Further to Simon's post yesterday on this topic, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries passed a resolution sometime ago recommending the appointment
of a National Law Librarian.
The idea
of a National Law Librarian was raised with the National Library, who have not been too keen about the idea.
BE IT RESOLVED that CALL / ACBD recommend to the National Librarian, Heritage Canada and to Parliament, the establishment of the position
of National Law Librarian with the appropriate authority and resources to work at the national level, and in cooperation with groups and organizations to:
Not exact matches
Full - time administrators,
librarians, and counselors shall be exempt from the provisions
of this section; and colleges
of medicine and
law and others which are required for purposes
of accreditation to meet
national standards prescribed by the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, or other professional associations shall be exempt from the provisions
of this section to the extent that the requirements
of this section differ from the requirements
of accreditation.
(Video courtesy
of: The Pennsylvania School
Librarians Association, the Education
Law Center
of Pennsylvania, and the Health Sciences Library Consortium, via an IMLS
National Leadership Grant.
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.
As the American Association
of Law Librarians said in their ground - breaking report at the AALL
National Summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age, «it is time to save the legal information system.»
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 Osl
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 Osl
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 Osl
law firm library at Osler.