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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Last weekend I was pulling English ivy off the corner of my house where it had grown over from the neighbor’s yard, and I reflected on the large number of invasive plants I see growing all over the national capital area: kudzu, porcelain berry, water hyacinth, callery pear, and tree of heaven. I wondered what …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This is a guest post by Dasha Kolyaskina. Dasha is working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress as part of the Library of Congress’s Junior Fellows Program. The program’s focus is to increase access to our collections for our various patron groups. As a Junior Fellow at the Law Library …
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
As we’ve noted in the blog before, the Class K schedule was not completed until the 1960s. Prior to that, law material was either classified under the old “LAW” scheme or in the JX class. Our serials cataloger, Brian Kuhagen, is working hard to put everything in order under the K schedule. His latest projects …
Posted in: Collections
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
I was in Ithaca, N.Y. recently for a meeting of the Northeast Foreign Law Libraries Cooperative Group (NEFLLCG) hosted by Cornell University Law Library. This group meets semiannually to discuss collection development issues, new acquisitions, and ensure the law collections in the region sufficiently represent foreign jurisdictions. Whenever I attend a conference or meeting, in …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Preserving law sources is one of our top priorities and every day we find ourselves working with different jurisdictions. In May, as we were working on reclassifying Law-classed materials, our serials cataloger came across some deteriorating issues of the law reports of Haiti, La Gazette du palais: organe juridique. As a law source, this bimonthly …
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Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Jeff Harris, Presidential Management Fellow. Jeff previously wrote about the Right of Publicity for College Athletes in Video Games. I’m not a math person (though I did get a 100 on my senior year high school calculus final), but I can still appreciate the importance of numbers. Though it is …
Posted in: Collections, In the News
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
In preparation for the upcoming Independence Day celebration tomorrow, we thought it might be interesting to show that there is also an international dimension to this national holiday. The Declaration of Independence is regarded as one of the milestone documents that shaped America, but it also had a major influence abroad. After the Continental Congress approved the …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
To secure the basic needs of children, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on November 20, 1989, the 30th anniversary of its Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The Convention went into force on September 2, 1990 when enough nations ratified it. Currently, 196 nations have ratified the …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
On Monday, I had the pleasure of assembling a display of rare books for guests attending the 2017 Burton Awards ceremony held at the Library of Congress. Created by Williams C. Burton, the awards acknowledge, celebrate, and reward outstanding achievements in the legal field, including for legal writing, regulatory reform and public service. The display …
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