The Law Team, Social Sciences Cataloging Division, has embarked on several projects to reclassify materials in the Law
Library of Congress. The first such project is a major effort to reclassify approximately 800,000 "pre class K" titles. Arranged in
the Law Library stacks simply by name of country, these titles often have duplicate shelf location numbers and are therefore
difficult to retrieve. The Law Library requested that the Law Team focus first on materials from Latin American countries of strategic
interest to the United States Congress.
In a second project, the Law Team undertook to reclassify more than twenty shelves of Dutch books from the "Nederlandse staatswetten" series. In addition, a sizeable backlog of Swedish ministerial publications issued before the year 2000 was eliminated as a result of an agreement with the Law Library that allowed those items to be classed with the issuing ministry rather than by topic.
Much of the Law Team's energy was devoted to reclassifying the pre-1970 congressional hearings. Thousands of hearings were processed by the Law Team during the first year. Under its agreement with the Law Library, Google has now digitized about 72,000 of these hearings. An estimated 25,000 remain to be reclassified and digitized
Source: Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline (November, 2007)
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