Emily Nickerson – Page 3 – Hearsay: UVic Law Library

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021

Westlaw Edge virtual training session

Join us online for a Westlaw Edge Canada Overview session

- - When: November 15, 2021 from 12:30-1:20
  - Where: Join Zoom Meeting https://uvic.zoom.us/j/85191767155
  - Who: Everyone is welcome!

Learn more about the latest legal research offering from Thomson Reuters. Westlaw Edge Canada provides new features and usability enhancements to make your research more efficient and complete. At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

- - Incorporate the 8 new features of Edge into your research tasks
  - Describe the key content sets and finding tools available in Edge
  - Search more effectively using Advanced Search
  - Stay organized and track your activity
  - Identify key concepts in law firm chargeback environments

September 28, 2021

LexisNexis virtual training

Stop by the library for a LexisNexis training session!

The event will be held virtually over zoom and live-streamed in the Law Library computer classroom – FRA192 on Wednesday September 29th, 2021 from 12:30-1:20pm.

Meet the LexisNexis student rep, get registered to use Quicklaw and learn about the STAR Rewards program.

September 21, 2021

Westlaw Edge

This month Thomson Reuters launched the new Westlaw Edge platform.

The new platform is a minor update from the current platform and maintains similar structure, content, and interface. The update includes the following new features and tools:

- Judicial Consideration for Statutes provides the most relevant cases interpreting a statute, and allows you to better understand how courts have interpreted the law.
- KeyCite Overruling Risk identifies invalid law and warns you when a point of law has been implicitly undermined.
- Common Queries shows you common legal questions related to your search terms. Click on the question that best matches what you were asking and it will take you to an overview page with supporting case law.
- Legal Topic Suggestions helps you uncover issue-specific and topical resources when typing key words into the search bar. Clicking into one of these legal topics brings you to a curated set of materials across content types. Legal Topics contains related case law, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, texts, annotations and legal memos material organized by legal issue. Coverage includes 55 broad browseable legal subject areas further divided into thousands of specific legal issues.

You will continue to log in to Westlaw using the same sign-in credentials and any search history, folders, alerts, client IDs, etc that you have in your current WestlawNext account will be retained in the new platform.

Visit us at the reference desk or send an e-mail to lawref@uvic.ca for any questions!

April 9, 2021

Extend access to LexisNexis after you graduate – for free!

Attention graduating law students! You may register with LexisNexis to extend your access to resources for 6 months after you graduate. The new Law School Graduate Program provides you with complimentary access to the following resources effective upon your graduation date:

- Lexis Advance Quicklaw: free extended access for six months from date of graduation.
- Practical Guidance: free access for six months to one module of your choice.
- The Lawyer’s Daily: a free subscription for six months to keep up on breaking legal news.
- Career development resources and programs, including Prepare to Practice – Civil Litigation and Personal Injury webinars and certifications
- AND a 20% discount on books in our LexisNexis Bookstore for six months.

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021

Featured resource: CLE Online

Law students – have you tried out CLE Online yet? If not, you are missing out on a highly practical and BC focused resource for your future lawyering!

The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia’s online platform provides access to:

- Online practice manuals covering practical topics specific to BC laws and practice
- Courses on demand, conference papers, and associated materials on timely and current topics
- Case digests for short summaries of notable BC cases organized by practice area
- Advocacy toolkit offering short videos and materials on how to do examinations, submissions and other oral advocacy topics

This handy platform allows you to browse by material type or use advanced search operators across the entire platform.

See available practice manuals here:

February 24, 2021

Workshops for graduate and upper year law students

Do you have a major paper coming up? Are you overwhelmed with managing your list of sources or struggling to remember how to get started with academic research?

Then come to one of our lunch hour workshops presented by law librarians Sarah and Emily. Sessions will be happening on Zoom, no preregistration required.

Finding scholarly research

March 1 — 12:30-1:30
Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/86870893329?pwd=VkNSa1RYZ09GL0tQRzVqSlZxQ3NwZz09

This session for graduate and upper year law students covers how to identify and evaluate scholarly resources (both in law and in other disciplines), as well as demonstrates various different search strategies to find scholarly sources in the library collection.

Citation management with Zotero

March 3 — 12:30-1:30
Zoom: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81321790297?pwd=ejYrQkpwV0hqQnd2cVNMblBZQ09lQT09

This session for graduate and upper year law students provides a hands-on introduction to citation management with Zotero, a powerful open-source tool to simplify your research and writing. Using Zotero you can collect, organize, and annotate citations from online and print sources, collaborate with research groups, and automatically format bibliographies in the McGill Guide and others styles.

Both sessions will be recorded and made available online.

January 29, 2021

Legal Research Refresher Sessions

Do the LRW research tutorials seem like a distant memory? Are you staring at your open memo not knowing where to start?

Then come to one of our lunch hour research refresher sessions presented by law librarians – Alex, Sarah, and Emily. Sessions will be happening on Zoom, no preregistration required.

Week 1 : Emphasis on secondary sources and resources for researching Canadian state law

February 2 and 3 from 12:30-1:20pm (same session each time)

https://uvic.zoom.us/j/84042607395?pwd=MkkreXB5ZzE5TzRGWXZ4QnNEOG9wQT09

Week 2: Emphasis on citation

February 10 and 12 from 12:30-1:20pm (same session each time)

https://uvic.zoom.us/j/81738909938?pwd=VmVYRWRJRWszZlRLbk5tTGNGRFNXUT09

A refresher for researching indigenous laws will be held during class time on February 5 for JD/JID stutdents.

The law library also has a legal research and writing guide: https://libguides.uvic.ca/lrw that you may find helpful as you are working on your open memo assignment. There you can find a research strategy overview, links to a sample research plan, and primary and secondary legal research starting points.

If you have any questions… remember, we’re here to help you. Ask us!

January 28, 2021

New – Annotated legislation on Quicklaw

Annotated acts provide section by section commentary and are a great way to get a feel for the intent of a legislative provision, and to see how it has been considered by the courts.

Lexis Advance Quicklaw has launched a new annotated legislation feature. This is organized by jurisdiction and includes expert commentary, annotations, and explanatory notes for selected acts.

You may find other annotated acts in our collection through the library catalogue and our key legal treatises and textbooks guide. For legislation without an annotated act you may achieve similar results by noting up a section of legislation in Quicklaw, Westlaw, or CanLII.

For assistance contact us at lawref@uvic.ca.

January 15, 2021

Movies for fun!

Need a break from the books this weekend? UVic library has streaming video resources for educational and leisure watching. Try out Criteron on Demand or Audio Cine Films if you’ve watched everything on your Netflix account.

Audio Cine Films – offers access to classic, favourite and recent movies from Universal Studios Canada, Walt Disney Studios, MGM Studios, Sony Pictures, VVS Films and Lionsgate Films.

Criterion on Demand – offers access to over 2,000 major motion pictures (largely Hollywood films)

See more streaming video databases on our guide: Film & Video Collection.

January 11, 2021

Stay up to date with the Lawyer’s Daily

Ever feel like you’re missing out on key Canadian legal news? Well, the UVic Law Library has a subscription to Lawyer’s Daily, which provides legal news, analysis and current awareness.

You may already be familiar with Lawyer’s Daily, as a limited number of articles (limited to the current day’s articles) are available on Lexis Avance Quicklaw.

In addition to accessing all Lawyer’s Daily articles, faculty and students can also subscribe to practice area newsletters and receive a daily update on relevant legal news.

This resource is restricted to Faculty of Law students and faculty only. To set up an account, please email lawref@uvic.ca