It's that time of year - the end-of-term paper-writing and exam crunch. And for many of you who are graduating this spring, you'll barely have time to catch your breath before launching headlong into your bar ads. In a nutshell, it's a crazy, busy, stressful whirlwind of all-nighters, bleary eyes, summary writing, coffee consumption, and […]
Tim Knight, Head of Technical Services in the Osgoode Library, spoke on May 8 at the annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL), currently being held here in Toronto at the Royal York. The topic of Tim's presentation was "RDA: Coming to a Library Near You". Tim's partner in the program was […]
Tim Knight is of Head of Technical Services in the Osgoode library and a leading figure in developing standards for the cataloguing and classification of legal materials in Canada. His article about the new cataloguing rules, "Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA", was recently published in the Canadian Law Library Review. The article […]
Louis Mirando, Daniel Perlin and myself will be joining our colleagues in Windsor, Ontario this weekend for the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD) annual conference. Activities begin tomorrow morning with a pre-conference on U.S. Legal Research for the Canadian Law Librarian delivered by Clare D. Membiela and Eric Kennedy […]
With the Febrary 2010 content release, the following titles - all published by LexisNexis Canada - have been added to the Quicklaw databases. As of February 7, they will also be available on the LexisNexis Academic service. As you can see from the list, a broad selection of classic titles is included, from texts (McGuiness […]
Yemisi Dina, Head of Public Services at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library, was a featured speaker at the 27th Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, held Nov.30-Dec. 3, 2008, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Annual Course in International Law Librarianship is the annual meeting and principal educational event of the International Association of […]