Thanks to the joys of modern technology our new books list has been broken since the end of August. Thankfully this functionality, which automagically provides a weekly list of recent acquisitions added to and available in the library collection, has been fixed. That's a bit of a gap though, almost three months! So if you'd […]
Exams already?!
It's that time of year when the nights get longer, the air gets colder, snow falls, and the holiday spirit descends upon Toronto... and law students can't enjoy any of it due to the end-of-term frenzy of caffeine, summaries, studying, and writing papers and, finally, exams. Last year I wrote a post trying to mitigate the […]
Recent Acquisitions, November 19 - November 26, 2013
12 new acquisitions in Osgoode Hall Law School Library, including 8 from 2013: KF 1425 H47 2012 Inside straight : advice about lawyering, in-house, and out that only the Internet could provide American Bar Association, 2012 xiv, 278 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Clients clients everywhere : essentials tips for aspiring... Ontario Bar Association. […]
New HeinOnline Resources Added to Library Catalogue
Approximately 5,000 new resources available via HeinOnline have been loaded to the library catalogue as follows: HeinOnline Core Collection 325 new titles American Indian Law Collection 12 new titles Foreign Relations of the U.S. 12 new titles History of International Law 88 new titles Intellectual Property Law Collection 44 new titles Law Journal Library 81 […]
Senate Reform Déjà Vu
While much of the world's attention on Canadian politics has been focused on the bizarre scenes that have been unfolding in Toronto, the Senate scandal that dominated headlines prior to the Mayor's crack admission has continued apace. Much as in Toronto, the scandal has elicited popular hue and cry for something - anything! - by […]
New Irwin Law eBooks
35 new Irwin Law eBooks have been loaded to the library catalogue. This brings the total available titles in this collection to 177 including the recently in demand 5th edition of Kent Roach's Criminal Law. It is important to note that because catalogue records are not sent to the library at the same time new […]
Louis Riel Day - November 16 in Ontario
Louis Riel Day is a day to celebrate the life of the controversial Métis leader and the efforts he made for Métis rights and also to acknowledge Métis contributions to Canada. No doubt you will remember my blog about Louis Riel last year. This year I wanted to focus more on the Métis than Louis […]
Shooting fish in a barrel, pt. 2
Lo, those many months ago, before newspapers were reduced to printing articles about explaining crack to their children, Rob Ford, the Mayor of Toronto, was embroiled in what now seems to be a quaint conflict of interest issue. An Off the Shelf post, entitled "Shooting Fish in a Barrel" was written, and that was seemingly […]
Recent International Law Acquisitions
The library has been busy lately augmenting its International Law collection. The London Review of International Law is a brand new journal from Oxford (Volume 1 Issue 1 was published September 2013) to which we now have access. It is not available through the catalogue or eResources yet, but it will be. We have also […]
Graduate Students Seminar
The Law Library Graduate Seminar will take place on Monday November 18, 2013. Time: 10:00am - 11:30am Location: Room 1003 IKB Osgoode Hall Law School Topics to be covered include how to work with legal and multidisciplinary research resources, legislation and case law research, foreign, comparative and international resources, legal citation, using citation manage etc. […]