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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
I am often asked how the Law Library acquires so much foreign material. While we have DC-based staff members who work with foreign book dealers and publishers, the Library of Congress also has six overseas offices which acquire, catalog, and preserve library materials from countries where it has been more difficult to obtain such items …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The other day, Margaret gave a tour of the Law Library of Congress Reading Room to our new colleague, Tina Gheen. I tagged along and snapped a couple of pictures. I spend so much time looking at digital bills that it was a nice change to see them in other formats. These stacks of legislation are …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Margaret Wood, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Division. Margaret has previously posted on the debt ceiling, Law Day, our Reading Room, and the changeover between Congresses. This week we decided to treat you to photographs of the Law Library Reading Room’s pneumatic tubes and the pneumatic tube system. …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Robert Newlen, Assistant Law Librarian for Collections, Outreach, and Services. As a librarian, I always seek out interesting or unusual libraries when I travel. During a recent trip to Dublin, I visited Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Ireland‘s first public library, which was built in 1701. An indication of the …
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Posted by: Christine Sellers
While packing for my move, I ran across an encyclopedia set that I inherited from my grandmother. With an edition date of 1939, I found many of the entries fascinating, such as “The World War” and “Russia.” I looked under the “Washington, D.C.” entry and loved this picture of the Capitol Complex taken from an airplane. …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Shortly after giving me the THOMAS Memo dated January 10, 1995, Pam showed me a copy of the Library of Congress Information Bulletin that announced THOMAS in a front page story entitled “Congress on the Internet.” I saw this screen shot and thought it would make a perfect Pic of the Week. Note that there was …
Posted in: Pic of the Week, THOMAS
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
I was recently in Stockholm where I paid a visit to the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga Biblioteket, or “KB”), which is situated in a very pretty park. According to its website, the National Library “has been collecting virtually everything printed in Sweden or in Swedish since 1661.” A brochure about the Library provides an …
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Posted by: Christine Sellers
The following is a guest post by Robert Newlen, the Assistant Law Librarian for Collections, Outreach, and Services in the Law Library of Congress. Robert has previously blogged about Souvenirs from Moscow and Humboldt University Law Faculty in our Pic of the Week series. The Uzbekistan government has recently invested significant resources in improving library …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This week’s Pic of the Week is a map of African legislative bodies hanging on my office wall. It provides simple but crucial information on the number of representatives in each African country’s national legislative body and the country’s type of the legislative body, either unicameral or bicameral legislature. Of the 54 African countries, 24 …
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