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Library of Congress Quietly -- and Slowly -- Harvesting Legal Blawgs

By Bruce Carton

It could just be the result of my living in the Washington, D.C., area for decades, but I've always assumed that the existence of the "Library of Congress" is pretty well-known to lawyers and others. For any of you not familiar with this amazing resource, it is "the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress." It is also "the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections," with a mission "to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations." Okay, so you knew about the Library of Congress. But did you know that the LoC has its own "Law Library of Congress" (and has had it since 1832)? Oh, you knew about that, too? I confess I was not aware of that, despite the fact that the Law Library claims to be the world?s largest law library, "with a collection of over 2.65 million volumes spanning the ages and covering virtually every jurisdiction in the world." The Law Library is even on YouTube. But here's...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).