New York State Committee Reports – On the Shelf
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Historic New York Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Vehicles reports
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Hello Mr. Lawyer! – Pic of the Week
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Amusing book cover for title indexing negligence cases from 1897 to 1910.
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Foreign Legal Gazette QR Codes
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Lately, we’ve started noticing foreign legal gazette issues with QR codes on the back page. Being curious, we’ve started scanning them to see where they take us. For the Mexican state of Guanajuato, for example, scanning the QR code takes the user directly to a digital copy of that issue. This is an ideal download …
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A Recording of the Law Library’s Foreign Legal Gazettes Database Webinar is Now Available
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
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 …
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New Foreign Legal Gazette Collection Database
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Law Library of Congress has developed a guide to our collection of foreign legal gazettes. Gazettes are generally the first place that a ruling body will publish its laws, making them an invaluable resource for foreign legal research. The Law Library has been collecting foreign legal gazettes since the mid-19th century. We are one of …
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On the Shelf – German Serials
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Like many of you, when returning to the office after working from home this spring, we were inundated with mail. Among the hundreds of shipping boxes awaiting us were more than 20 filled with German serial titles. I know that Germany is one of the more prolific publishers of legal material, but to see it …
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New Shelving Evokes Old Memories
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We are now two-thirds through having the Law Library’s shelving replaced in the second of four quadrants in our closed stacks. The new shelving is lighter, easier to move and conforms to current safety standards for spacing between shelves. And it’s making shelving and retrieval much easier for staff and contractors. As I walked through …
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Construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
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One of our contractors, Jeremy Gainey, found a random volume of the Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington passed by the first-[sixty-eighth] Council in the stacks. The book in question is from the Twenty-Sixth Council held in 1828-1829. Anyone who reads this blog regularly may recall that I really enjoy looking though …
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How to Label a Book – Pic of the Week
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Today’s Pic of the Week is another in an occasional series featuring odd and/or outdated library equipment: a label cutter.
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