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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Inaugural Call for Papers for New UVic Libraries Journal

UVic Libraries has just issued a call for papers for its new open-access, peer-reviewed journal, KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. Editor-in-chief Jonathan Bengtson, UVic University Librarian, notes the journal is “dedicated to understanding past, present, and future transformations of scholarly publishing.”

KULA is a multidisciplinary journal, and researchers and scholars in law may their work encompassed by the wide-ranging themes:

KULA will publish articles related to the past, present, and future of Citizen Science; Cultural Heritage; Cultural Heritage Informatics; Culture of Researchers; Data Sharing; Digital Archaeology; Digital Asset Management; Digital Curation; Digital Humanities; Digital Infrastructure; Digital Libraries; Digital Methods; Digital Preservation/ Curation; Digital Repositories; Digital Scholarship; Digitization; Emulation; Humanities Computing; Inclusive Design; Information Systems; Institutional and Policy Design; Knowledge & Research Infrastructures; Knowledge for Development; Knowledge Infrastructure; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Linked Data; Literary Studies; Media Studies; Multi-Institutional Collaboration; Open Access; Open Access Publishing; Open Scholarship; Open Science; Open Social Scholarship; Peer-Review Systems; Professionalization; Publishing Technologies; Research Assessment; Research Data Management; Research Libraries; Scholarly Communication; Scholarly Editing; Search and Discovery; Semantic Extraction; Social Exclusion; Social Knowledge; Sustainability Models; System Analysis and Design.

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Check out KULA’s site and call for submissions to read more about the journal, its distinguished international editorial board, and how to connect with KULA.

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2016 UVic Libraries Student Scholarships

The annual UVic Libraries Student Scholarships are now open for applications! Continue the winning tradition of the law school community.

Continuing law students and grad students, have you made use of library resources in furtherance of a paper, project, or assignment?

(For example, did you complete a paper, write an open memo, or take LAW 399?)

If so, take a moment to apply for either the David Harris Flaherty Scholarship, for undergraduate applicants from any discipline including Law, or the William Petrie Scholarship, open to graduate students.

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Jonathan Minnes, a graduate student in Law, was the inaugural winner of the William Petrie Scholarship! You can read his winning essay and the winning undergraduate essay for inspiration.

April 1 to May 31 is the submission window. Read on for details and terms:

  • DAVID HARRIS FLAHERTY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Established in 2014 and named for donor David Harris Flaherty, this scholarship is awarded to an in-course, academically outstanding undergraduate student in any discipline who can show how they have utilized library resources – be they print, archival, music, multimedia, digital, etc. – for a class project, assignment or research paper.
    • Eligible students must complete a 500 word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application.

 

  • WILLIAM PETRIE GRADUATE STUDENT LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Established in 2014 and named for bequest donor William Petrie, this scholarship is awarded to an academically outstanding graduate student in any discipline who can show how they have utilized library resources – be they print, archival, music, multimedia, digital, etc. – for a class project, assignment or research paper.
    • Eligible students must complete a 500 word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application.

Please visit the Student Scholarships page for complete application instructions.

 

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UVic Libraries Student Scholarships

Continuing law students and grad students, have you made use of library resources in furtherance of a paper, project, or assignment?

(For example, did you complete a major paper, an open memo, or LAW 399?)

If so, consider applying for one of the new UVic Libraries Student Scholarships, open to applicants from any discipline, including Law.

April 1 to May 31 is the submission window.

  • DAVID HARRIS FLAHERTY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Established in 2014 and named for donor David Harris Flaherty, this scholarship is awarded to an in-course, academically outstanding undergraduate student in any discipline who can show how they have utilized library resources – be they print, archival, music, multimedia, digital, etc. – for a class project, assignment or research paper.
    • Eligible students must complete a 500 word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application.
  • WILLIAM PETRIE GRADUATE STUDENT LIBRARY SCHOLARSHIP
Established in 2014 and named for bequest donor William Petrie, this scholarship is awarded to an academically outstanding graduate student in any discipline who can show how they have utilized library resources – be they print, archival, music, multimedia, digital, etc. – for a class project, assignment or research paper.
    • Eligible students must complete a 500 word essay explaining their use of library resources in an application.

Please visit the Student Scholarships page for further details and application instructions.

And take note: The UVic Libraries Grants and Awards Librarian, Christine Walde, is opening her office from April 1 to May 27 for drop-in consultations to discuss these scholarships and other grants and awards. Meet with Christine on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm in Room 135e at the McPherson Library. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome.

More about the UVic Libraries Grants and Awards office:

The Grants and Awards Office in the University Librarian’s Office supports and enhances the research activities, advancement and community engagement priorities of UVic Libraries, specifically in the areas of grants funding and awards, as well as special projects related to community engagement.

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Extended study period for Exams; hours of operation Easter Monday

Law students, please take note of the following extended hours for the exam period:

  • As of Monday March 23, all law library group and individual study rooms were removed from the libraries-wide booking system, to allow all study rooms to be booked by law students only during the extended study period for exams. (As you may remember, during the regular term, some group study rooms can be booked online by students who are not in Law.) This will be in effect until Monday April 20.
  • As in previous years, our extended hours of operation will begin the last day of classes, Thursday April 2 and they will continue until the end of the exam period. Intersession hours will begin Wednesday April 22.
  • This year, unlike previous years, we will also be open on the statutory holiday, Easter Monday (April 6) from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm. To open that day was essential to us, as exams begin the next day. This earlier opening time allows for a longer overall period of study time for students, when combined with McPherson library hours which are 10:00 am to 6 pm. We will be closed Good Friday, April 3. (McPherson Library is open 10 am to 6 pm Good Friday.)
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Holiday Closure

Congratulations, students, on completing your fall term exams.

Please note the library’s reduced hours and holiday closure:

Wed Dec 24: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Thu Dec 25, 2014 to Thu Jan 1, 2015: UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY CLOSURE
Fri Jan 2, 2015: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Sat Jan 3, 2015: regular hours resume

And check or bookmark the UVic Libraries’ hours and location page for ongoing details of our hours of operation.

And remember, UVic law students, you need not be away from the law library even if you are away from campus during the break. If you find yourself longing for a look at one of our licensed databases, off-campus access is available to you throughout this time, as always. Simply access the libraries’ database list, and enter your netlink ID and password when prompted to do so.

Enjoy your well-deserved break, and we’ll see you back in 2015.

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BC legislation now free at BC Laws

QP LegalEze, familiar to the UVic law community as the BC Queen’s Printer’s deep and highly functional subscription service for current and some historical legislative information, is no more. Or, more accurately, it will be by subscription no more.

All of its content and functionality now is being made available through BC Laws, the free site also offered by the Queen’s Printer:

BC Laws has been upgraded to provide enhanced searching and more content including historical legislation and related publications such as BC Gazette, full text Orders-in-Council, and Tables of Legislative Changes. All content is delivered in an “open data format” and restrictions on commercial and non-commercial use of the data have been changed (read more).

This means the UVic Libraries subscription to QP LegalEze will soon disappear, but the content won’t. We’ll be able to access all of it through BC Laws. See the April 2, 2014 BC government news release for details about the transition process.

Some jurisdictions—Ontario and the federal, for example—have offered free and more or less current access to primary law for years, with some depth of historical content and ability to manipulate searches to locate the law at particular points in time. Other jurisdictions, like BC, have offered excellent historical and current legislative content by paid subscription, with a limited range of primary content available on companion free sites. And opening up the data is a great new step.

If freer access to primary law were not a good enough thing, it’s wonderful and exciting that the content on BC Law—all of it—is delivered as open data, under a Queen’s Printer License. The license enables, among other activities, full and partial content reuse and publication for commercial and non-commercial purposes, subject to appropriate conditions. To this end, the Queen’s Printer has also released access to the API underlying BC Laws.