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Guide to Law Libraries Open to the Public
in the Washington, D.C. Area
in the Washington, D.C. Area
- Alexandria Law Library
- City Courthouse, 520 King Street, Room L34, Alexandria, Va. 22314
- 703-838-5055 | alexlaw@erols.com
- Hours: 9:00-5:00 M-F (Reference Hours the same, except 1:00-2:00)
- Contact: Merrill Chertok, Director
- Photocopiers: $0.20/page | Internet Access: Ask Staff
- Other Resources: CD-ROM collection; Westlaw research available for a fee
- Special Collections: Almost complete set of Acts of Assembly of Virginia
- Note: Visitors must sign-in and show photo i.d.
- American University, Washington College of Law Library
- 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C.
- 202-274-4350 | Fax 202-274-4365 | lawlibrary@wcl.american.edu
- Hours: 8:00am-11:45pm M-Th, 8:00am-9:45pm Fri, 9:00am-9:45pm Sat, 10:00am-11:45pm Sun
- Contact: Patrick Kehoe, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet Access: Yes
- Other Resources: Paid subscription resources such as Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis limited to law school students, faculty and staff
- Special Collections: several; see web site
- Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Law Library
- Courthouse, 7 Church Circle, Annapolis, MD 21404
- 410-222-1387 | Fax 410-268-9762 | lawlibaa@clark.net
- Hours: 9:00-4:30 M-F
- Contact: Joan Bellistri, Director, or Nancy Wallace, Librarian
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet Access: Yes
- Other Resources: CD-ROM collection; Westlaw search available for a fee
- Arlington/Walter T. McCarthy Law Library
- Web Site: Future
- 1425 N. Courthouse Road, #1725A, Arlington, VA 22314
- 703-228-7005 | waltertmac@aol.com
- Hours: 8:00-5:00 M-F
- Contact: Janet Camillo, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes
- Internet Access: Available to AOL account holders
- Special Collections: Historical collection of Virginia codes; Virginia practice material
- Baltimore County Circuit Court Law Library
- County Courts Building, 401 Bosley Avenue, Towson, MD 21204
- 410-887-3086 | bsandison@co.ba.md.us
- Hours: 8:30-9:00 M-T, 8:30-5:00 Friday, 9:00-4:00 Saturday
- Contact: Betsy Sandison, Director
- Photocopiers:$0.15/page
- Internet Access: Public terminal available in near future
- Other Resources: CD-ROM collection; Lexis and Westlaw available for attorneys with accounts
- Special Collections: State codes back to ~1900; all Maryland County codes, Baltimore City codes; old English reporters
- Catholic University of America, Columbia School of Law, Judge Kathryn J. Dufour Library
- 3600 John McCormack Road, NE, Washington, D.C. 20064
- 202-274-4350(Hours), 202-319-6284 (Reference) | Fax 202-319-5511
- Hours: 8:00am-11:45pm M-Th, 8:00am-9:45pm F, 9:00am-9:45pm Sat, 10:00am-11:45pm Sun
- Contact: Pat Petit, Director
- Photocopiers: Available, must purchase copy card
- Internet Access: 2 public terminals available
- Other Resources: Paid subscription resources limited to law school students, faculty, and staff
- Notes: Visitors must sign in and show photo i.d.; very limited parking; closed to the public during exams
- Enoch Pratt Free Library
- State Library Resource Center/Central Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
- Maryland Department: 410-396-5430 | Fax 410-396-9537 mdx@mail.pratt.lib.md.us
- Hours:10-8 M-W, 10-5 Sat, closed Th, Sun
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet access: Yes
- Fairfax Public Law Library
- 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030
- 703-246-2170 | Fax 703-359-6003 | FairfaxLaw@aol.com
- Hours: 8:00-4:30 M-F
- Contact: Bobbie Denny, Director
- Photocopiers: $0.20/page | Internet Access: None
- Other Resources: CD-ROM collection
- Special Collections: Major emphasis is Virginia law
- George Mason University School of Law Library
- 3401 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22201-4498
- 703-993-8100
- Hours: 8:00am-10:45pm M-Th, 8:00am-9:45pm F, 10am-7:45pm Sat, 12noon-10:45 Sun
- Contact: Deborah Keene
- Photocopiers:Yes | Internet Access: Ask Staff
- Other Resources: Paid subscripton resources limited to students, faculty, and staff
- Special Collection: comprehensive Virginia law materials
- Note: Visitors must sign in and show photo i.d.
- George Washington University, Jacob Burns Law Library
- 716 20th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20052-4306
- 202-944-7336
- Only the governent documents depository collection is open to the public.
- Georgetown University, Edward Bennett Williams Law Library
- 111 G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001-1489
- 202-662-9130
- Only the governent documents depository collection is open to the public.
- Howard County Circuit Court, C. Ferdinand Sybert Law Library
- Web Site: Future
- 8360 Court Ave., Ellicott City, MD 21403
- 410-313-2135 | Fax 410-313-3192 | ebutler@co.ho.md.us
- Hours: 8:30-4:30 M-F
- Contact:Edita Butler, Judicial Law Librarian
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet Access: Ask Staff
- Other Resources: Paid subscription resources limited to staff
- Special Collection: historic collection of Session laws
- Howard University, Allen Mercer Daniel Law Library
- 2900 Van Ness Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008-1106
- 202-806-8045 | rleiter@law.howard.edu
- Hours: 8:00am-Midnight M-Th, 8:00am-9:00pm F, 9:00am-9:00pm Sat, 12:00pm-Midnight Sun (also Extended and Reduced schedules)
- Contact: Richard Leiter, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet Access: Yes
- Other Resources: Paid subscription resources limited to law school students, faculty, and staff
- Visitors must sign in and show photo i.d.
- Law Library of Congress
- 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20540
- 202-707-5079
- To use the library, must register with the mandatory reader registration program. Call 202-707-7400.
- Maryland State Law Library
- Web site includes pathfinders on name changes, guardianship of adults, landlord-tenant law, and more. Also includes Directory of Maryland Circuit Court Law Libraries. The Maryland State Law Library answers questions in person, by telephone, or email.
- Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building, 361 Rowe Boulevard, Annapolis, MD 21401-1697
- 410-260-1430 | Fax 410-974-2063 | mdlaw.library@courts.state.md.us
- Hours: 8:00am-4:30pm MWF, 8:00am-9:00pm T,Th, 9:00am-4:00pm Sat
- Contact: Michael Miller, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes | Public Internet Terminal: Yes
- Other Resources: CD and on-line resources
- Special Collections: Up-to-date collection of self-help materials, Maryland history and genealogical source materials, John James Audubon's Birds of America elephant folios, consists of a complete set of 435 hand colored bird prints first subscribed to by the State of Maryland directly from Audubon in 1833, and The Maryland Women's Hall of Fame
- Montgomery County Circuit Court Law Library
- 50 Maryland Avenue, Rm 326, Judicial Center, Rockville, MD 20850
- 240-777-9120 | Fax 301-217-7275
- Hours: 7:30am-6:30pm M-F (closed holidays)
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet access: Limited to staff
- Other resources: CD-Rom collection
- Prince Georges County Circuit Court Law Library
- Web Address: None
- 14735 Main Street, Rm. 172, Upper Marlboro, MD 20773
- 301-952-3438 | Fax 301-952-2770 pgregory@capcon.net
- Hours: 8:30am-4:30pm M-F
- Contact: Pamela Gregory, Anne Morrison
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet Access: None
- Other resources: CD-ROM collection
- Special collections: original MD Reports, all superseded MD Codes
- University of Baltimore Law Library
- Law Center, 1415 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201410-837-4584(Hours), 410-837-4554 (Reference Desk) | egreenberg@ubmail.ubalt.edu
- Hours: 8am-Midnight M-F, 9am-Midnight Sat & Sun
- Contact: Emily Greenberg, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet access: Yes
- Other resources: CD-ROM Collection, LegalTrac
- University of the District of Columbia Law Library
- 4200 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Building #39, Washington, D.C. 20008-1122
- 202-274-7310 | bbaker@firebirds.udc.edu
- Hours 8:00am-12 M-F, 10:00am-10:00pm Sat, noon-midnight Sun
- Contact: Brian Baker, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes | Public Internet Terminal: Yes
- Other Resources: Paid subscripton resources limited to law school students, faculty, and staff
- University of Maryland at Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall Law Library
- NOTE: The Law Library is moving to temporary quarters in the former Health Sciences Library building at 111 South Greene Street, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, until sometime in 2002. The phone numbers will remain unchanged.
- 410-706-6502 | Fax 410-706-0794
- Hours: 8:00am-11:00pm, M-F, 9:00am-8:00pm Sat, 10:00am-10:00pm, Sun
- Contact: Barbara Gontrum, Director
- Photocopiers: Yes | Internet Access: Yes
- Other Resources: Paid subscription resources limited to law school students, faculty, and staff
