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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Last week I had the pleasure to present at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting and Conference in Philadelphia with Christine, Tammie, and Bob. Ours was one of several presentations by staff from the Library of Congress. It was my first time to attend the conference, and it was a great way to learn more …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
Kelly’s Inspiring Story of Nelson Mandela inspired a lot of views and was one of our top posts so far. If you haven’t read it yet, go ahead… I can wait. We also learned the answer to “What lets you search for laws passed by Congress?” when THOMAS was on Jeopardy. Our intern, Bacilio, was …
Posted in: Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This government website was mentioned in the Library of Congress category during the recent Jeopardy! Kids Week. It’s always fun when someone you know references your work. And it’s definitely rather cool when it is referenced on TV. One of my colleagues, Tammie, received an email from a friend that said: Jeopardy just had a …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Thanks for visiting In Custodia Legis in June! Our page views went up from May, our email subscribers surpassed 14,500, and we posted our 250th item. Christine talked about Congressional apps for a variety of mobile devices, which was our most popular post. I blogged about our latest tweaks to THOMAS. Somehow we even managed …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
It’s that time of year again when I get to talk about new enhancements to THOMAS.gov. While I spend a lot of time on our social media at the Law Library of Congress, THOMAS is my primary focus. Earlier this year, we announced that Constitutional Authority Statements were now on the Bill Summary and Status …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Mike Newman, an Information Technology Specialist at the Library of Congress. Mike works with Tammie in Information Technology Service of the Library. He knows all the technical ins and outs of THOMAS.gov. Chances are if I get a call about how THOMAS works that I can’t answer, I can ask Mike …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Tammie Nelson. Tammie is an Information Technology Specialist in ITS (which stands for Information Technology Service) here at the Library of Congress. She is wonderful at managing projects and plays a key role in our completion of so many enhancements to THOMAS.gov. Describe your background. I grew up in New …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Twitter is a fun, effective tool for communicating. There’s a reason why I use it both professionally and personally. I’ve been tweeting away for the Law Library’s @LawLibCongress account for about a year and a half now. In one of my previous blog posts, I discussed “Tweeting THOMAS and Connecting with Congress.” And now, the …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
I seem to really love lists. I look through lists of stats daily for a variety of our websites (THOMAS, Law Library of Congress, and In Custodia Legis). A lot of people viewed the recent post Top Law Library of Congress Web Pages where I stepped back and showed our most popular Law Library pages …