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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Libraries are great places to learn about love. There are books about love and romance, of course, but you might also have or discover a lifelong love of books, or even meet the love of your life! You might not associate law libraries with love, but if you think about it, where else can you …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following post is cross posted on the From the Catbird Seat: Poetry & Literature blog. Magna Carta is coming to the Library of Congress in November 2014! This document is regarded as being one of the foundations of representative government and at the same time marked a defeat of the king by his barons. But long before 1215, …
Posted in: Law Library, In the News
Posted by: Margaret Wood
During a recent blog team meeting, one of my colleagues mentioned restrictions during the early modern era concerning who could consume that newly discovered drink–chocolate. Having studied medieval history in college, I was reminded that during the Middle Ages there had also been efforts to pass laws regulating many aspects of daily life, with the …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. This post is a follow-up piece to Friday’s Pic of the Week. Happy Birthday to us! On July 14, 1832, Congress passed an act that brought the Law Library into existence. To celebrate our 180th anniversary, we saluted …
Posted in: Law Library, Event
Posted by: Andrew Weber
States and Cinco de Mayo were popular choices this month when linking to In Custodia Legis and also popular with our readers. Samford University Library’s Government Documents blog liked Nathan’s post about the states we almost had. The Lincoln Law School of San Jose Blog noted Meg’s States in the Senate post. The Law Librarian Blog thought Nathan’s …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
The Holiday season flew by again this year. It truly is my favourite time of the year. When not frantically cooking or wrapping gifts, I always spend a part of my time feeling a bit homesick. I compensate for this by watching Masterpiece Classics on PBS; although, there are only so many period dramas I can …
Posted in: Law Library, Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This is an interview with Elin Hofverberg, currently an intern at the Law Library of Congress. I enjoyed reading Ruth’s interview of Elin and I hope you do too. Describe your background I was born in the northern part of Sweden (geographically in the middle of the country) but grew up outside of Linköping (two …
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
Posted by: Andrew Weber
In May, a lot of people learned about the actual date of Mexico’s Independence Day, in what turned out to be our most popular post of the month, Cinco de Mayo is Not Mexican Independence Day? We also celebrated with Law Day, Jewish American Heritage Month, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and Eritrean Independence Day this month. It must be because …
Posted in: Law Library