>> Robert Brammer:
Okay, welcome,
my name is Robert Brammer,
and thank you for coming
to the Law Library of Congress's
Legal Gazette Database Webinar.
The Law Library is excited to
bring you this new database
to improve the discoverability
of our vast collection
of foreign legal gazettes.
This webinar will be
presented by the Chief
of Library Collection Services
Division, Kurt Carroll,
Supervisor for the Law Library
of Collections Services
Division, Betty Lupinacci,
Lead Technician for Law Library
Legal Processing Workflow
Resolution, Ken Sigmund, and Law
Library Technician, Elina Lee.
So, with that, thank you so much
for joining us, and I'm going
to turn it over to our first
presenter, Kurt Carroll.
>> Kurt Carroll:
Thank you, Robert.
Hi, folks, this is Kurt Carroll,
Chief of Collections Services
Division of the Law Library
at the Library of Congress.
Glad to see a lot of familiar
names on the list, both from AA,
LL, and from IL, as well.
Usually, I'm on the other
end listening to these.
I've listened to quite a few of
yours over the past nine months.
So, this is really my first.
As Robert said, today, we're
sharing with you a project
for a foreign legal
gazettes database.
You know, this really
started years ago as a --
we were trying to get a finding
aid for our collections staff.
Actually, before I
get into that, though,
if you are listening today,
feel free to submit
questions in the chat box.
We're going to try to
reserve some time at the end
of the webinar to
respond to your queries.
But yet, to start, for anyone
who doesn't work regularly
with foreign comparative
international law material,
I'll just do a recap of
what official gazettes
of foreign legal gazettes are.
They're basically, national,
state and local primary
government publications used
to disseminate official
information.
Gazettes contain
formal government legal
or judicial notices.
They serve as the first
and often only part official
publication of session laws
of a nation, acts, bills,
statutory instruments, orders,
decrees, resolutions,
and regulations all regularly
appear in official gazettes.
Some nations use their gazette
to publish treaties, so,
agreement and court reports, and
they also contain transcripts
of legislative debates,
corporate financial statements,
policy statements, and
legal advertisements.
At the Law Library of
Congress, official gazettes,
they are the top priority for us
in developing our
foreign law collection.
We did do kind of a trial run
of this presentation a few
weeks ago to just Library
of Congress staff, and at
the time, I had suggested
that this database
idea originated five
or six years ago, but when I
was preparing for this and going
through my notes, I found
in an email string for 2012,
in which I had suggested
to our division staff
that we create a new
electronic version
of a 1985 print publication,
which was a guide
to official gazettes
and their contents.
So, that was nearly
nine years ago.
So, I guess time really does
fly when you're having fun.
And we were far from
being revolutionary
when we came up with this idea.
University of Michigan had
taken up the same print guide
and created their own government
gazette spread page back
in 2003.
The Center for Research
Libraries in the European Forum
of Official Gazettes had also
created their own databases
and lists.
For us, our goal was to
create electronic resource
that would be a definitive
list of the analog
and digital holdings in our
official gazettes collection.
By using this 1985 document,
we thought we could include
the name of each country,
the title of their gazette,
the preservation format
of the holdings, which would
include years of coverage
and LCCN for each
format, the language,
since there are gazettes
that are published in more
than one language, contact
held by LC, which is,
essentially important
for gazettes
that are published
in multiple sections.
We don't necessarily collect
every section of a gazette.
And then, any notes
about the status
of the online publication,
which we also thought we should
include the applicable dates
that the gazette went online
and was considered official.
So, basically, citing
the statutes
that initiated that action.
We're going to have a list
-- pardon me, link to the --
pardon me, official gazette
website of the host country,
whether or not it
was freely available
or by subscription only, and
website content and PDF files,
whether they were
printable or searchable only.
One thing we ran into trying
to put this together was
that bibliographic control
and just collection access the
general through the catalog
through our official gazettes,
it was a real challenge,
even to our most experienced
technicians and librarians.
We have multiple bibliographic
records and catalogs
for most of the titles.
Which, there are a number
of reasons for that.
Changes in government,
breakups or unions of nations,
and multiple formats, whether
the holdings are in print,
microform, or electronics.
All those things can cause a
new bib record to be created.
For serial catalogers out there,
I'm sure you understand what I'm
talking about, and our holdings,
some of them date back
to the 19th century.
So, there are a lot of years
and different cataloging rules
that changed over the decades.
In that, you know, that original
guide, there were only, I think,
200 titles in that print guide.
So, but when staff were trying
to identify all the bib records
for a gazette, we came up
with about 1,100 bib records.
That's five times
what was actually
in the print guidebook
in the first place.
A significant amount of record
remediation was done just
to ensure that the
subject headings
and other descriptors
were consistent
and continued titles were
linked to their preceding title.
Not all the titles
in the catalog
at the time were
LC classification
for law, the K class.
Many were still under JX,
and some just had the
simple LAW shelving system.
It wasn't even a
real classification.
Not all records even had
gazettes in the subject line.
Some were just termed
politics and government.
So, following just confirming
that we had accurate
bibliographic records,
we also engaged in just a
massive inventory project
of all the print, microform,
and tangible media formats.
Division staff had to research
online availability of titles,
just and they determined
if something was official.
Now the added benefit of
all this inventory was
that we did create quite a few
want lists, and we were able
to order or try to
require any missing issues
for a more complete collection.
In short, this project, to
create a finite, just resulted
in a massive amount
of data collection.
You know, far more than
should ever be contained,
and especially in a spreadsheet.
So, that's what brings
you to this project,
and with that background on the
collection in the lead up to
where we are today, I'd like to
turn the audio over to Elina Lee
from the Law Brief
Digital Resources Division,
who is instrumental in
taking our gazette collection
information to create a
real-time data visualization
for staff and public patrons.
>> Elina Lee: Thank
you so much, Kurt.
Good afternoon everyone.
This is Elina Lee in the
Digital Resources Division,
Law Library of Congress.
I'm responsible for
the data analysis
and data visualization
in the project.
I'm really excited to share
Legal Gazette Database with you.
The law Library of
Congress maintains one
of the largest collections of
legal gazettes in the world.
I want to explain how we
came up with our strategies
for presenting the legal
gazette resources and how
to transfer all legal gazette
holdings into a database.
The goal of the database is
to centralize all legal
gazette data in one place
in an automated management
system, enabling real-time view
of the most recent
updates, view statistics,
individual jurisdictions,
and overall collections
and build a strong
search function.
The final goal was to
create a data visualization
for the public, like an ArcGIS
Betty will show you later.
The first thing we did was
to clean up the existing data
and to import all data
into the database.
We are using Microsoft Access.
Next slide.
This page is our main
page of the system.
Our database is created
by coding.
Its purpose is to retrieve
information accurately
and efficiently, tracking
every single data [inaudible],
resisting human errors,
and allowing multiple users
to update in real time.
The database makes it easy for
us to maintain our resources,
as well as create
reports [inaudible]
and links to other references.
It is totally customized
for team members
and reflected the
project's needs.
Next slide.
Let's take a look at legal
gazettes overview page
on our end.
After importing the Access
[inaudible], we decided how
to display the information
on the page.
After the markup designs, we
have the mass of data displayed
in this table format
on the bottom,
and the selected row's
information is displayed
on the top.
Next slide.
This is a screenshot of
the search and update page.
The database provides
inventory history
and a very powerful
search function.
Creating clean data, it
is accessible and editable
by multiple users
simultaneously.
Tracking inventory
refers to date and users
who have conducted an
examination within the project.
All data is updated
in real time.
We are managing our
data very efficiently,
and we make them available
valuable and reliable.
[inaudible] with staff members
were seen when they input
or search legal gazette data.
When you click national
jurisdiction
or other search options
on the search box,
the list on the bottom will be
filtered by your search word.
When you choose one
national jurisdiction,
the list on the right
will be featured.
When you double-click any
row, index information page,
it will pop up, as well
as, you can open edit page.
So, this database
provides us nonstop search
and edit functions.
Additionally, it is
developing its capability,
including copyright clearance.
From the administration page,
we can monitor our statistics,
print or email them
to colleagues,
or create PDF files
on this page.
It can merge unstructured
information
into comprehensive,
logical research.
We can build our
further insights here.
We are managing our
data visually
and keeping everyone
on the same page.
This is one example of a
report created in the system.
All information from the
Access database is converted
to a tableau and ArcGIS data
visualization every day.
Here we can visually check
verified and completed
and [inaudible] numbers
and our progress.
This is all I have.
I'm going to turn
it over to Ken.
Thank you.
>> Ken Sigmund: Thank
you, Elina, and thank you,
once again, audience for
joining us this afternoon.
My name is Ken Sigmund.
I'm a lead technician
in the Global Legal Collections
Service Processing Section.
I had help to guide the
development of this resource
in its original incarnation
as an in-house Excel database,
as Kurt has mentioned, and
as of this past [inaudible],
I continue to add to and
refine the data for the project
as a member of our
now-expanded team.
As Elina I just mentioned,
our database is presented
to the public via the
ArcGIS cloud-based mapping
and analytics software.
So, this guide lives
on the law Library
of Congress's website,
which is law.gov.
Once you've landed on the
main webpage, you can scroll
down to the resources
section and then click
on the hyperlink you'll find
in the collections subheading.
And then, once you've landed
on the collections page,
you may click the hyperlink
gazette collection heading.
So, ArcGIS allows the database
to be displayed in both desktop
and mobile dashboard
versions is for the purpose
of this presentation,
or my section, rather,
we will select the
desktop version
to the illustrate the searching
capabilities of this software,
as well as the level of detail
with which our database
describes our foreign legal
gazettes collection.
As Kurt mentioned
in the introduction,
we had felt this necessary
to delve into a level
of detail beyond
cataloging standards
of the Library of Congress.
So, some jurisdictions present
their legal primary source
material in a very
straightforward fashion
such as the Republic
of Azerbaijan,
which simply produces
one monthly compilation
that includes all
primary legal text.
Whereas in other nations such
as the Republic of Cyprus,
contains over a dozen different
sections which are specific
to the various categories
of legislation,
executive instruments, treaties,
judgments, and so forth.
Once you click on
the screenshot,
there this will take
you into the interface.
Now there are two ways by
which one can pull up data
for a particular world
jurisdiction using ArcGIS.
You may either click on
that particular nation
in the interactive
map in front of you
or by using the drop-down menu
in the upper left
corner of the screen.
We'll begin with
the modernization
of Germany for this example.
Now the modern federal
gazette of Germany,
the Bundesgesetzblatt,
is currently issued
in two main sections, as well
as two supplemental sections,
as you can see in the
red box on your screen.
All four of these
sections are attached
to just one bibliographic
record.
By contrast, each section of
the Austrian federal gazette,
also Bundesgesetzblatt, has
been catalogued independently.
There is a unique LCCN number
and bibliographic record
for each part of this gazette.
Requesting a physical item
from the Law Library may then
require slightly different
approaches to using
our online catalog
to obtain what you're
looking for.
Returning to Germany by
using a drop-down menu,
we can also find records
for gazette publications
of historical jurisdictions,
which would be presented
in reverse chronological order,
as well as subnational
jurisdictions,
which are presented
alphabetically.
To locate the record for
the West German gazette,
for instance, one would
then click on either
of the hyperlinked
LCCN numbers to proceed
to the library's online catalog,
as they share the same LCCN
number and bibliographic record.
This takes you to the LC online
catalog and towards the top
of this page we've arrived,
you'll find the bibliographic
level information
about the publication.
By scrolling down the page,
more specific information
about the library's
holdings will come into view.
Looking at this, we can
confirm that law Library
of Congress holds all issues of
this title from 1949 to 1990,
including a split into two
discrete sections beginning
in 1951.
The various supplements
and indexes
to this title will appear below.
By returning to the box near the
top of the page, one may request
with a high degree of
specificity the exact part
in date range of the
publication desired
by clicking the request
this item box as indicated.
Now mind you, at this point,
our physical collections
are currently closed
to the reading public,
in light of the pandemic,
but this Germany
example will work as soon
as our reading rooms are
open to the general public.
However, we have other
gazettes that are available
in digital formats
to varying levels
of accessibility, at this point.
So, for another example,
I'd like to use our entry
for the gazette of the
nation of Columbia.
Among the other search
options that you have,
you can limit gazette formats
by using a box, which is found
under the drop-down menu
in the upper-left-hand
corner of the screen.
By limiting to digitized
only, on-site only gazettes,
we can determine the
Colombian official gazette,
Diario Oficial, has been, in
part, digitized by the library
and made available
to the users online.
As with our German example,
simply click the
hyperlinked LCCN number,
which will direct you back
to the LC online catalog,
and click on the link
directly below the title box
in the links field.
This will take the
researcher to the Library
of Congress's Stacks 3.0 Digital
Content Presentation platform.
As you can see here,
issues are recorded here
by their publication dates.
By clicking on the
date, May 24, 2019,
will yield a fully
searchable PDF file
of the issues published
that day.
There may be multiple, as
gazettes can often come
out in multiple editions
per day.
This particular issue
begins with a text of a law
that ratifies an international
green growth organization
formation to be agreed upon --
that was agreed upon
several years prior.
And while our physical
collections are currently
inaccessible to the
general reader due
to the ongoing pandemic,
the Stacks Digital
Content Portal may be used
in the Electronic Research
Center, which is currently open
and located in the library's
Madison Building first floor.
As the Law Library greatly
expands their efforts
to digitize physical collections
and offer high-quality
digital content online,
more gazette titles will
be available to view
without restriction from
any IP address in the world.
At this point, I'd like to
turn it over to my colleague,
Betty Lupinacci, who'll now
delve into greater detail
about our online
gazette holdings.
>> Betty Lupinacci:
Sorry, sorry, I was muted.
Hi, I'm Betty Lupinacci,
supervisor of the Law
Library Processing Section,
and I'm not usually this
-- have this many problems.
So, returning to the -- for
our third and final search,
we're going to look for the
Eritrean Income Tax Act,
or actually, it's a
proclamation of 1994.
So, returning to the
gazette database homepage,
we're going to search for
Eritrea on our drop-down menu
of national jurisdictions.
In the resulting table, we have
two options that include 1994.
If you can see in the far-right
column, one is microfilm
and the other is digital
open access, which sounds
like something interesting.
So, we'll go to that record.
So, if we click on that record,
we come to the library's
catalog record,
and if we scroll
down, we get a link.
We click on the link.
This takes us to the
foreign legal gazettes
in the Law Library
of Congress section
of the library's Open-Access
Digitized Collections.
Now let's stop here for a
second so I can tell you
that this is a new
initiative for the Law Library.
We have other titles in this
collection, such as U.S. Reports
and CFR, etc., but Eritrea
is our first gazette,
but a little bit more
about that later.
So, if we scroll down
the facets on the left,
we can see there's 298
items in this collection.
If we go down, we're
looking for 1994.
So, we're going to go to the
1990s, which gives us 22 hits.
We're going to go to 1994, and
then we're going to go down
and search for taxation, or we
could've looked for income tax,
either one, and the
result is four hits,
the second of which is a
proclamation to provide
for payment of income
tax, Proclamation 62 1994.
If we click on that
document and open it,
we come up with this document,
and here's where we tend
to have -- lose some patrons.
As I'm sure any librarians in
our audience have experienced
with primary source
materials in your collection,
there are a number of users
who expect all items to be
in English and will be surprised
to see this document
printed in Tigrinya.
But fear not, if we scroll
down to about the middle
of this document, we see
an English translation,
as this title is
published in two languages.
Now I went a long way around
to get here, but obviously,
you can see this platform
is much more robust
than the Stacks 3.0
program that Ken presented.
For this search, we could've
just gone to the front page
for this collection and
entered the proclamation number,
if that's a citation
that you had,
which would give us
the original document
in two later amendments,
or we could've started
with the subject taxation,
and then narrowed it further
by year, and so on and so on.
Again, the search capabilities
here are much better,
as you can search across
documents, whereas in Stacks,
you have to know the date
of the issue you are looking
for before you can
search within that issue.
As I said, Eritrea was
our pilot jurisdiction,
and right now is the only
gazette collection available
on the library's
digital collections page,
which is open to the public.
But we are currently
finishing the metadata
for the UAE gazette,
have started on Egypt,
and have another 20
titles waiting to be added,
and we are continually adding
more titles to the queue
as we choose them
for digitization.
When we select a new
title for digitization,
our foreign law specialists
determine if they are free
from copyright restrictions,
which, of course,
is the only way they can
be eligible to display
on the public-facing website.
Otherwise, they will
remain on Stacks 3.0.
So, stay tuned for
those updates.
Okay, now let's go
back to the dashboard
and look at it a bit closer.
We've shown you a few searches
so that you could see the
various types of results,
but let's look at the other
ways to use this database.
Sticking with Ken's
search in Germany,
by clicking on the small cross
in the upper-right corner
of the table, you can expand
the columns for larger view.
The map will disappear, and
you can see many more lines
of the table.
As Ken mentioned, the
order that the results
for any jurisdiction will be
in reverse chronological order
for the federal material.
So, you can go all the way back
through to the earliest gazette
that we own, and after that,
it will go to subnational
jurisdictions,
which will be alphabetical,
and if we collect any
municipal, they would come last.
Back to the homepage,
we've shown you how
to choose a national
jurisdiction,
but you can also choose
multiple jurisdictions.
For example, say
Armenia and Azerbaijan.
When you do this, you'll see
both locations on the map,
and the table will
contain all the results
for both jurisdictions.
You can do the same
with the sub-nationals.
You can choose multiple
jurisdictions,
and here we've got
Alberta and Onwe.
If you're interested format,
we've got a format search
where you can follow our
progress as we add open access
and on-site digital titles, or
you can use the format search
to limit your results for
any jurisdiction search
that you may do.
Back to the homepage, as Ken
mentioned, if you're good
in geography, you can simply
search by clicking the map
on the jurisdiction
you are interested in.
Doing this gives
you a pop-up box
that contains the first
record for that jurisdiction,
in this case, Iceland,
and you can then scroll
through all these records
with the pop-up box
with the arrows at
the top right.
And if you click the
far-right icon on the bottom
of the pop-up box, you
will then get the results
for that particular
record in the table below.
If you then double-click back
on the country icon on the map,
you will get all the results
for that jurisdiction
in the table below.
Starting over again on the
homepage, you have a series
of icons on the right
side of the top,
the first of which
is a search box.
Here you can search titles and
content tables from the column,
the columns from the table.
Right now, this search
tool is a will bit wonky.
It limits the number of results
it will give you, but we expect
with the upgrade coming early
next year to the software
that this is taking
care of, we've seen it
in the beta version and the
search function will be much
more easy to use and
give you what you need.
At the far right, you can
have a little bit of fun
by changing the map view
to imagery or topography
or whatever you decide
you want to look at,
if you're so inclined.
Now if we go back to our law.gov
gazette collections page,
as Ken mentioned, in addition
to the desktop interface
that we'd be demonstrating,
there is a mobile version.
If we open that, you'll see it
looks a little bit different
than the desktop version,
but it still has all the
same functions, except here,
all of your icons are
on the left-hand side.
The main difference
that you might want
to use the mobile version even
on a desktop is the ability
to sort the columns
in the table.
So, here for example, we can
sort by title, and again,
if we expand the table, here
you would have an alphabetical
listing of all the
gazettes by title.
And no matter which version
you're on, there's always a link
to Ask the Librarian at the top,
where you can request more
information or inquire
about titles not yet
posted to the database.
So, that concludes
the instruction
to the foreign legal
gazette database collection.
Again, this is an ongoing
project, and we have a long ways
to go before it's complete.
Some of the steps take
longer than others.
For example, combing our
Stacks for materials and poring
through the bibliographic
records is very time consuming,
as we double check and triple
check each entry before we add
it to the public-facing website
and to be able to post anything
to the library's digital
collections public site takes
many layers of review
and approval.
So, progress is never as
fast as we would hope.
You also got a preview
of a couple
of the Law Library's other
projects, which we're rolling
over from microfilming to
digitization of gazette titles,
and we expect a full rollover
from filming to digitalization
within the next three years.
And you've seen how we're
making them available in-house
for new titles and
those that are
under copyright restriction
via Stacks 3.0,
and how we're eventually making
them available to the public
from the library's homepage once
we determine that they are free
from copyright restrictions.
Even though the gazette
database is far from complete,
with these new digital
initiatives,
we wanted to give users
a single place to search
and access items sooner
rather than later.
As you can imagine, it's taken
a great number of people to get
as far as we have, starting
with my section, who searches
and inventories each title and
updates the individual entries.
The Law Library's Digital
Resources Division turned our
massive spreadsheet into
what you see here today,
and the library's Office
of the Chief Information
Officer assisted with building
and fine-tuning the site,
and the Law Library's
management continues to push us,
but also to encourage us.
If there's anything good to
say about being forced off-site
for months, it's that
that's what gave us the time
to make enough progress
to be able
to bring you today's
demonstration.
Now we can take any
questions that you may have.
If you have questions, please
type them in the chat box,
and I see we already
have some questions.
I'll start reading them,
and we'll see you
can best answer them.
The first question I
think we've answered.
"Does this database provide
any access to full-text,
or does it just refer
to catalog records?"
And as we showed,
depending on the title,
it will take us to full text.
"Are there English
translations of some
of the gazettes available
in digital content?"
Only if the jurisdiction
provides it.
We do not do translations
here, for the most part,
at the Library of Congress,
and if it's published in more
than one language, it
will appear that way
when we digitize it, as we
saw with the Eritrean gazette.
But for the most part, they
are in the official language
of the country that
produced them.
"How often do you digitize
official gazettes?"
Ken, do you want to handle that?
>> Ken Sigmund: Yes, please,
and it was also asked
what percentage
of the gazette collection is
currently available digitally?
To answer that one first,
a very small portion.
We only started digitizing our
current receipts in earnest
since 2019 after -- following
the pilot that we did in 2017
to determine award of
contract to process the task.
At this point, now that the
workflow has been set up,
we are sending monthly
shipments out to
that said contractor
for digitization.
We will have 1.5 to 2
million pages converted
into digital PDFs this year.
This is how we measure it.
And as Betty mentioned
just a few moments ago,
it should be expanding
by leaps and bounds
in the next few coming years.
So, you will see more
and more available online
and likely very much more
available not on site only
but from any terminal that
can access the library's
website anywhere.
>> Betty Lupinacci: Okay, Kurt,
do you want to answer
this next one?
It's asking if we have any plans
to proactively market
this repository as a place
for other countries to have
their gazettes made available
in digital format?
>> Kurt Carroll: So, that's
a really good question.
We haven't yet.
Honestly, I think it
would be a good idea
if there would be interest.
The one thing the Library
of Congress has been doing
for all kinds of
electronic resources
and publications is web
archiving, and for --
as most of you know, for web
archiving for sometimes daily
or more than daily
printed publications
or released publications,
web archiving just --
it's just not --
it's prohibitively
expensive to do that.
It just doesn't work to catch
everything down to a PDF level
like an official gazette.
It certainly would make
our collecting, I think,
easier if governments wanted
to do some kind of
transfer this way.
I mean, I certainly
would be for it.
We've tried to identify,
as all libraries,
you have to prioritize
your work.
So, for the example of
European Union and EU countries,
they've had a pretty
clear commitment to free
and open access to law material.
So, EU gazettes
and member-nation gazettes
had gone electronic only,
we pretty much stopped
collecting them
and ingesting them and pointing
to EU and country sites directly
from our Guide to Law online.
But for other countries that may
be considered at risk, you know,
whether it's potential
for civil strife
or even environmental reasons.
Think of some small
island nations.
You know, if there
would be a risk
that the gazette may
not be available online
through their government portal,
there are countries that we deem
that we should be
harvesting that material
or doing electronic
subscriptions or something
to try to preserve it.
So, yeah, I think
everything's on the table,
but we are committed
to official gazettes.
As I said in my introduction, it
is the primary item that we --
for collection development
for foreign law collection.
The Law Library does have over
20 foreign-trained attorneys
on staff who are
just doing research
in specific jurisdictions.
So, this is the primary source
material that they really need
for their work, whether it's
for Congress, public queries,
or through interagency
agreements that we have
within the federal government.
I do want to touch back
to another question.
Someone asked if we have plans
to do retrospective
digitization.
We certainly would like to.
As Ken was saying, it's
relatively a new initiative
at the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress is still
doing microfilm preservation
for newsprint, whether it's
newspapers or official gazettes.
I'm assuming by the
end of next year,
it will be 100% digitization
for preservation,
and it's certainly our hope
that capacity will increase.
That we could then convert our
microfilm masters to digital.
So, we would have a
more complete collection
and fewer mixed formats
for a title.
I hope that answers
your questions.
>> Betty Lupinacci: One other
point I would make here is
that the idea of this guide was
just to focus on the Library
of Congress's holdings.
We kind of discussed, you know,
linking to outside sources
and foreign government
websites and decided
that that might be
better handled
through the Law Library's
Guide to Law online,
and our focus here, just because
the scope of it is huge enough,
was going to be our
internal records
for our internal holdings
of material that we gather
and process and preserve.
So, it doesn't mean that it
can't happen in the future,
but it might not
be on this platform
that that happens,
but stay tuned.
We'd like to make it
all available to you.
Someone wants to verify that the
only remote collection available
at this time in full-text
form is Eritrea.
That is correct.
We've recently completed the
metadata for the UAE gazette,
and we're just starting
on Egypt, and again,
those have to go through
there's levels of approval
at the library and, you know,
people reviewing the work,
and then, we can, hopefully,
make more content
available soon.
The last question I see here is,
"Will you be forwarding
the attendees a copy
of this webinar's
PDF presentation?"
I guess Robert will
have to answer that.
I don't know.
>> Robert Brammer: I
can answer that, yeah.
If you go to law.gov
and send us a message
through Ask a Librarian, we'd
be glad to send you a copy
of the slides, and the recording
of this presentation
will be posted shortly.
It looks like that's it.
All right, I want to thank our
panel for this presentation.
It was great.
We hope you enjoyed
this presentation,
and we used this database
to explore our collection
of legal gazettes.
Like I said, a recording of
this will be posted shortly.
I also want to mention that
on December 10th at 3 p.m.,
we'll be hosting our online
Human Rights Day event.
This will be a panel
discussion on contact tracing
and the right of privacy.
You can find more information
about this and other webinars
that will be coming up soon
on our legal research
Institute page at law.gov.
Thank you for coming.
Bye.