Please excuse cross-posting.
The Brooklyn Supreme Court Law Library has a unique collection of New York
Second Department, Court of Appeals, and Brooklyn trial court briefs from
about 1850 to 1983 in hard copy. The access method is through the original
court clerk entry books. We want to make preservation copies of these
indexes. My assignment is to learn about the possibility of obtaining a
grant to fund this project
Have any of the libraries on this list serve obtained grants for
preservation of brief indexes?
We have not entered these records into OCLC. Have any libraries on this list
entered descriptions of their brief holdings into OCLC or RLG? People find
out about us by luck. The most frequent requests are from law professors,
but last year, a grad student researching New York's harbor ecology used
briefs from the 19th century. A group of fishermen sued some factories
because pollution harmed their trade. The briefs included maps of fishing
areas and industrial development. I suspect our materials could be useful to
a broader range of researcher than we law librarians might first think.
Please forward responses to :
Jacqueline Cantwell
Senior Law Librarian
Brooklyn Supreme Court Law Library
Jacqueline Cantwell
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