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Our Reading Room Redo Continues

Posted by: Andrew Weber

The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) has been very busy gutting our old Reading Room.  In the last update, the furniture and shelves had been removed.  Now the carpet and ceiling tiles are gone.  It is starting to be easier to imagine what the new space might look like. They have started to install new ports …

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Magna Carta – a Love Story

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

Armed with the extensive research on the background, content and effects of Magna Carta provided to docents, coupled with the “road map” provided by Nathan Dorn in his Gallery Talk, I have truly enjoyed giving tours of the Law Library’s Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor exhibit. None so much though as the one I gave …

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Alaskan Tribes Added to the Indigenous Law Portal

Posted by: Tina Gheen

Alaska has now been added to the Indigenous Law Portal on Law.gov. As I mentioned last summer, the Indigenous Law Portal is a free resource that brings together digitized collection materials from the Law Library of Congress as well as links to tribal websites and primary source materials found on the web. We have added …

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Twenty Years of THOMAS

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Even though we are working to retire THOMAS, I thought we should celebrate the fact that it has now been online for twenty years!  THOMAS was a pioneer when it was launched on January 5, 1995.  It was even noteworthy that THOMAS was “available 24 hours a day.”  I have been at the Library of …

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New Year’s Greetings from the Law Librarian of Congress

Posted by: Donna Sokol

This is a guest post by the Law Librarian of Congress, David Mao, who has previously written about the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, federal architecture, state government contracts, speed limits, and cruise ship food rules, among other topics. The New Year’s Greeting for 2014 is available for download in PDF format. PREPARING TO LAUNCH …