ALLA (WA) News Blog

Are you an outgoing and enthusiastic librarian wanting to tell 120,000 people about an amazing library service? If you are then come and join our team! This is an exciting opportunity to join our organisation and add value to our membership in the role of Business Information Librarian. Reporting to the Manager, Library and Information Services the focus of the role is to provide library and research services to our 120,000 + members globally to support their business and professional needs. As part of a friendly and well-established team you'll be involved in most aspects of the service, but your main focus will be responding to research requests, collection development and marketing the library service to our members. To be successful you will have; a real passion for helping people; have experience in a specialised library environment, be creative and innovative, and thrive on being part of a dynamic high performing team. To be considered for this role you will be enthusia...

The Federal Court has expanded its subscription offerings with the addition of the Judgments & Events by National Practice Area (NPA) email alerts. Subscribers have the option to receive an email of judgments published each day by practice area, as well as an “All Judgments” option. Subscribers will also be alerted to any upcoming Court events, such as user-group meetings. You can subscribe from the Federal Court website . Once your subscription is complete, you will receive an email for each of the lists you have subscribed to. The frequency of alerts varies depending on what judgments have been published on the day. If you require assistance with the subscription process, please email query@fedcourt.gov.au . About the National Practice Areas In 2016, the Federal Court reorganised its workload into nine National Practice Areas (and where applicable sub-areas). The nine NPAs are: Administrative and Constitutional Law and Human Rights Admiralty and Maritime Commercial and Corpor...

Submissions are now open for the 2018 ALLA Conference!   The 2018 Conference will be held in Darwin, Northern Territory at the Doubletree by Hilton Esplanade and there will opportunities to visit law libraries and enjoy the array of culinary and cultural highlights of Darwin. Centred around the theme of Global Impact/Local Footprint, the Conference Committee is looking for papers and posters, including but not limited to those that address the themes: Indigenous issues Career development Technology Education Presentations There will be a variety of presentation formats and lengths. The Conference Committee welcomes a variety of proposals including: Individual presentations Panel discussions (multiple, complementary speakers on a single topic) Practical workshop sessions Digital - posters (with an optional additional hard copy submission) Lightning talks (5/10 minute sessions) Abstracts should be submitted to convenor@alla.asn.au and submissions clo...

Just a reminder that membership renewals for Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA) are due by the end of June. In addition to various CPD and social events that ALLA organise for law librarians, your ALLA membership also entitles you to a discount to attend the 2018 ALLA conference in Darwin as well as a number of other discounts with other associations through ALLA's agreements with them. You also receive the bimonthly ALLA newsletter. If you have not received your renewal notice or wish to join ALLA, see here for how to apply.

There are some wonderful people in the WA Australian Law Librarians Association that sometimes go unnoticed. To acknowledge these people, we are calling for nominations for Certificates of Appreciation.  If you would like to nominate a member, please take a look at the Nomination Criteria outlined here and send your nominations to allawaexec@gmail.com . If suitable nominations are received, Certificates will be presented at the upcoming AGM.

ALLA (Western Australian Division) 2017/2018 Committee Elections Elections for positions on the ALLA(WA) Committee for 2017/2018 will be held at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 26th July 2017 at DLA Piper, Level 31 Central Park, 152-158 St Georges Terrace, Perth. Nominations are now called for office bearers and Committee Members for 2017/2018. Pursuant to the Constitution and with the resignation of the 2016/2017 President, the ALLA(WA) is looking for members to nominate to join the Committee or, if interested, take the position of President, Vice President, Treasurer or Secretary Nomination forms have been sent to current members of ALLA (WA), if you haven't received a nomination form and believe you should have, please contact Anne Young . If you would like to join ALLA (WA) please do so from the ALLA website . Nomination forms are due to the ALLA(WA) Secretary by no later than COB Friday 30th June 2017. If you have any questions, please do not he...

Copies of the Commonwealth Government Gazette from 1901 to 2012 are now available on the Federal Register of Legislation as searchable PDFs.