ALLA (WA) News Blog

From the Hansard of 13 November 2019, we have a report of a significant development in Western Australian legislation and its future use by the legal profession in Western Australia. The relevant passage can be found on the WA Parliament website (page 8830 of 2019)  and is excerpted below. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION WEBSITE — COPYRIGHT  Statement by Attorney General MR J.R. QUIGLEY (Butler — Attorney General) [12.03 pm]: I rise to inform the house of a change to the way that copyright applies to WA legislation and the WA legislation website. In June last year, while second reading the Legislation Bill 2018, I flagged my intention to consider relaxing the current approach, which is quite conservative and restrictive compared with other jurisdictions, such as the commonwealth, Queensland, South Australia and the United Kingdom. These jurisdictions take a more open approach to the re-use of legislative data. Their legislation websites are covered by what is known as cr

The ALLA(WA) committee invites all ALLA(WA) members to a free breakfast at Miss Maud on Thursday 5th December 2019. We hope you can all make it. Please see the invitation below for more details.  Non-ALLA(WA) members are very welcome to come and celebrate with us as well but they will have to pay for the breakfast.  

The new look of the Department of Justice's Law Library website went live today: https://dojwa.ent.sirsidynix. net.au/client/en_AU/llwa The  link is also available on the  Department’s website . The website includes links to free resources where available, as well as the library catalogue. Services marked with a padlock symbol are only accessible from onsite within the library.

ALLA (WA) members are invited to the   ALLA (WA) Annual General Meeting  on WEdnesday  23 October  2019   at   DLA PIPER, Level 31 Central Park 152-158 St Georges Terrace   commencing at  5:15 pm . Please   RSVP   your attendance via email to the  ALLA (WA) Secretary, Natalie McDonald by   5pm Monday 21 October 2019 . If you have any dietary requirements please let Natalie know with your RSVP by email:   natalie.mcdonald@iinet.net.au If you   cannot   attend, please complete the proxy form and email it to 2017/2018 ALLA (WA) Secretary Natalie McDonald, by  5pm Monday 21 October 2018 . Please find linked below the following documents: ·            2019 ALLA (WA) AGM Agenda ·            2019 ALLA (WA) AGM Proxy Form  – to be completed by members who cannot attend the AGM Posted on Behalf of Stephen Griffiths alla (WA) PRESIDENT, 2018-2019

ALLA (WA) would love to see members and anyone interested in becoming a member at our Easter breakfast. See the invitation below for more details.  Please let us know with your RSVP if you intend to pay cash on the day or would like to make an electronic transfer.    

Just a reminder to all ALLA WA members that there is a copyright webinar being held by Greg Taylor and Hari Gavanahalli from the Copyright Agency on Wednesday 13th March at 1pm local time. All members have been sent emails with instructions on how to access the webinar. If any member has not received an email please contact David McDowell at dmcdowell@jacmac.com.au

The Law Library at the David Malcolm Justice Centre has completed the merger of the Department of Justice Library with the old Law Library at the Supreme Court Stirling Gardens and has identified excess materials that are now on offer to interested parties on a first-come-first-served basis.  These excess materials have previously been offered to universities, the State Library, the Parliamentary Library, government libraries and community legal centres.  As the next step, the surplus materials will be available for viewing by the profession during business hours (8:30am-5pm)  from Wednesday 6  March through to Friday 8  March 2019  by appointment only .  To make an appointment to view the material at the old Law Library at the Supreme Court Stirling Gardens, please email the Law Library at  llwa@justice.wa.gov.au  or call the Law Library Reference Desk on (08) 9264 1498 by 5pm 5 March 2019.  In addition to the material held at the Supreme Court Stirling Gardens site, a number of ful

A gentle reminder that the launch of the new electronic edition of the Western Australian Law Libraries union list is being held tomorrow at its original intended location. Where:  The London Room of The George, 216 St Georges Terrace When:  7.15 - 9.15 am, Thursday 31st January 2019 RSVPs closed last week, but if you missed out do not despair as we will have relevant information on how to subscribe up here soon. 

At the ALLA(WA) Christmas breakfast there was some discussion regarding business librarians in WA. Murdoch University hosts the ANZacBusLibs discussion list that is used by Australian and New Zealand business librarians in the corporate, government and academic sectors. Visit  http://lists.murdoch.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/anzacbuslibs  for more information on the list. The email anzacbuslibs@lists.murdoch.edu.au is used to send a message to all members of the list.   

Come for the delicious breakfast. Stay and see Gilien Bevan present on The WALL & learn about her experience of boldly going where no WA law librarian has gone before! The WALL database replaces the union list of serial holdings within the state of Western Australia, and will be made available to subscribers this year. The WALL will offer the capability for its subscribers to discover holdings of legal materials held within Western Australia and to request document delivery and inter-library loans. The WALL is coming! Where: The London Room of The George, 216 St Georges Terrace When: 7.15 - 9.15 am, Thursday 31st January 2019 Cost: Free for members / $35 non-members RSVP: Contact Judy Allan by 24th January at judith.allan@legalaid.wa.gov.au Vegetarian & gluten free food will be available. Please let us know of other dietary requirements & allergies. For anyone wanting to join ALLA WA please visit:  https://www.alla.asn.au/membership/join-alla/ho