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The article provides an overview of Los Angeles Law Library's collection of California, federal and other domestic law and the evolution of the role of the library and public law libraries in general. Topics discussed include the library's collection adhering to the standards of the American Library Association and the American Association of Law Libraries, selective depository for California government documents and collection of historical materials.

The article discusses the preservation of California state trial court records by the Stanford University Law School Library. The author begins by examining problems associated with records management, and notes how the California Judicial Council alleviated some of those problems by providing for the electronic creation and preservation of trial court records. She notes interstate differences in the institutional collection of such records, and explains the development of the right to collect within California as it pertains to non-governmental organizations. After outlining the Stanford Law Library Collection, the author utilizes its trial court records to explain a historic legal dispute between California oyster farming companies.

The article discusses nine items contained in the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley as of 2011. The author argues that the items demonstrate the diversity of information on California legal history in the library. According to the author, the library was established following a donation of historical documents by the late California bookstore owner and collector Hubert Howe Bancroft in 1905. The article examines library items including an oral history interviews with the late Mexican immigrant Ignacio Ezquer, a book entitled "Laws for the Better Government of California," by the late California military governor Richard B. Mason, and papers related to the San Francisco, California, Committee of Vigilance of 1851.

The article presents various writings and speeches by California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk which were housed at the California Judicial Center Library in San Francisco, California. These short pieces of writing deal with Mosk's various legal opinions on such topics as the death penalty, racial discrimination, and the right to privacy. Humorous anecdotes written by Mosk concerning court proceedings are also provided. His opinions on states' rights and the importance of state constitutionalism in the U.S. are also laid out.