Sentences with phrase «leading law librarians»

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Librarians as publishers: In the early days of the Internet, law libraries led the charge in publishing legal information online.

It is a medium in which leading lawyers, academics, technologists, law librarians, consultants, vendors and other legal professionals are regularly contributing their insights and knowledge.

I get approached on a regular basis with this question by small law firms that want to have the advantages of the larger firms, by lawyers or librarians who want to become part of an existing KM team in a larger firm, or by individuals hired into firms to lead KM initiatives.

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.

UK law librarians are now following our lead, encouraging the UK legal publishers to produce a new titles RSS feed.

It was a 5 - day event, with sessions on substantive law led by various University of Western Ontario law professors, combined with sessions by various law librarians, including me.

What continues to amaze me is the chasm of no - comment, non-discussion and non-publishing by law librarians on e-discovery vs. some lead enterprise - wide document / content management managers (who are also librarians) in other industry sectors, who are engaged in the e-discovery process, yet do publish occasionally on e-discovery.

It is hard to believe that as recently as 1989 law librarians asked Carswell to consider converting the bound Case Law Digests volumes of the Canadian Abridgment into a loose - leaf format, believing that a format change would solve the problems with supplementation that led to the Quebec Rilaw librarians asked Carswell to consider converting the bound Case Law Digests volumes of the Canadian Abridgment into a loose - leaf format, believing that a format change would solve the problems with supplementation that led to the Quebec RiLaw Digests volumes of the Canadian Abridgment into a loose - leaf format, believing that a format change would solve the problems with supplementation that led to the Quebec Riot.

It was a noteworthy event, held in Middle Temple Hall and guests included many High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judges, as well as leading barristers, academics, law librarians and other legal practitioners.

Rather be bold (i.e. take charge and lead the way), calm and carry out the task, and clear that it is our job as law librarians to do so.

The AALL / Brill Foreign Law Guide is newly updated by a team of FCIL librarians led by Marci Hoffman.

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 OslLaw 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 OslLaw 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 Osllaw firm library at Osler.