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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Congress is once again in a lame duck session. The Senate’s Virtual Reference Desk Glossary website defines a lame duck session as: When Congress (or either chamber) reconvenes in an even-numbered year following the November general elections to consider various items of business. Some lawmakers who return for this session will not be in the next …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Being a somewhat organized person, I have already started to plot out my schedule for next year. When I do this, I like to check the calendar and get a list of Federal holidays for the year. This inspired me to think that, as a member of the Law Library blog team, I should write a short article about …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Pamela Barnes Craig, Instruction/Reference Librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Pub. L. 92-318, 86 Stat. 235, 373 turned 40 years old on June 23, 2012. Its birthday passed much like it became law—quietly and unassumingly. Its impact, however, has been …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The Law Library of Congress staff is celebrating the arrival of our new scanner. The scanner is located in the Law Library Reading Room where patrons can now scan materials and download images to a flashdrive. How cool is that!
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Margaret Wood
As we did with AALL, we decided to collect feedback from Law Library staff about their participation in this year’s National Book Festival (NBF). As I noted in last week’s post, this is the Law Library’s second year for participating in the National Book Festival and here is what some of the Law Library participants had to …
Posted in: Collections, Congress, In the News, Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This has been a busy week for the Law Library of Congress. We have unveiled Congress.gov (our new legislative website), celebrated Constitution Day, and to round the week out, we are preparing for the National Book Festival. This will be the Law Library’s second year at the National Book Festival. Our staff will be manning …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
As I mentioned in my interview last year, I grew up in New Mexico and it remains a favorite vacation spot. This August, I visited Santa Fe which is the oldest capital city in the United States. While I was there, I swung by the Palace of the Governors. The Palace of the Governors was …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Margaret Wood
We have written many posts highlighting materials in the Law Library’s collections, but today we are providing a glimpse of the day-to-day work which goes into keeping our collections up-to-date. This library cart contains replacement volumes, pocket parts and softbound supplements which Alex LoBianco will file in the Law Library Reading Room. Although the work is …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This sign has been resident in the manager’s office in the Law Library Reading Room for many years – sitting quietly out of sight on a shelf. Our best guess is that this sign was originally used when the Law Library was still located in the Thomas Jefferson Building, before the Law Library was moved over 30 years ago to …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week