Legal research news from an Ottawa law librarian
The draft program of the 2025 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries is now available.
The conference takes place in late May in Calgary, Alberta
Labels: conferences, library associations
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), along with other partner organizations, hosted a summit on Canadian digital preservation at the Library and Archives Canada location in Gatineau, Québec on November 21-22, 2024.
The full report of the event is now available:
"The @Risk North 3 summit (Gatineau, November 2024), organized by the CARL Digital Preservation Working Group (DPWG) and partners, addressed current challenges in the digital preservation arena through presentations by key stakeholders, guided discussions and lightning talks. Areas under discussion included broad themes such as education and training, people strategy, funding and resource allocation, and more focused ones like web archiving, research data, benchmarking, and tools and technologies."
"Across the summit, participants emphasized the need for continued and deepened collaboration between institutions, organizations and practitioners for the purposes of advocacy, knowledge-sharing and skills development. Identifying sustainable solutions, shared infrastructure among them, addressing growing storage requirements and budgetary constraints was a priority. The community could benefit from establishing and sharing best practices, methodologies and workflows around key activities such as benchmarking, and greater mechanisms to facilitate access to resources. Varied and more extensive training, both formal and informal and at all career stages, would benefit individual practitioners and organizations."
"Moving forward, a follow-up webinar to share findings, the creation of a community of practice, and planning for future iterations of the @Risk North summit would continue the momentum and encourage the relationship-building the summit fostered."
Labels: conferences, digital collections, preservation
NELLCO, an international consortium of law libraries with headquarters in Albany, New York, will be holding a virtual symposium Tuesday, April 1, 2025 through Friday, April 4 2025.
There will be sessions on a wide variety of topics such as:
Labels: conferences, law libraries, library associations
The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World newsletter, published by Library and Archives Canada, highlights issues pertaining to government and recordkeeping practices in the public and private sectors around the world.
The January 2025 issue has just been published.
It includes:
Labels: conferences, digital collections, digitization, government documents, information management, IT trends, Library and Archives Canada, preservation
The Ontario Council of University Libraries - Government Information Community is organizing the Government Information Day(s), 2024 from December 17-19, 2024.
The topics covered will include:
Labels: conferences, government documents
The 2025 Conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) will take place in Calgary, Alberta from May 25 to 28, 2025.
Conferences organizers are looking for a variety of proposals that fit in with the CALL Professional Pathways, speakers from different types of libraries and introductory and advanced coverage of topics.
Presentations can be in different formats:
Labels: conferences, library associations
The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World newsletter, published by Library and Archives Canada, highlights issues pertaining to government and recordkeeping practices in the public and private sectors around the world.
The September 2024 issue has just been published.
It includes:
Labels: conferences, digitization, government documents, information management, IT trends, Library and Archives Canada, preservation
The Ontario Council of University Libraries - Government Information Community is organizing the Government Information Day(s), 2024 in the 3rd week of December 2024 (exact dates to be determined).
For that purpose, it has sent out a call for proposals for talks.
Talks can be about any topic relating to government information, on any topic from any jurisdiction.
Presentations can be in the form of lightning talks, panel discussions, workshops, training sessions, etc.
Programs from earlier years are available on the organizers' website under "More".
Labels: conferences, government documents
The Canadian Prison Law Association is partnering with the Peter A. Allard School of Law to organize the Canadian Prison Law Conference: Rights, Remedies and Decarceration in Vancouver on October 4-6, 2024.
The event will include topics such as "Indigenous self-determination and Indigenous justice practices, life sentences, solitary confinement in its many forms, enforcing human rights in places of detention, abolitionist legal strategies, constitutional rights and remedial possibilities, prison law and legal education, and more."
The conference program can be found online.
Labels: aboriginal and Indigenous law, conferences, correctional services, human rights
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries, along with other partner organizations, is hosting a summit on Canadian digital preservation at the Library and Archives Canada location in Gatineau, Québec on November21-22, 2024:
"This open event will provide an opportunity for those at Canadian institutions who have strategic or operational responsibility for long-term access and preservation of digital content to learn from each other about progress, practices and policies for digital preservation in a Canadian context. The program includes a keynote address, panel discussions, and breakout sessions that explore global and national digital preservation strategies, tools, and collaborative efforts. Networking opportunities, including a reception and an optional tour of the Library and Archives Canada’s Gatineau Preservation Centre, are also planned."
Labels: conferences, digital collections, preservation
The Congrès de professionnel.le.s de l'information is the largest French-language library and archives conference in Canada.
The program for the 2024 conference in early November in the Montreal suburb of Laval is available online.
Labels: conferences, library associations
The program for Access 2024, a major Canadian library technology conference, is now available.
The event takes place in Montreal from October 21 to 23, 2024.
Many of the conference presentations from previous years are online.
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At the recent annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries in late June in Montreal, panelists and advocates from across the country took part in a panel discussion on access to libraries, law, and legal information for incarcerated persons.
The session is now available on YouTube.
"Prison libraries are fundamental as they provide access to information about the rights of the incarcerated person and the tools necessary to access those rights. Imprisoned Canadians are an underserved segment of the population who lack adequate access to legal information and library services. Most provincial prisons do not have formal libraries. Without a legislated requirement for library access to books and materials, incarcerated persons lack recreational, cultural, educational, and law reading materials. As more legal information is placed online, incarcerated persons are being excluded from simple access to the law. The 'language of law' is not available to this group."
Panelists included:
Labels: access to justice, conferences, correctional services, library associations
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) held its 2024 annual conference in Montreal in late June.
The presentations have now been published on the CALL website.
Labels: conferences, library associations
Planners are inviting proposals for the upcoming Access conference, which will be held October 21 – 22, 2024 in Montréal at the Delta Hotel:
"As Canada’s premier library technology conference, Access brings librarians, technicians, developers, programmers, and managers together from all library sectors to connect, learn, and share insights."
"Access is a single-stream conference offering a platform for keynotes, presentations, and opportunities to connect and socialize. The Access 2024 Conference Committee invites you to submit session proposals for our upcoming event."
It is possible to consult an archive of past conferences.
Labels: conferences
The New Professionals Special Interest Group of CALL (Canadian Association of Law Libraries) is looking for professionals from different kinds of law libraries to participate in a Speed Networking Event at the association's upcoming annual conference in Montreal at the end of June.
The goal is to encourage connections and dialogue between experienced Legal Information Professionals and students, graduates, and new professionals.
The event will be set up with professionals at tables and attendees rotating at 12 minute intervals. There will be icebreaker questions to get discussions started.
People attending the CALL conference who are interested in participating in the Speed Networking Session should complete the appropriate form by May 8, 2024.
Labels: conferences, library associations
NELLCO, an international consortium of law libraries, will be holding a virtual symposium Tuesday, March 19 - Friday, March 22, 2024.
There will be sessions on:
Labels: conferences, law libraries
The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World newsletter, published by Library and Archives Canada, highlights issues pertaining to government and recordkeeping practices in the public and private sectors around the world.
The January 2024 issue has just been published.
It includes:
Labels: conferences, digitization, e-government, government documents, information management, IT trends, Library and Archives Canada, preservation
The Congrès de professionnel.le.s de l'information is the largest French-language library and archives conference in Canada.
Its last meeting took place in Montreal from November 7 to 9, 2023.
The presentations are now available online for free.
Labels: conferences, library associations
The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) was established by the Law Society of Ontario in 2015 to bring together justice stakeholders to develop public-centred solutions.
One of its activities is Access to Justice Week whose 2023 edition took place from October 23 to 27, 2023.
Many of the sessions were recorded and are now available for free online.
Labels: access to justice, conferences
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