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.

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