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AGLC tweets

Have a tricky question about the Australian Guide to Legal Citation ? It might be a good idea to turn to Twitter for help. @AGLCTweets ( https://twitter.com/AGLCTweets ) is a very useful account run by former editors of the Melbourne University Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law . Pose your questions in 140 characters or less, and they'll tweet back some advice. Megan Fitzgibbons

Called to the Bar : next outing

Justin is heading to Lalla Rookh on Wednesday, 25 September. Lalla Rookh is a below-ground bar and eating-house - http://www.lallarookh.com.au. All members are welcome to join Justin and other colleagues for a libation or two (and, of course, olives). Please let Justin know if you are interested in going along - justin.booker@corrs.com.au.

To be or not to be a law librarian? : that was my question

I can’t say that for the most part I was looking to law for a change in my library career. I was aware however that I needed a change. Not feeling particularly happy in my current position and, although I loved being a local history librarian, I had had enough of working in local government. I found myself in one of those situations in life whereby I knew I needed something different but wasn’t sure exactly what it was. OK, so I had a few ideas going through my head but felt that I was locked into local history because that was my speciality and there’s not much opportunity to practice local history outside of the local government situation. It was a bit of a dilemma really – wanting something but not really knowing what it was, let alone how to go about getting it. Then out of the blue (as so often happens when you least expect it), a message came through WAIN. Kirsty McPhee, on behalf of Kott Gunning Lawyers, posted a position for a library manager. It was one of those moments when I...