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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Breshan Bryant, the newest technician in the Law Library’s Collection Services Division (CSD). We’re very happy to have her aboard. Describe your background. I was born in Mobile, Alabama, but grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland. I am the best of four siblings and the proud aunt of seven nieces …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s Pic of the Week is a resolution, contained in a special supplement to the official gazette of Egypt, that can be roughly translated as a resolution from the Prime Minister, “Issuing the Administrative Regulations for the Law Concerning Persons with Disabilities.” …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
As most of you probably know, the Law Library builds its collection from many sources. We receive United States-published titles through copyright deposit; governments at other jurisdictional levels send us material via exchange or transfer arrangements; we purchase foreign titles through the Library’s Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, etc. But, in case you were wondering, …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Let’s start out by saying that it’s Opening Day and no one can be expected to be anything but fun and frivolous on a day like today. So if we go a bit out of left field (pun intended) with this post, please excuse …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was created by then Secretary of War John C. Calhoun on this day, March 11, in 1824. After Congress abolished government-run trading houses in 1822 (3 Stat. 679, chap 54 (1822)), Calhoun appointed Thomas L. McKenney as the first commissioner of Indian affairs in 1824, to fill the void …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
With thanks to Margaret Wood for the idea and to her and Jim Martin for some of the entries below, this post is a light-hearted look at baseball and the law in film. Let’s start with movies about cheating and gambling. First we have the obvious Eight Men Out, a 1988 film about the Black Sox …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
If you were not aware, the Library of Congress is the place for baseball cards. Comprised of both donated collections and items deposited with the U.S. Copyright office, the Library’s collection is unparalleled (absent the elusive Honus Wagner card). You can view items from our collection in the Library’s Baseball Americana exhibition where cards are …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The Library of Congress’s Baseball Americana exhibit gives me something new to think about each time I visit. Most intriguing to me (well, right up there with any mentions of Pittsburgh, the Washington Nationals, Bob Dylan, and my friend Patti’s portrait) are the numerous times women are depicted in the exhibit. Two things stand out from …
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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
There’s nothing like a Sunday afternoon baseball game. The stands are full of families, with children carrying gloves in the hopes of snagging a foul ball or, better yet, a home run ball! But it wasn’t always this way. During the early 1900s (and up until 1933), states’ blue laws prohibited baseball games being played …
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