>> Jason Zarin: Welcome to the Law Library of Congress presentation on how to use the Law Library's catalog to search for legal materials in the collection, and how to request and view the materials on-site in the Law Library Reading Room. The Law Library of Congress's catalog can be searched from any location with Internet access, but to request that a particular book or other physical items such as microfilm or microfiche, be delivered to the Law Library's Reading Room and be available for you to review, you will need to obtain a free Library of Congress reader ID card and set up your online account. You can access the catalog at Catalog.Loc.gov or from the Law Library of Congress's main page of Law.gov. Clicking on the hamburger menu in the upper right corner, and then select Search Online Catalog from the menu. Once on the catalogs home page, select the advanced search option by either clicking on the Advanced Search box in the middle of the screen with the subtitle Search combined Search words using guided menus or look to the right of the LC catalog Quick Search Box. Click the dropdown menu to the right of the phrase Search Options and then click on Advanced Search. On the Advanced Search screen, you can search by keyword based on the subject matter of interest. For example, today we are searching for books on copyright infringement. You can tell the catalog to only search for that exact phrase by selecting the dropdown option as a phrase. You can tell the catalog to only search in particular fields of the catalog records. It defaults to keyword search, which is the broadest element of a catalog record for a particular book, but you could change that to title or author. I can add an additional keyword to my search. I will type in 'music.' Notice the AND connector that tells the search system to retrieve records with both the phrase 'copyright infringement' and the word 'music' in them. Next, we will need to limit this search to only the physical materials in the Law Library collection. We do not want to search the entire library collection because that may result in too many books that are not relevant to our research. To do this, I click on the limits button. I have multiple limits to choose from, including year published, location in the library, place of publication, type of material and language. We suggest limiting your search to only law and the law reference collection. This tells the system to only search for books in the law collections closed stacks and the law reference collection in the Law Library Reading Room. When we click search, we retrieve over 20 items. The default sort order for an advanced keyword search is displayed as a titles list, which is arranged by author, title and dates. But you can change this by selecting a different option from the sort dropdown menu so we can select the date newest to oldest. Let's explore the book "Copyright in the Music Industry: A Practical Guide to Exploiting and Enforcing Rights" by Hayleigh Bosher by clicking that link. We see the author, title, publisher and year published. To see the table of contents, scroll down the screen to the contents field. Notice the Library of Congress subjects or subject headings assigned to this book. We can click on these to find other books in the collection on the same topic. To request this book so you can review it in person, click on Item Availability and notice the call number and the status is not charged, meaning it is available on the shelf. Next, I click on Request This Item. I would enter my last name, the account number found on my reader ID card and a password. Please note that the first time you use your card, you will need to use a temporary password which will be provided to you by the librarian on site. You will then change the password to one that you create. Next we see the request screen. In the additional information box, we could add relevant information such as a particular volume. The delivery location will be to the Law Library Reading Room LM 242. Law books cannot be delivered to other library reading rooms within the Library of Congress. Then click on Send Request. The system will send you an email alerting you that the book has been delivered to the Law Library Reading Room for you to review. This process generally takes around 30 to 40 minutes. The book will remain in the reading room in our book pickup area for 48 hours. The majority of our law books are in the stacks area in the subbasement of the Madison building, which is not open to public browsing. But there are additional places where the Library of Congress's law materials are located. We have some materials in offsite storage. For example, this book is in offsite storage at Fort Meade. You submit your online catalog request and the item will typically be delivered within 24 to 48 hours during the Monday to Friday workweek to the Law Library Reading Room for you to review. Some material is located in the Law Library Reading Room in the open browsable shelves. For example, the ten volume title Nimmer on Copyright is a well known treatise on the topic of copyright law. It is found in the reference area as indicated by the word 'reference.' In the request in field and RR after the call number. You do not order these materials through the catalog as they are available on the reading room shelves for you to access on your own. A small set of ready reference titles that we use regularly at the reference desk are in the location call RR Desk. You simply need to ask the reference librarian on duty to request these titles. Some material is in our lore Rare collection, which includes various special collections and historical materials. You can search the online catalog to find these titles, but you will need to set up an appointment with our Rare Books curator to review them in person. Please contact the reference desk with questions concerning access to these rare materials. Current foreign legal materials are housed in our global reference collection. You can search the catalog to find the title, but a reference librarian will need to request the item for delivery to the Law Library Reading Room. Some materials are in Microform, which includes microfiche and microfilm. The law reading room has reader scanner machines to view the material and make digital copies. Some of the microfilm catalog records allow you to request individual reels of microfilm for delivery to the reading room, but others may require the assistance of a librarian, as do the microfiche materials. This is an example of a legal gazette on microfilm, The Antigua Official Gazette. If you do not yet have a library reader's ID card, but are preparing for a visit, contact a reference librarian through Ask a Librarian to get assistance requesting books in advance of your visit. If you have materials you are interested in that are in reading rooms other than the Law Library Reading Room, for example, business books in the business reading room, please direct your question to the applicable reading room. You can contact the Law Library with any questions through the Ask a Librarian service or by telephone (202) 707-5080. The Law Library Reading Room is open to the public Monday through Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., but closed on federal holidays. We look forward to seeing you at the Law Library of Congress.