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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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A Magna Carta MOOC

Posted by: Jeanine Cali

The following is a guest post by Emm Barnes Johnstone, historian of medicine with the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Engagement with the Past at Royal Holloway, University of London. Royal Holloway, a college of the University of London, sits just two miles from Runnymede. We are home to some of the world’s experts …

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Police Weapons Around the World

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

The following is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress.  Nicolas has previously contributed posts on French Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights, Napoleon Bonaparte and Mining Rights in France and How Sunday Came to be Established as a Day of Rest in France. While for some …

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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 …

Researching Norwegian Law Online and in the Library

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Elin Hofverberg, a foreign law research consultant who covers Scandinavian countries at the Law Library of Congress. Elin has previously written about the bicentenary of Norway’s constitution and a boarding school scandal in Sweden for In Custodia Legis. When I conduct research on Scandinavian jurisdictions here at the …

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How Sunday Came to be Established as a Day of Rest in France

Posted by: Jeanine Cali

The following is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress.  Nicolas has previously contributed guest posts on French Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights and Napoleon Bonaparte and Mining Rights in France. It is no secret that French workers benefit from a generous amount of vacation time.  Indeed, …

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An Interview with Ann Hemmens, Legal Reference Librarian

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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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 …