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Archive: August 2010 (7 Posts)

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THOMAS Gets New Features

Posted by: Matt Raymond

The folks who manage our popular THOMAS legislative information website have been taking advantage of the August congressional recess to make some upgrades. Enhancements include optimization for mobile devices, easy links to social media and links to the legislatures of all 50 states, D.C. and U.S territories. There’s more on the Law Library’s new blog, …

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Papers of Comic-Book ‘Villain’ Open at Library

Posted by: Matt Raymond

My colleague Erin Allen wrote the following for the Library’s in-house letter, The Gazette, and I thought it worth sharing with a wider audience: Among comic-book aficionados, psy­chiatrist Fredric Wertham (1895–1981) is considered as much of a villain as those he assailed in the crime and horror comics he criticized. However, Wer­tham was more than …

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Serendipity in the Stacks

Posted by: Matt Raymond

My colleague Audrey Fischer, who has been taking the lead on publicity for the Junior Fellows program for the last few years, has offered up this guest post: ser•en•dip•it•y (n): a propensity for making fortuitous discoveries by accident. “Serendipity” is the word that most comes to mind while viewing a special display of Library materials …

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Welcome, In Custodia Legis!

Posted by: Matt Raymond

I didn’t want any more time to go by this week without welcoming the newest member of the Library of Congress blog family. “In Custodia Legis” isn’t the guy who cleans up after the legislature adjourns.  Rather, it’s the new blog of the Law Library of Congress.  As chief blogger Andrew “Middle Name Not Lloyd” …

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Shiny, Appy People: Library Gets iPhone App

Posted by: Matt Raymond

Developers for the iPhone and iPad have been able to say “there’s an app for that” about a quarter-million times–the total number currently available in Apple’s App Store.  But not until now has there been an official app for the Library of Congress.  (So far it’s the first and only app–don’t be fooled by imitators!) …