The Library Without Walls: Striving for an Excellent Law Library Service Post-Earthquake

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Annual Conference ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Professional Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Law Library

AbstractThis paper is adapted from a presentation given by Sara Roberts at the 2015 BIALL Annual Conference. On September 4th 2010 Christchurch suffered the first of a series of catastrophic earthquakes which continued over the next two years and damaged much of the city. During this time the University of Canterbury suffered greatly, both through physical damage to the campus and from a loss of students willing to come and study in Christchurch. Subsequently, the dedicated Law Library on campus was closed and it was necessary to reassess the service in the light of severely reduced resources. More than four years on from that first earthquake, the law collection is situated in the central library on campus, and the number of professional law librarians supporting the service has reduced from four to two. Yet despite the changes the service has not diminished and, indeed, is stronger in some areas.

scholarly journals Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Custodian of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection: “Until Further Notice”

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-166
Author(s):  
Loretta Parham
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
University Center ◽  
Morehouse College ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
E Mail

On June 23, 2006, the American Library Association was holding its Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, the first major conference to return to the city post Hurricane Katrina. My scheduled visit of four days was abruptly cut short as a result of two communications: a call from Walter Massey, President of More-house College in Atlanta, Georgia, and an e-mail from William Potter, Dean of the University of Georgia Libraries. By the time the day was over, I learned that a collection of manuscripts and books documenting many of the writings, speeches, and notes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . . .

scholarly journals Cambridge Women and the Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Kate Faulkner
Keyword(s):  
Legal Profession ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The People ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University ◽  
Law Library ◽  
Women And The Law

AbstractIn this article Kate Faulkner writes about the significant moments in the journey of women as they entered into the legal profession taking a perspective from the University of Cambridge. Her article is based around a recent exhibition that was held at the Squire Law Library as part of the Open Cambridge annual event. The aim of the exhibition was to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 and the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 which finally allowed women into the professions.

scholarly journals From Oxford to Williamsburg: Part 1 – The University of Oxford, Faculty of Law and Bodleian Law Library

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Bird
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Law ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University ◽  
Law Library

AbstractThe Bodleian Law Library has only existed as an entity in its own right for less than 50 years. Yet part of the collection dates back to the days before the founding of the Bodleian Library in 1602. The rise and fall in fortunes of the teaching of law at Oxford is closely tied to the establishment of the law library. A lesser known aspect of the history includes the ties between Oxford and the United States, especially its oldest law school, William and Mary Law School. In this paper, Ruth Bird offers a brief history of the University of Oxford and then looks at the history of law teaching, before moving on to the evolution of the Law Library itself, and some links with our cousins across the pond.

Celebrating a Century of Women in the Law: Using Historical Exhibitions to Enhance User Engagement and Promote a Library Service

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Vanessa Curley ◽  
Sarah Foley
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archive ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Library

AbstractIn 2019 the Bar of Ireland Law Library launched an online exhibition detailing the first one hundred years of women in the law in Ireland and the first one hundred women called to the Irish Bar. The online exhibition coincided with the centenary celebrations of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and a physical exhibition curated in collaboration with the Honorable Society of Kings Inns and the Law Society of Ireland. This article by Vanessa Curley and Sarah Foley explores the background to how Law Library staff became involved in creating historical exhibitions, the development of a digital archive of The Bar of Ireland and curating online exhibitions to complement this. It will also discuss the benefits of such activities to the Law Library service and the wider Bar of Ireland.

scholarly journals The Work of the Commercial Courts.

1921 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Scrutton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
Commercial Courts

During the last Long Vacation—which I am afraid, by the way, will be the last long vacation—I Was just about starting out to indulge in a pastime which a don of the rival, but much inferior, university has described as “putting little balls into little holes with instruments singularly unadapted for the purpose” when a letter was put into my hand with an American stamp and a United States postmark. I opened it hastily and glanced at it, and gathered the impression that some unknown society in the United States was inviting me to proceed there in the month of November to deliver an address on some legal subject. I was flattered and puzzled. I threw the letter on the table and went out to indulge in the aforesaid pastime. It was not till I got home and read the letter carefully that I discovered what it was all about. I gathered that your Downing Professor, who prefers to spend his holiday in a dry climate—a bone-dry climate—was conveying to me the request of the University Law Society that I should come back to my old university and my old college and speak to the law students, and I was very much flattered and grateful. I felt a little, however, like the Prodigal Son, for I thought that for the Cambridge Law Society and the Law School of Cambridge to invite a man who had paid little attention to them while he was up, to come and address them, was heaping coals of fire upon his head.

Chancellor College Law Library in Malawi

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-378
Author(s):  
Matthias Chiwaya
Keyword(s):  
Information Support ◽  
Research Centers ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
The Law ◽  
Faculty And Staff ◽  
The University ◽  
Law Library ◽  
University Of Malawi

The Center, now known as the Mcnight Legal Resource Centre, was established at the University of Malawi and designed to provide information support for the efficient and effective performance of the law faculty and staff, students and researchers and institutions and organizations associated with the University, including related government departments and research centers.

scholarly journals Beyond Typical Library Partnerships: Intersecting with the City

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Derrenbacker
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Library Use ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This essay is adapted from a lightning-talk presentation given at the annual conference of The Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU), held at the University of British Columbia, May 30-June 1, 2016. The conference theme was Intersections. The presentation and essay highlight the emerging library partnerships between Laurentian University's McEwen School of Architecture Library and various groups in downtown Sudbury, Ontario that are leading to expanded services and positive community engagement. Cet essai est une adaptation d’une présentation « éclair » offerte lors du congrès de l’Atelier annuel sur la formation documentaire, plus communément connu sous son acronyme anglophone WILU (Workshop for Instruction in Library Use), qui a eu lieu à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique du 30 mai au 1er juin 2016. Le thème du congrès était « Intersections ». La présentation et cet essai portent sur des partenariats en émergence entre la bibliothèque de l’École d’architecture McEwen de l’Université Laurentienne et divers groupes situés au centre-ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui mènent vers une prestation élargie des services et un engagement communautaire positif.

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