Library
Staff
| Larry Story |
Joan Cochet |
| Librarian |
Library Specialist |
The Library is staffed with professionals dedicated to
providing knowledge and information resources to its constituents through
direct service and online resources.
Contact Us
E-mail:
library@ncsc.org
Call:
800-616-6164
(Ask for the Library)
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Library
Mission
The National Center
for State Courts Library supports the operations of the National Center
by providing access to information resources, providing services that meet
the information needs of its library users and by serving as the primary
archival repository for the Center's internal documents and records of
historical significance.
Library
Vision
The
National Center for State Courts Library will be recognized as the world's
leading library in the field of court administration and will serve as the
central nationwide repository for the work products of state court
systems.
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The Library holds over 36,000
items in various formats: print, video, CD-ROM and microfiche.
As part of its print collection, the Library receives – either by
subscription or donation – approximately 200 professional journals,
court newsletters, annual reports and other periodicals. (For detailed
information regarding our collection practices, please see our Collection
Development Policy.) Additionally, in pursuit of our mission to
assist constituents in finding relevant information regardless of its
physical location, we provide access to an increasing number of external
electronic resources through our online
catalog (for help with our catalog, please see our user
guide).
The Library strives to
provide new content to support the mission of the Center and continuously
adds new materials to the Library collection. Browse
a list of titles recently added to our print holdings (updated monthly).
We have also compiled a list
of many state
court newsletters available online.
As dictated by the Center's
Records Management Policy, the Library is the official repository of all
official National Center for State Courts publications, reports and studies.
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In
addition to serving the information needs of the Center's staff, the Library also loans resources and provides photocopy
services (please contact the library regarding photocopying fees and
postage) directly to members of the court community, such as judges,
court administrators, court clerks, and other court personnel. Others
are encouraged to request library
resources using the interlibrary loan service available through their
employer’s library or another library with which they are affiliated.
We are also happy to provide basic reference service to court personnel.
Please bear in mind, however, that our staff is small and must strictly
limit the time spent on reference requests.
Library Collection
Development Policy
The National Center for State Court's Library Collection Development Policy
is a tool used to support the Library's mission and goals and to help build a collection that is more responsive to the needs of its users. The policy defines and communicates to the National Center for State Court’s staff and constituents the scope of the library collection and plans for
future development of the collection.
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