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Dear valued LLMC Members:
This content update provides I’m happy to report that only one reel out of 1808 microfilm reels remains to be processed, in our long-term Early State Records (ESR) initiative! We aim to finish this reel, which pertains to Pennsylvania, in May. Metadata creation for Phases 1 and 2 of this project will continue over the remainder of this year. The ESR titles processed and added in April are mostly representative of the states of Maine and Louisiana. St. Louis University held five microfilm reels that were originally collected by Temple University. These five reels (not originally included in the Early State Records microfilm set), contain manuscript documents of the colony of Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War. In April, three of these reels were processed; the remaining two will be processed in May. In the coming months, metadata for the titles on these reels will be created and made available to all LLMC Digital users. The Early State Records Project provides us with titles that keep giving us interesting topics every month. Last month was a letter from George Washington. This month, in contrast, we were presented with three examples from everyday life in New England. The first title is the “Act for the Regulation of Bowling Alleys,” proposed to the 1856 Maine Legislature. In a second example “An Act to Tax Dogs,” Maine’s House Committee on Agriculture initiates a tax on dogs. The last, and more troubling, is an example from Massachusetts and from a world that Charles Dickens would understand. It is small comfort to note that in 1842, Senate bill no. 56 states that “no child under the age of twelve years shall be employed in laboring in any manufacturing establishment more than ten hours in any one day.” These are some of the many documents that provide insight into life in 19th century New England. From our recent Foreign Official Gazettes (FOGS) donation, we were able to process and make available some volumes for the Bahamas, Mali, Belgian Congo, and Upper Volta. The Bahamas FOG has issues from the 1980’s; the Mali FOG has complete volumes for 1969-1972 and issues for 1973-1977; Belgian Congo (currently Democratic Republic of the Congo) has issues from 1969-1972; and Upper Volta (currently Burkina Faso) has volumes for 1980-1983. Next month we promise some more runs from other countries in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and possibly the South Pacific. For most of the countries in the world, the official gazette of that jurisdiction is one of the first publications consulted when doing legal research. If your library has any FOGS that you would like to donate (or lend), please contact us. Of special note in April, we were able to borrow a 15-volume set of books called “The Reports” which contains decisions from almost every court within the United Kingdom. This set was published by Sweet & Maxwell, and their affiliate companies, and was envisioned as a competitive publication to the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) version of United Kingdom court reports and decisions. This set only lasted for 3 years (1893-1895); however, the importance of it lies in that it contains some cases that are NOT included in the ICLR set. An example of these cases is the House of Lords’ decision in Browne v. Dunn, which is the leading case (throughout the common law world) requiring an advocate to put the client’s theory of the case to an adverse party during cross-examination. The rule in Browne v. Dunn is followed everywhere except in the United States and is only found in this obscure 15-volume set. 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 356 titles have been added to the holdings of LLMC Digital for the month of April 2024 (for more details about this update, please visit http://www.llmc.com/ 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, 632 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: 36,554 Online Volumes: 168,159 Online Images: 96,657,227 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.
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