The First Feminist Congress of Mexico
Posted by: Francisco Macías
Blog post about the First Feminist Congress of Mexico.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Women's History
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Posted by: Francisco Macías
Blog post about the First Feminist Congress of Mexico.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Women's History
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The following is a guest post by David Mao, Law Librarian of Congress. He has previously guest posted New Year’s Greetings, Justifying Speed, Food for Thought, Another Trip Down Memory Lane, 2012 Burton Awards – Pic of the Week, Shreddy: From the Office of the Law Librarian – Pic of the Week, From the Desk of the Law …
Posted in: Congress, Guest Post, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Barbara Bavis
This post is authored by Dr. John Y. Cole, Director of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Donna previously blogged about the birthday of the Law Library of Congress, which is on July 14, 1832. Today is the 213th birthday of the Library of Congress. I’ve been hooked on the institution’s …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following guest post is by Butch Lazorchak, a digital archivist at the Library of Congress. It is cross posted on The Signal. Digital technology makes documents easy to alter or copy, leading to multiple non-identical versions that can be used in unauthorized or illegitimate ways. Unfortunately, the ease of alteration has introduced doubt in users’ minds …
Posted in: Law Library, In the News, Guest Post
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by Matthew Braun, Senior Legal Research Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Over the past two years I have had the pleasure of presenting an educational program on how to conduct free legal research online at American Bar Association (ABA) annual, midyear, and section meetings. This program, which …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by William Mahannah, an Assistant Reference Librarian in the Public Services Division. The Law Library of Congress, holding the world’s largest legal collection, receives a large volume of inquiries from patrons throughout the world. One might be surprised to learn that a continuous volume of request letters come from prisoners confined …
Posted in: Law Library, Guest Post
Posted by: Tina Gheen
The following is a guest post by Kevin Ford, Digital Project Coordinator in the Network Development and Metadata Standards Office (NDMSO) at the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is pleased to make the K Class – Law Classification – and all its subclasses available as linked data from the LC Linked Data Service, ID.LOC.GOV. …
Posted in: Gov 2.0, Guest Post
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Debora Keysor, a Senior Legal Reference Specialist in the Law Library of Congress. Debbie has previously blogged about PACER and Supreme Court Records and Briefs. The nation’s capital was once again the place to be, but not for the Cherry Blossoms this week. Thousands of people descended on …
Posted in: In the News, Guest Post, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Cynthia Jordan, Senior Writer-Editor at the Law Library of Congress. Orin S. Kerr, Law Library Scholar-in-Residence for the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology, and Criminal Justice at the Library of Congress, has had a couple of busy weeks. On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, he …
Posted in: Law Library, Guest Post