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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This week’s interview is with LeeAnne Rupple, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian. Enjoy! Describe your background. I was born in South Carolina to a family of die-hard, born and bred, Texans! I spent the bulk of my adolescent years in St. Louis, Missouri; however, my dad’s job required us to move frequently, so I …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Christine Sellers
Veterans Day is November 11, 2011. As Andrew wrote last year, the Library is home to the Veterans History Project. The Veterans History Project was created by Congress in 2000 (P.L. 106-380) as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The Project’s mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible personal …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
My monthly retrospective is a little later than usual this month. I was out of the office admiring my beautiful newborn daughter. Kelly’s Inspiring Story of Nelson Mandela reclaimed our top spot by having one more page view than Clare’s Weird Laws, or Urban Legends? Clare’s item inspired a post in the Widener Law Library Blog. …
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Posted by: Christine Sellers
I recently wrote about the War Powers Resolution research guide available from the Law Library of Congress, which I highlighted because it had been getting a lot of page views. We try to analyze web metrics to see which Law Library web pages are the most viewed, as Andrew and I have mentioned in previous …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
Cynthia informed us about International Plan Language Day and the global movement to improve the use of plain language in government and legal writing. Kelly continued the trend and wrote about New Zealand’s approach to using plain English in the country’s laws. I thought I would continue the series. Despite the last, rather confusing weird …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Christine Sellers
The following is a guest post by Mark Strattner, Chief of Collection Services Division. Mark, along with Stephen Clarke and Alvin Wallace, is retiring this month after a long and productive service to the Law Library of Congress (LLC). Mark has previously written a guest post on Thirty Years Ago – The Big Move. After …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This is an interview with Alvin J. Wallace, Legal Information Technician Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Alvin, along with Stephen Clarke and Mark Strattner, is retiring this month after a long and productive service to the Law Library of Congress (LLC). Not wanting to miss my chance to introduce Alvin to In Custodia …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
A number of our Law Library of Congress colleagues retired at the end of October. Stephen Clarke, Mark Strattner, and Alvin Wallace are retiring this month after a long and productive service to the Law Library of Congress (LLC). We hope you enjoy our profiles on them. We are sad to see great friends leave, …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Christine Sellers
The following is a guest post by Francisco Macías, Senior Legal Information Analyst. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth If you’ve read …
Posted in: Education, In the News, Law Library