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Today’s interview is with Jai-Len Williams, a foreign law intern working withForeign Law Specialist (https://blogs.loc.gov/law/author/rlev/?loclr=bloglaw) Ruth Levushin the (https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/05/law-library-provides-global-legal-research/?loclr=bloglaw) Global Legal Research Directorateof the (https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/about-this-research-center/?loclr=bloglaw) Law Library of Congress. Describe [...]

We are pleased to announce that we are holding a (https://www.congress.gov/help/public-forums/?loclr=bloglaw) “Congress.gov Public Forum”in the (https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/special-events-spaces/mumford-room/?loclr=bloglaw) Mumford Room, which is located in the (https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/james-madison-memorial-building/?loclr=bloglaw) Madison Building, on September 18, 2024, [...]

With school starting back up and the weather cooling down, the (https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/about-this-research-center/?loclr=bloglaw) Law Library of Congress is happy to offer additional educational webinars for the first month of fall. The [...]

This post was coauthored by guest author Senior Legal Reference Librarian (https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2020/10/an-interview-with-louis-myers-librarian-in-residence-at-the-law-library-of-congress/?loclr=bloglaw) Louis Myers and Legal Reference Librarian (https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/09/an-interview-with-sarah-friedman-a-presidential-management-fellow-at-the-law-library-of-congress/?loclr=bloglaw) Sarah Friedmanin the Public Services Division at the (https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/about-this-research-center/?loclr=bloglaw) Law Library [...]

It is hard to believe that August is almost here! The (https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/about-this-research-center/?loclr=bloglaw) Law Library of Congress is happy to offer additional educational webinars for the final month of summer. The [...]

Join us on July 18, 2024, at 2 p.m. EDT for another entry into the (https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/researcher-resources/legal-research-institute/foreign-law-webinars/?loclr=bloglaw) Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series for 2024, “Laws on Happiness: The Legal System [...]

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history, when unemployment reached 25%. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Americans hadn't felt that level of economic tragedy in [...]

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The International Conference on Cataloging Principles (Paris, 1961) led to wide acceptance of Seymour Lubetzky's distinction between books and works, where books denoted particular physical objects and works concerned conceptual abstractions associated with the creative labor of particular authors. Lubetzky's formulation of works is included in many of the world's cataloging frameworks, including the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). Several conceptual and practical difficulties arise from the widespread adoption of Lubetzkian works in practices associated with knowledge organization. However, FRBR and other knowledge organization frameworks that utilize works as central entities could be made more useable and useful if work, as an organizing principle, were de-emphasized and seen as one among many concepts used for aggregating sets and supersets of objects according to how likely they are to be useful to users of knowledge organization tools like catalogs., The International Conference on Cataloguing Principles held in Paris in 1961 was influential in advancing standardization in terminology and rules for descriptive cataloging. The word work has played a central [...]

Editor's Note: Elizabeth Reese is the author of the recently published book, Marquis de Lafayette Returns: A Tour of America's National Capital Region. She also serves as chair of The [...]

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BY DANA PILSON Art has long been considered a commodity, a way to show off personal net worth and pave a path into higher echelons of society. Thus the field [...]

Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury helped win the Civil War with his many financial innovations, and was an ardent advocate of emancipation. Zion Church, the largest black meeting house in [...]

The grand parade of suffragettes in 1913 was a turning point in women's struggle for the right to vote, despite the abuse by thousands of men who blocked their route. [...]

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