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Join Us for a Webinar – How to Conduct Research in the U.S. Serial Set Online

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Flyer announcing upcoming webinar created by Susan Taylor-Pikulsky

This is a guest blog post by our Librarian-in-Residence, Louis Myers. Louis has recently authored blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including Research Guides in Focus – Municipal Codes: A Beginner’s Guide and Research Guides in Focus – Neighbor Law: A Beginner’s Guide.

The Law Library of Congress is proud to introduce a new webinar series coming to the Legal Research Institute, the Lunch and Learn series. This series will be collections-focused and will be held every other month. This webinar series will be particularly interesting to people researching U.S. government documents.

As part of this new series, the Law Library is excited to present a webinar on the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. The inaugural webinar, How to Conduct Research in the U.S. Serial Set Online, will be on February 9, 2021, at 11 a.m. EST. The Law Library has commenced a collaboration with the Government Publishing Office to digitize the entire Serial Set, which contains over 16,000 volumes. The project began in 2019 and is expected to be completed over the next several years. In the meantime, there are a variety of tools available online that can be used to perform research in this resource. The webinar presentation will focus on examples of using the Serial Set for a variety of research topics, and will highlight different free search tools that are available to the public.

The presentation will be provided by Louis Myers, the current Librarian-in-Residence for the Law Library of Congress. Louis holds an MLIS from the Kent State University iSchool and a JD from the University of Idaho College of Law.

To register, please visit our Eventbrite page.

Talking a Blue Streak: Human Trafficking Prevention Month

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What links shrimp and chocolate? Both shrimp and chocolate are favorite foods of Americans. Both require a great deal of manual labor in the processing of shrimp (peeling) and chocolate (harvesting). Cheap labor makes both foods cheaper to purchase. Cocoa and foreign-harvested shrimp are frequently sold with slave labor at some point in their supply […]

Laws Involving Animals – Real and Mythical

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While speaking with friends recently, our conversation turned to our pets. My friends own two guinea pigs and they told me that guinea pig adoption can be a complex process. For example, they stated that in some countries, people are prohibited from owning only one guinea pig. Of course, I had to look into this […]

Artificial “Judges”? – Thoughts on AI in Arbitration Law

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The following is a guest post by Viktoria Simone Fritz, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Wouldn’t it be great to just put all documents submitted and produced in a specific legal dispute into a machine, wait a few seconds – or let’s […]

A Recording of the Law Library’s Foreign Legal Gazettes Database Webinar is Now Available

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On December 8, 2020, Law Library staff presented a webcast on our new Foreign Legal Gazettes Database. The participants included Kurt Carroll, chief of the Collection Services Division; Elina Lee, metadata technician in the Digital Resources Division; Ken Sigmund, lead technician in the Collection Services Division; and me, Betty Lupinacci, supervisor in the Collection Services […]

Watch a Recording of our Human Rights Day Panel Discussion on Contact Tracing and the Right of Privacy

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On December 10th, at 3pm EST, the Law Library of Congress held our annual Human Rights Day event. Each year, the Law Library of Congress commemorates Human Rights Day with a special program that promotes understanding and recognition of a critical social, economic, or cultural human rights issue. This year, Associate Professor at the University […]

Join Us on January 28 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on the French Civil Code

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The following is a guest post from Nicolas Boring, the foreign law specialist covering French-speaking jurisdictions at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas has previously blogged about Telework and the French “Right to Disconnect”, Report on Right of Huguenots to French Citizenship, “Bastille Day” Is About More Than the Bastille, and other topics. The French Civil Code, which Napoleon […]

Ring in 2021 with Law Library of Congress U.S. Law Webinars

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The Law Library’s Public Services Division staff is welcoming the new year by providing two legal research webinars this month, and we invite you to celebrate with us! Please see further information about these webinars, below. Orientation to Legal Research: U.S. Case Law Date: Thursday, January 14, 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST Content: […]

Law Library Story Map Collection Begins

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The Digital Resources Division is proud to introduce the first two Story Maps highlighting our collections. These Story Maps are a preview to the information contained in the United States Congressional Serial Set, which the Law Library continues to prepare for digitization. City Sketches and the Census highlights the 1880 Census Office report, published in […]