Maryland State Law Library News...What's New
Master List of Superseded Volumes of Michie’s Annotated Code of Maryland
Outreach Services has updated the Master List of Superseded Volumes of Michie’s Annotated Code of Maryland. This list was compiled by cross-checking the collection of the Maryland State Law Library against the list provided in "Pimsleur’s Checklists: Basic American Legal Publications." Updated volumes are highlighted in bold type.
See: http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/researchtools/guides/mdsupersededcodes2009.pdf.
November 15, 2009
Updated List of Maryland Legal Recommended Treatises
Outreach Services has updated the Library's list of Maryland Recommended Treatises. The list is arranged by topic including: Administrative Law, Appellate Procedure, Civil Procedure, Elder Law, Evidence, Family Law, Mediation, and Torts.
See: http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/audiences/cclib/rectreatisesmd2009.pdf
November 6, 2009
Listen to Your Law Review
H. W. Wilson's version of "Index To Legal Periodicals" now includes the ability to listen to many articles. Their ReadSpeaker tool converts the databases' HTML full-text articles into audio files, for immediate listening
or a downloadable MP3 file. You can pick a male or female voice. The quality is good. It does read the abbreviation "No." as the word "No" but overall the voice quality is quite good. For info from H. W. Wilson see http://www.hwwilson.com/Documentation/WilsonWeb/readspeaker.pdf for try it for yourself at the library or via our WiFi connection at http://hwwilsonweb.com/.
November 2, 2009
Historical Baltimore Sun--Online
It is not done yet, but many issues of the Baltimore Sun from 1837 to 1985 are now available online at the Library. For a list of available issues see the "Issues currently available" link at http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/researchtools/databases.html#News.
October 22, 2009
Feature Article Hightlights MSLL Contribution to the Chesapeake Project
The Fall/Winter 2009 issue of the Georgetown Law Alumni Magazine includes an excellent article on the Chesapeake Project, "a digital preservation effort spearheaded by the Georgetown Law Library in conjunction with the state law libraries of Maryland and Virginia. See http://tinyurl.com/yep6bf8
October 8, 2009
Document Delivery
Need an unreported opinion, section of a superseded code, or chapter from a treatise? Just fill out our Document Delivery Request Form or call 410-260-1430. The cost is 50 cents per page and the Library accepts both Visa and MasterCard.
October 5, 2009
New Photocopiers
The library recently received two new photocopiers with lots of great new features including: a color copy option, a feeder for making large numbers of copies, and the ability to save "copied" material to a USB flash drive. The price is unchanged at 25 cents per page. There is currently no charge for saving materials to a USB flash drive.
September 25, 2009
Landlord Tenant Law
The Maryland People's Law Library at http://www.peoples-law.org/housing/ltenant/llt.html is a great source for information on Maryland Landlord Tenant Law. The site includes easy to understand explanations, links to forms and the Maryland Code.
September 17, 2009
Finding Bill Files
The Maryland State Law Library has General Assembly bill files from their inception in 1976 until 1996 for the Senate and 1997 for the House of Delegates. Later bill files are available at the Legislative Services Library at 90 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1991.
September 10, 2009
Over 1300 sample pleadings, forms and motions online
The Library now offers online access to over 1300 sample pleadings, motions, and forms from the National Consumer Law Center. These forms are available from via the Library’s WiFi and public computers at http://lawlib.state.md.us/record=b1109175. The print version of the index is available at the reference desk. Ask for Consumer law pleadings at KF1610 .C65.
Selected New Booklist Available--July 2009
http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/collections/booklists/2009-07-bklist.html
Locating Newly-Enacted Maryland Legislation
See Steve Anderson's article in Findings (Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 2009)
July 31, 2009
Hidden Gems in Black’s Law Dictionary
We recently received our new 9th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary. For newbie law librarians and attorneys the appendices have some great features including an appendix of Legal Maxims and a pretty good list of legal abbreviations. There is also a handy Table of British Regnal Years that is very useful in finding old English Reporters.
July 31, 2009
Battling "linkrot"
The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive has released a comprehensive report evaluating its digital preservation efforts over the past two years. A joint effort of the Georgetown University Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia, the project was created as a two-year pilot to investigate the feasibility of establishing a collaborative digital archive, shared by multiple institutions in the law library community, for the preservation of Web-published legal materials. The aim of the project is to ensure long-term access to these born-digital publications, which can be easily lost as Web site content is rearranged or deleted over time.
The project evaluation reveals that nearly 14 percent, or approximately one in seven, of the online publications archived between March 2007 and March 2009 have already disappeared from their original locations on the Web but, due to the project’s efforts, remain accessible via permanent archive URLs. A similar analysis in 2008 showed that slightly more than 8 percent of archived titles had disappeared from their original URLs, demonstrating a dramatic increase in"link rot" or inactive URLs, among archived Web content over the past year.
For those attending AALL, the Chesapeake Project will be featured at session H2 Here’s to Your (Digital Archive’s) Good Health! on Tuesday at 9:00.
July, 22, 2009
Availability of session laws
The Maryland State Archives has scanned all of Maryland’s session laws. See: http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/laws5.html. The collection begins with the 1634/35 Proprietary Assembly and continues through the 2008 session. |
HeinOnline is in the process of scanning all session laws for all states. HeinOnline is available at the library via our WiFi and public computers.
July, 15, 2009
Latest Issue of "Findings"
The library's quarterly newsletter, Findings, is now available. See http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/aboutus/findings.html.
July 8, 2009
All years and all issues of the CFR are now available on HeinOnline.
http://www.heinonline.org/
July 3, 2009
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June 30, 2009
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