Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)
Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)
In 1976 the law libraries of the University of Hawaii and Wayne State University founded LLMC, a non-profit consortium funded by seed money raised from foundations and individuals primarily in Detroit and Honolulu. LLMC was formed for the purpose of filming important legal materials from around the world in order to preserve them and make them available to law libraries. Since 1976 it has expanded from 35 charter members to over 900 libraries in 22 countries. The collection includes such treasures as the following special collections: Canon Law; Civil Law; Native American Legal Materials; U.S. Military Law: History and Development; and the Yale Law Library Blackstone Collection. Each of the titles in the special collections is cataloged and appears in the library's online catalog. Representative activity of LLMC includes:
- Films 3,300 volumes per year
- Filmed 80,000 volumes to date
- Filmed 6,340 titles to date
- Produced 14,100,000 microfiche to date
- In 2003 LLMC launched LLMC
Digital, an exciting product that delivers digital images of the titles
filmed beginning with the U.S. Government publications.