Research Hours Logged for Christine Alvey (Updated through Feb. 6, 2001)
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October 2000
October 18, 2000 5.5 hours
Searched Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw for 9 cases from Everstine's Compact of 1785 table of contents, the Juno/LaGalga case in Sun articles of 7/16/2000 and 7/17/2000, and Md v. West Va.; entered citations for these in mdag.net series 16, and downloaded cases to C:\potomac\downloads\cases\
October 20, 2000 4.5 hours
Searched "potomac river" in COMBINED FEDERAL & STATE CASELAW - U.S. (Lexis-Nexis); downloaded these to C:\POTOMAC\downloads\20001019_01.txt; entered citations for these 250 cases in mdag.net series 16
October 23, 2000 2.25 hours
10:00 - 11:00am Set up log for tracking hours.
1:30 - 2:30pm Scanned 2 articles and entered them in database: Morris, Richard B. "The Mount Vernon conference: First Step Toward Philadelphia," This Constitution, No. 6 (spring 1985), pp. 38 - 40. McManus, Nancy. "The Bicentennial of the Mount Vernon Conference," This Constitution, No. 8 (fall 1985), pp. 43 - 45;
registered for 14 day free-trial access to certain Maryland materials on Westlaw.
3:00 - 3:15pm Discussed price and options with Tom Bazel, Lexis-Nexis sales representative.
October 24, 2000 1 hour
2:00 - 3:00pm Researched Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis services, comparing their content, presentation, cost, etc.
October 26, 2000 1 hour
Located a copy of Littlefield, Douglas R[obert]. "A History of the Potomac Company and Its Colonial Predecessors, 1748 - 1828," thesis, University of Maryland, 1979; contacted Littlefield for permission.
October 27, 2000 6.5 hours
11:00am - 2:30pm Drove to McKeldin Library, UMCP, to copy the Littlefield thesis because Maryland Room would not lend, and drove back to the Archives.
3:20 - 6:20pm Scanned Littlefield thesis, checked it for completeness, and entered citation into mdag.net
October 31, 2000 hours 1 hour
10:30 - 11:30am Converted downloaded cases named in Everstine, Carl N. The Compact of 1785, (Research Report No. 26). Baltimore, MD: Chesapeake-Potomace Study Commission, 1946, from .txts to htmls.
November 2, 2000 7.5 hours
10:00am - 12:00 noon Uploaded cases; downloaded other cases, i.e., from Lexis.com natural language search "Potomac River" in combined Federal and State Case Law.
1:00 - 6:30pm continued above download.
November 3, 2000 7.25 hours
8:15 - 11:30am continued above download.
12:55 - 1:55pm continued above download.
2:20 - 3:00pm continued above download.
4:00 - 6:00pm continued above download.
November 4, 2000 4 hours
11:00am - 1:00pm continued above download.
2:00 - 4:00pm continued above download.
November 6, 2000 7 hours
8:00 - 11:00am continued above download.
11:15 - 11:30am continued above download.
11:45am - 12:15pm continued above download.
12:30 - 1:00pm continued above download.
2:05 - 2:20pm continued above download.
3:30 - 6:00pm continued above download.
November 8, 2000 8:75 hours
8:30am - 12 noon & 12:45pm - 6:00pm
Located in State Archives and State Law Library, and scanned 32 items from Laws of Maryland (MSA SC 5330-3-1 through 5330-3-320;
Produced work orders for scans done by Ray Connor;
Xeroxed and scanned some of these materials myself;
Searched and downloaded US Attorney General Opinions (e-mail of 11-8-00 7:00am);
Searched books and articles (e-mail of 11-8-00 7:32am).
November 9, 2000 6.75 hours
8:30am - 2:00pm Online searching; went to USNA Nimitz Library to copy to articles.
3:00 - 4:00pm Went to State Law Library to search for relevant volumes of Julius Gobel's Alexander Hamilton's Law Practice (5 vols.).
4:15 - 5:30pm Searched for 3 US Attorney General Opinions at the State Law Library and again in Lexis.com
November 13, 2000 6.5 hours
8:30am - 11:30 Re: voting rights cases - borrowed vol. from State Law Library; downloaded to disk US Supreme Court cases that Charles J[oseph] Bonaparte was council for; pulled Bonaparte biography for Ed.
12:30 - 12:45pm Went to State Law Library to borrow 1831 Laws of Maryland.
12:45pm - 6:00pm Scanned articles (Nute, Bittner, McCoy), entered citations into database Library Series; worked on tracking down Lee and Breckenridge US Attorney General opinions.
November 14, 2000 1.5 hours
10:30am - 12:00 noon returned materials to State Law Library; composed e-mails to Ed re: status of work; entered citations for Wirt opinion, converted .txt file to an html and uploaded; searched again for Breckenridge and Lee opinions.
November 16, 2000 1 hour
8:30 - 9:30am prepared scan order for Ray Connor to do Dowd article and entered citation into database Library series; returned vol. 9 of History of Supreme Court of the united States to the Law Library; scanned 2 missing pages of Dowd article.
November 21, 2000 2 hours
2:30 - 4:30pm attended meeting with Ed re: procedures for scanning and posting Potomac work; worked on 1831 Laws of Maryland; Govpubs database work on Hanson's Laws - straightened out inherited accessioning problems.
November 29, 2000 7.5 hours
9:00 - 9:30am followed up on e-mail from 11-22 to 11-29 when I was out sick; continued search for Breckenridge and Lee opinions - phoned US Department of Justice Library for advice.
9:30am - 1:30pm gathered, scanned or downloaded, and posted previously "clipped" articles from Sun and Post re: Potomac Case; obtained an interlibrary loan copy of Virginia Tidal and Coastal Law by Lynda Lee Butler and Margit Livingstone; searched online publishers and used book stores for a copy, finally referred to Harvest Books, who will search for it for up to 6 months; worked on getting Lexis-Nexis software delivered and installed, and arranged for training next month at the Courthouse, Church Circle, Annapolis.
3:00 - 6:00pm
Continued scanning and posting newspaper articles (uploaded, corrected entries, and checked work).
November 30, 2000 3.75 hours
9:00 - 9:15am Searched Lexis for US Attorney General letters (perhaps 2 missing citations are letters, not opinions); verified with Lexis that USAG letters are not in Lexis.com.
10:00 - 11:30am updated online research log of work and hours from handwritten log.
12 noon - 1:30pm Scanned and posted remaining new articles (those originally requested by Ed in hardcopy on 9/26/2000), learned to use tools for cleaning up scans.
3:20 - 4:50pm Continued above, e-mailed Ed re new entries.
December 1, 2000 .75 hours
9:00 - 9:30am Worked with Dave Shackelford Shepardizing cases.
3:45 - 4:00 Showed Dave Shackelford how, in Series 16, to upload cases as HTML, enter citations, and add links.
December 4, 2000 .75 hours
9:15 - 10:00am Searched for, described, and added 79 US 418 & 59 US 71 to Series 16.
December 6, 2000 9.5 hours
8:05am - 6:35pm Checked scans of Butler's Virginia Tidal and Coastal Law (881 pages/tifs) for clarity of reproduction and completeness.
And various other Potomac River Case tasks.
December 8, 2000 4 hours
8:15 - 10:15am Downloaded 4 Gill and Johnson 1 from Lexis, converted to an HTML, and uploaded as MSA SC 5330-16-257; compared Government Publications hardcopy version to Lexis.com (no differences); discussed corrections to Butler scans with Ray Connor.
3:30 - 5:30pm Checked Butler HTMLs; downloaded 3 files re 335 US 3 from Lexis and uploaded them to MSA SC 5330-16-260; searched Lexis for a case (32 MD 501), for Dave Shackelford & e-mailed it to him.
December 11, 2000 8.5 hours
8:05am - 12:35pm Posted MSA SC 5330-31-18; checked to make sure that all cases detailed in an e-mail had been posted; worked on tracking down a copy of Evidence to Sustain the Claim of Maryland ... (Whyte and Jones).
1:30 - 6:00pm Checked 39 citations against database to be sure that they had been entered in MSA SC 5330; continued search for Whyte's Evidence, and searched for a copy of Senate Document 610, 26th Cong., 1st session (1840).
December 12, 2000 7 hours
8:30 - 9:00am Posted reamining 3 Compact cases.
9:00 - 11:00am Research at State law Library (Senate Doc. 610 and related material).
1:10 - 5:40pm Went to University of Maryland College Park to photocopy Evidence to sustain the Claim of Maryland ... ; returned to State Archives and scanned photocopy.
December 13, 2000 5.5 hours
8:20 - 9:20am Searched Lexis for Dave Shackelford for a Court of Claims case re Great Falls Manufacturing.
3:20 - 7:50pm Various tasks for Potomac River Case.
December 14, 2000 11 hours
8:05am - 7:35pm (with 30 minutes for lunch deducted) Research at State Law Library and United States Naval Academy Nimitz Library; on-line searching; meeting with Ed Papenfuse; and database entries.
December 18, 2000 8.5 hours
8:00am - 5:30pm (minus 1 hour for lunch) Searched for and scanned the following: Brief of Appellant, Wharton v. Wise, No. 1054 (U.S. 1893) and Final Report of Special Master Stanley Reed; searched Niles Register Index against the term Potomac; and went to State law Library to borrow material.
December 19, 2000 8.5 hours
9:00am - 6:30pm (minus 1 hour for lunch) Went to Nimitz Library to return borrowed copy of George Mason Constitutionalist and to recopy part of the Woodrow Wilson article; went to State Law Library to use U.S. Serial Set.
December 20, 2000 2 hours
Went to State Law Library to use U.S. Serial Set and to search Virginia Acts and Statutes.
December 21, 2000 4.5 hours
1:00pm - 5:40pm Met with Ed Papenfuse re status of work; went to State Law Library re March 3, 1854 Act; searched for Attorney General materials; pulled Niles' Register volumes for scanning and did work associated with requesting scans; worked on acquiring original materials for ex parte Marsh and copies of the Bill of Complaint and Answer to Bill of Complaint, Virginia v. Maryland.
December 22, 2000 1.5 hours
8:30 - 10:00am Worked on Virginia case and finished Niles' Register work.
December 26, 2000 7.5 hours
8:30 am - 5:00pm (minus 1 hour for lunch) Preparation for and research trip to Library of Congress.
December 27, 2000 9 hours
8:15am - 6:15pm (minus 1 hour for lunch) Dropped off for scanning materials from previous day's work at Library of Congress; preparation for and research trip to Library of Congress.
December 28, 2000 9 hours
8:15 am - 6:15pm (minus 1 hour for lunch) Dropped off for scanning materials from previous day's work at Library of Congress; preparation for and research trip to Library of Congress and United States Supreme Court Library.
January 2, 2001 9 hours
8:10am - 6:10pm (minus 1 hour for lunch) Put Wearmouth's Research Report (of various pagination) into proper order; continued search for a copy of Potomac River Basin Report (House Doc 343) available via interlibrary loan; returned borrowed materials to State Law Library and to Thurgood Marshall Law Library; requested copies of Bill of Complaint (1957) and Answer to Bill of Complaint (1958) from Supreme Court Library; updated research log.
January 4, 2001 6 hours
8:15 - 8:30am retrieved 4 Gil and Johnson 1 and prepared scan order; worked with jennifer to locate associated case papers
10:15am - 1:15pm & 2:45 - 4:45pm scanned Bill of Complaint (1957) and Answer to Bill of Compliant (1958) Va. v. Md. (Scans needed extra work because of quality of original.); Spoke with Eisenhower Library at Hopkins about borrowing Potomac River Basin Report (HR Doc 343).
January 5, 2001 1.75 hours
8:15 - 8:30am updated research log.
9:00 - 10:00am Searched Lexis for 1817 opinion by Judge Marshall for Dave Shackelford. Not found on Lexis. Ordered phtocopy from from microfilm from Hopkins' Eisenhower Library.
1:25 - 1:55pm Continued search for original papers for Ex parte Marsh.
January 8, 2001 1.75 hours
1:45 - 2:30pm Went to USNA Nimitz Library to borrow Potomac River Basin Report (House Doc 343).
January 10, 2001
4:40 - 6:15pm Went to State Law Library for 1859 - 1860 Va. Act re riparian rights on the Potomac River and an Act Regulating Inland navigation of the potomac Above the Tidewater and did scanning.
January 11, 2001 1.5 hours
8:30 - 10:00am Went to State Law Library looking for the above and helped a new intern find an HR Doc from 38th Cong and a Statute cite , and Shepardized a case for Dave Shackelford. January 12, 2001 .75 hours
8:15am - 9:10pm prepared tifs, posted scans on mdag.net - Va. material; added new descriptions and edited others; borrowed Williams' Index of Enrolled Bills from University of Baltimore Law Library.
January 13, 2001 1 hour
12:30 - 1:30 Continued above work on Va. material. Checked for e-mail from Ed Papenfuse.
January 16, 2001 8 hours
8:15am - 1:15pm and 2:15pm - 5:15pm worked on Va. material again (above cont.); updated research log.
January 18, 2001 6.5 hours
12:00 - 12:30pm Uploaded scanned material to mdag.net; met with Ed Papenfuse re: legislative history for Laws of Virginia 1793 (Oct.) chpts 24 and 42
12:30 - 5:00pm Worked on legislative history at State law Library
5:00 - 6:30 returned to Archives; worked on tracking down a copy of the enrolled bill re riparian rights index in Williams; prepared 2 scan orders; photocopied and posted Virginia material in Pimsleur's checklists of Basic American Legal Publications.
January 19, 2001 7.5 hours
9:15am - 12:45pm Worked on legislative history here and at the State Law Library
1:50 - 5:50pm Continued work on legislative history, including reading background material in Mike High's The C&O Canal Companion.
January 22, 2001 4 hours
1:45 - 5:45pm Worked on locating, scanning, and posting material cited in Whealton
Searched various online library catalogs for a copy of 1777 Virginia Senate journal to borrow. Eisenhower Library at JHU had it on microfilm. Called their interlibrary loan department about having an entry photocopied.
January 23, 2001 9 hours
8:20am - 6:20pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) returned borrowed materials to State Law Library; prepared work orders for scans of material footnoted in Whealton, and scanned and posted same.
January 24, 2001 8 hours
8:20am - 5:20pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Prepared work orders for Whealton references, and scanned and posted same; scanned and posted information about Virginia legal materials (various codes)
January 25, 2001 8 hours
8:30am - 9:00pm Posted news articles in Series 31
9:00am - 5:30pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Met with Ed Papenfuse re: Lexis.com and to review status of Potomac work generally; prepared scan order fot The nation's River; worked on legislative history
January 26, 2001 8.25 hours
8:30-10:00am Worked on legislative history
10:00am - 5:45pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Reviewed work to determine what had not been completed; extended telephone call to Lexis about major problems with Internet search function for Lexis.com; learned to use Lexis software.
January 29, 2001 1.5 hours
11:30am - 1:00pm Lexis training, which became effort to correct problems with the software.
January 30, 2001 9 hours
8:10am - 6:10pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Searched online library catalogs for vols. 2, 3, 4 of Acts of the Privy Council of England, Colonial Series, ed. by W. L. Grant and James Munro, Hereford: HMSO, 1908-1966. Went to McKeldin Library, University of Maryland College Park, to borrow it and to photocopy an article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 15, pp. 392-99; prepared scan work orders for these, scanned, uploaded, and posted same.
January 31, 2001 2 hours
Located and borrowed copy of 2 American Jurist 203 (Oct. 1829), "Rights of Municipal Corporations," from State Law Library; did work order, scanned, uploaded, and posted same.
February 01, 2001 9 hours
8:25am -7:25pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Searched online library catalogs for copy of 1769 Journal of Virginia House of Burgesses. Went to Nimitz Library, United States Naval Academy, to photocopy from microfilm, and to borrow 2 vols. of Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series. Prepared scan orders, and scanned, uploaded, and posted this material; completed missing Whealton entries.
February 02, 2001 9.5 hours
8:10am - 7:40pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Did work orders, scans, uploads, entries and links for exhibits. Much of this material was from the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison, faxed to the Archives by Becky Wren.
February 03, 2001 2 hours
1:30pm - 3:30pm Helped Mary Jeske by photocopying, scanning, and posting material from Hening's Statutes at Large for exhibits
February 05, 2001 8.5 hours
8:15am - 5:45pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Returned Papers of George Washington and vols. 1, 2, and 4 of Potomac River Basin Report to Nimitz Library, and renewed vol. 3. Made complete bibliographical entries for items in MSA SC 3550-19-33 to -19-56, hyperlinked them, and checked to make sure scans were uploaded to the correct mdag.net entry; rescanned a page for Mary Jeske.
February 06, 2001 8.5 hours
8:30am - 6:00pm (with 1 hour deducted for lunch) Gathered and returned borrowed material to State law Library and reshelved it in Basement Room D; Met with Ed papenfuse to review first phase of our work on Potomac case; checked files and mdag.net for any items that had not been entered, uploaded, and linked; did work order for Fairfax Harrison's Virginia Land Grants, uploaded, entered, and linked it; discussed with Ray Connor a more secure way for Imaging Services to handle material borrowed through interlibrary loan for scanning.
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