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Free Public Access to Federal Materials on Guide to Law Online

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Ann Hemmens, legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress.  Through an agreement with the Library of Congress, the publisher William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has generously allowed the Law Library of Congress to offer free online access to historical U.S. legal materials from HeinOnline.  These titles are available …

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Accessing Reading Room Materials During Our Move

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Anne Guha, legal information analyst with the Law Library Public Services Division. As Margaret explained in a previous blog post, recently we have been preparing the Law Library Reading Room, located in Room 201 in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress, for a much-needed renovation.  In order to allow the …

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Ode to a Comb – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Donna Sokol

Today’s guest post is by Betty Lupinacci, supervisor in the Processing Section of the Law Library Collection Services Division. I can’t tell you how delighted I was to receive the object pictured above in the mail.  The Collection Services Division has been trying to get hold of this elusive item, and it finally arrived!  I was …

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Junior Fellow at the Law Library of Congress

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by Betty Lupinacci, now the supervisor in the Processing Section of the Law Library Collection Services Division.  I love summers at the Library of Congress. That’s when, for ten weeks, the Junior Fellows take over the collections and fill the place with enthusiasm and a thirst for knowledge. Once again the Law Library …

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The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Posted by: Donna Sokol

Yesterday we celebrated the fourth birthday of In Custodia Legis, and today we have reached another milestone: this is the 1,000th blog post that we’ve published!  We asked David S. Mao, the Law Librarian of Congress, to write the 1,000th post.  In it, he highlights some of the many different areas of interest for the Law Library …

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A Visit to the National Library of Uzbekistan

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by the Law Librarian of Congress, David Mao, who has previously written about federal architecture, state government contracts, speed limits, and cruise ship food rules, among other topics. A few years ago Robert Newlen blogged about the National Library of Uzbekistan (under construction at that time) and his visit to …