Did you know that we are open to Congress anytime either Chamber is in session? If they are in session on Thanksgiving, we have a law librarian here open for business. If they are gathering during a blizzard, we have someone walk through the snow to be here. What provision requires us to be open? […]
Collection Services was fortunate enough to get four summer interns as part of the Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program. For the Law Library, this meant dedicating ten weeks to processing two donated collections: books from the State Department and legal gazettes formerly housed in the United Nation’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library. While both projects were […]
As you saw from Kelly’s post, we have quite a group of foreign legal specialists working for us. She mentions the legal reference librarians that work at the Law Library and you may have found yourself asking “what is a legal reference librarian?” and “how does someone become one of those?” The answer to that, […]
Since the January enhancements to THOMAS, I’ve been looking at the statistics on user searches and creating a list of the most searched legislation. Health care legislation has dominated the list since then, jumping around but always somewhere within the top ten. The current top ten includes: H.R. 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act […]
Following on from my previous post, another part of what we do is write articles for the Law Library’s Global Legal Monitor: The Global Legal Monitor is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. It is updated frequently and draws on information from the Global Legal Information Network, official […]
Back before the 18th Edition of The Bluebook was published, we were asked to help revamp table T.2 Foreign Jurisdictions. We have a great group of almost two dozen foreign law specialists (that Kelly previously mentioned) who come from around the world to work at the Law Library of Congress. In other words, we have the […]
A few weeks ago my mother asked me to research a bit of family lore. Like a good daughter sometimes does, I forgot. But then! Then I saw the exact same question in our “Ask A Librarian” service! (For background, patrons may send a question through the Library of Congress “Ask A Librarian” service. These […]
While the Law Library does employ a number of legal reference librarians as well as collections staff and other people that work with our huge book stacks (approximately two American football fields under our building!), there are quite a few of us that don’t have a background in library or information sciences (although I did work at […]
In Custodia Legis is Latin for in the custody of the law. One role of the Law Library of Congress is to be a custodian of law and legislation. As part of this, our team of bloggers covers current legal trends, collecting for the largest law library in the world, a British perspective, a perspective […]