---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 132"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "132"
heading: "Departments of Library"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/132"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Library of Congress"
---

# §132. Departments of Library


The Library of Congress shall be arranged in two departments, a general library and a law library.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 81.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 81 derived from act July 14, 1832, ch. 221, § 1, 4 Stat. 579.