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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Walter Foggie. Walter is the facility design and space planner here in the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. Originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I have lived in Maryland since 2010. I served on active duty with the U.S. Air Force as a civil engineer operations manager where my service …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
One week ago Jane Sánchez succeeded Roberta Shaffer as the Law Librarian of Congress. Roberta was the 22nd Law Librarian of Congress and was followed by David Mao. David was subsequently followed by Roberta again, which makes Jane the 25th Law Librarian of Congress. At a recent meet-and-greet between Jane and the Law Library of Congress …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This has been an exciting year working on Congress.gov. In April we announced that THOMAS would be retired on July 5, which is when we officially pulled the plug. Congress.gov matured over the year with new advanced ways to search the system and a variety of email alerts for tracking what is happening in Congress. We …
Posted in: Congress, Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This year there have been a number of new Law Library Reports published. I looked through In Custodia Legis and found all of the new reports that we blogged about over the year. They cover a wide range of topics. Legal Reports on Counterterrorism Laws and other Security Measures Parliaments Around the World New Resource Covers …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Constance Johnson, a senior legal research analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Constance has previously written on World Health Day, Water Rights on Star Island, Law Relating to Refugee Rights – Global Legal Collection Highlights, her summer vacation on Star Island, and more. The Law Library of Congress …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
We are excited that once again In Custodia Legis has been recognized as one of the top 100 best blogs for a legal audience out of more than 4,000 in the ABA Journal’s Blawg Directory. We were first included in the ABA Journal’s 8th Annual Blawg 100 in 2014. Then we were fortunate to be listed again …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
It’s almost time for the National Book Festival (#NatBookFest)! I have looked through the line-up, which you can browse by author or schedule, and am excited to try to see the authors of “Rosie Revere, Engineer,” “The Princess in Black,” and “I am Blop!” while there. (Can you guess the ages of the people I will …
Posted in: Education, Event, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week the Library of Congress hosts multiple pre-conferences in Washington, DC before the main International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference in Columbus, OH. If you are visiting DC for one of the pre-conferences, be sure to share your experiences on Twitter with the hashtag #IFLAPREatLOC. To make guests feel welcome, I’ve asked a few …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
We are back from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) 2016 Annual Conference in Chicago. I was happy to present with Abbie Grotke at the Legal Information Preservation Alliance’s annual meeting. I discussed several Law Library related web archiving initiatives, including: adding the historic Congressional Record from THOMAS to Congress.gov; the recent Archives Unleashed event; using Perma.cc in our research …
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