January/February 2006 issue
8th Circuit Library Archives Efforts Featured on FJC Television Network
On January 12, 2006, the U.S.
Courts Library Eighth
Circuit’s archives/history
program was the subject of an 11 minute
segment on the Federal Judicial Center's "Court
to Court" program, the TV magazine for court
staff broadcast on the federal judiciary's
television network, FJTN. The segment
described the library’s work to preserve and
display the history of the federal courts of the
Eighth Circuit.
In 1998, the headquarters library in St. Louis
became the official repository for the circuit’s
non-case archives and now houses the collection
in its archives and rare books room. Circuit
Librarian Ann Fessenden is curator of the
archives collection and Joan Voelker is the parttime
Archives Librarian. The library also works
on permanent and temporary displays for
courthouse learning centers, court events, and
public outreach.
The program includes interviews with Ann and
Joan in the St. Louis library, showing the
archives room, the Blackmun Rotunda (a
permanent exhibit on the life of Justice Harry A.
Blackmun), and table top displays, and with
Suzanne Morrison, Branch Librarian in Fargo,
North Dakota, showing the Burdick Room
(learning center) and an exhibit celebrating the
anniversary of the U.S. Marshals Service.