We've been weeding the collection of reference materials now integrated into the Library's Core Collection. (Don't worry, we're not throwing anything out; we're just moving many of the older or no-longer-topical materials to the stacks or into storage.) In the process, we've found some pretty arcane and interesting things. This is one of them. In […]
Legal Research
English law was adopted as Canadian law at Confederation, right?
Wrong. Another simple question at the Reference Desk last week. But we all know English law was received into Canada at some point, don't we? We may think we know that, but I didn't have any idea just how complicated the answer to the question of what law was received and when until I went […]
Revised Statutes of Canada Now on HeinOnline
The complete Revised Statutes of Canada (RSC), from the first revision in 1896 to the last in 1985 -- are now available in HeinOnline. This project was completed with assistance from the Osgoode Library, which provided copies of all the revisions to Hein for digitization.This is the first time that the RSC are available online […]
Upcoming Zotero webinars
Although I am currently in the midst of introducing first-year Legal Process students to the wonders of Zotero, for those of you who want a bit more information (or know nothing about it), York Libraries is offering free webinars for Zotero tomorrow (January 31st) and Monday (February 4th). The info about the webinars (and Zotero […]
Breaking into a full GALLOPP
Big news for those who love trawling through and reading government documents (you know who you are!), as an interesting new initiative was announced this week. From the press release: The Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada (APLIC) is proud to announce the release of its unique pan-Canadian bilingual government and legislative publications portal known […]
Westlaw Litigator Training (Jan 23, 1-2 pm, Rm. 2009)
Your friendly neighbourhood library is happy to announce additional Westlaw Litigator training next week. Think you know Litigator? Come and brush up. Don't know litigator? Come to have your mind blown. Details below: The Library is pleased to offer an additional Westlaw Litigator training session. Westlaw Litigator is a unique collection of more than 100,000 […]
Major Enhancement to SCC Judgments Website
The Supreme Court of Canada and Lexum are proud to announce that the Court’s judgments website now contains all decisions back to 1907. Moreover, all the PDF versions of decisions up to 2010 are identical to the official version available in the Supreme Court Reports. This major content addition has been made possible thanks to […]
Food and the Law
As a law librarian who also really, really likes to cook, I am always interested when issues regarding food and the law crop up. There has obviously been a surge of awareness, advocacy, and engagement with these issues over the past decade or so, with a host of media attention lavished upon previously unheralded issues […]
Early English Laws Project
Initiated in 2006, the Early English Laws project aims to produce new editions of all legal codes and treatises produced in England between the reign of Æthelberht of Kent (ca 580-616) and Magna Carta (1215). The project addresses four principal research questions or problems: What are the early English law texts? What do the texts say? What […]
Westlaw Litigator
As you may or may not have heard, we are pleased to have added Westlaw's newest tool - Westlaw Litigator. Litigator is an impressive and powerful platform that covers the field in terms of litigation - from forms to research tools for all areas. While you are always free to muddle through Litigator on your […]