Archive: October 2010 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Kurt Carroll; (Year) 2010; (Month) October

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Fort Meade Delivers, or Finding a Needle in this Haystack Couldn’t be Easier

October 28, 2010

The other day I visited the Library of Congress’ High Density Storage Facility at Fort Meade, Maryland. Yes, that’s right; we are shelving books in Maryland. With 2.65 million volumes in the Law Library, you don’t really believe we shelve them all in the sub-basement of the Madison building, do you? This Library of Congress …

Posted in: Collections, Law Library

Global Legal Resource Room

October 20, 2010

Posted by: Kurt Carroll

In addition to the Law Library Reading Room, the public can also access legal materials in our Global Legal Resource Room. This space was established to provide a secure area for our 16,250 volume foreign law reference collection. The Resource Room is located in our administrative offices as the primary users of this collection are …

Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library

Refined by: (Author) Kurt Carroll; (Year) 2010; (Month) October