A group of librarians from the U.S. Acquisitions program at the Library of Congress recently toured the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior. We met with key staff and curators to discuss how our collections intersect with their publications and mission. The visit sparked engaging conversations about curatorial practices, storage solutions, and display strategies. We were equally inspired by the remarkable art and cultural materials on view.
This post highlights the historic Pioneer Courthouse in Portland, Oregon and briefly discusses its history as the site for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The following is a guest post by Alexander Salopek, a collection development specialist in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. He previously wrote posts on Fred Korematsu’s Drive for Justice, Fred Korematsu Winning Justice, What a Difference 17 Years Made, Frances Glessner Lee and the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, and …
This post contains research contributed by Ilya Dines. In the Law Library, we are working to make our rare books collection more widely available via blog posts and digitization, so that it can be found and used by researchers and the public. Some aspects of these materials are mainly noticed by historians, legal scholars, philosophers, …
