About Microfiche
History & Organization of the Microfiche Program
LLMC has been providing
legal and law related materials to its members since 1976. In those 30 years it
built up a collection of over 105,000 volumes in the film format. For most of
those years it advertised its collections in printed paper catalogs. The last
editions of those paper catalogs (issued
over the years 2001–2002, copies available upon request) comprised sixteen separate pamphlets, plus a separate commercially
published bibliography, dividing the materials into the following subject
categories:
1.)
U.S. Federal Collection, Law and Government Documents
1B)
Building the Modern Judiciary, Federal Judicial Center Publications
2.) U.S. States Collection, Law and Government Documents
3.) U.S. Territories & Affiliated Jurisdictions, Law and Government
Documents
4.) Anglo-American Selected Cases & Legal Encyclopedias
5.) Anglo-American Legal Periodicals
6.) Anglo-American Legal Treatises
7.) Anglo-American Legal Legal Reference Sources
8.) Yale Law Library Blackstone Collection
9.) Native American Collection
10.) United States Military Law, History & Documents
11.) Non-CLA Foreign & International
12.) Canon Law, A Basic Collection
13.) Civil Law France, A Basic Collection
14.) Civil Law II, Italy, Spain & Portugal, A Basic Collection
15.) Civil Law III, Austria, Germany & Switzerland, A Basic Collection
16.) The Common Law Abroad;
Constitutional and legal
legacy of the British Empire;
An
annotated bibliography of titles relating to the colonial dependencies
of
Great Britain held by twelve great law libraries: by Jerry Dupont, xix+1228pp,
Littleton,
CO, Fred B. Rothman Publications (now a div. of the W.S.Hein Co.), 2001.
(The
Common Law Abroad bibliography listed, both materials already filmed by
LLMC by the time of publication {roughly 5,500 vols.} as well as roughly
30,000
additional volumes of material targeted for filming/scanning in
later
years.)
Current Holdings & Organization of the Combined Fiche/Digital
Offerings
A revised organization of LLMC's
combined microfiche/digital offerings has been dictated by the requirements of
the electronic web site. The relevant restriction relates to the search features
of the site, which work far more efficiently if the data can be bundled into
smaller “bites.” Thus, while retaining some echoes of its fiche era, it
became necessary for LLMC to develop a large number of smaller collections for
its combined fiche/digital offerings.
Records for all of the fiche holdings
assembled by LLMC during its 28 years of filming, as described in the former
print catalogs, are now assembled on this web site in the new order laid out
under the tab “Search Holdings”. A quick inspection will show that the
schedule retains much of the structure of the printed microfiche catalogs with
these modifications:
1.) The U.S. Federal Collection has
been broken into three sub-collections:
(Legislative, Executive & Judicial)
2.) The U.S. States Collection has been broken into fifty one sub-collections:
(the fifty
states and the District of Columbia)
3.)
The U.S. Territories Collections
has been broken into twelve sub-collections:
(AS, GU, PCZ, U.S.V.I., TTPI, FSM, N.M.Is., Mar. Is. & Belau)
4.)
Anglo-American Selected Cases & Legal Encyclopedias (remains same as before)
5.) Anglo-American Legal Periodicals (remains same as before)
6.) Anglo-American Legal Treatises (remains same as before)
7.) Anglo-American Legal Legal Reference Sources (remains same as before)
8.) Yale Law Library Blackstone Collection (remains same as before)
9.) Native American Collection (remains same as before)
10.) United States Military Law, History & Documents (remains same as
before)
11.) Non-CLA Foreign & International has been broken into many new
collections:
a.) The international portions have been broken into two categories:
International law and International Organizations
b.)
Each of the separate countries in the world will now have its own national
collection.
12.) Canon Law, A Basic Collection (remains same as before)
13.) Civil Law France Collection has been merged into the new French national
collection
14.) Civil Law II, Italy, Spain & Portugal has been distributed among the
new national collections
15.) Civil Law III, Aust., Germ. & Switz. has been distributed among the new
national collections
16.) The Common Law Abroad project:
a.) Separate jurisdictions have been distributed among the new national
collections
b.) Multi-jurisdiction
titles have been assigned to a new British Empire Studies Collection
Targeted Common Law Abroad (CLA) Titles
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