We recently turned up a copy of volume 1 of the British Columbia Real Estate Law Guide here at the Vancouver Courthouse Library, and it's not ours.

There are no stamps in the book, and the catalogue label on the spine states:

RLP
BCRE
CCH
1979 -
v.1

Please let us know if it's yours!

The CALL Vendor Liaison Committee is developing a position paper on publication formats, including updated publications.

They have prepared a short survey to gather members’ views and input on this important and timely issue. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete and responses are anonymous.

CALL encourages all members to answer each question and take advantage of opportunities within the survey to provide textual answers outlining your library’s concerns, issues, and needs regarding publication formats (print, bound, loose-leaf, supplemented, electronic books, online subscription products, or other).

The survey will remain open until December 30, 2011.

Thank you for your participation

I would like to get some feedback from members of our group that have added eBooks to their collections. 

How have you catalogued eBooks?  Are you treating them as separate entities or as additional copies?  For example, if you have the Canadian Federal Courts Practice in print and in eBook on one or more devices, are you treating those as multiple copies of one item or does each format have its own record?  Is the eBook considered a copy or are the devices just locations for this title?  Does the eBook, or each device, have a separate call number or any call number at all?  How are you handling loans for eBooks?

How are you handling eBooks that are on the Internet, such as the Carswell eReference library titles?  Are you cataloguing these separately from the print version or just referencing the web version as a copy or a location?

If you would like to provide input directly to me, please e-mail me at gbarsoum@fasken.com. I can then collect all the responses and post a summary of them on this blog.  

Thanks

The SLAIS SLA group is looking for a law librarian from a private firm to take part in their panel as part of SLA week in January 2012. The panel will take place from 12:00-1:30 on Tuesday, January 17th on the UBC campus.

Any interested librarians are asked to contact Caroline Crowell no later than December 21st.

Thank you in advance from SLAIS SLA!

For those of us preparing budgets for the upcoming year, Michel-Adrien Sheppard (Reference Librarian, Supreme Court) has a link to price trends for Canadian law publications in 2012 issued by the Vendor Liaison Committee of the Canadian Association of Law Librarians (CALL) on his site, Library Boy.

Here is the link to the handout Bryan Baynham & Daniel Reid presented at the October VALL seminar on defamation.

"The following list of resources was created for a presentation regarding online defamation to the Vancouver Association of Law Librarians. Readers can access these tools to search for and preserve online postings. We have found them helpful in matters involving allegations of online defamation and breach of privacy."

http://www.harpergrey.com/publications/2011/10/article308/

The Vancouver Association of Law Libraries is pleased to announce our December Social, December 6 at the Shangri-La Hotel. 

Our guest speaker is Michael Bain, Assistant Editor of the Advocate, the Vancouver Bar Association magazine.   Bain will regale us with tales of the current effort to bring the Advocate into the digital age and other legal adventures.  This will be an extremely entertaining and lively get together, and a great chance to catch up with friends and colleagues to celebrate the season.

Just a reminder...

If you know anyone who has retired recently, please keep in mind that they may be eligible for Lifetime or Honoured Membership in VALL.

Lifetime Members

A Lifetime Member is a member of VALL who has retired from the profession. A name may be raised by any VALL member for consideration by the Executive, and retired or retiring VALL members may also apply for Lifetime Membership.   Once named, Lifetime Members receive complimentary membership to VALL, remain on the membership list, receive seminar notices and a password for the VALL website. They are a guest of the Association at the December or June Seminar in the year of their retirement.