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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 …
Posted in: Guest Post, 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 …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
You may remember that in my July 9, 2011 post, I discussed the measures that the Law Library of Congress has taken in response to the birth of South Sudan. These included creating a Guide to the Laws of South Sudan page and getting our overseas offices to start collecting South Sudanese laws. On August …
Posted in: Global Law, Pic of the Week