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May Retrospective: Almost States, MLK, and Cinco de Mayo

Posted by: Andrew Weber

States and Cinco de Mayo were popular choices this month when linking to In Custodia Legis and also popular with our readers.  Samford University Library’s Government Documents blog liked Nathan’s post about the states we almost had.  The Lincoln Law School of San Jose Blog noted Meg’s States in the Senate post. The Law Librarian Blog thought Nathan’s …

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April Retrospective

Posted by: Andrew Weber

There is still a lot of interest in the Titanic one hundred years later as Kelly’s post topped In Custodia Legis by a wide margin this month.  It was great to see many of the Library of Congress blogs post on a similar topic.  It demonstrated the breadth of knowledge throughout our wonderful institution.  In …

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March Retrospective

Posted by: Andrew Weber

This month we welcomed both Tina and Jeanine to what we affectionately refer to as our blog team.  Tina wasted little time in claiming the top spot with her post A Law Classification Scheme as Linked Data?. Her post was also mentioned on the Legal Informatics Blog, Infodocket, and the Law Librarian Blog.  Jeanine’s first post as an official …

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Library Rules! – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Bob switched offices recently.  As most people do when they move, he started combing through the items he accumulated over the years and came across a small booklet printed by the Government Printing Office in 1939: The Library of Congress: Rules and Practice Governing the Use and Issue of Books. Thinking of the blog, he …

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February Retrospective

Posted by: Andrew Weber

There was a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about In Custodia Legis posts. Francisco’s History of the Mexican Constitution was mentioned and linked to in View From Casita Colibrí.  I also noticed that this same posting was tweeted about a couple of times and that it is cited on Wikipedia’s article on the Constitution …

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From the Desk of the Law Librarian of Congress

Posted by: Andrew Weber

The following is a guest post by David Mao, Law Librarian of Congress.  He has previously guest posted on Rebellious Children and Witches.  David has been previously interviewed in his role as the Deputy Law Librarian of Congress. Moving into my new office, I came across two curious artifacts in a drawer: a pair of old keys. One …

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January Retrospective

Posted by: Andrew Weber

In Custodia Legis had a terrific January!  We had the most page views ever in a month for the blog.  We have now posted over 400 times (have you read them all?). The month was led by a trio of posts.  Last year’s post on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day tops the list.  People were also …