The U.S. Department of Justice Library (Walking Tour)

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Tuesday, July 28 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm

Limit 20 people

Note: A government-issued photo ID for each attendee will be required to tour the library.

The first Department of Justice Library, established in 1831 under the direction of Attorney General John M. Berrien, celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2006. What began as one library has grown into nine headquarters libraries in downtown D.C. The Department of Justice Libraries have a long and illustrious reputation as a premier law library for American law. In that regard, library staff provides exceptional research services to the Department’s thousands of attorneys and legal assistants. Its collections are extensive and rich, in both American and British law.

The main library, in the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, is a broad research facility with extensive legal and nonlegal holdings. It primarily supports the Senior Management Offices of the Department. In
addition, the other eight headquarters’ Libraries support the litigating divisions and maintain specialized collections of particular interest to personnel of those divisions.