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Thursday, 25th February 2010

Update on LAW.GOV Proposed Repository for Legal Materials

From a AALL E-Newsletter: (2/2010)

AALL continues to work with Law Librarian of Congress Roberta Shaffer and Carl Malamud of PublicResource.Org on "LAW.GOV," a proposed registry and repository of all primary legal materials of the United States and international governmental bodies. The three groups are working to develop a government-wide collaboration to build the repository.

The Law Library of Congress is pursuing the registration of the "LAW.GOV" domain to serve as a portal for authoritative local, state, national, foreign, and international legal and legislative information. It is planned for the site to serve as a one-stop URL and repository for this information. AALL issued a letter in support of the Law Library of Congress' application for the domain name in early January.

PublicResource.org has been hosting a series of workshops across the country to seek input on the project. The first workshop was held on January 12 and hosted by Paul Lomio and Erika Wayne at Stanford University's Robert Crown Law Library. The next workshop will take place on February 25 at the Columbia University School of Law.

As a result of the first workshop, Stanford's Wayne has taken the lead in developing a prototype for a national inventory of all primary legal resources extending to all levels of government. She is working with the Northern California Association of Law Libraries (NOCALL) and AALL's California Working Group to test the prototype, after which they will begin to populate the inventory with data. Once the prototype has been successfully tested, AALL's other state working groups will begin to inventory their own states' legal information to add to the national database. Currently, there are more than 100 AALL and chapter volunteers from 42 states and the District of Columbia involved in the working groups. More volunteers are needed, so please sign up today to join this important initiative.

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