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Hi Everyone - I just wanted to send an e-mail to invite you and your staffs to the Department of the Interior Library on Tuesday, February 2nd from 2:00 to 4:00 pm for a free DOI Library Training Session entitled "Legislative History Research on Westlaw." In order to find the legislative intent of a bill or public law, researchers need to compile reports, testimony, debate, and other materials related to that piece of legislation to find keys as to what Congress hoped to accomplish by passing this bill. The final compilation of all these materials provides the researcher with a complete "legislative history" of the bill or law in question and hopefully will answer the question of what Congress intended with this legislation. Attendees to this training program will learn how to use the Westlaw legal and legislative database to find materials needed to help compile a legislative history. These include materials like Congressional debate in the Congressional Record, House and Senate Reports, Presidential Documents, and Congressional Hearings, all used to find the intent behind a piece of legislation. This class will be taught by a Westlaw representative. All that are interested are invited. The DOI Library is located in the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street, NW, Room 1151 in Washington. Space is limited so please contact the Library by phone at (202) 208-5815 or by e-mail at [log in to unmask] to let us know you will be coming. For more information about future DOI Library Training Sessions, we encourage you to visit our Training Sessions website at http://library.doi.gov/programs/training/index.html. We hope to see you here on February 2nd! George Franchois Director U.S. Dept. of the Interior Library 1849 C Street, NW, MS 1151 Washington, DC 20240 [log in to unmask] Phone: (202) 208-3796 Fax: (202) 208-6773 URL: http://library.doi.gov Let us know how well we are serving you. Please fill out the brief survey at the link below. Thank you. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229VB7Q6HXP