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Join us for a workshop on citation management with Zotero!

When: Friday November 19, 1:30-2:30pm:

Where: FRA 192/Computer Lab in the Law Library

Who:  Focused on law graduate students, but open to everyone.

This workshop 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.

Our Law Library Information Assistant positions are open to all law students who are eligible for Student Awards and Financial Aid (SAFA) work study positions. Check your eligibility on the SAFA website.

These are great opportunities to earn extra $ with flexible hours. As an extra bonus you can learn a little more about our resources and activities, working on projects with the law librarians.

We have two positions available. The position descriptions can be found here:

LIBR4 – Law library information assistant 1

LIBR5 – Law library information assistant 2

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.  To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to lawref@uvic.ca

To new UVic Law students, welcome, and to returning students, welcome back!

We are excited to work with you to facilitate your learning and research in 2021-2022.

Our regular fall term hours begin on Tuesday September 7^th.

The law library’s fall term regular hours are:

Monday – Thursday                           8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday:                                                         8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday-Sunday:                              10:00am – 5:30pm

For full details on Law’s orientation for new students, visit UVic Law’s orientation for new students page.

For UVic return to campus information: https://www.uvic.ca/return-to-campus/

Tours

The Law Librarians will be providing tours of the law library for 1L, 2L, new upper year and new graduate students.  Details will be included with your orientation materials.

For 2L students, tours are on Monday Sept 13 and Tuesday Sept 14 at 12:45-1:00pm and 1:00-1:15pm.  Please go to the following link to sign up for a tour time: https://libcal.uvic.ca/calendar/lawlibrary

Research Help Desk

The Research Help desk will be opening on Monday September 20^th, with the following hours:

Monday – Thursday	11:30 am – 1:30 pm	and 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Friday	By appointment	lawref@uvic.ca
Saturday & Sunday	closed

When the desk isn’t open, you can still get law research help by contacting lawref@uvic.ca, or by calling 250-472-5023. One-to-one appointments with a law librarian can be scheduled via those contacts.

Dr. Val Napoleon has been awarded the 2021 Law and Justice Indspire Award.  Indspire Awards recognize Indigenous achievement in a number of different areas, and “represents the highest honour the Indigenous community bestows upon it’s own people”.

The award recognizes Val’s lifelong work as a leader in Indigenous law, including establishing the Indigenous Law Research Unit and co-founding the JD/JID program, and her work as the director of both initiatives,  as well as her position as the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance at UVic.

A recording of the 2021 Indspire Awards will be available on CBC Gem, along with recordings of past years’ award ceremonies.

Here is a selection of Val Napoleon’s publications accessible through the library:

• Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, & Val Napoleon, eds, Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships (Toronto, UofT Press, 2020). Online.
• Hadley Friedland and Val Napoleon, “Gathering the Threads: Developing a Methodology for Researching and Rebuilding Indigenous Legal Traditions” 1:1 Lakehead Law Journal (2015). Online.
• Val Napoleon and Hadley Friedland “An Inside Job: Engaging with Indigenous Legal Traditions Through Stories” 61:4 McGill Law Journal (2016). Online
• Val Napoleon, “What is Indigenous Law: A Small Discussion”. Online.
• Val Napoleon, “Did I Break It?: Recording Indigenous (Customary) Law” Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal. 2019. Online.
• Val Napoleon, Ayook  : Gitksan legal order, law, and legal theory (PhD Dissertation, University of Victoria, 2009) Online
• Val Napoleon “Living together : Gitksan legal reasoning as a foundation for consent” in Jeremy Webber & Colin M Macleod, eds, Between Consenting Peoples: Political Community and the Meaning of Consent (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2010) Call number: JC328.2 B465 2010  
• Val Napoleon, “Thinking of Indigenous Legal Orders” Online
• Val Napoleon, Jim Henshaw, Ken Steacy, Janine Johnston, Simon Roy. Mikomosis and the Wetiko (Victoria, B.C. : University of Victoria, Indigenous Law Research Unit, 2013) Call number: KIC4750 M55 2013. 

Congratulations Val!

 

 

A new library guide hosts recordings of select library sessions.  The library sessions on “Finding Scholarly Research in the Library” and “Citation Management Software” that were held for upper year law students and graduate students on the first week of March are now available on a library guide: https://libguides.uvic.ca/LawLibraryWorkshops

The guide includes the recorded sessions, the powerpoint slides of the sessions, and a feedback form about the sessions and about what sessions the library should offer in the future. We look forward to hearing your ideas!