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Posted by: Margaret Wood
A short history of New Mexico statehood and a bibliography of legislative resources on the anniversary of New Mexico's admission to the Union.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The Law Library of Congress has had a long relationship with the Supreme Court of the United States and its justices. Since the Law Library’s founding in 1832, the justices have had free access to the Law Library, and to this day, the chief justice has the authority to direct the purchases of the Law …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Yesterday was International Day of Peace and since, historically speaking, peace often meant treaties between various countries, it seemed a good occasion to talk about doing treaty research. When I began working at the Law Library of Congress over 11 1/2 years ago, I was excited by the variety of questions from patrons. But there …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This post is by Agnieszka “Aga” Pukniel, a technician in the Collection Services Division, who has contributed to several posts including How do you say “Library” in …, Nothing keeps us down – Pic of the Week and What is the most interesting fact …? Working directly with legal material often enables me to find …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The last week of May marks the anniversary of the first meeting of the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. The convention was called to address problems with the Articles of Confederation, which had been drafted in 1777 in order to provide a system for a national government. By 1779, the Articles had been ratified by …
Posted in: Collections, Congress, Education
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Constance Johnson, a senior legal research analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Constance has previously written on Water Rights on Star Island, Law Relating to Refugee Rights – Global Legal Collection Highlights, and most recently on her summer vacation on Star Island. April 7, 2016, is World Health …
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Thursday, September 17th is Constitution Day and on this date we commemorate the signing of the Constitution. This day also recognizes those who have become citizens of the United States by coming of age or by naturalization. The Law Library frequently celebrates this auspicious day with a lecture or scholarly debate. Over the years we …
Posted in: Collections, Congress, Event, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
As you may have seen from Andrew’s pics over the last several months, work on our Reading Room has been coming along apace. We are in the home stretch now as the new reference desk and other furniture are being installed. However, before we can transfer operations back to the renovated space on the second …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian with the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Andrew has previously provided an interview with this Virginia State Law Librarian for the blog. Imagine researching federal statutory law without using the United States Code, the official, current, subject-organized codification …
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