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ALLA Conference 2022 : THE NEW NORMAL

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 2022. 


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