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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The Library of Congress collects material from all over the world. Sometimes we identify items we would like to have in our collection that are one of a kind or are held by another institution. In these cases, we are often able to photocopy or microfilm the items. Today’s Pic of the Week shows material …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
We often blog about different commemorative events, anniversaries, and holidays, with a particular focus on their legal and cultural history and on items in our collection. I thought I would add to this collection of posts by highlighting New Zealand Sign Language Week – taking place this week, May 2-8. New Zealand Sign Language is …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Our collection often surprises me, and this week’s pic is no exception. As I walked by a shelf I had passed many times before, there they were: not one, but two books on dog law. These are just the items in our Reading Room, most of our items you have to request from the stacks. …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s interview is with Nathan Dorn, who is a rare book technician in our Collection Services Division. Nathan is no stranger to In Custodia Legis; he recently wrote a guest piece on the Law Library’s Jewish law collection. Describe your background. I’ve been working at the Law Library for just over five years, first …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on the night of April 14, 1865. He died the next day, 146 years ago today. This picture is from one of our digitized books on the trial of assassination conspirators. We have twenty-two digitized items on our Lincoln and the Law site, many of which are books. The site …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This blog post discusses the Sorcery Act 1971 of Papua New Guinea.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, In the News, Law Library, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
The genesis of this post lies in research that led me to the Law Library stacks and into one of my favorite locations: the section containing English trials. Long before the arrival of soap operas and reality television programs, people (well, us Brits, anyway) used to be titillated by sordid criminal trials. I suppose to …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s interview is with Megan Lulofs, who is a contractor from CGI working in our Collection Services Division as a Library Technician and as an independent consultant in our Public Services Division. Describe your background. I have worked in various positions throughout the Law Library, and I have been here off and on for …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The following is a guest post by Nathan Dorn, Rare Book Technician at the Law Library of Congress. In a previous post on this blog, a colleague of mine points out that the Law Library possesses significant collections in the area of religious law. An outstanding example of these, which he describes in his post, …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library