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Top ten legislative items searched on THOMAS, compiled on 8/15/2010 from weekly usage statistics

1. H.R. 1586 - FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act
2. H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
3. H.R. 4173 - Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010
4. H.R. 6080 - Making emergency supplemental appropriations for ...

On the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Register Act (July 26, 2010), Federal Register 2.0 (FR 2.0) was launched. The site is jointly administered by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

A huge change in format from the old Fe...

The Law Library of Congress has decided to provide a little outlet for my genius personality to shine through in the form of a blog. I have sat and pondered what to write about for the past few days now, after conveniently unfortunately being out of town on vacation during the launch week. Whilst there are near limitless items that I could write ...

The Law Library of Congress has decided to provide a little outlet for my genius personality to shine through in the form of a blog.  I have sat and pondered what to write about for the past few days now, after conveniently unfortunately being out of town on vacation during the launch week.  Whilst there are near limitless items that I could write ...

It was an exciting first week for our new blog, In Custodia Legis! I want to thank everyone for stopping by and visiting us.
I’d also like to thank the following blogs that took the time to highlight our arrival:
* Resource Shelf
* Et Seq. (Harvard Law School Library Blog)
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It was an exciting first week for our new blog, In Custodia Legis! I want to thank everyone for stopping by and visiting us.

I’d also like to thank the following blogs that took the time to highlight our arrival:

• Resource Shelf


• Et Seq. (Harvard Law School Library Blog)


• LexisNexis Government Info Pro Blog

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Did you know that we are open to Congress anytime either Chamber is in session?  If they are in session on Thanksgiving, we have a law librarian here open for business.  If they are gathering during a blizzard, we have someone walk through the snow to be here.

What provision requires us to be open?  It’s 2 U.S.C. 138:

Sec. 138. Law library; hours ...

Collection Services was fortunate enough to get four summer interns as part of the Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program.  For the Law Library, this meant dedicating ten weeks to processing two donated collections: books from the State Department and legal gazettes formerly housed in the United Nation’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library.  While both pr...

As you saw from Kelly’s post, we have quite a group of foreign legal specialists working for us. She mentions the legal reference librarians that work at the Law Library and you may have found yourself asking “what is a legal reference librarian?” and “how does someone become one of those?”

The answer to that, my friend, is different for everyone. M...