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Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Nathan Dorn is the curator of the rare books collection at the Law Library of Congress. He builds the Library's holdings of centuries of legal texts from many nations, including early methods of legal procedures to unusual subjects such as witchcraft and miracles.
Posted in: Curators, Law Library, LCM, Library Work and Employees, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
For 30 years now, the Library's Junior Fellows program has provided undergraduate and graduate students with experiences in everything the world’s largest library has to offer. This year's class of 42 interns shows off their research projects.
Posted in: Farm Security Administration Photographs, Hispanic Division, Junior Fellows Program, Law Library, Library Work and Employees
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
The Library's collection of more than 35 U.S. Supreme Court justices make up the largest Supreme Court documents collection in the nation.
Posted in: Law Library, Manuscripts
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Robert Brammer of the Law Library. It was first published on “In Custodia Legis,” the Law Library’s blog. The Library of Congress Web Archiving Program is dedicated to providing reliable access to historical web content from the legislative branch. To that end, the Library has just released an update to the …
Posted in: Congress, Law Library, New Online
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Carla Davis-Castro, a research librarian for the Congressional Research Service. She worked on the Indigenous Law Portal from 2015 to 2017. The Library of Congress launched the Indigenous Law Portal in June 2014 to provide an open-access platform for legal materials on how indigenous peoples govern themselves. Mexico and …
Posted in: Law Library, New Online
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Andrew Winston, senior legal reference librarian, and Brian Kaviar, a Law Library intern. It was first published on “In Custodia Legis,” the blog of the Law Library. The Federal Courts Web Archive, recently launched by the Library’s web archiving team and the Law Library, provides retrospective archival coverage of …
Posted in: Law Library, New Online
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Ross Davies has been a regular in the Library’s Manuscript Division for about two decades now. He has worked with papers of Supreme Court justices, consulted collections on the federal courts and introduced his students to the Library—a “treasure hunt” he assigns requires them to find resources in the Manuscript Division and the Law Library. …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Margaret M. Wood, legal reference librarian in the Law Library. Two years ago, in honor of Constitution Day—celebrated annually on September 17—I wrote a post about the publication “Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation,” also referred to as the “Constitution Annotated.” Along with the U.S. Code, it …
Posted in: Law Library, Technology
Posted by: Erin Allen
(The following is a guest post by William Kellum, manager in the Library’s Web Services Division.) Presidential Collections With the next presidential inauguration quickly approaching, we’ve updated a popular presentation from our old American Memory site on U.S. presidential inaugurations: “I Do Solemnly Swear…” A Resource Guide highlights items from the Library’s collections such as …
Posted in: Collections, Congress, Education, History, Law Library, LC Web site, Manuscripts, New Online, News