Library of Congress Public Forum on its Legislative Information Services

The Library of Congress will hold its annual meeting with the public on its legislative information information services, with a focus on Congress.gov, on Wednesday, September 13, from 1-3 PM ET. The forum will focus on user suggestions for enhanced access to congressional information/data on congress.gov and also provide an opportunity for the Library to provide updates on improvements to that website.

Follow these links to RSVP for in-person attendance and for virtual attendance.

In accordance with direction from Congressional the Library of Congress hosted virtual public meetings for the last three years, which we summarized here: 2022, 2021, and 2020.

Update: the official announcement is here, and follow this link to submit information in advance of the proceeding.

Second update: here’s the agenda:

1:00pm Introductory remarks

1:05pm Congress.gov top ten recent enhancements
Q&A. Questions submitted via the chat

1:30pm Congress.gov bill summaries
Q&A.

1:50pm Constitution Annotated update

1:55 Law.gov/Congress.gov collaboration. This will discuss the modernization of the content in Century of Lawmaking.
Open discussion

2:25pm A presentation on the Congress.gov API

2:45pm Open discussion

2:55pm Closing remarks