This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (July 25 -26, 2025)

07/21/2025

This Coming Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (July 25 -26, 2025)

07/21/2025 06:48 AM EDT

July comes to a close but first, you need to come to the movies. Some see what the Packard Campus has on hand for this weekend.

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Today in History - July 21

07/21/2025

Today in History - July 21

On July 21, 1861, a dry summer Sunday, Union and Confederate troops clashed outside Manassas, Virginia, in the first major engagement of the Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run. Continue reading.

On July 21, 1899, Dr. Clarence Hemingway stepped onto the porch of his Oak Park, Illinois home and blew his cornet to announce the birth of his son, Ernest. Continue reading.

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Law Library: News & Events: Join us this Thursday, July 24, for an Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar at 1:00 PM EDT

07/21/2025

Join us this Thursday, July 24, at 1:00 PM EDT for the Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar. This webinar provides information about the Law Library’s wide range of online resources and our print collections. Some resources attendees will learn about include the Law Library’s research guides, digital collections, and the Guide to Law Online.

This month’s webinar will feature a special appearance by law librarians from the Connecticut State Library as part of our State Law Libraries Outreach Project. Presenting from the Connecticut State Library will be Deborah Schander, state librarian, and Lindsay Cawley, reference services unit head. We hope you will join us for this interesting webinar!

Antrim’s Mexican Journey, a 19th-century Time Capsule

07/21/2025

Antrim’s Mexican Journey, a 19th-century Time Capsule

07/21/2025 09:00 AM EDT

In 1849, a year after the end of the Mexican War, amateur American artist Benajah Jay Antrim and several others set out across Mexico. He recorded the journey in three diaries and two sketchbooks, creating a illustrated travelogue, a kind of time capsule that captured relatively undeveloped parts of rural Mexico, that's preserved at the Library.

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Dance on Display: Music Division Hosts Dance Studies Association

07/21/2025

Dance on Display: Music Division Hosts Dance Studies Association

07/21/2025 10:53 AM EDT

On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, the Library of Congress Music Division had the honor of welcoming attendees of the Dance Studies Association’s Annual Conference to a special collection display. Held this year in Washington, D.C., the conference explored the theme “Indeterminate States: Bodies, Fields, Practice.” Inspired by the city’s complex symbolic and practical relationship to …

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South Korea: Law Governing the National Assembly Library Amended

07/21/2025

South Korea: Law Governing the National Assembly Library Amended

07/21/2025 11:33 AM EDT

On June 4, 2025, an amendment to the National Assembly Library Act (NAL Act), came into effect, clarifying the archiving responsibilities of the National Assembly Library (NAL), and adding certain online materials to those items subject to mandatory deposit with the NAL. (Act No. 14375, Dec. 16, 2016, amended by Act No. 20560, Dec. 3, …

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Congress.gov: Most-Viewed Bills Update

07/21/2025

Most-Viewed Bills - Week of July 20, 2025

H.R.1 [119th] - One Big Beautiful Bill Act
S.394 [119th] - GENIUS Act of 2025
H.R.4 [119th] - Rescissions Act of 2025
S.1582 [119th] - GENIUS Act
H.R.3633 [119th] - Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025
H.R.2548 [119th] - Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025
H.Res.580 [119th] - Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4016) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3633) to provide for a system of regulation of the offer and sale of digital commodities by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1919) to amend the Federal Reserve Act to prohibit the Federal reserve banks from offering certain products or services directly to an individual, to prohibit the use of central bank digital currency for monetary policy, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (S. 1582) to provide for the regulation of payment stablecoins, and for other purposes; and waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the Committee on Rules.
H.R.4016 [119th] - Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026
H.R.27 [119th] - HALT Fentanyl Act
H.Res.581 [119th] - Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 185) to advance responsible policies.

Congress.gov: House Floor Today Update

07/21/2025

S.423

PRO Veterans Act of 2025 (07/21/2025 legislative day)

FALQs: 110 Years of the Norwegian Castbergian Child Laws

07/21/2025

FALQs: 110 Years of the Norwegian Castbergian Child Laws

07/21/2025 04:00 PM EDT

This blog post describes the Norwegian "Castbergian child laws" of 1915, which gave children born inside and outside of wedlock the same rights with respect to paternity, support, and naming as children born to married parents.

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Congress.gov: House Floor Today Update

07/21/2025

H.R.2170

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. 'Bud' Lomell, VA Clinic, and for other purposes. (07/21/2025 legislative day)

S.201

ACES Act of 2025 (07/21/2025 legislative day)

Congress.gov: House Floor Today Update

07/21/2025

H.R.3095

To direct the United States Postal Service to designate single, unique ZIP Codes for certain communities, and for other purposes. (07/21/2025 legislative day)

H.R.2625

VERY Act of 2025 (07/21/2025 legislative day)

Congress.gov: House Floor Today Update

07/21/2025

H.R.131

Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act (07/21/2025 legislative day)

H.R.183

Law Enforcement Officer and Firefighter Recreation Pass Act (07/21/2025 legislative day)

Congress.gov: House Floor Today Update

07/21/2025

H.R.3382

Small Entity Update Act (07/21/2025 legislative day)