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United States House Of Representatives Library
The United States House of Representatives Library (the House Library) is the library of the United States House of Representatives. The House Library is a division of the Legislative Resource Center, which is part of Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives. The Library is located in the Cannon House Office Building. The House Library is a legislative, law, and general reference library serving House Members and staff as well as the public. The House Library has been the official repository of the House of Representatives and the Office of the Clerk since 1792. History The first acquisition for the House Library occurred in 1792, when Congress directed the Clerk of the House to purchase reference materials "for the use of the House." In 1826, the House Library was directed to maintain two copies of all House publications; this mandate was later incorporated into the House Rules and is still in place today. From its creation until 1922, the Library w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Library
A law library is a special library used by law students, lawyers, judges and their law clerks, historians and other scholars of legal history in order to research the law. Law libraries are also used by people who draft or advocate for new laws, e.g. legislators and others who work in state government, local government, and legislative counsel offices or the U.S. Office of Law Revision Counsel and lobbying professionals. Self-represented, or ''pro se'', litigants (parties to a civil lawsuit or criminal defendants who do not have a licensed attorney representing them) also use law libraries. A law library may contain print, computer assisted legal research, and microform collections of laws in force, session laws, superseded laws, foreign and international law, and other research resources, e.g. continuing legal education resources and legal encyclopedias (e.g. ''Corpus Juris Secundum'' among others), legal treatises, and legal history. A law library may also have law lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
