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Of interest to those consulting Western Australian legislation, the Legislation Bill 2018 had its third reading speech yesterday in the Legislative Assembly. The Bill seeks to give official status to the electronic versions of the Government Gazette and other WA legislation! From the explanatory memorandum : This Bill proposes to modernise the processes for publishing WA legislation. It will enact a new Legislation Act that sets out the responsibilities for publishing WA legislation, provides for the official status of both hard copy and electronic versions of WA legislation and gives Parliamentary Counsel’s Office (PCO) a more useful set of editorial powers so that WA legislation can be kept up-to-date, modernised and simplified, and errors in it can be corrected, without the need for the changes to be enacted by Parliament. Important restrictions on the exercise of those editorial powers will remain. The Reprints Act 1984 will be repealed. In line with conferring official s...

Have a desire to write a journal article? What about present at a conference? We've found some opportunities from all over the world. Conferences CALL/ACBD Conference 2018 The Canadian Assocaition of Law Libraries / L'Assocation Canadienne des Bibliotheques de Droit Conference will be held on 27-30 May in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Submissions for Conference Sessions and Lighning Talks are open until October 20. The theme is Build Bridges | Broaden Our Reach. See the conference website for more details.  Journals Australian Law Librarian Journal The Australian Law Librarian   is seeking  contributions for the upcoming issue.  Centred around the theme of professional development, issue 4 of the journal is the place to share your experiences in mentoring, being mentored and growing as a professional. As a professional, you never stop growing. With this issue, we invite you to share your experiences, learnings, and thoughts on mentoring and professi...

The Australian Law Librarians' Association is currently seeking contributions to the upcoming issue of the Australian Law Librarian. Centred around the theme of mentoring, issue 4 of the journal is the place to share your experiences in mentoring, being mentored and growing as a professional. As a professional, you never stop growing. With this issue, we invite you to share your experiences, learnings, and thoughts on mentoring and professional development. We also warmly welcome articles outside of this theme. Submissions are needed by 25 October so there's still plenty of time to get your writing cap on!! Questions? Contact journaleditor@alla.asn.au

A new book out this month is This Is What a Librarian Looks Like . It features photographs of over 200 Librarians along with original essays by such authors as George R.R. Martin, Amanda Palmer and Nancy Pearl. You can see some of the images at this gallery from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2017/may/29/tattoos-and-baseball-caps-this-is-what-a-librarian-looks-like-in-pictures I hope some Law Librarians are in there...

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

Legal Information Management Volume 16 / Issue 4, December 2016 Published Online in December 2016 Editorial Editorial David Wills Legal Information Management, Volume 16 / Issue 4 , December 2016, pp 205 - 205 doi: 10.1017/S1472669616000451 Published Online on 28 December 2016 Obituary Elaine Wintle 1953–2016 Legal Information Management, Volume 16 / Issue 4 , December 2016, pp 206 - 206 doi: 10.1017/S1472669616000463 Published Online on 28 December 2016 Law Librarianship: An Evolving Profession Up the Value Chain: Transition from Law Librarian to Research Analyst Helen Marshall, Kelly Taylor Legal Information Management, Volume 16 / Issue 4 , December 2016, pp 207 - 211 doi: 10.1017/S1472669616000475 Published Online on 28 December 2016 Embedded Legal Information Professionals: Challenges and Opportunities Peter Wilson, Cosmo Anderson Legal Information Management, Volume 16 / Issue 4 , December 2016, pp 212 - 218 doi: 10.1017/S1472669...

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.

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 

The Australian Law Librarian (ALL) journal are seeking contributions for Volume 24, Issue 3. The theme of this issue is Education and Educating . Education - Within the industry there are an increasing number of professionals returning to study (or never stopping). ALL would love to hear from those in the beginning, middle or end of that study about what prompted you to enrol. What course are you doing? Are MOOCs your thing? Are you returning to university for post grad qualifications? Masters, Law Degree, PhD or something else? What course are you doing and how? What are your tips for those who are struggling to find the time to study? What would you change about your experience if you could? Or are you an independent studier, what are the tools, collections, resources you use to keep studying? Educating - In this issue ALL are also looking for contributions from the educators. Whether you are educating future library and information professionals, future lawyers...

Legal Information Management           http://journals.cambridge.org/LIM Volume 16 / Issue 01 , March 2016, pp 1 - 56 Published Online on 16th March 2016 PDF version of this Table of Contents        Editorial Editorial         David Wills Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 01 , March 2016, pp 1 - 1 doi: 10.1017/S1472669616000013 ( About doi ) Published Online on 16th March 2016 [ abstract ] Obitu...

Alex Cato, our ALLA National Vice President, is the new guest editor for the next issue of the Australian Law Librarian Journal. She is looking for your articles! Alex's email address is Alexandra.Cato@ashurst.com should you wish to send an article or ask a question.

Here's an interesting paper about legal research education, by Caroline Osborne from Washington and Lee University . Worth a read. The State of Legal Research Education; A Survey of First Year Legal Research Programs or 'Why Johnny and Jane Cannot Research' http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2724095

The Council of Law Reporting in Victoria has entered an agreement with BarNet, the creators of BarNet Jade, to publish, sell and distribute the Victorian Reports for the next 5 years. This represents the first real change in the identity of the publishers of the Victorian Reports for more than 100 years. In addition, under the new publishing regime, greater emphasis will be given to making the Reports available online, quickly and at an affordable cost, while retaining the option of hard copy subscription. Approximately one thousand cases are decided by judges of the Supreme Court each year. All of these decisions are important, but some contain particularly important statements of legal principle that are instructive for the judiciary, the legal profession or the community at large. These judgments are selected for inclusion in the Victorian Reports and then supplemented by a carefully prepared summary of the case and its principle. The report and its summary is then reviewed and ...

Hugh McGinlay (Director, Legislation Services, Parliamentary Counsel’s Office WA) has shared with ALLA(WA) a proposal to modernise the publication of WA legislation. Please note that these are proposals only and that the Government has not yet approved them. The proposal to modernise the processes for publishing WA legislation involves 3 components: replacing the current requirement to publish subsidiary legislation in full in the Gazette with publication on the WA legislation website (www.legislation.wa.gov.au); giving WA legislation compilations prepared by the PCO in electronic form the same status that statutory reprints in printed form now have; extending the powers available under the Reprints Act 1984 to the preparation in the PCO of all electronic versions of WA legislation. Please see this PDF for more detailed information about the proposal.

Mary Greenfield, the editor of the Australian Law Librarian (official journal of the Australian Law Librarians’ Association) recently sent a message to the ALLA-ANZ  email list calling for contributions and feedback on the journal. Members, check your email for more details! Mary wrote: The Australian Law Librarian is the Association’s journal – its remit should reflect the issues of relevance to the present and future of our members. Who better to contribute to it, then, than our members? Other questions that come to mind are: is the present format the appropriate one? Would subscribers like to see it in other formats, such as online, as well as the printed version? These are questions to which the Board would like members’/subscribers’ input, and are designed to ascertain what members want for the publication. Once that has occurred, the Board and the Editorial Committee will be better placed to provide what is needed/desired, but also to ascertain costs and viability of an...

There has been a lot of debate in recent years about changing trends in learning behaviours and expectations amongst students. One key question for law schools is: should students adapt when entering their legal training, or should law schools adapt to the students? The answer is probably somewhere between the two extremes, but the following offer food for thought: Benfer, Emily A., and Colleen F. Shanahan. Educating the Invincibles: Strategies for Teaching the Millennial Generation in Law School . (2013) 20  Clinical Law Review 301 Madison, Benjamin V. The Elephant in Law School Classrooms: Overuse of the Socratic Method as an Obstacle to Teaching Modern Law Students . (2008) 85(3) University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Patrice, Joe.  Making Law School Millennial-Friendly  ( Above the Law  blog) Uelmen, Amelia J.  Millennial Momentum for Revising the Rhetoric of Lawyers' Relationships and Roles . (2011) 9 U. St. Thomas L.J. 446 ALLA(WA) Se...

Cross-posted from multiple mailing lists Call for participation - international librarianship experiences Lara Seven Phillips (formerly of the University of the South Pacific, Fiji) and Kate Holvoet (currently at Zayed University, in the UAE) are writing a book on librarianship abroad; basically all the things we either learned the hard way or wish someone had told us before we started. It is scheduled to be published in December 2016 by ABC-CLIO/Libraries Unlimited. We are looking to include anecdotes, advice, cautions, lessons learned, etc. from other librarians who have worked abroad. We want to hear from people who work in all areas of librarianship, and at different kinds of libraries. We want our book to reflect a variety of international experiences. If you are interested in telling us about your experience, please click on this  Dropbox link , download the survey and return it to kate.holvoet@gmail.com and lara7seven@gmail.com. We would appreciate having quest...

Legal Information Management http://journals.cambridge.org/ LIM Volume 15   /   Issue 04   , December 2015, pp 207 - 286 Published Online on 14th December 2015 Editorial Editorial David Wills   Legal Information Management   ,   Volume 15   ,   Issue 04   , December 2015, pp 207 - 207   doi: 10.1017/S1472669615000535 ( About doi ) Published Online on 14th December 2015   [ abstract ]   Obituary Rikki Breem 1934–2015 Legal Information Management   ,   Volume 15   ,   Issue 04   , December 2015, pp 208 - 209   doi: 10.1017/S1472669615000547 ( About doi ) Published Online on 14th December 2015   [ abstract ]   Feature Article The Raven, the Writing-Desk and the Reports: a Sesquicentennial Tale of Nonsense and Law Report Reform Alison Million   Legal Information Management   ,   Volume 15   ,   Issue 04   , Decemb...