ALLA (WA) News Blog

It's that time of year again,  Cleaning up your desk... Organising projects for the first day back in 2022.. Setting up your out of office email reply... Wondering how you will eat all the chocolate office Santa piled on your desk, and if you did leave it in the office will the lack of airconditioning cause a melted chocolate puddle? That's bad for the books, best eat it now then. 

Details of the ALLA Conference 2022 are now available from the ALLA Conference website: allaconference.com.au/  The ALLA Conference 2022 will take place 24-26 August 2022 in Hobart, Tasmania at the Hotel Grand Chancellor .  The theme for 2022 is THE NEW NORMAL, with the following sub-themes: Post COVID considerations How has covid affected your work, your life, the library profession, the legal profession? Where to from here? How do we deal with fake information and disinformation, how do we respond to the changes in society with regards to gender and cultural inequality? How can we as law librarians help these changes and change makers? How have things changed? Legal history, how will legal history be recorded / accessed in the future? What is your favourite legal topic? Has it changed lately? How have the courts changed? Are trials now more like tv court? A call for abstracts is now open on the ALLA Conference website and closes 1 May 2022.  Conference registrations will open March

The Australian Law Librarians' Association journal, the Australian Law Librarian is now available on Informit, with the December 2021 issue (Volume 29, Issue 4) now available on the platform. This edition is packed with articles stemming from the ALLA Virtual Conference 2021 #ALLA2021 - including some papers from the conference presenters including: Evolution of publishing commonwealth legislation / Meredith Leigh Human rights in a prison library - the legacy of Alexander Maconochie / Belinda Lawson The present moulds the future: what are we doing now to develop future ready law graduates? / Annette Goodwin Engaging the future with legal research skills / Paula Everett Reflections on AustLII's 25th anniversary - where we came from and where we are going / Richard Hunter Future progressive: ALLA survey of legal publishers and e-books / Monika Zygmuntowicz Empowering innovation in legal knowledge management, now and in the future / Virginia Ginnane A timely reminder to attendees