Law Library of Congress Video Tutorial on Foreign Legal Gazettes

The Law Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.  has published a video tutorial about its foreign legal gazettes collection.

"Did you know that the Law Library of Congress maintains one of the largest collections of foreign official gazettes in the world? Official gazettes are primary sources of law published by governments to disseminate new legislation, regulations, and decisions of governmental bodies. The Law Library, which has been collecting these foreign official gazettes since the mid-nineteenth century, has created an eleven-minute video introduction to the foreign legal gazettes collection (...)"

"This video provides an overview of the collection and instructs researchers on how to use the Foreign Legal Gazettes Guide, which is a tool created and maintained by Law Library staff to help with the discovery of the Library’s online and physical gazette collections."

The Law Library of Congress is the world’s largest law library, with a collection of over 2 and a half million volumes from all ages of history and virtually every jurisdiction in the world.