Easter Weekend Hours

Law Library hours for this weekend are as follows:

Friday, March 29--closed
Saturday, March 30--8 am until 6 pm
Sunday, March 31--closed

Regular hours resume on Monday, April 1.

Happy Easter!

Law Library New Chair Delivery Monday April 1!

Law Library New Chair Delivery on Monday, April 1!

This is no joke! The Law Library will be a noiser than normal place on Monday, April 1 as we welcome a delivery of 300 new chairs.

Please excuse the disruption, and stay tuned for an upcoming SIT-in celebration to commemorate this momentous occasion.

Spring Break!

The Law Library will be operating on an abbreviated schedule during Spring Break.

March 3:           2:00 pm --8:00 pm
March 4-8:       7:30 am--10:00 pm
March 9:           8:00 am--8:00 pm
March 10:         2:00 pm--8:00 pm

Reference assistance will be available Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

Regular hours will resume on Monday, March 11.

"Big Data" Symposium at Georgetown Law

Law Library Director Margaret Christiansen and Assistant Director for Collection Development Marie Summerlin Hamm recently attended a symposium at Georgetown Law Center. 

The session brought academics, policymakers, and law librarians together to examine the public good and collective harms associated with the large scale aggregation of information from public and private sources, as well as to explore issues impacting the future of digital preservation and the use of big data.

 

Video of each presentation and/or panel discussion is available on the symposium website.

 

 

ProQuest Congressional

Need to do legislative history research?  Westlaw and Lexis don't have what you need?

Regent University Law Library's ProQuestCongressional subscription includes the following modules: Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, Congressional Hearings Digital Prospective Collection, Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection, Congressional Research Digital Collection, and Serial Set Digital Collection, 1789-current. All modules are seemlessly integrated into the Proquest Congressional Platform. 

The database is available via the Law Library's database page:  http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/library/students/databases/home.cfm Off-campus users will be prompted to enter Regent login information.

ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
The ProQuestCongressional Hearings Digital Collection (CHDC) provides comprehensive, full-text access to all published and unpublished Congressional hearings held from 1824-2003.

ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Prospective Collection
The ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Prospective Collection (CHDC) provides comprehensive, full-text access to published and unpublished Congressional hearings held from 2004 to present.

 

ProQuest Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection
The ProQuest Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection includes the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), the Congressional Globe (1833-1873), and the Congressional Record (1873-to date).

ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection
The ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 26,000 Congressional committee prints published from 1830-2003 and more than 32,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 1916-2003.

 

ProQuest US Serial Set Digital Collection: 1789-1969
The ProQuest Serial Set Digital Collection, 1789-1969 begins in 1789 with the American State Papers and details Congressional business through 1969. It includes reports and documents either produced or ordered by Congress, as well as presidential communications and treaty materials. Includes maps.

 

ProQuest US Serial Set Digital Collection: 1970-present
When complete, the ProQuest U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection, 1970-present will provide comprehensive, full-text access to over 50,000 Congressional documents and reports published in over 2,600 volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from 1970-present. The Serial Set Digital Collection also provides full text access to all Senate Executive Documents and Reports, 1817-1979. Includes maps.

Do you Congress.gov?

For years now, the Law Library of Congress site affectionately known as THOMAS has been the go to destination for legislative information on the web.  Now there's a new kid on the block.  CONGRESS.GOV aims to transform the existing congressional information system into a modern, durable and user-friendly resource. 

The beta version contains legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the present, member profiles from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present, and some member profiles from the 80th through the 92nd Congresses (1947 to 1972).

Eventually, the site will incorporate all the information and features currently available in THOMAS, with the addition of improved search function, cleaner pages, and a responsive design for mobile devices.

The Congressional Record will be included next, with more to come . . .