Our students are invited to attend the Head Start program that is organized by the Edmonton Law
Libraries Association so our orientation week library session is a half day refresher of our firm specific resources and writing protocols rather than a general research... [more]
Not exact matches
Barbara Stripling, president of the American Library
Association weighed in on Right to E-Read «The «ebook» problem is all too familiar to ALA and U.S.
libraries,
so we empathize with our European colleagues.
I have talked extensively to the administration of the American Library
Association about their efforts to get more favorable e-book pricing and they told me that «The reason why publishers are
so hostile to
libraries is because the e-Books are loaned out to people who might otherwise be customers, they the publishers need to compensate for those perceived losses.»
«I applaud Penguin's decision today to re-start e-book sales to
libraries so that we may again meet our mutual goals of connecting authors and readers,» American Library
Association president Molly Raphael said in a statement.
It is precisely this responsiveness that has altered the landscape of the kinds of services and resources made available within the school
library and stewarded by the school librarian, as
so deftly articulated in a recent report published by ALA's Young Adult
Library Services
Association titled The Future of
Library Services for and with Teens: A Call to Action.
«There's
so much discovery and experimentation that happens in the
library market that doesn't necessarily happen in the retail market,» says Michele Cobb, executive director of the Audio Publishers
Association.
So I'll start by reporting on one of the sessions I attended at the recent Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries conference held in Vancouver, from May 15 to 18.
In fact, look for even more enhancements to be announced in the next week or
so, to coincide with the annual meeting of the American
Association of Law
Libraries in Boston, including the ability to share work folders.
Many of us enjoy attending and sharing knowledge gained at conferences, and several fellow Slaw bloggers recently have done
so in respect of last week's American
Association of Law
Libraries annual meeting.
My groups have titles like Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries, Knowledge Management for Legal Professionals, Law Firm Research Managers, Law Firm Knowledge Management (a subgroup of Legal IT Netowrk), and
so on.
So, at this summer is American
Association of Law
Libraries» Annual Meeting.
The IALL listserv recently became public
so you can subscribe to it without being a member of the International
Association of Law
Libraries.
Apparently the other major Canadian legal publishers announced improvements to their products at the recent annual convention of the Canadian
Association of Law
Libraries, but I did not attend the conference and it was only the Westlaw Canada improvements that have impacted me the most
so far.]
One (of many) benefits of being a member of the Toronto
Association of Law
Libraries (TALL) is getting access to their salary survey (published every 2 years or
so, most recently in 2010, 2008, 2006, 2005 and 2003)(with a «shout out» here of thanks to colleague and blogger Brenda Wong who, with her committee, was in charge of helping to compile the most recent survey).
A good book to help in this is Anthony Rota, «Apart from the Text» Private
Libraries Association: Oak Knoll Press, 1998, which is out of print
so somewhat hard to find.