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This guide along with two other volumes (the Near East Section and The African Section) covers several countries and regions from Southern African to the Maghreb and from the Middle East to Central Asia. The division coordinates and directs the component sections. Each section plays a vital role in the Library’s acquisitions program.

The Law Collection found in the Library of Congress - most notably in the Law Library of Congress, the world’s largest law library - constitutes a unique resource for Congress and the nation. Scholars, students, practitioners, and researches in law and related disciplines will find the breadth of the law collection, and in many areas its depth.

The Hispanic and Portuguese collections describe broadly and deeply Native American cultures; the cultures of the independent states of Latin America and the Caribbean; the colonial histories of Spain, Portugal, France, and England in what is now the Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.

This guide along with two other volumes (the Near East Section and The African Section) covers several countries and regions from Southern African to the Maghreb and from the Middle East to Central Asia. The division coordinates and directs the component sections. Each section plays a vital role in the Library’s acquisitions program.

The Geography and Map Division has custody of the bulk of the Library’s cartographic materials.

This guide focuses on a unique strength, the Library’s unparalleled materials on European Americana and American Europeana. The European collections of the Library of Congress are strongest in the humanities and social sciences, with special strengths in language, literature, history, geography, political science, law, the arts, and economics.

This guide offers a glimpse into the Library of Congress Asian collection This guide is divided into sections on “classical” and “modern” Asia.

The Africana collections of the Library of Congress include materials produced over the centuries by peoples living in sub-Saharan Africa and by others inspired by the continent. The Library’s Africana collections reflect the complexities of African societies and the efforts to understand and express the knowledge in many forms. This guide highlights some of these holdings of materials created in Africa or about it.