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MD Circuit Court Libraries

Resources for Maryland Circuit Court Libraries

Standards

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

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

Recommended Collection Lists
Maryland Titles Recommended for County Law Libraries, arranged by subject (Maryland State Law Library, rev. August 2012)
General Treatises Recommended for the Core Collection (CMCLLD, 2011)
General Treatises Explanatory Notes

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: March 8, 2013

Recently Added:

Minutes from the November 2012 Annual Meeting of Maryland Circuit Court Libraries were added on the Conference page.

FYI:

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

New MD Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions (2012) are available from the MSBA. Some typographical errors have been noted in the new edition; the MSBA is correcting those errors and will issue new pages. Contact the MSBA Continuing Legal Education Department with any questions.