Sentences with phrase «law libraries access»

As noted in the American Association of Law Libraries Access to Justice White Paper, legal research instruction has always been core to academic librarianship.

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Subscription - based models a la Netflix or Rdio — where users pay a regular fee for access to the service's library without owning the movies or music — will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

The proposed law would prohibit schools and libraries from providing minors access to those types of sites.

Children's Internet Protection Act Overview: The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers.

The law requires local governments to set up public libraries in their districts, provide free library access, and organize public events.

This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources

According to an article in The Bookseller, the library system in Lincolnshire has mounted a legal campaign with the help of public interest attorneys to overturn their council's decision to make sweeping cuts to library spending, a decision that the campaign founders state was made without attempting to look for alternatives and is in violation of UK law regarding library access.

If you are in law school, for example, your researcher will be qualified in the law and well as hold access to Lexus Nexus, the premier resource library for law students.

In 1983, the Library Network Law was enacted establishing the New Jersey Library Network as a mechanism for academic, institutional, public, school and special libraries to cooperatively provide New Jersey residents with full and equal access to library materials, programs and information that might not otherwise be available in their local communities.

Current law generally prohibits employers from requesting an employee's or applicant's credit report, but allows it for positions involving access to $ 2,500 or more of nonfinancial assets, including museum and library collections and prescription drugs and other pharmaceuticals.

The property also includes a library / office with XP Computer and free broardband access There is access to off street garage parking and the rear yard is fully fenced to suit young children or pets (Pets are permitted in the backyard but are not allowed in the house under local Health Department by laws.).

Access without borrowing is provided at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts library and the Chutick Library at the Cardozo School of Law.

FastCase Fastcase is a powerful legal research tool providing access to a free law library incorporating case law for all 50 states and access to statutes for most states and the federal government.

It is variously seen as an operating expense, a library service, and access to justice contribution, support of legal studies, a contribution to lawyer competence and professionalism, or as overhead associated with membership in the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

The LLMC has been working with the LA Law Library to digitize the library's collection of California briefs and BriefMine has partnered with the LLMC to gain access to this content.

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship resulted from a 2008 meeting in Durham of the directors of the law libraries of several leading law schools.

From the law library perspective, due to the costs Colin estimated above for staff, there would necessarily be major costs for access to research tools in Ken's proposed CanLII model.

In some provinces, the public is offered a minimum of service (basic directional services from a librarian, access to print resources only) only at the central law society library, clearly out of reach of the vast majority of the population.

One could argue that funding public access to courthouse libraries presents law societies, whose first responsibility is to the regulation and promotion of the practice of law, with a conflict of interest.

Our justice departments, attorneys general, law societies and bar associations must not overlook the potential of courthouse libraries as the space where their access to justice initiatives connect with the public, with the courthouse librarians acting as the trained ambassadors.

More than just law practice management, your entire firm can access legal research, e-Signature, expert witness profiles and build a pleadings library.

I learned how to use a law library and gained effective research skills with the ability to access primary and secondary sources and value their relative authority.

I just have one problem with this article — saying that at law society law libraries the public are not welcome — that is not true — law society libraries have embraced access to justice initiatives that allow for members of the public to come and use the resources on site.

Here is a brief update: Colleague Katherine Thompson at my firm has compiled an internal list — with hypertext links — of all the Canadian e-books we have access to at our firm from LexisNexis Quicklaw, WestlaweCARSWELL, Carswell's e-reference library, CCH Online and Canada Law Book.

In a recent request to the Canadian Association of Law Libraries listserv I asked colleagues the current state of online access to Canadian court dockets.

According to the library's blog, Massachusetts Law Updates, the new page was added «to provide easy access to the many resources that are now available both online and in print on this topic.»

Continuing law students have off - campus access to the law library's subscription databases.

Alaska has a strong, community - focused network of resource providers across legal aid groups, domestic violence advocates, public libraries, elder advocacy programs, Alaska Native law institutions, among others, that has been born of the need to address gaps in coverage and direct access to legal assistance.

To honour her considerable contribution to the success of this virtual law library, to continue her legacy, and to inspire and empower CALL members to continue her passion of supporting the provision of free access to the law, CanLII has established the Janine Miller Fellowship.

The Statement, that promotes the principles of open access in legal scholarly publishing in Canada and free access to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in lateaccess in legal scholarly publishing in Canada and free access to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in lateaccess to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in lateAccess to Legal Scholarship adopted by the law libraries of major American universities in late 2008.

The World LII also includes the International Law Library, which it says is the most comprehensive free - access international law library on the InternLaw Library, which it says is the most comprehensive free - access international law library on the Internlaw library on the Internet.

My law firm library is about content, access to enriched content, and delivering content in a manner that encourages use of our library services.

Faculty (and possibly students) will need access to a research - quality library collection, but that doesn't need to be in the law school.

This is probably most challenging for lawyers in smaller communities, who don't have ready access to large courthouse or law school libraries.

The Law Foundation of Ontario used to provide grants to Ontario's law school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice systLaw Foundation of Ontario used to provide grants to Ontario's law school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice systlaw school libraries as part of its mandate to promote access to legal information as part of advancing its vision for a truly accessible justice system.

This will be done because this is how it has always been done, and despite the fact that 99 % of a student's (and a practising lawyer's) legal citation needs are more than adequately addressed by online, open - access guides prepared by law libraries at the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Queen's University and others.

I am convinced that, as more libraries cancel more subscriptions and access to online services levels the playing field among law school library collections, it is the possession of a large retrospective collection and a commitment to developing and maintaining a large monographs collection that will define the great research libraries.

«The goal of this White Paper is to outline in detail the many valuable ways in which law libraries can take an active part in improving access to justice.

For example, the American Association of Law Libraries recently released a report of a special committee it formed on Law Libraries and Access to Justice.

As many academic law libraries are open to the public and are a filler of the Access to Justice, it's important that the library has resources available to them.

Lee F. Peoples is a law professor and associate law library director; Darla Jackson is head of reference and access services, and Karen E. Kalnins is a reference librarian.

Here the real issue is the pain that comes with the loss of access to valued sources of legal information by the legal research community and from the loss of purpose that comes from law libraries being unable to provide access to legal information that is the reason for their existence.

Another recent example relates to disappearing Ontario government press releases and backgrounder papers, rightly identified by the then President of the Toronto Association of Law Libraries in December 2003 as alarming due to its negative impact on legal research and the public's right to access government information.

Lawyers in Massachusetts have been able to access Loislaw from their home or office computers through an arrangement with the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries.

Fastcase is available at the main library, the Milwaukee County Law Library, and the Dane County Law Library on all patron access computers.

Annette L. Demers, President - Elect of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries, wrote last week to the Canadian government outlining her fears that federal budget cuts could affect long - term access to Canadian legal information:

In 1979 the new technology was made available to students at Queen's: a computer terminal was placed in the library to permit access to the QL databaseMemorandum from Dean Adell to Law Students, «Re: Use of QL Systems terminal in Law Library» (6 November 1979) QA MAM Papers 1/3..

With the rise of electronic subscriptions, if a library or law firm cancels a subscription it loses access to the entire product.

I predicted that within 10 years there would be computer terminals in law libraries, law offices, judge's chambers, etc., with instant access to huge databases of full - text law reports and statutes.

And the IFLA Law Libraries Section has been offering great sessions on authentication of and access to digital legal information (such as official gazettes) in various regions of the world.