An Overview of the Development of U.S. Congressional Committees has been significantly revised (originally featured in two parts in Law Library Lights back in 2004) and just added to LLSDC's Legislative Source Book.This 21 (PDF) page document was written by Michael Welsh, Senior Legislative Librarian at Pillsbury LLP with assistance from Ellen Sweet, Legislative Reference Specialist, Tax Division,...

Finally, the "groups" at LinkedIn will be searchable. For far too long, there has been a message on LinkedIn that says,"The groups directory is not currently open. We are working on creating a searchable directory for all groups. If there are groups you wish to join, you may click on the group logo from the profile of a group member and request to join."However, I just received an e-mail that says,...

I was just checking foreign exchange rates and noticed that none of the converters show the same rate. I checked the Euro versus the U.S. Dollar at xe.com, Yahoo! Finance, CNNMoney, and Oanda.I finally went to the daily foreign exchange rates online from the U.S. Federal Reserve (H.10 Release). Here's what you get from that release:"The H.10 release contains daily rates of exchange of major currenc...

Finally, someone in my family has joined me on the blogosphere. I thought this day would never come, but it has...in the form of adventure. My sister, Michaelle, has started the Adventurous Women Blog. In her own words,"This blog is for those of us with even a little bit of adventure in our souls."How cool! She has divided posts into "less adventurous" and "more adventurous." Michaelle only started...

I have just set up a Law Librarians group at LinkedIn. If you are a law librarian with a LinkedIn profile, all you have to do is click on this link to join. You'll also get this nifty logo on your profile. It's just another chance to network with your peers....