ALLA (WA) News Blog

This post is on behalf of the Australian Law Librarian  Journal Editor, Damaris Olea.  Call for Writers | Australian Law Librarian  The Australian Law Librarian journal offers a unique environment to publish articles that focus on law librarianship, legal research, knowledge management, technology developments, and professional development topics. Contributions to the journal can open doors and connect you with your community of law librarians, technicians, knowledge managers, and information managers working in the legal sector - as well as help you grow professionally in your career.  If you are interested in submitting an article, the article word count is flexible. Further information is available on the journal page on the ALLA website and also see "Notes for Contributors" If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Damaris Olea Editor Australian Law Librarian Journal | Australian Law Librarians' Association

Liaison Librarian (Learning & Teaching) The University of Melbourne's Law School Library is advertising for this full time continuing position.  As the Liaison Librarian (Learning & Teaching), you will work within a team of information professionals, principally delivering services to support students and academic staff at Melbourne Law School in coursework programs and digital capability programs to develop students’ skills for discovering, evaluating, applying and creating information. This role works strategically to develop students’ scholarly and digital capability through the curriculum and co-curricula programs.  Applications close Tuesday, 18 January 2022 . Full details are available from the University of Melbourne's Carreers website. Legal Research Officer Court and Tribunal Services, Department of Justice of Western Australia is advertising for this full time fixed term position.  The District Court is seeking an experienced legal practitioner or a hig...

Dear ALLA(WA) members, Happy New Year! I hope you all managed to have a relaxing break over the Christmas and New Year holidays.  Before we welcomed 2022, ALLA (WA) held its AGM on the 25th November 2021 at Grand Bar & Bistro. Thank you to everyone that attended and to Jane Beer and Alice Hewitt for organising the venue and food. The lamb shanks were massive!     The Special Resolution brought forward to remove the requirement of having a Vice President position and reducing the minimum general committee member positions to two members was passed unanimously. These changes to our ALLA (WA) Rules have been submitted to and processed by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety, Western Australia.  Our ALLA Rules received an audit during this process and it was picked up that we do not currently have a section in our Rules that addresses disputes between members and the association. We also need to amend the Rules to include the day in each year ...

It's that time of year again,  Cleaning up your desk... Organising projects for the first day back in 2022.. Setting up your out of office email reply... Wondering how you will eat all the chocolate office Santa piled on your desk, and if you did leave it in the office will the lack of airconditioning cause a melted chocolate puddle? That's bad for the books, best eat it now then. 

Details of the ALLA Conference 2022 are now available from the ALLA Conference website: allaconference.com.au/  The ALLA Conference 2022 will take place 24-26 August 2022 in Hobart, Tasmania at the Hotel Grand Chancellor .  The theme for 2022 is THE NEW NORMAL, with the following sub-themes: Post COVID considerations How has covid affected your work, your life, the library profession, the legal profession? Where to from here? How do we deal with fake information and disinformation, how do we respond to the changes in society with regards to gender and cultural inequality? How can we as law librarians help these changes and change makers? How have things changed? Legal history, how will legal history be recorded / accessed in the future? What is your favourite legal topic? Has it changed lately? How have the courts changed? Are trials now more like tv court? A call for abstracts is now open on the ALLA Conference website and closes 1 May 2022.  Conference registrations w...

The Australian Law Librarians' Association journal, the Australian Law Librarian is now available on Informit, with the December 2021 issue (Volume 29, Issue 4) now available on the platform. This edition is packed with articles stemming from the ALLA Virtual Conference 2021 #ALLA2021 - including some papers from the conference presenters including: Evolution of publishing commonwealth legislation / Meredith Leigh Human rights in a prison library - the legacy of Alexander Maconochie / Belinda Lawson The present moulds the future: what are we doing now to develop future ready law graduates? / Annette Goodwin Engaging the future with legal research skills / Paula Everett Reflections on AustLII's 25th anniversary - where we came from and where we are going / Richard Hunter Future progressive: ALLA survey of legal publishers and e-books / Monika Zygmuntowicz Empowering innovation in legal knowledge management, now and in the future / Virginia Ginnane A timely reminder to attendees ...

Murdoch University has advertised for a part-time law lecturer in legal research. What better way to ensure graduates have the legal research skills they need when they move into practice? Or when they move into jobs such as Research Officer at the Law Council of Australia ?  The selection criteria for the Legal Research Lecturer position are below and can be found on the Murdoch University  current vacancies  page. Applicants are directed to apply through  seek . Applications close 10 December 2021 at 8.59pm.  Please note they have also advertised for a Law Lecturer specialising in Law and Technology.  Selection Criteria A PhD, or appropriate professional qualification/accreditation in an area relevant to appointment. Demonstrated experience in teaching in the discipline or profession with demonstrated success in training students in legal research skills. Demonstrated ability to work under broad direction only, exercise initiative in undertaking responsib...