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ICE Campaign

November 18, 2008 16:15

A good plan came through our company e-mail bulletin today:ICE - 'In Case of Emergency'We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.If we were to be involved in an...

Alberta Bills awaiting Royal Assent

November 04, 2008 14:44

Did you know that you can look in the Order Paper on the Legislative Assembly of Alberta website to see the list of bills that have passed but are not assented to? You can also see what is scheduled to be discussed in the session for the day. Just because it is on the schedule does not mean that...

Connections, social networking and library service

October 29, 2008 15:45

Stephen Abram gave a great talk to the U of A School of Library and Information Science on October 28. He is out and about in the west talking about SLA - the Special Libraries Association. Every time I see Stephen speak, I am re-energized about librarianship. SLA is doing some very cool things to...

Tough as a $3 steak?

October 23, 2008 15:24

God Bless Eugene Meehan for his wonderful Lang Michener Supreme Court of Canada LawLetter. The October 23 issue quotes a faboulous piece of writing, from a court decision no less. I reproduce the quote here for your reading pleasure:Here's Chief Justice Roberts' opening paragraph in his U.S....

Where are all the women in the Legal Blogosphere?

October 06, 2008 14:33

Hat tip to Joe Hodnicki for the link to this interesting article. As October 18 approaches, I challenge you to write or post or blog (used as a verb like that annoying guy on TV).Cheers, Shaunna

Wallace damages by any other name

September 02, 2008 15:28

The September 5, 2008 issue of the Lawyers Weekly has an interesting article titled Damages formerly known as Wallace. The article's first sentence states:The Supreme Court marked a new era in labour law in a recent decision which repeatedly referred to bad faith damages as being “formerly” Wal...

Policing library fines

August 21, 2008 21:37

The Smoking Gun (a guilty pleasure) had this little tidbit. I would love to have a 'charity' jail and bail for all those in my firm with books in their office that are not signed out to them. My charity of choice is a new book cart :-)

Thank you to RIM

August 19, 2008 19:43

I took a vacation this year. Three weeks in a row for the first time ever in my life. From July 25 to August 17 I was out of the office. Part of the reason that I haven't taken large chunks of time off in the past is due to the multi-day catch up with work life on a return to the office. I...

What is next?

August 05, 2008 16:29

Check out the KM Librarians blog to see http://callkm.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/next-5000-days-of-the-web/The world as we know it is constantly changing, and I hope that Kevin Kelly's suggested direction in the video linked above is good for this planet and the living things on it.

I'm feeling a little chilly

July 14, 2008 14:57

I try to keep up on law library issues from abroad. My favourite source from the US, the Law Librarian Blog, alerted me to the recent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.Wikipedia has a good summary of this