ALLA (WA) News Blog

ALLA is proud to collaborate with Oxford University Press and present a webinar on Oxford’s Law eResources. Over the coming months ALLA will collaborate with leaders in the information industry to bring you expertise and knowledge that will enable you to turn information into knowledge. INTRODUCING Oxford Law Online: From Scholar to Practitioner Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, we are a not for profit, ethical organization and one of our prime publishing focuses is in law. This is your opportunity to come and find out everything you wanted to know about our recent acquisition of select book titles from Wolters Kluwer CCH, our free Law Citator tool and to sign up for two month’s free access to all of Oxford’s law resources including the Australian Law Dictionary. At OUP we publish law eBooks, databases, case reports and treaties with subject modules in Finance & Banking Law, Public and Private International Law and International Commercial...

ALLA members are invited to hear CCH's Alicia Cohen sharing with us on     Is eLending really here? Despite the high penetration of digital devices in Australia, demand for physical publications by libraries has remained stable. A perceived lack of demand for eLending has put it on the back shelf, but new and innovative technologies are responding to the future needs of our busy lawyers and business professionals. Over the last three years the team at Wolters Kluwer, CCH has been collaborating with the law librarian community to develop an eLending solution that allows professional libraries to easily offer their users loanable eBooks. This project has developed significantly over the years and now the CCH ePlatform offers a device-agnostic and publisher-aggregated space for all libraries. Promoting research and access to information is a central mission for libraries and also for CCH. eBooks and eLending are another step closer to achieving this. Come along ...

Thanks to everyone that attended ‘IPWA 2016’. The event was a huge success. The images (in jpeg and web ready format) may be viewed on Flickr here – https://www.flickr.com/gp/142003464@N07/646814 © Copyright 2016 Neal Pritchard (Spool Photography) https://www.flickr.com/gp/142003464@N07/31kVJ7 © Copyright 2016 Kirsty McPhee (Tottle Partners) Use of the images: Please note, no money must be made from the use of these images.  All use including personal and corporate social media accounts (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), blogs, newsletters and journals etc. that publish the images must include the appropriate credit above. Special thanks to our sponsors; Jade Barnet, LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, TimeBase, Wolters Kluwer (CCH), Western Australian School Library Association and the Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia for helping us make this event happen. May this be the first of many collaborative events organised for the library and ...