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Resources for Maryland Circuit Court Libraries

Collection Standards

Maryland County Public Law Library Standards 2009 (Conference of Md. Court Law Library Directors, adopted June 2009)

• Maryland Titles Recommended for County Law Libraries, arranged by subject (Maryland State Law Library, rev. September 2009)
• Maryland Titles: Red Text version (Sept 2009 revisions)
  This version of the Md Titles list is temporarily posted to enable checking of specific changes.
• General Treatises Recommended for the Core Collection (CMCLLD, September 2009)
• General Treatises Explanatory Notes
  

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Standards for County Public Law Libraries (adopted June 2009)

Reports

• Maryland Circuit Court Libraries Study Committee Report (2001)
  • Appendix A Meeting Minutes
  • Appendix B Library Survey
  • Appendix C Standards
  • Appendix D Core Competencies (AALL draft 5/00)
  • Appendix E ABA Guidelines: Computer Support
  • Appendix F Statutory Language (2001)
  • Appendix G Library Income
    

Sample Policies and Forms

• Sample Collection Development Policy (contributed by Catherine McGuire, Outreach Services Law Librarian, Maryland State Law Library)
• Statistics: Patron Count Sheet
• Statistics: Question Analysis Log (contributed by Janet Camillo, Law Librarian, Montgomery County Circuit Court Law Library)
• Legal Rx: Referral Sheet 1 (contributed by Joan Bellistri, Librarian, Anne Arundel County Public Law Library)
• Legal Rx: Referral Sheet 2 (contributed by Joan Bellistri, Librairan, Anne Arundel County Public Law Library)
  

Other Materials

Administrative Order re: Juvenile Masters (November 2002)
Administrative Order re: Orientation Requirements for Masters (April 3, 2007)

Updated: August 31, 2010

Recently Added:

The Master List of Superseded Volumes of Michie's Annotated Code of Maryland has been updated. (May 19, 2010)

FYI:

Past agendas and meeting minutes of the Annual Meeting of Maryland Circuit Court Libraries are available on the Conference page.