The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. This post is a follow-up piece to Friday’s Pic of the Week. Happy Birthday to us! On July 14, 1832, Congress passed an act that brought the Law Library into existence. To celebrate our 180th anniversary, we saluted …
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Donna has previously written a series of posts related to themes of law in the art and architecture of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building. On July 14, 2012, the Law Library of Congress will officially turn 180 …
Today, July 12, is Kiribati Independence Day. This Pacific Island nation is made up of 32 atolls in three island groups, plus one raised coral island, in the central Pacific. The country is spread over 1,351,000 square miles of ocean – an area equivalent in size to the continental United States, according to the State Department. Kiribati …
The following is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Dante has posted on his Visit to the University of Costa Rica’s Law School Library and a previous visit and lecture by Professor Brewer-Carías. On June 20, 2012, Roberta Shaffer, Associate Librarian for Library Services, met with the …
The following is a guest post by Shameema Rahman, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Division. Her most recent post was: Using Secondary Legal Resources to Locate Primary Sources. As a Law Library of Congress reference librarian I am often asked this question by our patrons. THOMAS and the Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) website are great sources …
A while back I mentioned the Library of Congress was looking at ways to provide the Library of Congress Classification (LCC) as linked data. I am happy to report linked data versions of several classes have been released in beta on the LC Linked Data Service by the Network Development and Metadata Standards Office (NDMSO). These …
We have written many posts highlighting materials in the Law Library’s collections, but today we are providing a glimpse of the day-to-day work which goes into keeping our collections up-to-date. This library cart contains replacement volumes, pocket parts and softbound supplements which Alex LoBianco will file in the Law Library Reading Room. Although the work is …
It looks like we should update our Pic of the Week showing the iPad version along with the print version of the Congressional Record now that it is also available for the iPhone. It was with great enthusiasm that I blogged about the Congressional Record App which originally worked exclusively on the iPad. Thanks to a recent update, …
Our interview with Roberto Salazar on June 21 marked our 500th blog post. Additionally, we had a number of posts regarding law in art and architecture from Donna and Meg. Donna was our virtual tour guide for law in the Jefferson Building while Meg explored the Vatican Museums. We welcomed our scholar-in-residence Orin S. Kerr …
The top ten most viewed Global Legal Monitor (GLM) articles for June covered a host of interesting legal subjects: Communications and electronic information; criminal law and procedure; elections; immigration; labor; nationality and citizenship; pension and retirement; and war crimes. Below is the list of the ten most popular GLM articles in June: South Korea: Permanent …