LLMC was founded in 1976 by the law libraries of the University of Hawaii and Wayne State University in Detroit with seed money borrowed from foundations and private individuals. Having long since repaid its start-up loans, LLMC is now wholly independent and self-supporting from the sale of its products. It spent its first quarter century as a law-library-based, non-profit cooperative operating in the microfiche environment. In 2003 the Consortium added digital delivery to its offerings, embarking upon a program of conversion of its filmed titles to digital format to be offered on LLMC-Digital. By 2005, all data-capture conducted by LLMC was accomplished through digital scanning.&
Mission LLMC, a non-profit cooperative of libraries, is dedicated - to and passionate - about its twin goals: 1) Preserving legal titles and government documents, and 2) Making this valuable content accessible and searchable.
Preservation LLMC members receive a high quality source of digital or film replacement for their older, physically deteriorating books, while ensuring the preservation of the texts in multiple formats. In addition to the digital images captured in our scanning program and backed up on multiple servers, images are “written” to archival-quality Silver-Halide film as a second safe storage medium. Finally, the original paper blocks of scanned books are preserved in ideal dark-archive space leased by LLMC in salt mines in Kansas.
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