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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s interview is with Betty Lupinacci, Lead Technician for Legal Processing Workflow Resolution in our Collection Services Division (CSD). Describe your background I was born and raised in and around Pittsburgh, PA at a time when they still had functioning steel mills in the downtown area. I am the third of six siblings (two …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
If you have visited our Reading Room you may have noticed some of the books have a white dot on the spine. This does not mean the books were bought on clearance or as factory seconds. The white dots indicate the books have gone through a process of deacidification or have been printed on acid …
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Posted by: Christine Sellers
This week’s interview is with Debora Keysor, a Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Division. Describe Your Background. I was born in a small town in southern Ohio (West Union) and lived there until I went to college. I had the great fortune to be raised by two wonderful parents (and two doting grandmothers). …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Steve Clarke, Senior Foreign Law Specialist. As Kelly Buchanan mentioned a couple of weeks ago, on December 10, 2010, Law Librarian Roberta Shaffer moderated a panel discussion in which each of the four participants addressed an aspect of the Cultural Property Rights of Indigenous People in recognition of …
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Posted by: Christine Sellers
With this Pic of the Week, you get a glimpse of the front of the Madison Building, where the Law Library of Congress is located, along with the first snow of the season.
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
Inspired by the statue of William Blackstone in front of the U.S. District Courthouseourthouse in DC while biking to work, this blog post was intended to introduce the reader to the Law Library’s William Blackstone Collection. While the Law Library does not have a statue of Blackstone, we do have a very nice portrait. Blackstone …
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Posted by: Christine Sellers
As you may have noticed in my previous posts, I’m making an effort to highlight useful tools contained on the Law Library’s website that our readers may not be aware of. A section of the website that I use frequently is called “How Do I Find…?“ The guides are especially helpful in the beginning of …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
In honor of Human Rights Day, today’s Pic of the Week is the cover of a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This particular item is from our Rare Book Collection and is a duplicate of the special edition of the UDHR placed in the cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters Building …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
While the United States does not publish an official gazette, most countries of the world do. These primary law sources are invaluable for foreign legal research. While no two countries’ gazettes are identical, most contain legislation, orders, regulations, statutory instruments, and international agreements. Some even include decisions of courts and administrative agencies. The currency of …
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