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Southeast Asia to Washington, DC – Pic of the Week

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 …

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Bills, Bills, Bills – 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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A Series of Tubes – Pic of the Week

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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Marsh’s Library, Ireland’s First Public Library – Pic of the Week

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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The THOMAS Starting Point – 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 …

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Kungliga Biblioteket, National Library of Sweden – Pic of the Week

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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National Library of Uzbekistan – Pic of the Week

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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Map of African Legislatures – Pic of the Week

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 …