congressional Serial Set, which the Law Library continues to prepare for digitization. City Sketches and the Census highlights the 1880 Census Office report, published in […]

Hidden Treasures of the Law Library of Congress

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The Law Library of Congress is known for being the world’s largest law library, with a collection of over 2.9 million volumes spanning the ages and covering virtually every jurisdiction in the world. Its collection encompasses the largest and most comprehensive legal collection in the world. Our reading room contains legal treatises by subject, annotated […]

Plant and Animal Quarantining in United States Legal History

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The following is a guest post by Kathryn Gstalder, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a current graduate student in the Master of Library & Information Science Program at Wayne State University. The word “quarantine” has broad legal implications. Relating to agriculture, Indigenous peoples, public health, […]

Research Guides in Focus – Legal Research: A Guide to Case Law

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The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, the Law Library’s current Librarian-in-Residence. Today we are pleased to be back with another exciting chapter of Research Guides in Focus. We are introducing our newest guide, Legal Research: A Guide to Case Law. This guide covers strategies and resources to aid researchers as they navigate […]

View Our New Web Resource: Indigenous Law Web Archive

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The Law Library collects and preserves legal materials for American law, foreign law, and sovereign Indigenous nations. Many governments, including Indigenous national, tribal and community governments, are transitioning from print to solely digital formats for publishing their laws. The Law Library is working to collect and preserve these materials. To further these collection and preservation […]

From the Serial Set: Ely S. Parker and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation

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We’ve explored many types of documents in the Serial Set in our monthly series. Today, in honor of National Native American Heritage month, we will identify a Native American whose name appears throughout the Serial Set, and explore the legacy of his nation through the Law Library’s Indigenous Law Resources. Ely S. Parker was born […]