ALLA (WA) News Blog

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...

Curtin University has opened a new Law School campus in Perth’s Central Business District within an existing 1912 heritage listed building located at 57 Murray Street. Situated in the Perth CBD in close proximity to the Supreme Court, District Court and Perth Magistrate’s Court, as well as statutory tribunals such as the State Administrative Tribunal, the city campus will facilitate student’s education within an applied industry setting in line with Curtin’s primary vision of developing job-ready graduates. The new facility will also provide a unique home for the Law School and provide a hub for both formal and informal interactions between the staff, students and in-house legal professionals. Teaching and learning has been optimised within the building through the use of state-of-the-art collaborative and distributed learning space design and learning technologies. These facilities include a technologically equipped moot court, allowing for both traditional and seminar based lea...

ALLA has appointed Richard Vankoningsveld to the position of Membership Co-ordinator. Richard has currently been employed at Legal Aid Queensland, has previously had significant involvement in ALLA Queensland Division, and brings a wealth of knowledge on technical issues to the role.   The role is for a fixed term of 3 years initially.   Welcome to you Richard!

Freedom of access to information is part of our professional ethics: Librarians and other information workers reject the denial and restriction of access to information and ideas most particularly through censorship whether by states, governments, or religious or civil society institutions. (IFLA Code of Ethics, also endorsed by ALIA) So here is an important element to that debate:  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/zero-rating-what-it-is-why-you-should-care Whilst the discussion of the legal issues are US centric, there are useful descriptions of what is happening in the internet space from some of the big players and why we as information professionals should care. Margaret Allen CEO and State Librarian State Library of Western Australia

The 2016 ALLA Fellowship has been awarded to Holger Aman. Holger has elected to attend the IALL Conference in Oxford in July. The ALLA Board congratulates him and looks forward to hearing about the conference and his travels.

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.

Tottle Partners have appointed David Medlen to the position of Library Assistant. Best wishes in your new position David!