My big Manitoba adventure & farewell to Vancouver
Yes, it’s true. And no, I’m not crazy. I’ve moved to Winnipeg! After five fantastic years with Alexander Holburn, I decided that I was up for a new challenge. Winnipeg has always been near and dear to...
View ArticleSLA Legal Division Quarterly:Post-Conference Issue
SLA Legal Division just released the summer issue of Legal Division Quarterly, which contains a bunch of session summaries, including a detailed synopsis of “If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Tales from...
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WestlaweCarswell’s Words & Phrases
I note from this month’s WestlaweCarswell eBulletin that Words & Phrases has finally been rolled out. According to the bulletin: Words & Phrases is now available on LawSource! Words &...
View Article“The explanation that fully answers the question”: worth pushing for
Mega props to Karen at Library Technician Dialog. Her persistence paid off big-time for all of us in Manitoba who deal with this particular legal information vendor. See ya, arbitrarily-added PST!
View ArticleWho wouldn’t want this job?
Check out the language of this job ad! Amazing to see a non-library (actually, any organization, for that matter) advertise using our language. OK, maybe there are a few too many cliches, but overall,...
View ArticleLibrary as [a fun] place
Mark at the AALL Spectrum Blog wonders whether law libraries are holding fun events in the library, and whether anyone has studied (and presumably reported on) that. My answer to the first question is...
View ArticleWords & Phrases compared
Over at Slaw, Gary Rodrigues has a good post comparing the words & phrases offerings of Westlaw and Quicklaw. Rodrigues notes: “Both services are unique in what they offer. Until one service seeks...
View ArticleNew BC Courthouse Library catalogue
One of the things I miss most about working in BC is the fantastic BC Courthouse Library system. This week’s news is just one more reason for that. They’ve now got a new name (Courthouse Libraries BC),...
View ArticleWorking with Vendors
An article entitled “Happy Together: How to Foster Mutually Beneficial Librarian-Vendor Partnerships” in the February 2009 issue of AALL Spectrum caught my eye. (hat tip: Library Boy) Written by Devin...
View ArticleThe value of law library staff: the position, or the person?
Karen over at Library Technician Dialog has just written a great post entitled “A Value Proposition“. In it she explains something we’ve been thinking and talking about lately: why Winnipeg law firms...
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