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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This Presidents Day I would like to focus on one out of the forty-four. The Law Library has a digital collection of items related to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln and the Law presents items from our Rare Book Collection that highlight periods when Lincoln’s life (and death) were securely linked to the law. Presented in three …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s interview is with Agnieszka “Aga” Pukniel, a Library Technician in our Collection Services Division. Describe your background. I was born in a nice little town near Gdansk, located by the Baltic Sea in Poland. I lived there till I was 19, when I moved to the United States. I spent four years in …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The following is a guest post by Mark Strattner, Chief of our Collection Services Division. February 2, 2011 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of the move of the Law Library from the Thomas Jefferson Building to its present location in the James Madison Memorial Building. On Monday February 2, 1981, the Collection Management …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The following is a guest post by Dr. Meredith Shedd-Driskel, Law Curator. With the rise of feudalism in medieval France, the country had evolved into two judicial territories. The provincial parliaments in northern France, acting as sovereign judicial bodies independent of each other and claiming independence from the king, applied droit coutumier, or legal principles …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s interview is with Elizabeth Moore, a librarian in our Collection Services Division. Describe your background I’m a native New Orleanian, who lived there until coming to the Law Library in 2008. I grew up fourth in a family of six children. My father was a biology professor and a naturalist and my …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s Pic of the Week is in honor of Marie Whited and her retirement from the Law Library. This past summer, Marie received the American Association of Law Libraries highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. She is best known for her subject work with the Library of Congress Classification for Law, …
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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: 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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