  We present elemental abundance measurements for 9 damped Ly-alpha systems
(DLAs) and 1 sub-DLA at 0.1 < z < 1.5 from recent observations with the
Multiple Mirror Telescope. Most of these absorbers are found to be metal-poor,
while 2 are found to have ~ 30-50 solar metallicities. Combining our data with
other data from the literature, we find that the systems with higher [Zn/H]
also have stronger depletion as measured by [Cr/Zn] and [Fe/Zn]. The
relationship between the metallicity and H I column density is also
investigated. Together with our previous MMT survey (Khare et al. 2004) we have
discovered 2 of the 4 known absorbers at z < 1.5 that lie above (although near)
the "obscuration threshold". This appears to be a result of selecting absorbers
with strong metal lines in our sample. It would be interesting to find other
similar systems by observing a larger sample and study how much such systems
contribute to the cosmic budget of metals. Finally, an analysis of the N(H
I)-weighted mean metallicity vs. redshift for our sample combined with data
from the literature supports previous conclusions that the N(H I)-weighted mean
global DLA metallicity rises slowly at best and falls short of solar levels by
a factor of > 4 even at z=0.
