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Posted by: Margaret Wood
This week’s interview is with Janice Hyde, recently appointed as the first director of the Global Legal Collection Directorate. Describe your background. I was born in the same town (Catskill, N.Y.) and delivered by the same doctor as my mother. I was raised in Owego, New York, which is so remote from the “Big Apple” …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Once again, the Law Library will be participating at the National Book Festival. This will be our third year at the Library of Congress Pavilion. Our booth will be staffed by some faces familiar from last year as well as some staff new to the Festival. Law Library staff are also giving several presentations during …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This week’s interview is with Richard Wismer, a summer intern with the Public Services Division, Law Library of Congress. The Law Library’s internship program is in full swing and we are introducing all our summer interns to In Custodia Legis readers during the coming weeks. Describe your background. I live in Ellicott City, Maryland, which is …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Some of the most interesting items in our collections, at least to my way of thinking, are the publications of various war-crimes tribunals. These range from the Nuremberg Trials to the more recent tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In this post, I want to touch on a number of these resources and invite you …
Posted in: Collections, Research Guide
Posted by: Margaret Wood
March is Women’s History Month. This year, March has also seen the Centennial of the 1913 Suffrage March, and International Women’s Day. Women’s History Month was established in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 to establish Women’s History Week. Both this law and the subsequent Presidential Proclamation 4903 speak to the important role women played …
Posted in: Congress, Education, In the News
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Pamela Barnes Craig, Instruction/Reference Librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Pub. L. 92-318, 86 Stat. 235, 373 turned 40 years old on June 23, 2012. Its birthday passed much like it became law—quietly and unassumingly. Its impact, however, has been …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by Matthew Braun, Legal Reference Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. On December 12, 2011, the Copyright Clearance Center, a global broker for copyrighted material, presented a program titled Orphan Works and Fair Use in the Digital Age. This program featured separate question and answer sessions with Maria Pallante, …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library