Manderino Library: A to Z List of Library Resources: L

Subscription Resources

Law Reviews & Journals
Search national and international law reviews and law journals to find articles on legal issues. (Westlaw)
Legal Collection
This "collection" is a subset of full-text resources from other EBSCO databases on legal topics, such as: criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment, and more. (EBSCO)
Legal & Justice News
Search for news about the legal industry and legal profession. (Westlaw)
Legislative History: U.S. Code
Access to all versions of proposed legislation (House, Senate, Conference Committee, final) since 1990. Includes congressional committee reports. Legislative history of public laws from 1948 through 1989 only reflect the final form. Also provides the legislative history of securities laws since 1933, and presidential signing statements since 1986. (Westlaw)
LGBT Life with Full Text
The definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Includes the full-text of many publications, including some books. (EBSCO)

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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Find articles, books, research reports and proceedings dealing with librarianship, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management, and more. (EBSCO)

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Literary Sources (Gale Artemis)
Provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical content on authors from all time periods, in the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more. For literary research, this is the place to begin! (Gale)

Literary Sources includes most, but not all, of: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and other selected Gale print resources.

Gale Literary Index is a master index to every literary series published by Gale in print--including some series not included in LRC. This index is helpful when using the library's print versions of the Gale resources.

Free Web Resources

LABORSTA Internet
View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from LABORSTA, an International Labour Office database on labor statistics operated by the ILO Department of Statistics.

Legal Information Institute
From the Cornell University Law School, this site offers many law-related resources, including: Court Opinions, Constitutions & Codes, and more.
LibDex: The Library Index
A worldwide directory of library homepages, Web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs), Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links.
Library of Congress
Access the vast resources in America's national library--and the largest library in the world. The mission of the Library of Congress is to make resources available to the Congress and the American people.

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Did you know the Library of Congress...?
- Contains 650 miles of bookshelves
- Adds 10,000 items to the collection every day
- Does NOT have a copy of every book published in the United States!
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Library of Congress Classification Outline
Need help understanding the Library of Congress Classification system used in the library? View each section and its subcategories here. From the Library of Congress itself.
Library of Congress Linked Data Service
Access Library of Congress datasets, including: Subject Headings, Classification, etc.

Library of Congress: American Memory Collection
An online collection of resources and primary documents. Resources are organized into different collections, including: Presidents, Native American history, Civil War photographs, personal manuscripts, baseball cards, sheet music, etc.

Library of Congress: Virtual Reference Shelf
Web resources selected and organized by the Library of Congress--so you know this will be a helpful place to start!

Library of Economics and Liberty
The Liberty Fund provides free, online, full-text access to authoritative editions of the classic (i.e., older!) books in economic theory and practice, along with related works in history, political theory and philosophy.

Libweb: Library Servers via WWW
Libweb lists thousands of library Web pages from around the world. Includes libraries of all types: academic, public, special, state, etc. You can do a keyword search for location, library type, name or other information.
Lyrasis
Lyrasis is a regional membership organization for libraries and information professionals, resulting from the merger of PALINET (Mid-Atlantic), SOLINET (Southeastern), and (soon) NELINET (New England) organizations.