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Your Place for Supreme Court Records & Briefs – Pic of the Week

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Today’s Pic of the Week features our collection of Supreme Court Records and Briefs.

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Just one of the 53 ranges of bound volumes of Supreme Court Records and Briefs – photo by Betty Lupinacci

As I was showing off our closed stacks collection to the Law Library’s two newest reference librarians, Latia Ward and Janeen Williams, it struck me that this vast collection might make for an interesting blog post.

Debbie Keysor, now Chief of the Public Services Division, wrote a post in 2012 on the how and when of binding Supreme Court Records and Briefs.

This post focuses on the results of all her (and prior and subsequent government documents librarians) hard work.

At present there are 563 volumes of the official reporter of U.S. Supreme Court opinions.  Approximately 80 cases are granted plenary