Sentences with phrase «of courthouse libraries»

This year's Award goes to JuriBistro UNIK, the global search engine on the website of CAIJ, the network of courthouse libraries in Quebec.

It's one of Courthouse Libraries BC's special projects, used by a growing number of BC legal organizations — including the Canadian Bar Association BC Branch and several others — to deliver public legal education and information (or «PLEI») in a cost effective way that ordinary citizens can easily find and use.

Here in BC we run the LawMatters program out of Courthouse Libraries BC.

Writing on behalf of Courthouse Libraries BC, thank you for this focused piece.

This diminishment of our courthouse libraries is a great pity, especially since (as I have said above) these libraries are in the forefront of providing library services and research assistance at the local level.

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.

The defendants submit that any authority is available through the free services of the courthouse library website, CanLit [sic] or a hard cover report series.

Due to budget issues, we have come to rely more heavily on the generous ILL policies of the courthouse library and nearby universities for more current legal texts.

Not exact matches

So please, Christians especially, keep your religion out of our government, schools, libraries, hospitals, courthouses, bedrooms, weddings, bedrooms, and most especially, bodies.

While the price was right and the location was excellent — in easy walking distance of the courthouse, the police station, and the public library — the office itself fell woefully short of ideal.

I run the library of a Vancouver law firm so my «go to» libraries (as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse Libraries and the University of British Columbia's Lawlibraries (as you might expect) are the B.C. Courthouse Libraries and the University of British Columbia's LawLibraries and the University of British Columbia's Law Library.

In Alberta, members of the public have been welcome to visit and use courthouse library resources and services on - site since 1973.

You state that «Yet — and again, with the exception of British Columbia — the public is not welcome in any of our local courthouse libraries.»

One could argue that funding public access to courthouse libraries presents law societies, whose first responsibility is to the regulation and promotion of the practice of law, with a conflict of interest.

Courthouse libraries are funded in a variety of ways depending on the province; but as a general rule, funds are provided by the provincial law society and law foundation.

The fist courthouse library in what is now British Columbia was founded in Victoria in 1869, the same year as the Law Society of British Columbia, 11 years after the founding of the colony and two years before British Columbia became a province within the Canadian confederation.

The PLEI Connect project team is made up of Community Legal Education Ontario www.cleo.on.ca, Éducaloi www.educaloi.qc.ca, PovNet http://povnet.org and Courthouse Libraries BC www.courthouselibrary.ca.

This only stands to reason: our courthouse libraries are the oldest law libraries in the country; they were developing extensive collections of Canadian and English law long before any of today's law firms and law schools had been founded.

Sadly, with growing demands on the limited space in courthouses and facilitated by the advent of digital legal information, most of these county law library print collections have been dispersed.

The loss of their collections isn't the only sacrifice our courthouse libraries have had to make.

The libraries themselves, as part of courthouse infrastructure, are provided by the provincial attorney general.

Yet — and again, with the exception of British Columbia — the public is not welcome in any of our local courthouse libraries.

CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law libraries associated with the Québec Bar Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with many major law firms in Québec that make their legal commentary freely available on the organization's website.

As an indication of their awareness of this loss, Canada's courthouse librarians are the profession's most avid supporters of digitization projects for early Canadian law, though their libraries are regrettably the least able to undertake such projects themselves.

Ontario used to have a «roving law librarian», whose job it was to visit each of the province's 48 county courthouse libraries, ensuring the local librarian was up - to - date in her online research skills and offering research seminars to local lawyers.

But many of these local county courthouse libraries are mere shadows of their former selves, with only a minimal print collection, not always access to centrally - subscribed digital resources such as Lexis / Quicklaw, Westlaw or Hein, and staffed by a librarian only part - time if at all.

NL: Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador, Library PE: Law Society of Prince Edward Island, Law Library NS: Nova Scotia Barristers» Society, Library Services NB: Law Society of New Brunswick, Law Libraries QC: Centre d'accès à l'information juridique, Bibliothèque (English); Bibliothèques et points de service (English) ON: Law Society of Ontario, Great Library; LibraryCo MB: Law Society of Manitoba, Great Library; Manitoba Law Libraries SK: Law Society of Saskatchewan, Library AB: Alberta Law Libraries BC: Courthouse Libraries BC

Given that law libraries, whether academic, courthouse or private law firm, are constantly under space pressures, does this mean that we should be discarding the other 80 - 94 % of the collection and using the space for something else?

The session took place on the afternoon of May 16 and featured: Steve Matthews, Slaw publisher and contributor and founder of Stem Legal Web Enterprises; Ivan Makonov, Executive Director at Lexum; Eric Laughlin, Managing Director of the Corporate Segment, Thomson Reuters; and Nate Russell, liaison lawyer with Courthouse Libraries B.C., Slaw contributor, and manages Clicklaw.

Members of the public, whom we at Courthouse Libraries BC direct to CanLII on a daily basis, often show relief that CanLII is both user - friendly and no strings attached.

For example, Courthouse Libraries BC brings Quicklaw and WestlawNext to all of the 29 locations around British Columbia but can not ensure that Law Reports are similarly stocked.

Consider the convenience of being able to pull up your file or law library or your client's case file from your Smartphone in the courthouse.

For those of us stationed on the west coast, you may already recognize Nate as the liaison lawyer at Courthouse Libraries BC.

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.

We at Courthouse Libraries BC, along with many other library organizations, tried to get ahead of the story for the sake of a handful of our clients who may have used ADE in connection with an advanced function available in some titles.

Every week, I receive calls from law firm and courthouse librarians, asking if our library will take the historical collections they are being asked to dispose of.

Well, this causes a bit of discussion here at Courthouse Libraries BC as we are constantly realigning our collections to meet the demands of practitioners.

I'm reposting a portion of an article I wrote in my role with the Courthouse Libraries BC, and which was published in the May edition of the Advocate magazine last year here in BC.

Is there a place in the world of legal publishing for organized or systematic blogging (such as that found on the Courthouse Libraries BC site)?

Courthouse Libraries BC's bound statutes are hardly seeing a spike in use, and a typical consolidated act, if it were to be official, would be a conspicuous, nightmarish tangle of paper from various amending statutes spanning 18 years since the last revision in 1996.

This decision has been of interest here, especially to those of us who work in our courthouse library locations and see some of these people quite regularly.

The Courthouse Libraries BC has a really strong relationship with Thomson Rivers University, which is one of the law schools here in British Columbia.

My role as liaison lawyer at the Courthouse Libraries BC is to run all of the CLE, CPD webinars and training that we deliver to lawyers.

CAIJ, the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique (the network of courthouse law libraries associated with the Québec Bar Association), has signed resource sharing agreements with 6 major law firms in Québec that will make their legal commentary freely available on the CAIJ website.

Public libraries, law libraries and courthouse libraries host dozens or hundreds of people a day, many of whom might be dealing with legal problems.

Rangefindr.ca [/ em] is being made available through Courthouse Libraries B.C., to which all the members of the province's law society have access.

We know that our BC courthouse libraries are well used by members of the public.

We're tackling compliance and sorting through all the various degrees of consent among all of the kinds of lists that we have here at Courthouse Libraries BC — and truly it is a headache.

CAIJ is the Centre d'accès à l'information juridique, the network of courthouse law libraries associated with the Québec Bar Association.

These libraries will probably only make a fraction of the local courthouse materials available.