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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Lately, we’ve started noticing foreign legal gazette issues with QR codes on the back page. Being curious, we’ve started scanning them to see where they take us. For the Mexican state of Guanajuato, for example, scanning the QR code takes the user directly to a digital copy of that issue. This is an ideal download …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
On December 8, 2020, Law Library staff presented a webcast on our new Foreign Legal Gazettes Database. The participants included Kurt Carroll, chief of the Collection Services Division; Elina Lee, metadata technician in the Digital Resources Division; Ken Sigmund, lead technician in the Collection Services Division; and me, Betty Lupinacci, supervisor in the Collection Services …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Law Library of Congress has developed a guide to our collection of foreign legal gazettes. Gazettes are generally the first place that a ruling body will publish its laws, making them an invaluable resource for foreign legal research. The Law Library has been collecting foreign legal gazettes since the mid-19th century. We are one of …
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Like many of you, when returning to the office after working from home this spring, we were inundated with mail. Among the hundreds of shipping boxes awaiting us were more than 20 filled with German serial titles. I know that Germany is one of the more prolific publishers of legal material, but to see it …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
PARENTS! Still homeschooling your kids, or at least looking for something new for them to do? Then how about a civics lesson by way of Runnymede? Today marks the 805th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in a field at Runnymede. In case you weren’t following us back in 2014-2015, the Law Library, …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today marks an anniversary that perhaps many people would like to forget: February 3, 1913 was the day that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. For those of you who have blocked this amendment from your memory, the 16th Amendment states: …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Aslihan Bulut, our new deputy law librarian for collections. Aslihan now heads up the Global Legal Collections Directorate of the Law Library. Describe your background. I am 1.5 generation (1.5G) Turkish-American, meaning I immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. I credit learning English to my discovery of the neighborhood …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s Pic of the Week is another in an occasional series featuring odd and/or outdated library equipment: a label cutter.
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Breshan Bryant, the newest technician in the Law Library’s Collection Services Division (CSD). We’re very happy to have her aboard. Describe your background. I was born in Mobile, Alabama, but grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland. I am the best of four siblings and the proud aunt of seven nieces …
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