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Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Megan Lulofs, a Legal Information Analyst in the Public Services Division. It’s almost Super Bowl Sunday, a quasi-national holiday when hundreds of millions of Americans (111 million last year) watch the NFL’s championship game. This year’s big game between the New York Giants and New England Patriots in …
Posted in: Guest Post, In the News, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Today’s Pic of the Week is the title page from Black’s Law Dictionary, 1st edition 1891. This page is from the 1991 centenary reprint of Black’s 1st edition and is available for use by patrons in the Law Library Reading Room. As a bonus picture, I included Bewared, a term in the 1st that does not appear in the …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week the new Congressional Record iPad app went live! Have you downloaded it? Below is a photo showing a print copy of the Congressional Record along with one loaded using the new iPad app. You can also view the Congressional Record and read the debates on THOMAS.
Posted in: Congress, Pic of the Week, THOMAS
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This week’s pics are brought to you all the way from New Zealand! I recently returned from a trip there to visit family over the holiday period. While in Wellington, I stopped in to see friends and former colleagues at the Beehive (executive wing of the parliamentary complex) and Parliament House, and also took a …
Posted in: Global Law, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Yesterday I presented on all areas of the Law Library of Congress at the Association of American Laws Schools Field Trip to the Library. It was a role reversal for me. In law school I spent many hours listening to law professors; yesterday they listened to me. Before I was introduced, our Robert Newlen snapped …
Posted in: Event, 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 …
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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