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Posted by: Matt Raymond
(Matt’s note: The Law Library of Congress is using this space to do a couple of ‘guest posts,’ written by Andrew Weber. The following are his words.) In the three years that I have been working at the Law Library of Congress, I have learned that its mission is ‘to provide research and legal information …
Posted in: Events, News, Washington DC
Posted by: Matt Raymond
(Matt’s note: The Law Library of Congress is using this space to do a couple of ‘guest posts,’ written by Andrew Weber. The following are his words.) I was discussing with Dr. Bryan Bachner the other day about the presentation he gave on World Intellectual Property Day at a conference held by the Institute for …
Posted in: Events, News, Washington DC
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Tomorrow (July 14, 2007) the Law Library of Congress will celebrate its 175th birthday. (You can trace its history here.) Established in 1832, it was the first distinctly created unit of the Library of Congress. We used the Library of Congress?s 207th birthday (an odd number, I know) to launch this blog, so we thought …
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Library Journal covered the third and final public meeting of the LOC-led Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. The group?s charge is to: * Present findings on how bibliographic control and other descriptive practices can effectively support management of and access to library materials in the evolving information and technology environment * Recommend …
Posted by: Matt Raymond
A partial image of page 1 of the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, with a gradient fade applied A couple of notes about recent TV appearances, and then an on-topic digression (which is after the jump). First of all, as previously mentioned, Dr. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, was the guest July 1 …
Posted in: Exhibitions, History, New Visitors Experience, News, Thomas Jefferson Building
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The Fourth is quickly approaching ? very quickly ? and the July edition of the LOC Wise Guide brings us some timely facts about hot dogs. I don?t know about you, but it sure makes me hungry for one of those Hot Texas Wieners ? from New Jersey. Enjoy America?s 231st, everyone!
Posted in: Baseball, History, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
In this age of downloadable, linkable and cut-and-pasteable everything, it seems that kids are being exposed to copyright issues at younger and younger ages. So what better time than the present to begin educating them? That is the thought behind a new feature on our Web site (the U.S. Copyright Office is part of the …
Posted in: Education, LC Web site
Posted by: Matt Raymond
Gadling, the major travel blog, yesterday linked to the June edition of LOC?s ?nifty? Wise Guide, in part because of its focus on summer vacations. Here?s a little bit about what the blog thinks of the Wise Guide: The website is spirited and fun in design ? who knew a .gov could be so engaging? …
Posted in: Blogging, History, LC Web site, News
Posted by: Matt Raymond
The next several days are busy ones for the Library of Congress regarding our national television profile. First, the Library was featured prominently last night in the season premiere of ?History Detectives? on PBS. Our vast resources and preservation experts were a key to solving some of the mysteries behind a 1913 poster for a …