ALLA (WA) News Blog

ALLA Members are invited to join us at an online CPD event on Tuesday May 3 on the topic of current awareness.  This virtual CPD will be led by Clare Brown, Vable's in-house legal librarian. Over the past year, Clare has carried out interviews with a number of legal information professionals to find out how they are transforming their firm’s current awareness delivery - they all faced various challenges/frustrations and have gone on to implement solutions to drive them to greater success and visibility. Clare takes two common themes from these interviews:  dealing with an avalanche of information and  putting power in to the hands of your end-users.  This CPD will be a great opportunity to generate some discussion and engage in some knowledge sharing along the way.  When: 1pm (AWST) Tuesday 3 May 2022.  Where: Zoom. Register here . About the Presenter: Clare Brown believes a satisfying career should be intellectually stimulating and constantly mutating, s...

Law Library Technician Denton's is advertising for a part time library technician. This position can be located in either their Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth of Sydney offices. See the position details on Seek .  Librarian The Australian Government Solicitor is advertising for a part-time position in their Canberra office. This is non-ongoing 18 month opportunity, working set ours of 7 hours per day, Monday to Friday from 12-8pm (including a 1 hour lunch break). Full position details are available from the Careers at AGS website . Applications close 19 April 2022.  Research Librarian / Knowledge Manager (Legal) A global law firm is recruiting for a part time, 12 month contract (with possible extenstion) Research Librarian/ Knowledge Manager (Legal). For position detals see Seek . *Update removed from seek since the post was originally published* Librarian (APS4) A federal government organisation responsible for regulating all thereapeautic goods within Australia ia recr...

Trove Collaborative Services is a membership model that aggregates content from the collections of nearly 900 Australian libraries and collecting organisations and makes them accessible through the Trove discovery platform. Trove Partners have access to a variety of services connected to Trove including digitisation, cataloguing, resource sharing as well as a range of promotion, learning and support services.  In July 2022, the National Library will be introducing a new Trove Collaborative Service pricing model that incorporates feedback from the Trove Partner community and reflects how services are evolving. Aileen Weir, Director of Trove Partnerships at the National Library, invites ALLA members to a brief webinar on Friday the 8th of April 10.30-11.30am (AWST) to hear more about the changes and their implications for law libraries.  After registering , you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Today is ALLA (WA)'s 45th Birthday.  The first meeting of the members of the then WA Branch of the Australian Law Librarians' Group was held in May 1977 (see the April 1977 edition of the Australian Law Librarians' Group Newsletter ). But we began on 31 March 1977 (you can see our birthday on our ACNC registration ). ALLA (WA) has come a long way in the past 45 years, leading the way with publishing ALLG(WA) Newsletters and having the oldest and longest running blog of any ALLA Division, and even hosting the ALLA Conference in Perth. With the COVID-19 situation preventing us from a proper, in-person celebration - we would like to take this moment to thank every past and present (and future) ALLA (WA) Committee member for the time they have spent serving the Western Australian law librarian and legal information professional community.  There are too many to thank personally - and we have been going through the archives in the hopes we haven't missed a name! Those who st...

With registrations for ALLA Conference 2022  now open, what better way to satiate your conference learning desires than with a few other law library conference opportunities: April 2022 #AIIP22: The Virtual Conference for Info-Entrepreneur (Association of Independent Information Professionals)   27-29 2022, virtual - with pre and post conference workshops May 2022 Teaching the Teachers Conference 2022 This AALL Conference is application based and limited to 40 attendees.  12-14 May 2022, Portland, OR, USA ALIA National 2022 Conference 16-19 May 2022, Canberra, ACT CALL/ACBD - “Leading the Way/ À l'avant-garde.” 28 May - 2 June 2022, Montreal, QC, Canada June 2022 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition  23-28 June 2022, Washington DC, USA July 2022 LIBER 2022 Annual Conference (Association of European Research Libraries) 6-8 July 2022, Odense, Denmark AALL Annual Meeting - "Advancing Justice for All" 16-19 July 2022, Denver, CO, USA Legal Writing Institutute Biennial ...

Registrations for the 7 th Annual Law Access Walk for Justice 2022 are now open and ALLA (WA) has put together a team. Come join your fellow Law Librarians for the walk which will be led by the Honourable Peter Quinlan, Chief Justice of Western Australia. An optional free breakfast is also on offer after the event. For those not near the city, you can choose to walk 4.4km where ever suits you and join virtually on social media by tagging #W4J22 Or simply make a donation to the Team.  Walk with us to celebrate the pro bono contribution of the legal profession and to raise funds for Law Access. To join the ALLA (WA) Team at the link below. You will need to register first. Once you are part of the ALLA (WA) Team you can share the ALLA (WA) team Fundraising page and get sponsored, or donate yourself. JOIN OUR TEAM DATE:                      Tuesday 17 May 2022 TIME:            ...

Research Librarian Ashurst has advertised for a Research Librarian in their Mlebourne office. Details for this full time ongoing position can be found on the careers section of the Ashurst website. Knowledge Dealbook Administrator King & Wood Mallesons has advertised for a permanent part-time addition to their Knowledge Team, based in their Melbourne office. Details for the the position of Knowledge Dealbook Administrator can be found on the careers section of the the King & Wood Mallesons website . Applications close 25 March 2022.  Research Analyst An international shelf change is available for those interested in moving to the UK. Sidley Austin has advertised for the position of Research Analyist in there London Office. Details for this position can be found on the Sidley Austin website .  Other Recently Advertised Library and Information Professional Positions Librarian (Student Learning), University of Western Australia (Crawley, WA) - applications close 30 March ...