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Swine flu notice and resources

April 29, 2009 22:09

This came across my email today:Wed April 29thEarlier today Brookfield Properties was advisedof a rumour involving the swine influenza in the Bankers Hall Complex. Uponinvestigation we have discovered that the child of an employee in the buildinghas a confirmed case of swine influenza contracted...

Free vs Fee Legal Research

April 21, 2009 14:18

There is a web version of a Lawyers Weekly article on the interesting topic using free legal resources for legal research. This article was cited by the Library Boy blog with the following interesting bit highlighted:"Cost-conscious lawyers may ask themselves: Can we get by using only freely...

The purpose of the library

April 06, 2009 14:41

This lovely purpose statement articulates the why of a library:The Purpose of the Library The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization. The Library has a moral obligation to adhere to its purpose despite social, economic, environmental, or political influences. The...

Ada Lovelace Day - Cynthia Beuselinck

March 24, 2009 14:53

It wasn't very difficult to come up with female technology role models for Ada Lovelace Day. The difficulty for me was paring my list down to one person. Since I am sure that others will be writing about some of my favourite folks (Connie, Sabrina, and too many others to mention). I decided to...

Survey on McGill Guide citations for the 7th edition

March 18, 2009 15:38

Hat Tip to Vancouver Law Library Blog and Library Boy for the alert about the McGill Guide (Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation) survey.The editors of the Guide are asking for user input for the 7th edition. Please help them out.(Cross Posted to the ELLA Blog)

Glad to be in the Canadian legal services industry

March 06, 2009 22:51

Friday's are for number crunching. A fast browse through the Layoff Tracker at Law Shucks paints a pretty dismal picture for those in the US (and some UK) legal services industry. These are the reported numbers - there are probably more layoffs that are not quite so public. staff ...

Your facebook is my evidence

February 26, 2009 21:50

Dan from All About Information posted on an interesting Ontario case:On February 20th, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted leave to cross-examine a plaintiff in a motor vehicle accident suit about the nature of content he posted on his Facebook profile. If defence of a claim for...

Law reviews in print

February 04, 2009 15:27

An interesting article from Inside Higher Ed on the decline of print subscriptions to law reviews crossed my inbox today.The article points to a paper posted at SSRN. The paper discusses the declining print subscriptions and interested methodology used to collect this statistic in the US. It also...

Legal Resource Centre podcast

January 25, 2009 23:14

Often there are scheduling conflicts that are bound to disappoint. Such was the case at noon on January 22nd. I posted about a session over at Slaw.ca that conflicted with an Edmonton Law Libraries lunch on the reorganization of the Alberta Law Society and Alberta Courts Libraries into the...

Lifelong learning

December 23, 2008 17:26

I feel very strongly about the importance of learning new skills on a continual basis. This might be the case since I often ask to be the 'teacher' and would like 'learners' to participate. Another reason for my learning passion could be the direct and positive impact learning choices have had on...