ALLA (WA) News Blog

As you may know the ALLA Conference 2016 is underway in Melbourne right now - check out Twitter with the hashtag #ALLA2016Conf to follow along. Mawghan Elverd, this year's recipient of the ALLA (WA) / Wolters Kluwer CCH Conference Bursary Winner, was spotted having a chat with Wolters Kluwer CCH's very own Alicia Cohen. L-R: Alicia Cohen (Wolters Kluwer CCH), Mawghan Elverd (Jackson McDonald) Thanks to Wolters Kluwer CCH for their continued support of the Conference Bursary and to ALLA (WA) Committee Member, Luise Crisafulli for her role as our photojournalist. If you're at the Conference, let us know what you think and Tweet us  @lawlibsWA or leave a comment below.

ALLA is proud to collaborate with Kidd's Law Publications and present a webinar on Creating and developing information resources and products – How one small publisher makes themselves indispensable and you can too? Over the coming months ALLA will collaborate with leaders in the information industry to bring you expertise and knowledge that will enable you to turn information into knowledge. Please let your CPD co-ordinator know if you have any suggestions for CPDs. Title of Seminar: Creating and developing information resources and products – How one small publisher makes themselves indispensable and you can too? The seminar, through recounting the story of the development of Kidd’s Law Publications will seek to inform, equip and motivate librarians to seize opportunities to create their own client facing information value added resources and products.  Register now at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4676457525322205188 When: Wednesday 17th of Ausgust at 1p...

I am pleased to welcome the following 2016/2017 committee members: Alice Hewitt, (Vice President, Immediate Past President) Justin Booker, (Treasurer) Anne Young, (Secretary) Gilien Bevan,  Luise Crisafulli,  Linda Simonis,  Stephen Griffiths, and  Catherine Kafentzis. We are delighted to welcome 2 new members this year – Stephen and Catherine. With their wealth of knowledge and specific industry expertise they are valuable additions to the committee. The 2016/2017 committee’s first meeting will be held on 17 August 2016, where we will be discussing news, procedures, events etc for the year.  We will be posting via the Blog and social media, – so please watch this space for more. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to contact me at natalie.mcdonald@lavanlegal.com.au  Natalie McDonald ALLA(WA) President 2016/2017

ALLA is proud to collaborate with Oxford University Press and present a webinar on Oxford’s Law eResources. Over the coming months ALLA will collaborate with leaders in the information industry to bring you expertise and knowledge that will enable you to turn information into knowledge. INTRODUCING Oxford Law Online: From Scholar to Practitioner Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford, we are a not for profit, ethical organization and one of our prime publishing focuses is in law. This is your opportunity to come and find out everything you wanted to know about our recent acquisition of select book titles from Wolters Kluwer CCH, our free Law Citator tool and to sign up for two month’s free access to all of Oxford’s law resources including the Australian Law Dictionary. At OUP we publish law eBooks, databases, case reports and treaties with subject modules in Finance & Banking Law, Public and Private International Law and International Commercial...

ALLA members are invited to hear CCH's Alicia Cohen sharing with us on     Is eLending really here? Despite the high penetration of digital devices in Australia, demand for physical publications by libraries has remained stable. A perceived lack of demand for eLending has put it on the back shelf, but new and innovative technologies are responding to the future needs of our busy lawyers and business professionals. Over the last three years the team at Wolters Kluwer, CCH has been collaborating with the law librarian community to develop an eLending solution that allows professional libraries to easily offer their users loanable eBooks. This project has developed significantly over the years and now the CCH ePlatform offers a device-agnostic and publisher-aggregated space for all libraries. Promoting research and access to information is a central mission for libraries and also for CCH. eBooks and eLending are another step closer to achieving this. Come along ...

Thanks to everyone that attended ‘IPWA 2016’. The event was a huge success. The images (in jpeg and web ready format) may be viewed on Flickr here – https://www.flickr.com/gp/142003464@N07/646814 © Copyright 2016 Neal Pritchard (Spool Photography) https://www.flickr.com/gp/142003464@N07/31kVJ7 © Copyright 2016 Kirsty McPhee (Tottle Partners) Use of the images: Please note, no money must be made from the use of these images.  All use including personal and corporate social media accounts (such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), blogs, newsletters and journals etc. that publish the images must include the appropriate credit above. Special thanks to our sponsors; Jade Barnet, LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, TimeBase, Wolters Kluwer (CCH), Western Australian School Library Association and the Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia for helping us make this event happen. May this be the first of many collaborative events organised for the library and ...

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...