Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Supreme Court today announced that Malia Ebel, JD, MLS, has been named as the new Director of the John W King Law Library, the only public law library in New Hampshire, located at the Supreme Court in Concord. Attorney Ebel is an experienced librarian, and joins the Judicial Branch after recently serving as the Director of the Abbott Library in Sunapee. Prior to that, Ebel was the college librarian and manager of the Susan Colgate Cleveland Library/Learning Center at Colby-Sawyer College in New London. In that role, she also took on the added responsibility of serving as academic advisor to a cohort of first-year nursing students. Ebel also practiced law in Boston for nearly 10 years prior to pursuing a career as a librarian.
“I am excited to take on this new role as director of the only public law library in the state of New Hampshire,” said Ebel. “Our primary mission to improve access to legal resources regardless of background, income, education level or knowledge of the law – especially for the thousands of New Hampshire residents who represent themselves in our state courts. We have exciting partnerships with public libraries throughout the state to help facilitate legal research, and another part of our mission is to expand those resources while keeping our library collections current with the most up-to-date material.”
“We are extremely pleased that Ms. Ebel has joined us and will be managing the State Law Library for the foreseeable future. Her energy, creativity and knowledge will be a real asset to the Judicial Brach, the New Hampshire Bar and our state,” said New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice Patrick E. Donovan, who serves as liaison Justice for the Law Library and led the search for a new director.
The John W. King Law Library is open to the public Monday thru Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. It offers access to legal research tools such as Westlaw and Lexis Nexis to any member of the public, as well as state legal and case law archives dating back more than 250 years. It is named after former New Hampshire Governor and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John W. King. Malia Ebel succeeds Mary Searles who recently retired after 20 years of service to the New Hampshire Judicial Branch. Ebel is a graduate of Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, and earned her Master of Library Science degree from Simmons University. She grew up in Concord.
