Category: UVic Libraries

Posts about UVic Libraries of potential interest to the Law Library community: news, events, and the like and not necessarily connected to UVic Law Library.

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2020 Research-a-thon: Plastics

This Friday (February 28), is the all-day Plastics Research-a-thon event.  The Environmental Law Club has partnered with the Environmental Law Centre, as well as the UBC Environmental Law Group  and Thompson Rivers University  to research plastic waste policy in 34 countries and 2 international organizations around the world.

The law librarians have created a comprehensive website for this year’s research-a-thon to help  students identify and work with valuable resources in the law library collection, including library resource guides, websites, reports, books, and journal articles.   There is also a country specific resource document, which links to the legislation, policy, and case law as well as secondary sources related to plastic waste for each country.

The law librarians will be on hand throughout the day, to help with process of researching foreign and international law.

The event runs from 9am-5pm in room 265 of the law library, with a lunchtime panel in room 150 with Calvin Sandborn, Q.C., the Legal Director of the Environmental Law Centre, and Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, the subject librarian for geography, environmental studies, maps and GIS, economics, sociology and data (social sciences and humanities).

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Law Library Open House – Come on in!

Join us for our 2019 Law Library Open House on Wednesday (October 9) from 12:30 – 1:30 pm!

1Ls, upper year students and faculty – come chat with librarians and staff from across UVic Libraries and the Amicus team while enjoying light snacks and refreshments.

  • Discover the wide array of services and resources offered in the UVic Libraries
  • Find out what your librarian can do for you
  • Configure your laptop for wireless printing on campus
  • Plus much more …

First-Years – the open house is also the opportunity to pick up your password information for Lexis Advance Quicklaw and WestlawNext Canada legal research databases.

The Library Open House is open to all students and faculty.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided!

 

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ORCiD workshop for students

The UVic Digital Scholarship Commons is offering workshops on how to set up an ORCiD.  ORCiD is a identifier unique to you which you can attach to all your scholarly work. A few of the benefits are that it avoids mistaken identity with scholars with the same name and  in the event of a name change it allows scholarly work published under different names to be linked together.

The Workshop is offered in room 209 of the Mearns Centre for Learning/McPherson Library. The dates for the workshops are:

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 between 12:00pm -1:00pm

Monday, October 28, 2019 between 12:00pm -1:00pm

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 between 12:00pm -1:00pm

Click here to sign up for a workshop date.

Visit the ORCiD libguide to find out more information about ORCiD.

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New Resource: ElgarOnline

Over 1,000 Edward Elgar publications are now available to UVic students and faculty on the ElgarOnline platform.  ElgarOnline includes  journals, ebooks, and research guides from a variety of subject areas including  law, business, politics and public policy, and economics.  Below is a small selection of the available ebooks:

All ebooks are discoverable in the Libraries’ catalogue and Summon.  You can also browse the full collection here : ElgarOnline

Additional ebooks will be added over the next year , so make sure to check back again!

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Welcoming our newest law librarian

Join us in welcoming UVic’s newest law librarian, Sarah Miller! Sarah Miller joined the Law Library as a Law Librarian on April 1st.

As many of you likely know, Sarah is not a stranger to the Law Library. Sarah has been our Intern Law Librarian since the fall and has been invaluable to the law library team during her internship.

We are delighted to have Sarah continue on with the Law Library for the next year.

Sarah graduated with her Master of Library and Information Science from UBC’s iSchool in 2018. While at UBC, Sarah specialized in the iSchool’s First Nations Curriculum Concentration.

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2019 Research-a-Thon: Getting Current with the Current

This Friday is the all-day 2019 Research-a-thon: “Getting Current with the Current” event.  The Environmental Law Club has partnered with the Environmental Law Centre and the Indigenous Legal Research Unit, to look at water law using both colonial and Indigenous research methodologies, focusing on water law in Nicola Valley.

Law librarians Sarah and Alex prepared a targeted and comprehensive research guide website to help the students identify and work with valuable resources in the law library collection, including BC legislative research content in our Quickscribe, HeinOnline, LLMC Digital, and BC Laws databases. It also incorporates the  legislative starting points compiled by former ELC articling student Renata, and Kim’s chapter on researching BC legislation, as well as a list of Indigenous Law Resources.

The librarians will be on hand throughout the day, to help with the intricate process of historical legislative and contextual legal research.

The event runs from 10am – 5pm, with a lunchtime panel discussion from 11:30-12:30 in rm 157  featuring Deborah Curran from the Environmental Law Centre and Chief Harvey McLeod of the Upper Nicola Band.

 

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Services for books on loan or on shelf at McPherson Library

 

If you find an item in the  Library catalogue that shows a “Location” other than the Law Library, or a “Status” other than “in Library”, use the Libraries  ReCall/ReTrieve service – available to students and grad students.  Faculty should use the Re:quest service.  retrieve

Select Recall when the item you want is checked out to somebody else. That person will be notified to return the book; you will be notified when the book is available for pick-up.  Notifications are anonymous.

Select RETRIEVE when the item is not checked out and you want it retrieved from the McPherson Library.  The item will be brought to the Law Library and held for you.

Items requested using Recall or ReTrieve will be delivered to the Law Library loan desk.

For more information: https://www.uvic.ca/library/use/borrow/recall/index.php

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Professor Ferguson’s New Book Available

University of Victoria Law Professor Gerry Ferguson, an expert in criminal law, criminal procedure, sentencing, and global corruption, has a new book: Global Corruption : Law, Theory & Practice (3d ed) freely available on CanLII and UVic Space.

Regarding the  book’s availability on CanLII, Kim Nayyer, UVic Associate University Librarian, Law, states:

I’m pleased to see high-quality, authoritative legal scholarship in CanLII, world renowned as a reliable source of legal information. CanLII’s inclusion of the respected work, Global Corruption: Law, Theory & Practice by UVic Distinguished Professor Gerry Ferguson is an advance both for access to legal information and for the exposure and availability of university scholarship.

Find out more about the new book on The CanLII Blog and Hearsay’s previous blog post

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New Title – Global Corruption : Law, theory & practice

University of Victoria Law Professor Gerry Ferguson’s new book Global Corruption : Law, Theory & Practice (3d ed) is now openly available on UVic Space and CanLII. Published by UVic, this two volume book is a valuable resource for professors, students, lawyers and anti-corruption practitioners alike.

The book was created to support law courses on global corruption in Canada, with the potential for use in the US, UK or any other English speaking country. The book begins by establishing the nature and extent of global corruption, including reference to additional historical, social, economic and political contexts. The following chapters outline international standards and requirements for combating corruption, with the laws of the US, UK and Canada provided as examples for how these standards are met.

The book is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 CA license, which allows for reproduction of the book for non-commercial purposes, with credit given to the author.

A print copy of the book is in the UVic Law Library Reserve Collection, call number K2515 F47 2018. Print copies of the book are also available for purchase at the UVic bookstore.

Read more about the book on CanLII and the UVic Scholarly Communication Blog.