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Crime against women in India

On 16 December 2012, Delhi experienced an incident of a ghastly gang rape and murder of a 23 year old student in a Delhi bus. The girl was a physiotherapy intern and was on her way back home with male…

Hugo Grotius’ “De Iure Belli ac Pacis”

  Hugo Grotius’ “De Iure Belli ac Pacis”/“On the Law of War and Peace” in the History of International Law Collection of the Peace Palace Library, The Hague, The Netherlands Inauguration of the Peace Palace and Donation of the Hugo…

32nd Annual IALL Conference in Barcelona

It’s Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern where swallows are seen massing in the early evening in a state of constant flux and fluttering of wings in preparation for their annual migration to warmer climes. There…

A library founder to be proud of…

It is the 400th anniversary of the death in 1613 of Sir Thomas Bodley. The story of his gift of a library to the University of Oxford, following on from the great 16th century libraries that were established or enlarged…

FCIL Schaffer Grant Winner

Congratulations to Mr. Bård Sverre Tuseth, 2013 recipient of the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Mr. Bård Sverre Tuseth is an Academic Law Librarian at the University of Oslo Library in Norway,…

Librarians as Extremists and Judges as Bibliographers

On July 25, 2002 a federal act № 11-FZ “On counteracting extremist activity” (Федеральный закон № 114-ФЗ «О противодействии экстремистской деятельности») entered into force in Russia. Art. 13 of this act prohibits the dissemination of extremist materials and their storage…