Law Library of Congress

Law Library of Congress
Law Library of Congress
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Type	National Law Library
Established	1832
Reference to legal mandate	2 U.S.C. § 132
Branch of	Library of Congress
Collection
Size	2.9 million
Access and use
Access requirements	Public access; Closed stacks
Circulation	Library does not publicly circulate
Population served	Members of the United States Congress and general public
Other information
Budget	$15,797,000
Director	Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut
Employees	91
Website	www.law.gov

The Law Library of Congress is the law library of the United States Congress. The Law Library of Congress holds the single most comprehensive and authoritative collection of domestic, foreign, and international legal materials in the world. Established in 1832, its collections are currently housed in the James Madison Memorial Building of the Library of Congress. Law staff rely on and utilize 2.9 million volumes of primary legal sources, 102.18 million microforms, 99,000 reels of microfilm, 3.18 million pieces of microfiche, and 15,600 tangible electronic resources (CD-ROMs and other disks),^[1] making it is the largest law library in the world.^[2]

^ "About the Law Collections | Law Library of Congress". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
^ Tabb, Winston; Cole, John Y. Jr.; Kinney, Angela J.; Underdue, Fern (2003). "Library of Congress". In Drake, Miriam A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 1593–1612. The Law Library of Congress is the world's largest and most comprehensive law library.

[1] "About the Law Collections | Law Library of Congress". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2020-11-02.

[2] Tabb, Winston; Cole, John Y. Jr.; Kinney, Angela J.; Underdue, Fern (2003). "Library of Congress". In Drake, Miriam A. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Vol. 3 (2nd ed.). CRC Press. pp. 1593–1612. The Law Library of Congress is the world's largest and most comprehensive law library.

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