ALLA (WA) News Blog

The 2011 Australian Law Librarians' Conference, with the theme ACTioning the Law, will be held in Canberra at the Hotel Realm, from 20-30 September 2011. The conference website is now available . The conference committee is still working on the program, but preliminary information is already available at the website. We also promise you the delights of a conference dinner at Parliament House, an opening reception at the High Court of Australia, and all the wonders of Canberra in springtime, including the floral delights of Floriade. Full registration costs will be finalised soon, but for those of you who need to make budget bids now, we expect the ALLA member rate to be around $650. More details will be provided as they come to hand, but book your diaries now.

The Easter breakfast will be held at the Country Road Cafe, 307-313 Murray St Perth On April 20 2011, 7.30 - 9.00 am. Please respond to Lisa Nichols at lnichols@claytonutz.com by April 14 if you would like to attend.

Stephen Griffiths has taken a 12month secondment from the Department of Commerce to the Practitioners’ Branch Library. Kendra Mulatz has left Corrs Chambers Westgarth and law librarianship to take a position as Information Services Manager with Woodside Monica Smith is currently on a six month contract with Freehills. Bernadette Gargan has been appointed librarian, client services (law) at Murdoch University

Great to see so many people yesterday at the "Host a horde" held in the newly refurbished Practitioners' library at the Central Law Courts. Those who knew the old library were pleasantly surprised by the new light and airy environment. Our thanks to Gael Roberts from the Legal Practice Board Complaints Committee who gave an informative and entertaining overview of the role the LPCC has in this state in relation to the practice, procedure and disciplinary matters required for the legal profession. Thanks also to Belinda Eisenhauer for all the organisation and the lovely lunch. Hope to see just as many members again at the Easter breakfast which will be advertised soon.

[From Naish Peterson, ALLA National President] Nominations are now open for the ALLA Fellowship Award. The ALLA Fellowship Award replaces the BIALL Scholarship and is open to  all ALLA members. As this is a new award, no exclusions for previous  scholarship winners will be applied, i.e. previous BIALL Scholarship  recipients are eligible. The successful applicant will receive $3000 to attend an international  conference from the following list: American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) British and Irish Association of Law Librarians’ (BIALL) Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) International Federation of Library Assocations and  Institutions (IFLA) Joint Studies Institute (JSI) New Zealand Law Librarians’ Association (NZLLA) With ALLA already offering the Lyn Pollack Award to attend the ALLA  National conference and most State and Territory Divisions providing  similar opportun...

We had the Icebreaker this morning, and reports from attendees were very positive about the presentation we had, which was  30 things in 30 minutes . I know that there were a few websites that I either didn't know existed (the Attorney General's Court Process pages) or remembered seeing back when they were in beta but hadn't visited recently (Barnet's JADE) that I think I'll have to go and investigate fully. I also think I'm going to have a quick play on Wordle too! A Slideshare link to the presentation .

If you're running a media search now, hope like mad that the main search terms don't revolve around the word water or any of its derivatives. Sadly, not even an AND NOT Brisbane will save you. Sigh.