Did you know that the Law Library of Congress maintains one of the largest collections of foreign official gazettes in the world? Official gazettes are primary sources of law published by governments to disseminate new legislation, regulations, and decisions of governmental bodies. The Law Library, which has been collecting these foreign official gazettes since the mid-nineteenth century, has created an eleven-minute video introduction to the foreign legal gazettes collection. These gazettes are available in 1) physical formats here at the Library, 2) in digital rights-free format on loc.gov, or in 3) digital rights-restricted format on our onsite-only Stacks platform.
This video provides an overview of the collection and instructs researchers on how to use the Foreign Legal Gazettes Guide, which is a tool created and maintained by Law Library staff to help with the discovery of the Library’s online and physical gazette collections. This guide currently includes information for approximately half the foreign jurisdictions in the Library’s collections, across all formats. You can watch the video here:
We hope you find this video tutorial helpful. Please contact us through Ask A Librarian if you have questions about this resource or other Law Library of Congress collections.
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