The Supreme Court of Canada has released its annual report 2024 Year in Review.
The report covers the Court’s activities over the past year, including information about decisions and statistics.
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is hosting a webinar on Copyright and Controlled Digital Lending on April 4, 2025 at 1PM EST:”The dream of shared library collections – whether print or digital – has long been seen as a solution to many of the issues that bedevil libraries of all stripes, including managing costs,
The draft program of the 2025 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries is now available.
The conference takes place in late May in Calgary, Alberta
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is hosting a webinar on April 2, 2005 from 12 to 1PM EST on Tribunals for Access to Justice in Canada: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:”Canada’s tribunals resolve many of the most important and frequently-arising legal disputes, within specialized spheres of jurisdiction assigned by statutes.
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), along with other partner organizations, hosted a summit on Canadian digital preservation at the Library and Archives Canada location in Gatineau, Québec on November 21-22, 2024.The full report of the event is now available:
“The @Risk North 3 summit (Gatineau, November 2024), organized by the CARL
Digital Preservation
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) recently created a Canadian Assessment Community of Practice (CoP) and is inviting people interested in joining to register by March 17:”The purpose of this community of practice is to engage library workers based in CARL and non-CARL research libraries, who have a strong interest or functional responsibilities in assessment,
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recently published its report Safe, Informed, Supported: Reforming Justice Responses to Sexual Violence.
From the press release:”[The Commission] concluded that the justice system is currently failing to meet the twin goals of access to justice and accountability. The justice system is not supporting those who have experienced sexual
In November 2024, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) published an AI human rights impact assessment based specifically on Canadian human rights law. This week, the LCO published what it calls a Backgrounder that summarizes the benefits, limitations, and choices in artificial intelligence impact assessments.
“This Backgrounder accompanies the LCO/OHRC
The Law Society of Ontario’s Great Library has published a blog post about Treatise Finders (US Legal Research) with useful information on where to find the top US textbooks in different areas of law:”For Canadian legal practitioners, the need to research American law arises for a variety of reasons: client problems may involve U.S. business
The website Super Library Marketing has a lot of very useful tips on how to promote library services and products.The site is run by Angela Hursh who was recognized in 2023 as a Mover and Shaker by Library Journal.A recent post was entitled Rethinking Your Library Email Strategy: The Surprising Truth About First of the