Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA)

How do you protect your reputation online

2011-04-13T20:58:00.000-07:00

The Sydney Morning Herald article linked discusses issues of concern regarding how people, or robots can trawl through the social media maze locating amazing information about yourself. This can be quite dangerous with respect to your status or reputation at work or industry. So should you then restrict your personality in the social media space to avoid anything that will reflect badly on you? Regards Lisa Sylvester

Publisher Trial - LawOne with Cases from Timebase

2010-10-29T21:26:00.000-07:00

After completing the trial, please add you comments here. These comments will be useful for other ALLA members to read in making purchase / subscription decisions, and the comments will also be fed back to Timebase. Back to publisher trials page

Publisher Trial - Personal Property Securities in Australia (PPSA) from LexisNexis

2010-10-14T14:43:00.000-07:00

This trial is available to ALLA members until Friday 26 November 2010. We'd love to see triallists' comments here, and we will feed this back to Lexis. Back to publisher trials page

LexisNexis Customer Panel

2010-07-05T23:13:00.000-07:00

Following is a brief update regarding the LexisNexis Customer Panel meeting held on 20 April 2010. I found it to be a very enjoyable experience and appreciated the opportunity to provide constructive and honest feedback to LexisNexis across a range of areas including: products; services; pricing; and staff. Other panel members spoke about their experiences with Practice Management and Workflow solutions. It was terrific to also have the opportunity to speak with staff who work behind the scenes, such as the finance officers, editors and product developers in addition to the Customer Relationship Managers. I certainly recommend the customer panel forum be undertaken on an annual basis. Leanne Cummings

Working with contracts?

2010-06-17T23:21:00.000-07:00

I don't know about everyone else, but every year I wrestle with the annual renewal of a variety of contracts, squinting my way through the terms & conditions (8 point font anyone??), and puzzling as to why it is still a regular struggle to settle the agreement. Luckily I have the assistance of our inhouse counsel. They are fabulous people who with much patience and support, help make sense of the legalese, point out what I should get clarified, changed or removed, and who put it all in a commercial perspective. I have been doing this for some years now, so I thought I would use the ALLA blog to share some of the things I have learned and to give everyone the opportunity to share their own insights and experiences. I look forward to hearing from everyone. In the meantime... Tip #1. Always read a contract with the view that most things are negotiable! Cheers Lianne

BIALL Conference 2010

2010-05-25T17:33:00.000-07:00

With thanks to Justis, sponsor of the BIALL Annual Study Conference Scholarship, I will be heading off to the UK shortly to attend the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) annual study conference. This year’s conference has the topical theme Risks and Opportunities: Managing information in difficult times, and will be held in Brighton, 10-12 June 2010. The BIALL conference offers an appealing programme, which includes an interesting paper by Australian librarian Alissa Sputore from Melbourne Law School, "A Blue Chip Investment: Law Research Services to Support Academic Research". I would be happy to hear from anyone interested in the conference in general, or in selected papers. Of course, I will be reporting back from the conference. I would like to thank Justis once again for sponsoring the scholarship, ALLA for selecting my application, and of course, conference hosts, BIALL. I would also like to thank Jean McKay and Dennis Warren, previous scholarship recipients, for their invaluable conference and travel tips. For those interested in attending future BIALL conferences, do remember the BIALL Annual Study Conference Scholarship - details and guidelines are located under Scholarships & Awards. Kind regards, Tracey

Outsourcing legal and business research services

2010-04-21T23:17:00.000-07:00

Foot Anstey is a reasonably sized firm (40 partners, 350 staff). http://www.integreon.com/news-resources/press-releases/2010/foot-anstey-engages-integreon-for-library-and-information-services.html "Foot Anstey turned to Integreon for its unique Library and Information Services offering, which includes legal and business research, journal management, information supplier management and procurement, and related library and research services. By engaging Integreon, Foot Anstey was able to expand the breadth and depth of support available to its lawyers and staff without increasing costs, ultimately enabling it to provide a higher quality, more cost-effective service to its clients. "Through our relationship with Integreon, we have gained access to a large team of information specialists with greater breadth of expertise, depth of experience and capacity for meeting our growing information needs," said Richard Gardiner, Foot Anstey's director of business development. "Integreon provides all the support and expertise we need at an affordable price and without the administrative and management challenges." What are your thoughts?

Calling all LN customers - share your thoughts

2010-04-13T16:46:00.000-07:00

LexisNexis are holding a Customer Panel Discussion on Tuesday 20 April 2010 and will focus on what LexisNexis do well and areas in which they could improve. Leanne Cummings, National ALLA President, has been invited to represent the views of our Association. Please take a moment to share your views on what LexisNexis do well and areas in which they could improve such as quality of content, customer service, price and many more.

Call for Conference Papers - ALLA/NZLLA 2010

2010-03-10T21:16:00.000-08:00

The Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) in conjunction with the New Zealand Law Librarians’ Association (NZLLA) proudly invites you to participate in this, their second joint conference, to be held in Melbourne Australia, 29th September - 1st October 2010 The programme will include such topics as, emerging technologies; trends in the profession; developments in law publishing and knowledge management; and the future of libraries. We will also be looking at legal history and the need for preservation of print materials; current issues relating to indigenous affairs; e-democracy and public information and current professional successes and issues. In addition to presentations already arranged by the Committee we are now seeking submissions of proposals for papers relevant to the theme of the Conference. Submissions may be made by email to: John.Botherway@fedcourt.gov.au Closing date for submissions:16th April 2010 For further details go to the following link and click on the Call for Papers Link: http://alla.asn.au/index.php/conferences/alla-2010

American Association of Law Libraries 2010 Conference

2010-02-25T22:54:00.000-08:00

On behalf of the American Association of Law Libraries, I am pleased to invite the members of the Australian Law Librarians’ Association to our 103rd Annual Meeting and Conference, which will be held in Denver, Colorado, July 10-13, 2010. The theme for this year’s conference is Summit 2010: Mapping Our Future. Reflecting this theme we are offering 66 educational programs and four workshops, as well as library tours, excursions and other special events. In addition to the educational programming, the conference offers an extensive Exhibit Hall with more than 190 booths. You will find more information at www.aallnet.org/events. Please let your members know that they are invited to register for our conference at the AALL Member Discount rate here: www.aallnet.org/events/10_registration.asp. If registering online, ALLA members will need to enter the code '88888' in the 'AALL Member ID' box, which will allow them to receive the AALL Member Discount rate. If registering by fax or mail, the registrant should indicate that he or she is a member of ALLA when completing the registration form. Hotel and travel reservation information can also be found online at www.aallnet.org/events. We hope that some of your members will be able to travel to the U.S. to attend our event. If so, we'll look forward to welcoming them in person to Denver. Sincerely, Catherine Lemann President

Queensland Government Agency Libraries Review

2010-02-23T18:28:00.000-08:00

I recently learned about the Queensland Government Agency Libraries Review and its key objective is to "present a number of options that consider and address the need for efficient, cost-effective and equitable library and research services for core agencies in the Queensland Government." It would be interesting to hear your comments regarding Library Reviews in general and to share any experiences you have had with a review. In particular, what were the outcomes of the review?

National Membership Model Discussion

2010-01-31T18:55:00.001-08:00

Members of the Consultative Committee have been working hard in engaging their members to provide comment on the draft Constitution. This is a very exciting time for ALLA where members will cast their vote on the membership model at the 2010 ALLA AGM. What are your thoughts on the proposal? Do you think ALLA will move to a national membership model?