Union List of Legislative Histories

Information on the 7th Edition & Supplement

The Legislative Research Special Interest Section of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. is pleased to announce the availability of its latest publication, the  7th edition of the UNION LIST OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES (previously published by Fred B. Rothman & Co.). This 700 page loose-leaf publication lists the legislative history collections of more than 120 libraries in the Washington, D.C. area and includes several thousand legislative history compilations to U.S. public laws from 1790 to 1998. Most of the histories were painstakingly compiled in-house, and each compilation normally contains a copy of the public law as enacted along with the various bill versions, reports, and Congressional debates associated with the law's development. Often, hearings, committee prints, and other documents are also included. In addition to listing the holding library, the Union List provides contact information, addresses, and interlibrary loan policies. Also available is the 2002 supplement to the Union List.

Legislative histories are frequently used by lawyers and the courts to interpret the legislative intent of an act or one of its provisions. Preceding the table of histories is an alphabetical listing of the participating libraries and the abbreviation codes assigned to them. The abbreviation codes employed will now use up to seven characters and are expected to be readily understood without the use of a guide.

OUT OF PRINT
Member Price: $75, plus $4.31 D.C. sales tax and $10.69 for shipping and handling for a total price of $90.
Non-Society Member Price: $100, plus $5.75 D.C. sales tax and $11.25 for shipping and handling for a total price of $117.00.
2002 Supplement: OUT OF PRINT $25.00, plus $3.56 shipping/handling, and $1.44 D.C. sales tax for a total price of $30.00.

The Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C. is most grateful to the Legislative Research Special Interest Section for its work in compiling the seventh edition of the Union List. The committee that worked on the publication included David Mao (Chairman) with Covington & Burling; Lorelle Anderson with Crowell & Moring; Debbie Atkins with Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn; Rick McKinney with the Federal Reserve Board; Julia Taylor (supplement chairman) with Dickstein Shapiro, Morin and Oshinsky; Mike Welsh with Shaw Pittman; Christine Ciambella with Miller & Chevalier; Connie Dickson with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; and Margot Gee with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.