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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
Nathan Dorn, curator of Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor, recently gave a gallery talk that highlighted key items from the exhibition. Nathan discussed the cornerstone of the exhibition, the 1215 Lincoln Cathedral Magna Carta. He spoke about its physical condition, the history of its birth at Runnymede, England and its significance through the ages. There …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
Yesterday via In Custodia Legis, we announced the opening of the Library of Congress exhibition, “Magna Carta: Muse and Mentor.” To celebrate the upcoming 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the exhibition’s opening, a ceremony took place in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building. HRH The Princess Royal Princess Anne; British Ambassador to the United States Sir Peter Westmacott; other British …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
In honor of Human Rights Day, Barbara and Robert prepared a display in the Law Library Reading Room to coincide with our panel discussion on refugee rights which was set for December 10th. Unfortunately, Mother Nature, in the form of ice and snow, closed the federal government in the DC metropolitan area for the day. The good news …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
On May 6, 2013, a reception was held in the Whittall Pavilion in the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress to honor the 50th Anniversary of the treatise, Nimmer on Copyright. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Copyright Office, LexisNexis and the Law Library of Congress, the event celebrated the original work of Melville B. Nimmer …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
Following Wednesday’s Law Day program, we were fortunate to have the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, handwritten by President Abraham Lincoln, on display at the close of the program. The draft proclamation, which was first read by President Lincoln to his cabinet on July 22, 1862, is rarely displayed. The remarkable document features President Lincoln’s …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
While climbing the spiral staircase of the St. Augustine Lighthouse during a family trip to Florida, I discovered its designer was Paul F. Pelz, also the architect of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. The plaque features Pelz’s work, and many stop to read it because they need a break after climbing a total of 219 …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
We are proud to introduce our newly designed resources and services handout. The handout provides streamlined resources and services information in a crisp layout. You will find contact information for help with U.S., foreign and comparative law research in addition to URLs and descriptions of our various online offerings. The PDF version includes embedded links for quick …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my hometown library, the Albright Memorial Library, in Scranton, Pennsylvania and its participation in the Federal Depository Library Program. As described in the post, I have a card catalog from the library in our home. My colleague, Elizabeth Moore, stopped by my office last week to ask whether …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. For an upcoming installation of the Glimpse of Law series, I was researching the Jefferson Building’s northeast pavilion. It turns out that the Law Library’s offices used to be housed in that very pavilion, also called the Pavilion …
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