Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez December 11, 2025, 11:00am - 7:00pm Hours Total: 120 For these eight hours of work, I reviewed and editing the section: 91_1_Status_Senate Joint Resolutions_pg60-63. This section was relatively straightforward but did challenge me in the types of actions associated with the bill summaries. I learned that there are different expectations as CRS and Congress change the methods to bills and saving them on the website. During these eight

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez December 8, 2025, 7:30pm - 9:30pm, December 9, 2025, 3:00pm - 7:00pm, December 10, 2025, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Hour Total: 112 hours During these next hours of my internship, I completed two more review assignments: 91_1_S1026-S1510_pg242-276 and 91_1_Senate Joint Resolutions_pg479-497. These assignments were a lot shorter than previous assignments I have had to review, however, they really emphasized the progress I've been able to make th

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez Total Hours: 120 (Will be completed by 12/12/25. I have 16 hours left. Just having the opportunity to write that I have interned at the Law Library of Congress is not something I thought would be possible this time last year. I've seen so much growth in myself in this last semester, in my skills as an aspiring librarian, my education, my time management skills and my ability to navigate quick change, to name a few. Overall, I feel in

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez November 4, 2025, 6:00pm - 11:00pm and December 7, 2025, 8:00pm - 12:00am Hours Total: 104 During these nine hours of work for the Law Library of Congress, I finished two more assignments, one a review assignment and one a regular editing assignment. I worked in 91_1_HR696-HR1776_pg590-648 and 91_1_S1026-S1510_pg242-276. I made edits and reviewed both of the metadata spreadsheets and text files for these sections of bills. Again, the

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez November 16, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:30pm, November 20, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:00pm, November 23, 2025, 5:30pm - 8:30pm, November 26 5:30pm - 6:00pm Total Hours: 95 hours During these hours of my internship, I continued working on assignments similar to those I discussed in previous posts. More making edits to metadata spreadsheets and text files that took meticulous attention to detail to complete. So for the purpose of not having another repeti

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez November 13, 2025, 1:00pm - 3:30pm, November 14, 2025, 6:00pm - 9:30pm, November 15, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm Total Hours: 87 hours During these hours of my internship, I worked on the same assignment from my previous blog post. A lot of the work I've done throughout my time at the Law Library of Congress is very repetitive and has taken me more time that I initially anticipated to complete. One learning moment I did have in completing

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez November 5, 2025 3:00pm - 7:00pm and November 11, 2025 3:00pm - 8:00pm Total Hours: 80 hours During these hours of my time interning at the Law Library of Congress, I worked on editing the spreadsheet and text files for the 92_2_HR12939-13569_pg914-999 section. In this section, I specifically had to make edits to the Private bill summaries in the spreadsheet. When a bill is listed in the PDF summaries as Private, there are no associa

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez October 26, 7:00pm - 10:00pm, October 27, 8:00pm - 9:30pm, October 30, 8:00pm - 10:00pm, October 31, 9:00am - 11:00am Total Hours: 71 hours During these hours of work at the Law Library of Congress, I worked on the same review assignment from my previous blog post. Again, for the sake of not writing the same blog posts, I will be focusing on the number of tools and technologies I've learned to use in this internship. Everything for t

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez October 14, 2025 6:00pm - 8:00pm, October 16, 5:00pm - 7:00pm, October 19, 6:30pm - 8:30 pm, October 22, 4:00pm - 7:30pm Total Hours: 62.5 hours During these days of continuing my work for the Law Library of Congress, I finished up Assignment 4 and began Assignment 5. For Assignment 5, I worked in 92_2_House Joint Resolutions_pg1411-1433. Essentially, I was working in the 92nd Congress in the 2nd section of bills, specifically in the

Date of Interview: Tuesday, October 28 Librarianship as a field is much more complex, robust, and ethically challenging than one might expect. As I began research on the MLS program that would be right for me, I stumbled on UNT's Law and Legal Informatics concentration of the MLS degree plan. There are three areas where law librarians typically are employed: law schools, county or national law libraries, and private firms. To work in a law school, it is usually required law

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez October 8, 2025, 3:00pm - 7:30pm and October 13, 3:00pm - 7:30pm Total Hours: 53 hours During these hours of my internship, I completed similar tasks to ones I have previously mentioned in other work recap blogs. In this post, I will discuss what I have learned about legal librarianship as it pertains to the 2025 government shutdown. Up until this point in my educational and professional life, I obviously have kept up with the news a

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez September 29, 2025, 12:00pm - 3:00pm, October 1, 2025, 3:00pm - 7:30pm, October 3, 2025, 2:00pm - 3:30pm Total Hours: 44 hours During these hours of my practicum at the Law Library of Congress, I finished Assignment 2 and turned it in for review. For this blog post, I wanted to change things up a bit and write about the 3 lessons I've learned so far in this experience! Writing these posts is such a fantastic way to document this expe

Raegan Benda Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez September 24, 2025, 3:00pm - 7:30pm, September 28, 2025, 3:00pm - 7:30pm, September 29, 2025, 12:00pm - 3:00pm Total hours: 35 After I submitted and was approved for my first assignment, I quickly moved on to Assignment 2. This assignment had less material to go through, but actually took me just as long as Assignment 1 to complete. This assignment focused on updating the metadata spreadsheet for pages 72-145 of the Senate Bills sect

Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez September 17, 2025, 3pm - 7:30pm & September 21, 2025, 3pm - 7:30pm Total Hours: 26 Law Library of Congress Reading Room. I liked this picture I found online as I have been beginning thinking about my future career after graduation and my newfound love for metadata. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. For the sake of attempting to create blog posts about my experience that are not too repetitive, I thought I would take some time to reflec

Raegan Benda, Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez Sunday, September 14, 2025, 3 pm - 7:30pm, Wednesday, September 17, 2025 3 pm - 7:30pm Total Hours: 17 The next few hours of my practicum experience at the Law Library of Congress meant I had to get in the rhythm of doing my assignments. More than just allotting extra time to completing Assignment 1, I had to learn to edit my work. After I became more familiar with the lingo of the internship and the assignment's tasks, I settled in

Raegan Benda, Supervisor: Jennifer Gonzalez Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 6:30pm - 8:30 pm, Saturday, September 6, 2025, 9am - 1pm, Wednesday, September 10, 2025 3pm - 7pm Hour Total as of this post: 10 Beginning my practicum experience at the Law Library of Congress has been challenging! I am new to librarianship and completing tasks like this completely online. Of my completed ten hours of work thus far, I have spent quite of bit of it reading instructions, orienting myself

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