Author Archive for Michael Lindsey

NOTICE OF CANDIDATES FOR IALL BOARD ELECTION 2016-2019

9 March 2016 The Secretary of IALL hereby submits notice of the candidates selected by the IALL Nominating Committee pursuant to Article VII, Section 3 of the IALL Constitution. Personal statements submitted by each candidate follow the list of candidates. The…

IALL 2016 Oxford, UK Scholarships

Applications for financial assistance to enable law librarians to attend IALL’s 35th Annual Course – IALL 2016 – in Oxford, United Kingdom from 31 July to 3 August 2016 are now being accepted. See selection guidelines and the online application…

IALL 2016 Oxford – Registration Open

It is our pleasure to announce that Registration is now open for the IALL 35th Annual Course on International Legal Information and Law: Programme Registration General info Accommodation The conference will be held in Oxford, United Kingdom, 31st July –…

Proposed Constitutional Amendments

Please vote on proposed IALL Constitutional amendments! IALL members who are eligible to vote will receive a ballot via email to vote on proposed amendments to the IALL Constitution. More information about the proposed amendments and a sample ballot are…

Pure Theory of Legal Festschrifts

The following is not about “basic norms”; rather it focuses on ease of access of formerly deeply buried legal theory contained in various Festschrift volumes. Festschrifts contain original work by scholars honouring a milestone in the life of a brilliant…

TTIP, access to information and the democratic deficit

On Wednesday 8 July, the European Parliament adopted recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Anyone reading the commentary online would have been hard-pressed to discern whether this was an instance…

2015 Bursary Award Recipients

The IALL Scholarships Committee is pleased to annouce the recipients of the 2015 Bursary awards as follows: Regular Bursary Awards to law librarians Rita Lam from Singapore, Daisy Otic from the Philippines, and Kamil Yeşiltaş from Turkey. Members-Only Bursary Awards…

Liaison Librarianship for Law School

Technological developments have impacted academic libraries significantly, whether it is decreased door counts or increased use of virtual resources. This is particularly true in some special discipline libraries like health sciences or engineering libraries, where much of their content is…