Several Slaw contributors have written recently about the use of artificial intelligence in law (Tim Knight here, Nate Russell here) with particular reference to the program on «Computers in Legal Research» at the conference of the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries held in Vancouver this past May, moderated by Slaw's Steve Matthews.
Almost all Canadian law libraries outside of the law schools have rejected this belief, but the academic
law libraries hold fast.
Not exact matches
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 December I participated in the annual meeting of the International Association of
Law Libraries, which was
held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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.
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.
Links to related
Library of Congress resources, such as the
Law Library and webcasts of public - affairs lectures and other events
held at the
library.
Every year a «Vendors Forum» is
held as part of the annual meeting of the Canadian
Law Libraries Association (CALL).
Technology does
hold some promise since the print - based
law libraries there tended to be small with out - of - date materials.
19 By parity of reasoning, those who operate
libraries have sometimes been
held to be publishers for the purposes of defamation
law.
[late addition: sorry, most of the links above will take you to a message about the session being «timed out» — they were links to searches I did of the U of A catalogue, showing the
holdings of the
law library.]
The discussion will be a recap of the American Association of
Law Libraries conference
held in Washington, D.C. last week.
The American Association of
Law Libraries is
holding its 108th annual meeting and conference July 18 - 21 in Philadelphia.
The Canadian Association of
Law Libraries is accepting submissions for the May 25 - 28, 2014 Conference that will be
held at the Hotel Fory Garry in Winnipeg.
The Society received the Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing at the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries annual conference
held in May 2010 for the Nova Scotia Annotated Civil Procedure Rules.
The Canadian Association of
Law Libraries (CALL) has just published summaries of many of the sessions at its most recent annual conference
held in late May in Winnipeg.
In the late 1980's and early 90's, the local union list of titles
held by local
law firm
libraries was a lifeline to librarians, and ILL didn't just help us share resources and keep costs down.
Law libraries reported median values of 345,935 volumes
held and 8,033 gross volumes added.
A recent posting on the CALL - L discussion list points out that some of the presentations from the recent Canadian Association of
Law Libraries Conference 2007,
held earlier this month, have been posted to the CALL web site here.
i am sympathetic to the desire of the
holding library to leverage their «popular» items to enhance access to less popular items in their collection (tying nicely in to slaw's «grey literature» discussion of the previous week), but rather than impose a contract on the recipients of the copies, a more preferable model would be the one used for the alberta
law collection.
The Toronto Association of
Law Libraries (TALL)
held an event on Thursday evening at the University of Toronto
Law School called Charting Our Course: The TALL Publishers» Forum.
Books that have the location
LAW LIBRARY: MAIN LIBRARY or LAW LIBRARY: LAW RESERVE are held at the Bodleian Law Libra
LAW LIBRARY: MAIN
LIBRARY or
LAW LIBRARY: LAW RESERVE are held at the Bodleian Law Libra
LAW LIBRARY:
LAW RESERVE are held at the Bodleian Law Libra
LAW RESERVE are
held at the Bodleian
Law Libra
Law Library.
Not mentioned in the announcement, most recently Louis chaired the program committee for the Northeast Regional
Law Libraries conference
Libraries Without Borders 2
held in Toronto which was considered by all attendees a fabulous learning opportunity.
What does the future
hold for Canadian
law school
libraries?
It's tempting to sell your books when you're a cash - strapped student, but sell something else instead and
hold on to your mini
law library.
But, more importantly, the
law library is a public institution that anyone can visit and see that the
laws are written down and not
held in the minds of oracles or high priests.
As a knowledge management (KM) lawyer /
law librarian, my continuing legal education opportunities tend to focus more on conferences related to KM or law libraries, such as the upcoming annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit held in Toronto in M
law librarian, my continuing legal education opportunities tend to focus more on conferences related to KM or
law libraries, such as the upcoming annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit held in Toronto in M
law libraries, such as the upcoming annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit held in Toront
libraries, such as the upcoming annual conference of the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit held in Toronto in M
Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit held in Toront
Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit
held in Toronto in May.
The deadline for program submissions for the Canadian Association of
Law Libraries conference to be
held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 25 - 28, 2014 has been extended to November 1st (this Friday).
A panel on Digitization Projects and
Law Libraries will be
held 18 March 2010 at the
library of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.