The Library of Congress added its fourth blog this week entitled In Custodia Legis
Here’s their press release…
Law Librarians of Congress (http://blogs.loc.gov/law/). In Custodia Legis is Latin for in the custody of the law. ?One role of the Law Library of Congress is to be a custodian of law and legislation. As part of this, our team of bloggers covers current legal trends, collecting for the largest law library in the world, a British perspective, a perspective from New Zealand, developments and enhancements in THOMAS, and cultural intelligence and the law.
The blog will accept moderated comments from readers, governed by rules of respectful, civil discourse and appropriateness. Those rules are part of a policy the Library of Congress adopted to guide the creation of the other audience-specific blogs and social media.
In Custodia Legis can be subscribed to by RSS (http://blogs.loc.gov/law/feed/) and email (http://service.govdelivery.com/service/subscribe.html?code=USLOC_90).
Blogs are among the important born-digital content that is being saved and preserved in perpetuity under the Library’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov). The Law Library has been working since 2007 to save more than one hundred legal blogs (http://www.loc.gov/law/find/web-archive/legal-blawgs.php).
Founded by an act of Congress in 1832, the Law Library makes its resources available to members of Congress, the Supreme Court, other branches of the U.S. Government and the global legal community, and sustains and preserves a universal collection of law for future generations. With more than 2.6 million volumes, the Law Library contains the world?s largest collection of law books and other resources from all countries and provides online databases and guides to legal information worldwide through its website at http://www.loc.gov/law.
