Month: January 2014

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Debates of Parliament (federal Hansard) Fully Online

“Hansard geeks, rejoice”:

Hansard geeks rejoice. The historical debates of the Parliament of Canada are now online. http://t.co/U36gzDG61O #cdnpoli #Hansard
— LoPInformation (@LoPInformation) November 20, 2013

The full digitized historical federal Hansard, Senate and House of Commons, is available online, AND it’s browsable and searchable. Canadiana.org’s Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada portal was launched in November 2013: http://parl.canadiana.ca/

The portal complements the content that has been available on parl.gc.ca (House: 1994 onward; Senate: 1996 onward), to create a full collection of digital federal Hansard.

New Historical Debates of Parliament of Canada portal : more than 1575 digitized volumes, totalling 1.6 M page images. #cndpoli #Hansard
— LoPInformation (@LoPInformation) November 19, 2013

For your convenience, UVic Libraries have created records that allow you to access all of Hansard:

Full details about the portal and the search functions are here: http://parl.canadiana.ca/support/about.

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Attn 1Ls: Legal research resource refreshers

CED, Abridgment, Halsbury’s—sound vaguely familiar but could equally be Doctor Who characters as Canadian legal research tools?

Then try to make it to one of the library’s is offering legal research refreshers, presented by Michael Lines of the law library.

All refresher sessions will be in the law library computer lab. Here’s the schedule:

Mon Jan 13: 12:00-12:30 and 12:30-1:00
Thu Jan 16: 12:30-1:00
Mon Jan 20: 12:00-12:30 and 12:30-1:00
Wed Jan 22: 12:00-12:30 and 12:30-1:00

No preregistration required.

Also keep in mind the library’s legal research and writing guide: http://libguides.uvic.ca/lrw. There you can find a research strategy overview, links to sample research plans and journals, and primary and secondary legal research starting points.