Sentences with phrase «law libraries»

If you are attending the upcoming American Association of Law Libraries conference in Denver, you are invited to drop by the CALI booth on Sunday afternoon from 2 to 3 p.m. for a «meet and greet» session with hosts and panelists of the Law Librarian Conversations podcast.

First, it was typewriters, then law libraries and bike couriers.

According to the recently published Alberta Law Libraries Review: Final Report (highly recommended reading for anyone interested the state of public law libraries in Canada), there is no funding commitment other than through the annual application process.

Whatever digitization efforts are underway at our universities are the initiatives primarily of government document libraries, not the law libraries, and the digitization of historical law reports is not on the radar.

Now the concept of the autonomy of law libraries is in peril.

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.

Received a note today from Kathie Sullivan alerting me to AALL LawLibAssist, a blog set up by members of the American Association of Law Libraries to help their colleagues, the attorneys they serve, and law school students in the affected areas of the Katrina disaster.

In Canada, a few law libraries offer legal information services to the general public.

The fist of the academic law libraries to abandon KF Modified was the University of Toronto's Bora Laskin Law Library.

At the awards luncheon at the recent CALL conference (Canadian Association of Law Libraries) in Windsor, ON, the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing was presented to the Nova Scotia Barristers» Society Library & Information Services for their Nova Scotia Annotated Civil Procedure Rules service.

For most law libraries, the percentage of the library budget representing subscriptions to online databases has been increasing.

Fortunately the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) has taken an active role with regards to copyright in law libraries.

Law libraries make «The Law» available, and law librarians serve as guides to finding the most relevant legal information.

I am currently in Seattle at the American Association of Law Libraries annual conference, including the Private Law Libraries» Summit on Saturday.

From a budget perspective, academic libraries generally and law libraries in particular have not had too onerous a time of maintaining their collections of monographs (though the time required to monitor the publishers» lists and select relevant titles can be onerous indeed).

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.

Sonia is Director of Alberta Law Libraries, not Alberta Law Society Libraries - our network of 51 libraries includes the Law Society Libraries but also Judicial, Crown, Legal Reference and Departmental Libraries.

After growing on the profits of a captive market through the publication of serial resources such as law reports and looseleaf titles, both of which required annual, and often lifelong, financial commitment from lawyers (and law libraries), this source of revenue is drying up.

While the Alberta Law Foundation has provided grant funding to Alberta Law Libraries for the past forty - two years, the fact is that all grant applications are reviewed on an annual basis.

But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.

In the April 20123 issue of Spectrum, the American Association of Law Libraries» monthly magazine, I read the article «Law Firm Changes Offer Opportunities for Libraries» by Sarah Sutherland with great interest.

Over the past week, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries has collaborated with other national and provincial associations to consider the qualities we believe are necessary for a successful candidate to the position of Librarian and Archivist of Canada.

One of the high points of the history of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries — L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL - ACBD) was the «Quebec Riot» of 1989.

Hat tip to John Sadler, Chair of the Copyright Committee of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit who shared the link via the CALL listserv.

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference program will include a panel session on writing and publishing.

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Links to bylaws and ordinances from more than 100 Massachusetts cities and towns are available through the Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries.

I've repeated this story enough times that I'm no longer sure it is even true: Way back in 1995, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, we introduced volume one, number one, of legal.online, the first - ever newsletter about how lawyers could use the Internet.

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.

As for a sense of how customers feel about the corporate brands of multinational legal publishers, one need only attend the annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries to get a sense of the disconnect that exists in the market between the providers and consumers of legal information on issues relating to updating and pricing in particular.

Alberta Law Libraries, as an example, provides a variety of services for lay people as well as legal professionals, both online and on location in a variety of municipalities around the province.

After the 2010 earthquake destroyed Haiti's law libraries, the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a non-profit cooperative of libraries, spearheaded the Haiti Legal Patrimony Project.

New on LLRX.com is an article by Debbie Ginsberg and Meg Kribble called Social Networks for Law Librarians and Law Libraries, or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Friending.

I have been a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) since 1975 when I graduated from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.

There is also the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries that celebrated its 30th Anniversary last year.

Law school can be a stressful experience, especially when exams roll around and law students move into their law libraries.

That is a story for another post, and also for a lightening talk at next weeks Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference in Moncton.

Kent's thorough, careful work won the Joseph P. Andrews Award from the American Association of Law Libraries as outstanding contribution to bibliography that year.

Could law libraries pool their resources and maintain the tables, if they are useful to the profession?

Law libraries across the country maintained large historical collections of law reports.

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is accepting nominations for the 2014 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing.

I've also seen centralization happen so that law libraries lose their individual autonomy; this again leads to less jobs and less need for law librarians.

Legal technology and law libraries appear to be aligned along the same themes.

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.

You are invited to participate in a Chat via Twitter being hosted tomorrow by the Canadian Law Libraries.

Jean is director of research services and libraries at DLA Piper and it is probably fair to say that a good share of her readers work in law libraries or legal information services.

Unless we take something like the Canadian Association of Law Libraries» New Law Librarians Institute and turn it into a certification program.

But on June 16, 2011, The Future of Law Libraries Conference at the Harvard Law School gave me new hope.

Several Canadian Law Libraries belong to NELLCO and I'd be happy to talk with them about this if they had an interest.