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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Almost every year, in the fall, I find myself picking up The Lord of the Rings and re-reading parts of it. It has long been one of my favorite books. However, my first introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s writing was not so positive. When I was in the fifth grade, I had picked up The Hobbit …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The plans for the Law Library Reading Room‘s renovation have been finalized, and we are preparing to move operations to the ground floor of the Madison building during construction. This will be a complicated operation taking about three and a half weeks to shift to our temporary space. For those of you who have visited …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This week’s interview is with Ann Hemmens, a legal reference librarian with the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. My parents were transplants from Illinois and I inherited their interest in travel and living in different parts of the country. I’ve …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Today’s interview is with Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I grew up in Virginia and went to college and law school there. I studied Ancient Greek and Latin as an undergraduate, went to law school and practiced law, and then …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Jim Martin, senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Jim has written some of our most popular posts over the years including The Articles of Confederation. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Hapsburg presumptive heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his …
Posted in: Collections, In the News, Law Library, World War I
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Some of Dante’s recent posts include Introduction to Canon Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights, Resources and Treasures of the Italian Parliamentary Libraries, and A Fresh Update on the Canonical Rules on the Election of a …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Although I grew up in an arid western state, my first real awareness of the complicated rules governing water usage came when I saw the movie The Milagro Beanfield War in 1988. The action in the movie centers around the accidental and illegal diversion of water by Joe Mondragon, which brings down the wrath of the state government …
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