Congress is once again in a lame duck session. The Senate’s Virtual Reference Desk Glossary website defines a lame duck session as: When Congress (or either chamber) reconvenes in an even-numbered year following the November general elections to consider various items of business. Some lawmakers who return for this session will not be in the next […]
We are continuing to push forward on Congress.gov! We are working hard to refine the beta. Can you believe the launch was already two months ago? As with the first iterative update to Congress.gov, Jeanine has updated the About Congress.gov page: November 2012 Highlights of minor updates include: Member profiles search order tuning; Clarification of “Party history” for Members […]
As we did with AALL, we decided to collect feedback from Law Library staff about their participation in this year’s National Book Festival (NBF). As I noted in last week’s post, this is the Law Library’s second year for participating in the National Book Festival and here is what some of the Law Library participants had to […]
This week’s interview is with Meg Peters, an Information Architect in the Office of Strategic Initiatives. It is the first of a new series of interviews that focus on some of the fantastic Library of Congress staff who contributed to Congress.gov. I spent a lot of time working with Meg and a team of colleagues from […]
This has been a busy week for the Law Library of Congress. We have unveiled Congress.gov (our new legislative website), celebrated Constitution Day, and to round the week out, we are preparing for the National Book Festival. This will be the Law Library’s second year at the National Book Festival. Our staff will be manning […]
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Her most recent posts included a 6-installment series regarding the legal themes in the art and architecture of the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building. Three of our law librarians were furiously live-tweeting at Wednesday’s Congress.gov launch. Thirty fingers […]
Today’s post is one that I have been very excited to write for some time now. My favorite posts involve talking about tweaking, tweeting, revamping, or updating THOMAS.gov. Today marks the launch of the biggest project that I have been a part of in my professional career. Today is the launch of Congress.gov, a new […]
The following is a guest post by Shameema Rahman, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Division. Her most recent post was: Using Secondary Legal Resources to Locate Primary Sources. As a Law Library of Congress reference librarian I am often asked this question by our patrons. THOMAS and the Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) website are great sources […]
It looks like we should update our Pic of the Week showing the iPad version along with the print version of the Congressional Record now that it is also available for the iPhone. It was with great enthusiasm that I blogged about the Congressional Record App which originally worked exclusively on the iPad. Thanks to a recent update, […]
Birthdays are a great thing to blog about. We’ve written birthday posts on Shakespeare, THOMAS, a queen, the new year, and, yes, this blog. It was one year ago today that I blogged about the launching of the @THOMASdotgov Twitter account. Over the year, we have shared over 1,500 tweets about legislation in THOMAS and various […]