Hello Mr. Lawyer! – Pic of the Week
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Amusing book cover for title indexing negligence cases from 1897 to 1910.
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How to Label a Book – Pic of the Week
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s Pic of the Week is another in an occasional series featuring odd and/or outdated library equipment: a label cutter.
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Rhode Island Declares Independence – Pic of the Week
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Rhode Island became the first territory to renounce its allegiance to England and King George III.
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Buncombe Public Law Library – Pic of the Week
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Whenever I plan any travel stateside, I go online to search for interesting places to visit along the way. My choice usually winds up being the World’s Largest Ball of Twine or some such oddity. But when planning a recent trip to Asheville, North Carolina, I found that they had a public law library. Perhaps …
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Your Place for Supreme Court Records & Briefs – Pic of the Week
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Today’s Pic of the Week features our collection of Supreme Court Records and Briefs. As I was showing off our closed stacks collection to the Law Library’s two newest reference librarians, Latia Ward and Janeen Williams, it struck me that this vast collection might make for an interesting blog post. Debbie Keysor, now Chief of …
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New Shelving – Pic of the Week
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As I wrote last June, we have been installing new compact shelving in the smallest of the four quads which house the bulk of our collection. Well, the new shelving is in and it looks great! Not only does it look good, but the mechanics are much smoother than its aging counterparts, making the units …
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Summer Interns 2016 – Pic of the Week
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Once again, the Law Library is playing host to another stellar group of summer interns. They come from as far away as Pakistan and as close as Rockville, MD, yet they all share the same enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge. We here in the Law Library thoroughly appreciate their hard work and dedication to their …
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Not Another Baseball Post – Pic of the Week
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For today’s Pic of the Week, the blog team asked me to do something in honor of the Super Bowl this Sunday (as if writing about baseball meant I’d enjoy doing a football post instead!). So I went into our catalog and tried to find some interesting items that were not related to antitrust law. …
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Nothing Keeps Us Down – Pic of the Week
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Well, winter finally hit the D.C. metropolitan area. And it came with a bang. The temperatures on Tuesday morning dipped down into the teens with “feels like” temps in the single digits. You’d think that on a day like that staff would stay indoors sipping hot tea or coffee while they work, and for the …
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