[Prodev] Researching other states

[Bryan, Jennifer Lynn]

Manz is the 2000 edition of Mary Fisher's Guide.

There is also:

State Legislative Sourcebook (A resource guide to legislative information in
the fifty states)Topeka, Kan. : Government Research Service, c1985- (Annual)

and 

Union list of legislative histories : 47th Congress, 1881--101st Congress,
1990 / compiled by Law Librarians' Society of the District of Columbia.  6th
ed. Littleton, Colo. : F.B. Rothman & Co., 1991.

Jennifer

-----Original Message-----
From: Gray, Kevin [mailto:kgray@lawschool.gonzaga.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 1:05 PM
To: 'prodev@aallnet.org'
Subject: RE: [Prodev] Researching other states


My first stop for other states is William Manz' "Guide to State Legislative
and Administrative Materials", AALL Pub. Series No. 61...it gets me started.


kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kathie Sullivan [SMTP:KSullivan@drm.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:24 AM
> To:	'CONNIE CROSBY'; prodev@aallnet.org
> Subject:	RE: [Prodev] Researching other states
> 
> first, I panic.
> second, I find someone I know in another state and call them to see if
> there
> is a guide or if something exists in that state. My example from yesterday
> applies here. When I needed to know more about Massachusetts LH in a
> hurry,
> I called someone who provided me with a prepared guide. Then I could read
> and examine, ask better questions when I called the state or legislative
> library or a law school. If some document has told me a particular item is
> not collected in a state, I don't waste my time hunting for it.
> 
> So the URLs we discovered yesterday will help ME a lot because of the way
> I
> start my research. I also look for AALL Publications (The Occasional
> Series), LLJ articles, other state bar journals for such "guides" and keep
> those around.
> 
> Naturally, these same techniques apply when researching other countries.
> 
> Kathie Sullivan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CONNIE CROSBY [mailto:crosbyc@weirfoulds.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:39 PM
> To: prodev@aallnet.org
> Subject: [Prodev] Researching other states
> 
> 
> Very interesting discussion so far--I am learning a lot.  So far it seems
> to
> me people are primarily discussing research in your own states.  How do
> you
> deal with research for another state?  Or do you not get requests for that
> type of research?  
> 
> Connie
> 
> 
> Connie Crosby
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> Barristers & Solicitors
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