TMLL Library News

Library holiday hours

The Library's holiday hours will begin on Dec. 18. Hours for the period from Dec. 18 through Jan. 18 are listed below.  Regular hours resume on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.

Friday, Dec.18	8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 19	CLOSED
Sunday, Dec. 20	CLOSED
Monday, Dec. 21	8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 22	8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 23 - Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010	CLOSED
Monday, Jan.4, - Friday, Jan. 8	8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 9	CLOSED
Sunday, Jan. 10	CLOSED
Monday, Jan. 11, -Thursday, Jan. 14	8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, Jan.15	8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 16	9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 17	10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 18 (MLK Day)	CLOSED

Previous Exams Available Online

As you're studying for exams, don't forget that the library has a number of previous exams online.  You can find them at http://www.law.umaryland.edu.ezproxy.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/services/exams/index.html or by choosing Exam File from the drop-down Quicklinks box on the top left of every library web page.  You will need to enter your UMB ID and password for access to the file.  Exams are listed by the professor's name as well as by course name.

As you're studying for exams, don't forget that the library has a number of previous exams online.  You can find them at http://www.law.umaryland.edu.ezproxy.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/services/exams/index.html or by choosing Exam File from the drop-down Quicklinks box on the top left of every library web page.  You will need to enter your UMB ID and password for access to the file.  Exams are listed by the professor's name as well as by course name.

New Civil Rights Commission Documents

 

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library has released fourteen new documents as part of its Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.  The reports and publications can be found on the project web site or by following the individual links below.  Highlights include the September 2009 report on the effects of the recent economic downturn on the housing market and a 1971 report on zoning in Baltimore County that was not widely distributed and is available in electronic form for the first time from the digital project site.

1. Letter: Commission to Alberto Gonzales: Voter Intimidation of Hispanic Surnamed Voters. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. October 19, 2006.
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[Commission Report]

2. Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census: A Briefing Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Briefing Report. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. April 7, 2006.
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[Commission Report]

3. Minorities in Special Education: A Briefing Report Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Briefing Report. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. washington, DC. December 3, 2007.
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[Commission Report]

4. Voter Fraud and Voter Intimidation: A Briefing Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Held in Washington, DC, on October 13, 2006. Briefing Report. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. 2008.
CR1.2:V96/2006
[Commission Report]

5. Briefing: Review of the Department of Justice's Plans to Monitor Voting Rights Enforcement for the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. June 6, 2008.
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[Commission Report]

6. Briefing: The Effects of the Community Reinvestment Act and its Alleged Effects on the Mortgage Crisis. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. March 20, 2009.
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[Commission Report]

7. Letter: Commission to Loretta King: Voter Intimidation and the New Black Panther Party. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. June 16, 2009.
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[Commission Report]

8. Letter: Abigail Thernstrom and Ashley L. Taylor, Jr. to Loretta King; Voter Intimidation and the New Black Panther Party. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. June 22, 2009.
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[Commission Report]

9. Letter: Commission to Eric Holder: Voter Intimidation and the New Black Panther Party. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. August 10, 2009.
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[Commission Report]

10. Civil Rights and the Mortgage Crisis. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. September , 2009.
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[Commission Report]

11. Letter: Commission to United States Senate: Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. June 16, 2009.
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[Commission Report]

12. Walk Together Children. Iowa Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. May 22, 1971.
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[Commission Report]

13. Report on School Desegregation in 14 Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland Counties. Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. February, 1966.
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[Commission Report]

14. The Zoning and Planning Process in Baltimore County and its Effect on Minority Group Residents. Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, DC. March, 1971.
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[Commission Report]

The Switch in Time that Saved Nine

Thanks to the Federal Depository Library Program exchange network the Thurgood Marshall Law Library now owns a full set of the official 1937 Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on S. 1392 (1936): Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary.

While mundane in appearance – the documents are bound in the typical dull brown Government Printing Office style paper - the hearings tell the story of a key moment in the history of the United States Supreme Court and in the Court’s relationship with the Executive Branch. The publications are indicative of the important historical materials that make up the library’s government documents collection.  For more about the library’s government documents collection contact the library or visit the federal resources website.    

Select resources on President Roosevelt’s efforts to pack the court:

Packing the court: the rise of judicial power and the coming crisis of the Supreme Court.   James MacGregor Burns.   New York: Penguin Press, 2009. 

FDR v. the Constitution: the court-packing fight and the triumph of democracy.  Burt Solomon.   New York: Walker & Co., 2009. 

The President and the Court: Reinterpreting the Court-packing Episode of 1937. Michael Nelson. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 103, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), p. 267-293.

The Breakup of the Roosevelt Supreme Court: The Contribution of History and Biography. Robert Harrison. 2 Law & Hist. Rev. 165 (1984).

The 75th Congress and the legislative program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

FDR and the Supreme Court

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Thanksgiving weekend hours

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the library's hours will be:

• Wed., Nov. 25: 7:30 am - 10:00 pm

• Thurs. Nov. 26: CLOSED

• Fri. Nov. 27: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

• Sat. Nov. 28: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

• Sun. Nov. 29: 10:00 am - 10:00 pm

We will return to regular hours on Monday, Nov. 30

Copying and Printing in the Library

Here are some tips for printing and photocopying in the library.  You can get help at the library desk with printing, photocopying, or adding money to your UMB One Card account.

Your UMB One Card is used to pay for photocopying, as well as printing at the GoPrint Pay-Per-Print stations.  You can add money to your UMB One Card at the UMB One Card vending machine located in the Imaging Room on level 2; the vending machine does not charge a fee and accepts cash and major credit cards.  You can also pay online at the One Card web site, but there is a $ 0.75 cent charge for each transaction.

Photocopying

Three photocopiers are located in the Imaging Room on level 2 of the library. Copies are $ 0.12 cents per page.

Printing

Printers are located all four levels of the library. The cost for printing is $ 0.10 cents per page.

When printing from your laptop, locate a printer following directions available at Student Laptops on the law school website.

All library computers print to printers on the same floor as that computer. Use your MyUMB ID and password to log into the library computers. The MyUMB ID and password are the same as your SURFS username and password; if you are a first time user, or you forgot your password, go to https://myumb.umaryland.edu .

Lexis and Westlaw

You can print Lexis or Westlaw documents for FREE from any computer, any place—home, class, the library, a coffee shop—at any time, 24 hours a day! The steps are easy. First choose a TAL Center Printer from the print drop down menu in Lexis or Westlaw to print. Then, the next time you are at school, collect your print job from the Lexis and Westlaw printers, located in the Imaging Room on the 4^th floor of the library. Lexis and Westlaw student representatives sort student print jobs by last name and file them on the shelves in this room.

A print job will NOT be sent to the free Lexis and Westlaw printers if you choose the PDF version of a document or if you email documents to yourself as Word files.

Blackboard

Any documents posted on Blackboard can be printed for $ .05 cents per page.

November 9, 1989 The Opening of the Berlin Wall

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As a result of World War II, East and West Germany were established as separate states in 1949 -- but there was a steady outflow of eastern citizens who thought that they could find a better life in West Germany.  As a result of the forced collectivization of eastern agriculture, as well as other factors, this outflow increased very sharply toward the end of the 1950s.  Finally, in order to stop the wave of departures, the East German government (with the acquiescence of the Soviet Union) constructed the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and, at the same time, it fortified the entire East-West German border. 

 

The Wall and the border regime basically halted the departure of East German citizens.  A few people were occasionally able to slip through to the west, but hundreds of (mostly young) East German citizens were killed when they attempted to escape across the border.

 

In the late 1980s, various economic and other problems in the Soviet Union and its “satellite” states led to increased pressure on the Wall and the border regime.  In the summer of 1989, for example, hundreds of East German citizens were able to flee over the Hungarian border to Austria, and others took refuge in the West German Embassy in Prague and were transported to the west. 

 

Finally, on the night of November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall was opened by East German border officials (perhaps as the result of a mistaken communication) and thousands of East Berliners spent a night of celebration in West Berlin.  Thereafter the Wall was permanently opened (and eventually dismantled), and the unification of Germany, and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, followed in succeeding years. 

 

On November 9, 2009, therefore, we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, which led to seismic changes in the political structure of Europe and the world.

 

The German Unification Collection of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library focuses on the complex legal and constitutional issues of that era: the period leading up to German unification, the events of unification itself, and the complex and sometimes bitter aftermath of that epochal historical event.

New Collections and Online Guides at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library is pleased to announce the release of several new online resources in the library’s African Americans in the Law Special Collections.

The first of these is a multi-part introduction to materials in the Larry Gibson Collection. Professor Larry S. Gibson has played a leadership role in the campaigns of many Maryland and national politicians beginning with his first effort organizing the campaign of Joseph Howard for Judge on the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City in 1968. Success in the Howard campaign was followed by work on the local campaigns of Milton Allen, William H. Murphy, Paul Chester, Wayne Curry and Kurt Schmoke. At the national level he has worked on the presidential campaigns of George McGovern, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. The website – Crafting Victories – features documents, images, audio and video from this extraordinarily rich collection of Maryland and Baltimore political history.  - http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/craftvic/

In addition, the library has launched two new image galleries via the Law School’s Digital Commons project. The first focuses on campaign images from the Gibson collection while the second collection focuses on photographs from the Baltimore City Chapter of the NAACP.  http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/special_collections/

Finally, the Thurgood Marshall Law Library has partnered with Maryland Public Television to provide access to the 2001 documentary – Color at the Bar. This hour long video presentation created by MPT and the Monumental Bar Association effectively tells the story of how African American lawyers secured the right to practice law in Maryland.  http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/aalsc/index.html

Westlaw and Lexis passwords for new students

If you did not pick up your Westlaw and Lexis passwords last week during Orientation, you can come by the Library desk (right inside the Library entrance) on Wednesday, Sept. 2, from 4 - 6:30 p.m. to pick up the information.  It's important that you then register your passwords online (you'll get instructions on this) so that your passwords are activated.

New Library Catalog Interface

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library has adopted a new interface for its catalog, making it much easier to search for books and journals in the library and beyond.

The new interface is provided by WorldCat Local.  It uses easy keyword searching, and you can include author, title, or subject words, as well as dates in one easy search. 

Results are displayed with TMLL holdings showing first, following by holdings at other University of Maryland system libraries, and then by items held at other libraries around the country, and even the world. 

Once you have your search results, you can use the filters on the left side of the screen to limit them (you can limit by format, such as book, article, Internet resources), author, year, language or subject.

To search the catalog, either use the search box on the Library's home page, or choose Library Catalog from the drop-down menu under Catalog & Collections on any Library web page.