ELLA is hosting a Social Media in the Courts session on May 17th, 2012.  I just came across this very timely news story on CBC that will give all of us a bit of info we can bring to the session:  "5 Canadian legal rulings involving FaceBook"   CBC News - Technology & Science page, May 10, 2012, 7:49 p.m.

Josette McEachern

As of March 28, 2012 we are 25% sold - please register your articling students to ensure their spot.

The Registration form is online at http://www.edmontonlawlibraries.ca/HeadStart.htm.

Dear CALL members,

Again this year the Canadian Association of Law Libraries will be hold a New Law Librarians’ Institute at the University of Western Ontario.

The dates for the 2012 New Law Librarians’ Institute will be May 27, 2012 to June 1, 2012.   More details on the 2012 Institute will be available on the CALL website under Conferences & Events once all the arrangements have been finalized.

Please make a note of the dates for this event in your Calendar now!

Donna Dennison
National Officer
Tel: 613-531-9338 / Fax: 866-303-0626
ddennison@eventsmgt.com 

www.callacbd.ca 

CALL National Office
4 Cataraqui Street, Suite 310
Kingston, ON, K7K 1Z7 Canada
office@callacbd.ca

Cheers, Shaunna

Early bird deadline is March 16, 2012

Back in January I wrote a Tip at the (then) newly launched Slaw Tips blog titled <a href="http://tips.slaw.ca/2011/research/monitoring-a-case-law-subject-with-canlii">Monitoring a case law subject with CanLII</a>.  There were a lot of great comments on the tip.  I also heard that CanLII was working on a built in solution to subject Query RSS feeds.

I am extremely pleased to pass on the news that <a href="http://www.canlii.org/en/blog/index.php?/archives/52-Major-Improvements-to-Search-Tools.html">CanLII has made some improvements to their search tools</a> this week and Subject Query RSS feeds is one of them.

Way to go CanLII.  Hat tip to <a href="http://twitter.com/stevematthews">Steve Matthews</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/Hannasus">Susannah Tredwell</a> for tweeting this.

Along with faster results rendering CanLII has also added the ability to more specifically target your hit results based on the query. 

Thank you to CanLII for the innovations and for the fabulous example of what a well organized and reasonably funded free access to the law movement can do in 10 short years.

Shaunna

Cheers, Shaunna

Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog for synthesizing the report to this:

At least for the foreseeable future, the consensus is that a hybrid model which balances both electronic and print resources is the best solution from the standpoint of those engaged in research and scholarship.

Not a huge surprise that keeping paper is more expensive.

Cheers, Shaunna

PACER is the US Public Access to Courts Electronic Records.  Searching is available for account holders and the cost of documents is 8 cents a page.

Seems like a long way away, but not really!

Some information, including the most recent draft of the new rules has been posted to the Alberta Courts Website. There are also answers to a few frequently asked questions.

Happy Monday!

~ Linda Harmata