Claire Germain — International Academy of Comparative Law (Elected Member); International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA),
Law Libraries Section (Chair)
In a survey conducted by the Academic
Law Libraries section of the American Association of Law Libraries, Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship from 1957 to 2006.
She is 2013 - 14 Chair of the Private
Law Libraries Section of the American Association of Law Libraries and a past President of the Law Library Association of Greater New York..
As revealed by research done by IFLA's
Law Libraries Section, there are a variety of inconsistent practices currently carried out by different government agencies that «pose a risk to sustainable access to public legal information in the digital age.»
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.
The third issue of the IFLA *
Law Libraries Section ** Newsletter came out last month.
Not exact matches
4.2.9 Practice Inter Library Loan (ILL) of articles or components of the Licensed Materials for noncommercial use in compliance with
Section 108 of the United States Copyright
Law (17 USC 108, «limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by
libraries and archives») and clause 3 for the Guidelines for Proviso of Subsection 108 (g)(2) prepared by the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted works.
It states (in
section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of
library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by
law.»
Section 108 of the U.S. copyright
law grants
libraries and archives rights to content that exceed those granted to people under normal conditions.
Because major publishers require DRM on their e-book releases, this means that
libraries aren't able to exercise rights under
Section 108 just as a matter of
law.
Lending
libraries are made possible by
section 109 of the US copyright
law, which forbids publishers from preventing
libraries from buying books and lending them.
I defer to people who are more knowledgeable about
Section 108 of the copyright
law, but my view on this is that you could change 108 to give
libraries the rights to do protected digital lending, but it would be much harder in practice than getting an exemption to the anti-hacking
law for this purpose.
Unlike the
Section 108 Study Group — a body that recommends changes to the part of copyright
law that covers
libraries, which ironically has little bearing on the issue at hand — it is possible for anyone to submit a request for a DMCA exemption to the Copyright Office without first having to run a gauntlet of copyright industry lobbyists.
The collection was created utilizing a relatively obscure provision of copy right
law,
Section 108h, which allows
libraries to make available works published between 1923 and 1941 if they meet certain criteria.
She goes to the jurisprudence
section of her copiously stocked
law library and spends days collecting snippets from Francis Lieber (in a posthumous edition of a book dated 1883), Timothy Walker (1895), Clarence Morris (1938), John Salmond (1947), W.J.V. Windeyer (1949), Burke Shartel (1951), W.W. Buckland (1952), A.W.B. Simpson (1961), Max Radin (1963) and Rupert Cross (1991).
Case Study: Interpretation and Uncertainty in Canadian
Law Section 30.1 of the Copyright Act of Canada permits
libraries to make copies of works under various circumstances for purposes of preserving or maintaining
library collections.
On top of all that, we've had requests for copies from the careers
section of a
law library in Dublin and an all - girls high school in England!
It is a collaborative effort of the Legal Division of the Special
Libraries Association, the Private
Law Libraries Special Interest
Section of the American Association of
Law Libraries, the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries / L» Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit and the British and Irish Association of
Law Librarians.
The Computing Services special interest
section of the American Association of
Law Libraries has launched a new Web site for law librarians with an interest in bloggi
Law Libraries has launched a new Web site for
law librarians with an interest in bloggi
law librarians with an interest in blogging.
The blog of the Technical Services Special Interest
Section of the American Association of
Law Libraries.
You can also use «duplicates lists» such as the Australian
Law Librarians» Association (ALLA) wiki or the American Association of
Law Libraries (AALL) Technical Services Special Interest
Section (TS SIS) Exchange of Duplicates Program (for serial titles).
While working at Harvard, she was the editor of the newsletter of the American Association of
Law Libraries Foreign, Comparative and International
Law Special Interest
Section.
Outside of the academic
law library world a couple of noteworthy bibliographies include the Suggested Textbooks
section of Catherine Best's Guide to Canadian Legal Research and the Legaltree.ca website's Resources by Subject Area
And for the
law library crew here at Slaw, a new dedicated
section on
library trends should make accessing these materials a touch easier.
This
section also provides a
library of personal injury pleadings and an extensive list of Florida injury
laws.
[Source: ALL - SIS Newsletter — Academic
Law Libraries Special Interest
Section of the American Association of
Law Libraries]
In February - March 2015, SRLN and the State County Courts Special Interest
Section of the American Association of
Law Libraries collaborated on a series of two webinars on Access to Justice.
The annual volumes and 1997/2001 Consolidated Volume have been sent to the Reference
Section of Canadian University Faculties of
Law, the National Library of Canada, Ottawa,
Law Libraries of Supreme and Provincial Courts, Department of Justice, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus, Queen Elizabeth II Library, the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Departmental Libraries, the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and public libraries in the
Libraries of Supreme and Provincial Courts, Department of Justice, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus, Queen Elizabeth II Library, the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Departmental
Libraries, the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and public libraries in the
Libraries, the
Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador and public
libraries in the
libraries in the province.
In terms of current awareness, the Foreign, Comparative, and International
Law Special Interest
Section (FCIL - SIS) of the American Association of
Law Libraries (AALL) started the DipLawMatic Dialogues blog and Twitter account.
CREATOR: American Association of
Law Libraries Technical Services Special Interest
Section, Classification and Subject Cataloging Policy Advisory Working Group.
If you send me a copy of the book, I will read all the
sections you suggest, and return it to you — or donate it to our County
Law Library or the public
library.
PUBLISHER: American Association of
Law Libraries Technical Services Special Interest
Section.
One could, even today, spend weeks in a
law library and not read one sentence on the impact of technology on the
law, unless they stumble upon the IT
law section.
It is a collaborative effort between the Legal Division of the Special
Libraries Association, the Private
Law Libraries Special Interest
Section of the American Association of
Law Libraries, the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries (l'Association Canadienne des Bibliothèques de Droit) and the British and Irish Association of
Law Librarians.
She chaired the
Section on
Law Libraries and Legal Information for the AALS in 2011 - 2012.
The award is given by the Government
Law Libraries Special Interest
Section of the American Association of
Law Libraries.
Taryn Marks — Academic
Law Libraries Special Interest
Section (ALL - SIS), Continuing Status & Tenure Committee; Government Documents Special Interest
Section (GD - SIS), Federal Depository
Libraries Program (FDLP) Committee (Chair); LexisNexis Research Grant Jury
A self - help
section allows you to sift through the legal information using the digital
law library if you are unable to afford legal services.