ALLA (WA) News Blog

Get ready to conference! The ALLA Conference 2022 website is a great resource to find out all you need to know about the conference. Make sure you take a look to check out details about the conference, including special conference rates for accomodation . This year the conference is being held at the Hotel Grand Chancellor Hobart , Tasmania and the conference program looks to have some great events in the program! Workshops Per ALLA Conference Tradition, there will be a half-day MOYS Workshop held on 24 August 2022. This 3 hour workshop will be led by staff of the High Court of Australia Library. It costs $75.00 for ALLA members, and $95.00 for non-members. Get in quick though - the workshop will be limited to 12 people.  Tours What is a librarian conference without a tour of a library? There are two tours available to nominate for when completing the registration form . Conference registrants can nominate for a tour of either the State Library of Tasmania or the Andrew Inglis C...

ALLA Members are welcome to attend the below session from LARISA. You can find out more about LARISA on their twitter @CurtinLARISA

Trove Collaborative Services is a membership model that aggregates content from the collections of nearly 900 Australian libraries and collecting organisations and makes them accessible through the Trove discovery platform. Trove Partners have access to a variety of services connected to Trove including digitisation, cataloguing, resource sharing as well as a range of promotion, learning and support services.  In July 2022, the National Library will be introducing a new Trove Collaborative Service pricing model that incorporates feedback from the Trove Partner community and reflects how services are evolving. Aileen Weir, Director of Trove Partnerships at the National Library, invites ALLA members to a brief webinar on Friday the 8th of April 10.30-11.30am (AWST) to hear more about the changes and their implications for law libraries.  After registering , you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

 In great news for those in Western Australia, the 2021 ALLA conference is now going virtual. The program will be much as usual, plus all the usual exhibitors, but tweaked to allow for a virtual conference.  This is a great opportunity for ALLA (WA) members to attend, without the pesky costs of flights, accommodation and of course, hard-borders.  The details for our conference are below: Dates: 22-24 September 2021 Theme: ALLA – Past / Present / Future Registration fees: Member – $120.00 Speaker Registration – $100.00 Non Member Registration – $150.00 To register for the event please go to the ALLA Conference website .  The ALLA (WA) Committee hopes 'to see' many of you at the conference.

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 Sup...

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

Hi ALLA(WA) Members Natalie McDonald, ALLA (WA) President Please see below for an update on the services and events of the ALLA(WA). Upcoming ALLA(WA) PD & Social Events The End of Year Celebration was held on Wednesday, 30 November 2016.  LexisNexis kindly offered their venue for the night where members enjoyed a selection of canapés and wine whilst they toasted the end of year with colleagues. A brown bag CPD session was held on 14th February 2017 where the membership gathered to discuss negotiations with publishers on subscription renewals.  The session stipulated no publishers.  The session was well attended and discussions very informative.  Members who attended received notes from the session. An Employment Law Fundamentals is planned for March. MOU Update On Wednesday 30th November 2016, the same date as the End of Year Celebration, the ALLA(WA) membership held a vote to sign the proposed new MOU with ALLA Ltd.  The vote was carried i...

AustLII has a beta website, take a squiz right here .

ALLA (WA) invites Librarians involved in the negotiation of law subscriptions to a Publisher Negotiations Roundtable CPD event. Subscription renewals are coming up, so it’s time for the Librarians (No Publishers) to get together and discuss our negotiation experience. We all complain about how difficult it is to get the publishers to limit their uplift in pricing each year, and we are all facing pressure by our organisations to reduce expenditure. This roundtable event is an open discussion opportunity to share our knowledge to  work towards getting a better deal. A light lunch will be served. When: 12-1pm, Tuesday 14 th of February 2017 Where: Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Level 6, Brookfield Place Tower 2, 123 St Georges Terrace, Perth Cost: Free to ALLA (WA) Members, $20 for non-members. No Publishers. RSVP: by Friday 10 Feb to Alice Hewitt a.hewitt@ecu.edu.au . Please include relevant dietary restrictions. Due to the format of this event spac...

In case you missed it, because I know I did, the Law Times Reports are at HeinOnline in their Law Journal Library. This old law report series is hard to find in print and difficult to copy when found as they are usually bound in large volumes. The coverage at HeinOnline covers the full run of this report which was 1859-1947. Thanks to Sky for the tip.

The Department of the Attorney General has updated their website so that it now includes the library catalogue of the Law Library at the David Malcolm Justice Centre. You can access the library catalogue here . The Law Library at the David Malcolm Justice Centre is at 28 Barrack Street and is open Monday to Friday from 8.30am - 5pm. It is closed on public holidays. The Library is for the judiciary, government legal officers and members of the legal profession, and so it is not open to the public.

It's time to get connected. Last Week, ALLA Ltd. launched ALLA Connect , a program to provide members across the nation an opportunity to share ideas and build networks. The first program will run from 1 February to 31 May 2017. By joining the program, you can connect in a variety of ways to discuss a range of topics that you are passionate about, including: Business & Industry Intelligence Careers & Career Development Collection Management Corporate Governance Current Awareness Ebooks & Everything 'e' Intranets & Information Design Knowledge Management Legal Industry Stakeholder Engagement Training and eLearning  ALLA Connect gives you an opportunity to connect with members in two ways: one-on-one : the project team will connect you with an ALLA member in another division who has similar interests to you. Throughout the progam, the team will send you and your connection 'discussion sparks' to help keep the conversation ...

You would have seen in this month's President's Corner that the WA Law Library serial holdings are in the process of going online. First published in 1998 and commonly known as the Union List, we are now looking for a new name to bring it into the new century. So have your say. Get creative and email your suggestions to allawaexec@gmail.com . There is a small prize for the most innovative name* with the winner to be announced at the End of Year Celebration on Wednesday 30th November 2016. A big thank you to FIRST Software Solutions for sponsoring this project. *The name needs to be unique in order to register the domain name. 

In case you missed the announcement, copies of the  Commonwealth of Australia and Australian Government Gazettes from 1901 to 2012 are now online at the Federal Register of Legislation https://www.legislation.gov.au/Content/HistoricGazettes These historical gazettes are all in searchable PDF format. More recent Commonwealth Gazettes, from October 2012 onwards, can be found at this link https://www.legislation.gov.au/Browse/ByTitle/Gazettes/InForce/0/0/ These more modern gazettes are available as individual notices in a variety of formats. Thanks to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, in conjunction with National Library of Australia and the Australian Government Solicitor Group in the Attorney Generals Department, for making this possible.

Information below provided by the Department of the Attorney General: From 1 July 2016, the Law Library at the Supreme Court will close its doors and the Department of the Attorney General will provide library services to legal practitioners at the Law Library at the David Malcolm Justice Centre. Legal practitioners (and other persons doing research on behalf of legal practitioners) can access the Law Library by going to Level 23 of the David Malcolm Justice Centre, and will be given access to the Law Library (which is located on Level 2). The Law Library's opening hours will be 8.30am to 5pm Monday to Friday and services will include: - access to a browsing collection, with loans (other than loose leaf services) to take to court only; - reference desk services; - access to electronic databases at the Law Library (including LexisNexis, Westlaw and CCH) will be available from 25 July 2016; - photocopying and printing; and - document delivery. Fees will apply for photocopying...

In case you missed it, AustLII has recently added these two law reports to their online holdings:   Argus Law Reports 1895-1950 and Argus Law Reports, Current Notes 1896-1950 

Those interested in digitisation and preservation may enjoy this blog post: "There are over 1 billion gigabytes worth of digital material across Yale’s library system, and the team of preservationists keeping it secure will see a major software upgrade in the spring. Preservica, a United Kingdom-based digital preservation company, will help library staff keep an eye on all of Yale’s digital files, preventing them from becoming corrupt and keeping the digital material organized through a specialized classification system. Until now, Yale University Library — the group of professional school libraries and smaller collections at Yale — did not have a centralized way to protect and organize digital material in its library system." Read more from Yale Daily News

Justis publishing have released a free version of their latest platform, JustisOne. You can register for a free account here  which will provide you with access to all case law featured on their platform from 2011 onwards.

American case law is being made available outside expensive paywalls thanks to Harvard University who is digitising their complete legal library. They have made this possible by partnering with Ravel Law who are funding this project. 40,000 physical books are in the process of being scanned so they may be freely available to the public and fully searchable online. This open platform will be of particular importance to small law firms with limited resources as well as the general public. The expected completion date is in 2017 and cases will be available at www.ravellaw.com . Read the full article here .

A useful reminder! Pre-1991 WASC unreported judgments are available at the Law Library. They are available as an ILL request, or if you visit the library you can print for 55c per page. Lisa Webb, Customer Service Librarian Law Library, Supreme Court of Western Australia