Dear valued LLMC Members:

This content update provides updated information for January 2024.  

After a wonderful holiday season, and a busy winter, January proved to be equally busy as previous months!  After a long 16+ years at LLMC, Kathleen Richman has retired as the Executive Director.  The Search Committee was busy for more than 6 months, and our new Executive Director, Patrick Butler, joined LLMC in late January!  Patrick comes with a great deal of experience in law librarianship and as a practicing attorney, and he has already dived into many projects that awaited him and embarked upon the continued growth of LLMC! 

With everything going on in January 2024, we stayed on board with our regular content flow, and added approximately 400 titles.  As mentioned last month, we are on the very last stretch of having the Early State Records reels completed, and January saw the remainder reels for Maine be processed.  Be on the lookout for a lot of Maine titles being added to LLMC Digital.  We are also preparing the remaining 3 reels for Pennsylvania. 

The University of Arizona Law Library, in conjunction with the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources and LLMC, applied for a grant to continue the mass digitization of the NNDWR library volumes.  Until we receive word on the grant (hopefully positive!), LLMC has committed to digitization of several volumes monthly.  In January, we added 5 NNDWR volumes to this Special Focus Collection.  

As is evident from the statistics below, publications from Germany, Russia and other Eastern European countries continue to be added to LLMC at a high rate.  We also ensure that other jurisdictions are also represented, trying to make the monthly additions more global in nature, and appealing to a wider audience.

This past month, with the beginning of a new calendar year, we pulled our backlog of publications from 1928 and began processing them, as they enter the public domain in 2024. LLMC strictly adheres to global public domain and copyright laws. We hold any volumes received that cannot be immediately digitized due to these laws, and as soon as possible get them into the digitization queue.

As always, all titles available in LLMC Digital have been cataloged in OCLC. The MARC records are available from OCLC at no charge to OCLC member libraries and institutions.  Authority records for all access points are represented in the Name Authority File hosted by OCLC and the Library of Congress.  Additionally, these records are re-distributed to the VIAF (Virtual International Authority File).

 If you have any questions or suggestions regarding LLMC content, please feel free to email Joseph Hinger, Director of Global Legal Content Initiatives, at josephh@llmc-digital.org. 

Title/Volume Count Update:

A total of 359 titles have been added to the holdings of LLMC Digital for the months of January 2024 (for more details about this update, please visit http://www.llmc.com/recent.aspx and select your preferred month)*

Detailed additions to broad collection categories are: 

*Some of the new titles are categorized into multiple collections. This accounts for the difference in the total number of new titles digitized versus the number of new titles added to the various collections. 

In addition, 2140 volumes have been added to the LLMC Digital collection, which brings our overall totals to the following (These amounts do NOT include numbers for our ever-expanding records & briefs collections):

 Online Titles:           35,033    

Online Volumes:       165,647

Online Images:         95,946,595         

The LLMC Digital online service is available through the LLMC consortium of libraries and other institutions.  Additional content requests and/or donations are welcome.  If you do not want to receive this monthly email, kindly reply with “remove” in the subject line, and your email address will be removed from this list.