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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
Announcing a new video tutorial on using the Law Library's Foreign Legal Gazettes Guide to navigate the Library's gazette collections.
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library has released nearly 400 additional digitized historical reports published in the last couple of years for transcription on the Library's crowdsourcing platform By The People.
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Claude, who has been transcribing the Herencia collection since 2020.
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Drue Edney, an intern in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress through the Library of Congress Internship program (LOCI). Note: this post uses a pejorative term as it originally appears in the collection item. During my internship at the Law Library of Congress, I have had the …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Grislean Palacios, who served as a summer 2022 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. Special thanks to Francisco Macías for translation and analysis assistance. The Herencia Crowdsourcing Campaign collection includes historic documents dealing with criminal cases, real …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
For more than eighty years, the Law Library of Congress has been engaged in the preparation of research reports on legal topics, with an emphasis on foreign, comparative, and international law, in response to requests from Congress, the executive and judicial branches of the federal government, and others. The Law Library has authored thousands of …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Katie DeFonzo, who served as a fall 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. Es la Educacion vna segunda vida; que se da al hombre, ò por major dezir, la mas comoda conservacion de …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Johannah Ball, who served as a fall 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. Herencia is a rich collection of Spanish government documents from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Many documents fit into definite …
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