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Library of Congress Religious Law Classification Schedules: Elegant, Flexible and User-Friendly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Lucia Diamond
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The Library of Congress recently issued new classification schedules for the law of the Roman Catholic Church and for the History of Canon Law. The schedules were developed by Dr. Jolande E. Goldberg of the Library of Congress with input from librarians and scholars from many countries. During the final months of their development, we spoke, individually and together, to several groups of librarians to introduce them to the elegant structure of these forthcoming schedules and to get reaction from librarians who had, and had not been, involved earlier in the development process. My role was to provide some context to the content of the schedules. I discussed the concept of religious law for purposes of these schedules and introduced the historical development of religious law, particularly that of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , Summer 2001 , pp. 488 - 496
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Copyright © 2001 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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