Welcome to the Law Library Reading Room – Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Category: Law Library
Fort Meade Delivers, or Finding a Needle in this Haystack Couldn’t be Easier
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The other day I visited the Library of Congress’ High Density Storage Facility at Fort Meade, Maryland. Yes, that’s right; we are shelving books in Maryland. With 2.65 million volumes in the Law Library, you don’t really believe we shelve them all in the sub-basement of the Madison building, do you? This Library of Congress …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
U.K. Extradition Arrangements with the U.S. Under Review
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
Britain’s coalition government announced in September that, pursuant to a pledge in its Programme for Government, it is conducting a review of the U.K.’s extradition arrangements. The review will be led by a retired Law Lord, who presided over the inquiry into the death of Princess Diana, and two independent lawyers with expertise in extradition …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
An Interview with Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Last week we kicked off our new Pic of the Week series to provide a visual glimpse inside the Law Library of Congress. This week we’re beginning something else new – an interview series – to give you a feel of who works with us. In deciding whom to interview first, there was a clear …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
The Importance of Independence Documents and Constitutions
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Blog post about Fijian Independence and the loss of the original legal document
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library, Pacific Islander History
Guide to Law Online
Posted by: Christine Sellers
As you might have seen in previous posts on our blog, the Law Library offers a portal of Internet sources of interest to legal researchers called the Guide to Law Online. The Guide is an annotated list to sources of information on government and law freely available online that has been prepared by the Law …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Research Guide
Global Legal Resource Room
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
In addition to the Law Library Reading Room, the public can also access legal materials in our Global Legal Resource Room. This space was established to provide a secure area for our 16,250 volume foreign law reference collection. The Resource Room is located in our administrative offices as the primary users of this collection are …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Help Finding Comparative and International Law
Posted by: Christine Sellers
The following is a guest post by Shameema Rahman, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Directorate. The Law Library’s Multinational Collections Database is now the Global Legal Information Catalog (GLIC). GLIC is a research tool for the Library of Congress Collections that interfaces with our library catalog. Why do you need to use it? …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Tweeting Away
Posted by: Andrew Weber
My how time flies. I can’t believe it was almost a year ago that we here at the Law Library of Congress entered into the twitterverse. Last October, Matt announced our @LawLibCongress account: The purpose of the Twitter feed, according to the Law Library, is “to engage Members of Congress, their staff, other law libraries, …
Posted in: Gov 2.0, Law Library