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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
Today’s interview is with Erika Wesch, an intern working on transcribing the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background: Although born in Bethesda, Maryland, I was raised in South Florida. I grew up 10 minutes from the beach, but I always felt drawn to the Washington, D.C., …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Bailey DeSimone, a library technician (metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. “Memorials,” or requests “that the Congress take some action, or refrain from taking certain action,” are housed throughout the United States Congressional Serial Set. These documents provide insight into the communication between citizens – …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Cecilia Contreras, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. As an intern with the Digital Resources Division through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HNIP), I was given the opportunity to work with a collection of miscellaneous legal …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
Today’s interview is with Cecilia Contreras, an Intern in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. I come from a rather large family and I am the eldest of four siblings. I have lived my entire life in California and this is …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
This post announces the release of a new digital collection containing 16th-19th century legal documents from modern-day Mexico as well as territories from New Spain and/or Mexico that have since become part of the United States.
Posted in: Collections, Education, Global Law, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
Announcing a new video tutorial on using the Law Library's Foreign Legal Gazettes Guide to navigate the Library's gazette collections.
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library has released nearly 400 additional digitized historical reports published in the last couple of years for transcription on the Library's crowdsourcing platform By The People.
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
In today’s post, Abby Shelton interviews a By the People volunteer, Claude, who has been transcribing the Herencia collection since 2020.
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