Thousands of Historical California Legislative Publications Digitized and Now Openly Available Online via HathiTrust
From the HathiTrust Blog:
California historical legislative research just got a bit easier. As a result of a collaboration between the California Office of Legislative Counsel and librarians at the University of California, Stanford University and the California State Library, nearly 4,000 California Assembly and Senate publications are now online and have been opened for reading access to everyone worldwide. They are available in the HathiTrust Digital Library as a featured collection, as well as individually in Google Books.
What is in this collection?
In the table below are given the total number and date ranges for each of the various types of publications represented.
Type
Number of Volumes
Dates
Bills
1,832
1911 – 1988
Statutes
183
1849 – 2008
Final Histories
32
1973 – 2010
Journals
1,483
1849 – 2009
Journal Appendices
268
1855 – 1931
Constitutional Amendments
55
1964 – 2016
Final Calendars
80
1899 – 2011
The collection is not yet comprehensive, as there are gaps in the series for each publication type, and work will continue to locate copies of missing volumes, to digitize them, and to include them in this set of open materials.
Learn More About the Collection, Read the Complete Blog Post
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.