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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
On January 30, 2016, Mexico News Daily printed an article stating that President Enrique Peña Nieto had officially announced that what had been the Federal District would now be known as Mexico City. So why does that matter to the Law Library’s Collection Services Division? Looking at two consecutive issues of the gazette for …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Okay, so this is not actually another of Andrew’s clever posts with videos showing you how to say “law” or “book” in multiple languages. However, when our serials cataloger, Brian Kuhagen, showed me a title he was classifying, I immediately thought of Andrew’s posts and tying that theme (a single word in multiple languages) to …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
As I wrote last June, we have been installing new compact shelving in the smallest of the four quads which house the bulk of our collection. Well, the new shelving is in and it looks great! Not only does it look good, but the mechanics are much smoother than its aging counterparts, making the units …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, foreign law specialist for the United Kingdom and a number of Commonwealth jurisdictions at the Law Library of Congress. Clare has previously written many interesting posts, most recently: FALQs: Brexit Referendum and The Case of a Ghost Haunted England for Over Two Hundred Years. Frequently, the four …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
For this edition of On the Shelf, we travel to one of the lesser-known French overseas collectivities, Saint Pierre & Miquelon. This material was brought to the forefront by a combination of projects in the Collection Services Division. As we have mentioned before, we are still chipping away at classifying over a million volumes that …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Amanda Quinn, a summer intern in the Collection Service Division of the Law Library of Congress. Amanda is working on our gazette database and we couldn’t be happier with the progress she is making! Describe your background. I was born and raised in Columbia, Maryland, and recently graduated from the University …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Josh Darland, an assistant project manager in the Law Library, brought me this book on Minnesota law, written in Danish and published in the United States in 1896. He thought it would make a good post for our On the Shelf series because it was so unexpected. And he was correct. Though it’s not as …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Law Library has put on a display of items from the Jewish American collection for Jewish Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Jewish American History, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Though courtroom drawings in the United States reportedly go back to the Salem Witch Trials, the idea of sketch artists in the courtroom has fluctuated in popularity within the judicial branch, at times tolerated, at other times banned, from the proceedings. Courtroom artists are in no way affiliated with the legal system. They are usually …
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