Sentences with phrase «courthouse librarians»

The Copyright Committee, Vendors» Liaison Committee, Courthouse Librarians» SIG, as well as other groups, have all benefitted from Karen's energy and experience.

Every week, I receive calls from law firm and courthouse librarians, asking if our library will take the historical collections they are being asked to dispose of.

As an indication of their awareness of this loss, Canada's courthouse librarians are the profession's most avid supporters of digitization projects for early Canadian law, though their libraries are regrettably the least able to undertake such projects themselves.

But courthouse librarians are always on the front line of practice, and they never know who is going to come to them for help or with what question they will be presented.

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.

Nobody understands better than courthouse librarians what information is needed and how it is used at the local practice level, and their skills could readily be directed to developing such self - help online guides for their clients.

What has always impressed me most about courthouse librarians is their in - depth bibliographical knowledge and familiarity with the whole of our legal literature, especially our legal heritage in print, and their sensitivity to an appreciation of its continuing value in contemporary legal research.

They started off by convening a focus group in Hastings County to consult with head librarians, the local courthouse librarian, and the local law association about their legal information and resource needs.

Not exact matches

They picketed at courthouses, searched out potential registrants, taught in freedom schools and served as librarians and receptionists in freedom centers.

The Ontario Courthouse Library System (LibraryCo) is funded from two sources: their print collections and online subscriptions are paid for and managed by the Law Society, while the law librarian's salary is paid by the local county law association.

But as more and more online services are available to lawyers, especially individually - subscribed and practice - focussed services such as Lexis's Practice Advisor and Westlaw's «Source» products, courthouse libraries could provide a local venue for research - oriented seminars provided by either or both the librarian and the law publishers themselves.

Such outreach initiatives from within the courthouse, offered by librarians or lawyers from the local community, would help demystify the justice system and contribute not only to heightened legal literacy among the public, but also promote awareness of the expertise and services available to them from the legal professionals in their communities.

However, many formerly robust county courthouse libraries and their trained, dedicated and talented librarians have been left to languish.

Ontario used to have a «roving law librarian», whose job it was to visit each of the province's 48 county courthouse libraries, ensuring the local librarian was up - to - date in her online research skills and offering research seminars to local lawyers.

But many of these local county courthouse libraries are mere shadows of their former selves, with only a minimal print collection, not always access to centrally - subscribed digital resources such as Lexis / Quicklaw, Westlaw or Hein, and staffed by a librarian only part - time if at all.

Some notable heirs to the Medieval librarians with their can - do attitude in the Canadian law library community include the Courthouse Library of British Columbia with their Clicklaw Wikibooks, The Osgoode Law School Library with the Osgoode Digital Commons, and the Law Society of Saskatchewan Libraries with the Law Society's publishing program.

Could you state with confidence how much of it goes to: judges» salaries, office space, assistants, maintaining courthouses, registrars, court reporters, clerks, librarians, legal counsel, and so on?

The British Columbia Legislative Digest (BCLD) was conceived of in 1979 by librarians at the BC Courthouse Library, now Courthouse Libraries BC... [more]

Supported by the Law Foundation of British Columbia, LawMatters is Courthouse Libraries BC's outreach program for public librarians.

She has had previous positions as the Law Librarian at Thompson Rivers University and Director of Library Operations at Courthouse Libraries BC.

They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure as founding Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osler.

As suggested in this article, a law degree is by no means necessary for law librarians except for senior academic (and perhaps courthouse) appointments but that a law degree does provide useful context and a competitive advantage in some circumstances.

Canadian law librarians have also been sharing instructional materials thanks to the efforts of the Courthouse and Law Society Libraries Special Interest Group of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.