Do you know about FLO?

ALLA members from around the country have joined together to work on updating and expanding the Finding the Law Online (FLO) course!

This sub-committee, led by ALLA Vic. President Anastasia Stepanovic and along with ALLA (WA)'s own Alice Hewitt as Project Co-Coordinator, will see the development of a new set of online learning modules for FLO.

Drawing upon the jurisdictional expertise of FLO team members - Paula Jane Everett , David McDowell, Kate Freedman, Alisha Nolan, and Amanda Surrey - we will develop a course for new law librarians, or law librarians new to a jurisdiction, or just librarians trying their hand at legal research.

The FLO Team currently has volunteers who will share their knowledge of case law and legislation research for the Commonwealth, the Australian Capital Territory, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia.

For New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and Queensland - we are still looking for volunteers. Please get in touch with Anastasia or Alice if you would like to help represent your jurisdiction. Unfortunately, without volunteers for these jurisdictions they may not be able to be included in this iteration.

The FLO Team will keep ALLA members up to date with their progress via the ALLA (WA) Blog and the ALLA social media channels (details below).

The FLO modules will be launched at the ALLA Conference 2022.

Want to know more about the origins of FLO? See:

Nicki McLaurin Smith, Amanda Surrey & Monika Zygmuntowicz, ‘The Story of FLO: an Online Partnership of the University of Melbourne’s Legal Resource Centre and the Australian Law Librarians’ Group (Victoria) (2005) 13(1) Australian Law Librarian 39 (Read the article on HeinOnline)

ALLA Social Media Channels

ALLA Victoria Division:

Twitter @alla_vic

ALLA (WA) Division:

ALLA National:

ALLA NSW Chapter:

Twitter @ALLA_NSW

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