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Posted by: Andrew Weber
With each update the new Law Library of Congress Reading Room comes more into focus. The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) has continued to do great work in the space. If you are following along at home, first the space was emptied and then it was gutted. The previous batch of photos provided the first glimpse of …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
As the first third of the year draws to a close, I thought it would be nice to take a look at the metrics for a few different resources on Congress.gov and the Law Library’s website. I find it helpful, when thinking about how to update and improve our website, to review what gets the most attention from our …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Andrew interviews the Virginia State Law Librarian, Gail Warren. We have previously interviewed another state law librarian, Jennifer Frazier, from Kentucky. How long have you been the Virginia State Law Librarian, and …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
First, the books left. Next, the shelves left. Then, everything else left. We also found a few items along the way. Now, things are coming! Compact shelving has made its way into our Reading Room for the first time. I was excited to see this when I received the new photos from the Architect of the …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The Architect of the Capitol (AOC) has been very busy gutting our old Reading Room. In the last update, the furniture and shelves had been removed. Now the carpet and ceiling tiles are gone. It is starting to be easier to imagine what the new space might look like. They have started to install new ports …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Even though we are working to retire THOMAS, I thought we should celebrate the fact that it has now been online for twenty years! THOMAS was a pioneer when it was launched on January 5, 1995. It was even noteworthy that THOMAS was “available 24 hours a day.” I have been at the Library of …
Posted in: Congress, Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Andrew Weber
What an exciting year it has been for In Custodia Legis! We added Jennifer and Betty to our blog team. We published over 200 posts (go back and read any of them you might have missed, I’ll wait). The three most-viewed months in our blog’s four year history came in September, October, and November. Towards the …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
On Monday, I learned the Law Library’s blog, In Custodia Legis, has earned a spot in the 2014 ABA Journal’s Blawg 100, the annual list of “the best in blogs about lawyers and the law.” We have reviewed the ABA nominations list in the past for possible blawgs to include in our archive. Being nominated, …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
For those of you who follow our @LawLibCongress Twitter account, you may already be aware that most everything has been removed from our Reading Room. Robert and I tweeted many pictures as books and shelves left, using the hashtag #ReadingRoomRedo. The Law Library has a temporary Reading Room set up on the ground floor of …
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