The following is a guest post by Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress. The complete Law Library of Congress Strategic Plan Fiscal Years 2011-2016 is available in PDF. The Law Library is proud to present its 2011–2016 Strategic Plan. We have taken the overall goals set out in the Library of Congress Strategic Plan as …
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on the night of April 14, 1865. He died the next day, 146 years ago today. This picture is from one of our digitized books on the trial of assassination conspirators. We have twenty-two digitized items on our Lincoln and the Law site, many of which are books. The site …
The following is a guest post by Hanibal Goitom, Foreign Law Specialist. As the people of some African countries take to the streets to unseat their leaders, Nigerians get the opportunity to do the same this month – but instead of needing to protest, they can affect change by going to polling stations. It’s election …
This week’s interview is with one of our former interns from last summer, Sharon Pia Hickey. Describe your background. I spent the summer of 2010 in Washington DC as part of the Washington Ireland Program. This program is designed to select the brightest young minds in Ireland and bring them to DC for a summer …
April 10-16, 2011, is National Library Week. This year’s theme is “Create your own story @ your library.” John Grisham is the Honorary Chair. April 12th was also National Library Workers Day . “First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country …
In following the legal news of the different jurisdictions that I cover, it is particularly interesting to see a country’s key local issues and the attempts made to address them through laws and other mechanisms. Often these issues, and the approaches to resolving them, are intricately linked to a country’s history, geography, and culture. One …
The genesis of this post lies in research that led me to the Law Library stacks and into one of my favorite locations: the section containing English trials. Long before the arrival of soap operas and reality television programs, people (well, us Brits, anyway) used to be titillated by sordid criminal trials. I suppose to …
When I stopped by Hanibal Goitom’s office, I was interested to see this book that he was using. As you can imagine some of our books are in better shape than others. When you have the largest collection of legal materials in the world, some of them are bound to show wear and tear. Hanibal …
This week’s interview is with Megan Lulofs, who is a contractor from CGI working in our Collection Services Division as a Library Technician and as an independent consultant in our Public Services Division. Describe your background. I have worked in various positions throughout the Law Library, and I have been here off and on for …
The following is a guest post by Jacinda Gill, Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in our Information Technology Office. There was something for everyone at the 2011 Computers in Libraries Conference. As a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist at the Law Library of Congress, I would highly recommend that my peers attend this conference. I gained a …