Sentences with phrase «law library initiatives»

The Haiti Project is one of many digital law library initiatives.

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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.

I just have one problem with this article — saying that at law society law libraries the public are not welcome — that is not true — law society libraries have embraced access to justice initiatives that allow for members of the public to come and use the resources on site.

Author: David Bilinsky is the practice management adviser and staff lawyer for the Law Society of British Columbia and also authors Thoughtful Legal Management; Laura Calloway is director of the Practice Management Assistance Program at the Alabama State Bar; Shaunna Mireau manages the law library at Field Law in Edmonton, Canada, and also authors Shaunna Mireau on Canadian Legal Research; Dan Pinnington is director of practicePRO, a claims prevention initiative at the Lawyers» Professional Indemnity Co. of Toronto and also contributes to «Avoid a Claim» BlLaw Society of British Columbia and also authors Thoughtful Legal Management; Laura Calloway is director of the Practice Management Assistance Program at the Alabama State Bar; Shaunna Mireau manages the law library at Field Law in Edmonton, Canada, and also authors Shaunna Mireau on Canadian Legal Research; Dan Pinnington is director of practicePRO, a claims prevention initiative at the Lawyers» Professional Indemnity Co. of Toronto and also contributes to «Avoid a Claim» Bllaw library at Field Law in Edmonton, Canada, and also authors Shaunna Mireau on Canadian Legal Research; Dan Pinnington is director of practicePRO, a claims prevention initiative at the Lawyers» Professional Indemnity Co. of Toronto and also contributes to «Avoid a Claim» BlLaw in Edmonton, Canada, and also authors Shaunna Mireau on Canadian Legal Research; Dan Pinnington is director of practicePRO, a claims prevention initiative at the Lawyers» Professional Indemnity Co. of Toronto and also contributes to «Avoid a Claim» Blog.

Some core contributors: Steve Matthews, who authors Vancouver Law Librarian Blog and VLLB Linkblog and created Florida Lawyers Blog Watch; Connie Crosby is a consultant at Crosby Group Consulting in Toronto and also authors Connie Crosby; Shaunna Mireau is director of knowledge management and libraries at Field Law in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Allison C. Shields is the founder and president of Legal Ease Consulting Inc. and also authors Legal Ease Blog and contributes to Lawyerist; Dan Pinnington Dan is director of practicePRO, a claims prevention initiative at the Lawyers» Professional Indemnity Co. of Toronto.

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.

Last Thursday, the Edmonton Law Libraries Association welcomed Mark Diner, Chief Advisor, Open Government and Transparency, Service Alberta to give a presentation on Alberta's Open Data initiative.

There are a number of articles about how libraries can be part of law firm - wide Knowledge Management projects and initiatives.

Joel stressed the importance of including law library staff as integral members of every practice group internal initiative, not merely in Knowledge management but also marketing.

Many local public libraries as well as law libraries are actively involved in access to justice initiatives.

Yale law library's Open Access publishing initiative produces enormous download rates for its authors, and makes the material available to scholars and others all over the world, without regard to their location or their institution's budgetary priorities.

objectives: 1) increase law library staff and partner active participation in law library social networking initiatives like facebook and Twitter to 25 percent of all staff by September 30, 2011.

The BC Family Law Unbundling Roster is an initiative hosted by Courthouse Libraries BC and supported by Access to Justice BC and Mediate BC.

The online law library collections we're building and partnering to build may be scattered initiatives, but we are progressing... towards a shared digital future of improved access to legal information.

The DPLA and myriad other digitization initiatives, including the ones mentioned above, are examples of the variety of bottom - up, «smart», pathways to the future Bob Berring discussed at Harvard's The Future of Law Libraries: The Future Is Now?

I'd like to call on the Canadian law library community to review and consider supporting this initiative.

Law libraries do not need to use specialised software to manage their KM needs; existing software can be used for library knowledge management initiatives.

The online law library collections we're building and partnering to build may be scattered initiatives, but we are progressing lock - step, in tandem, towards a shared digital future of improved access to legal information.

Most of the digitization initiatives described by Lyonette in her article have been organized and are being funded by academic, research or national libraries, so it's perhaps not surprising that the emphasis has been on digitizing «books»; consequently, if any inherently legal materials are included in the collections, it's by chance, and they are secondary sources, not primary sources of law.

The Project is an initiative of the Georgetown University Law Library and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia and is a digital archive for the preservation of important Web - published legal materials.

In her recent column «Building Digital Law Libraries», Lyonette Louis - Jacques describes a number of important initiatives from around the world to digitize legal information.

Drew Jackson discusses two initiatives: (1) the Clicklaw website, which provides legal information and education for the public from 24 contributor organizations; and (2) Law Matters, a program intended to enhance the collections of legal information in libraries across the province.

Because, before the 1960s, the largest Canadian law libraries were all in America (the largest being at Harvard), it is a happy consequence that a large portion of Canada's printed legal heritage, both primary and secondary, is being digitized willy - nilly by Harvard, Cornell, Stanford and Michigan despite Canadians» lack of initiative.

As our community of academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.

If these initiatives are relevant or desirable, it is unlikely that we will be able to realize them with the shrinking resources of our law school libraries, where we no longer have staff or funding to support such projects, and where we are constantly in competition with the law faculty and students for project funding.

We are extremely grateful to the Law Society of BC, the Law Foundation of BC, Courthouse Libraries of BC, CBABC and Mediate BC for their ongoing support (financial and otherwise) of this initiative and to the many other stakeholders who have stepped up to champion unbundling.

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association Canadienne de Bibliothèques de Droit has launched upon its first distance learning initiative, with two more webinars coming up shortly.