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Legal News (Legal Sourcery)
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April 22, 2021
PressReader (& Other “Non-Legal” Databases) Added
By Ken Fox If you have visited the Member Resource Section recently, you may have noticed, way down at the bottom, some new links under the heading “Non-Legal Databases.” These databases come courtesy of the Saskatchewan Electronic Resources Partnership (SERP), of which the Law Society Library is a member. The databases are grouped by platform: PressReader, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and Gale....
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January 26, 2021
CBA Mid-Winter Meeting 2021 – Legal Resources Will be There!
By Alan Kilpatrick, Co-Director & Librarian, Legal Resources Are you attending the virtual CBA Mid-Winter Meeting 2021 this week? The Law Society’s Legal Resources team is hosting a virtual exhibitor booth this year. What can we do for you? Please stop by our booth “virtually” to connect with us over video and text chat! This is a great opportunity to...
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November 27, 2020
Your Saskatchewan Legal Databases, Relaunched
By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian The Law Society’s searchable legal databases (Bills, Cases, Conduct Review, Ethics Ruling, and Sentencing Digests) were officially relaunched on a modern, mobile-friendly, and cloud-based database platform on Friday, November 20th, concluding a year-long Legal Resources project. Congratulations to the @LawSocietySask for 40 years of providing access to legal info tools Saskatchewanians need, and for the launch...
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November 26, 2020
Is CALL/ACBD Changing Its Name?
by Ken Fox, Librarian On November 24 of this year, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association Canadienne des Bibliothèques de Droit (CALL/ACBD) held a “Town Hall” meeting via Zoom, and discussed, amongst other matters, an organizational name change. Principally, they want to remove the word “library” from their name. And I couldn’t agree more. In fact, in 2016,...
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November 20, 2020
3… 2… 1… (Re)Launch Your Saskatchewan Legal Databases!
By Alan Kilpatrick, Librarian I am very excited to announce that today we are officially relaunching our searchable in-house Saskatchewan legal databases on a modern, mobile-friendly, cloud-based platform: Law Society of Saskatchewan Conduct Review Database Law Society of Saskatchewan Ethics Rulings Database Saskatchewan Bills database Saskatchewan Cases database Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Sentencing Digest Saskatchewan legal practitioners, the judiciary, and...
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November 13, 2020
I Don’t Answer Legal Questions at the Library
Reposted with permission from Megan Smiley, BC Law Matters Program Coordinator By Megan Smiley Public libraries are critical in providing fair and equitable access to quality information on a wide range of topics. Among many library services, including readers’ advisory, technology training, children and teen services, collection development, and more, where does legal information fit in? Legal information questions may take...
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