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Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

The World’s Legal Heritage in Great Subterranean Halls, or… A Collection Big with Babylonian Perspective

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

A walk through the stacks of the Law Library of Congress will give you a vivid sense, if you had ever wondered, of what more than a million books looks like.  Current statistics show that the Law Library houses 2.78 million physical volumes in its collection.  Nearly all of these are stored in four gigantesque …