Library, Archives, and History

MARYLAND STATE LIBRARY
Library Committee

Chairman: Frederick W. Brune,
Chief Judge, Court of Appeals

William L. Henderson, Associate Judge, Court of Appeals
Hall Hammond, Associate Judge, Court of Appeals

kelson J. Molter, Director

Court of Appeals Building, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 8-3371

The State Library was established by Chapter 63, Acts of 1826.
The Library Committee, which is composed of at least three mem-
bers appointed by the Court of Appeals (Code 1957, Art. 41, sees. 166-
69), exercises general supervision over the Library and appoints the
Director (Code 1957, Art. 41, sec. 170).

The Library consists of a legal section of approximately seventy-two
thousand (72,000) volumes, and a reference section of approximately
forty-eight thousand (48,000) volumes. The reference section contains
many rare books, maps, and documents, including the subscription
edition of the four elephant folio volumes of Audubon's Birds of Amer-
ica, the most complete file now in existence of the early issues (1745-
1838) of the Maryland Goaette, bound volumes and microfilm copies
of the Baltimore Sunpapers from 1837 until the present, as well as
other early newspapers and periodicals. In addition, the Library pos-
sesses an almost complete set of the United States Documents, Serial
number series, dating back to the Continental Congress.

The Law Library, which contains all state, federal, and many
foreign court reports, session laws, codes, legal texts, compendiums,
legal periodicals, and other legal reference material, is an integral
part of the operation of the Court of Appeals of Maryland and fur-
nishes legal, reference and research material and facilities to the
court, judges, lawyers, State departments and officials, and the general
public. The Library is designated as a United States Depository
Library. All State officials and agencies are required by law to place
one copy of all of their reports and other publications in the Library
(Code 1957, Art. 41, sec. 144).

The Library is the distributing agency for the session laws and
journals (Code 1957, Art. 41, sees. 162-64) and the Maryland Reports
(Code 1967, Art. 41, see. 165). The Library also distributes the
Annotated Code of Maryland under the direction of the Board of
Public Works.

Appropriations 1961 1962

General Funds $32,638 $34,371
Staff: 3.

HALL OF RECORDS COMMISSION

Chairman: Frederick W. Brune, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals
Vice Chairman: Richard D. Weigle, President, St. John's College
J. Millard Tawes, Governor; Louis L. Goldstein, Comptroller;
George L. Radcliffe, President, Maryland Historical Society;
Herbert J. Watt, President, The Peabody Institute; Milton S.
Elsenhower, President, The Johns Hopkins University.
Morris L. Radoff, Archivist and Records Administrator

Gust Skordas, Assistant Archivist

Rex Beach, Assistant Records Administrator