***Cross posted to http://mireau.blogspot.com***

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

The website for the upcoming Calgary CALL Conference is now up at http://www.callacbd.ca/conferences/2011/index.htm

Cheers, Shaunna

A while ago, I wrote at Slaw on Digital Books.  Today there is an important new report from the Council on Library and Information Services that explores the question of whether the library of the future is inevitably digital. At page 81 of this report, there is an essay on the Cost of keeping a book. 

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

Check it out at http://www.pacer.gov/

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.

The new Rules of Court are scheduled to come into effect on November 1, 2010.

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