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Executive Information: 2022/2023

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Upcoming Events

There are no more events for the 2022-2023 year. Please watch for the 2023-2024 page for updates on future events.

Past events

VALL Event: VALL Summer Social June 2023 – REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Please join VALL for our annual summer social event! Come enjoy a variety of canapes and refreshing beverages at the Gallery Bistro patio with your fellow VALL members. Each person who registers will receive 2 drink tickets, canapes, and be eligible for our door prize draw, so don’t miss out!

This event is very generously sponsored by Lexis Nexis Canada and Thomson Reuters.

Thursday, June 22, 2023 | 5:00-7:00pm

Where: 1931 Gallery Bistro, 750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7 (Accessible from the main lobby at the Vancouver Art Gallery)

Registration closes 4:00pm June 6th, 2023.

Ticket Price

Members/Students: $15 per ticket (not including $2 PayPal fee)

Non-Members: $20 per ticket (not including $2 PayPal fee)

Honored Members: FREE

Cheques are payable to the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries:

Courthouse Libraries BC

Attn: VALL Membership Secretary

800 Smithe Street, 3rd Floor

Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2E1

VALL Substantive Session: Cheryl Landes – “Usability in Indexing”

Hosted by VALL, Sponsored by The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia

Thursday, April 13, 2023 | 12:oopm-1:00pm

Location: Zoom
Cost: FREE for VALL members, non-members, and students!

Please join VALL for our April Session “Usability in Indexing” with guest speaker Cheryl Landes. In this session, Cheryl Landes will talk about usability concepts to help us create elegant indexes in print and electronic formats and share tips on how to help readers find information quickly and easily.

This event is generously being sponsored by The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia.

About the Speaker:
Cheryl Landes is a freelance technical, marketing, and travel writer from Vancouver, Washington. Cheryl has a master’s in education from the University of Phoenix, where her concentration was online learning for adults, as well as a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon. She has mentored five fledgling indexers, who now operate successful freelance businesses of their own. In 2011, the Society for Technical Communication (STC) recognized her outstanding contributions to the fields of technical communication and findability with a Fellow award, the highest honor bestowed on a society member.

VALL In-Person Event: Coffee Morning & Library Tour – Harris & Company LLP

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | 7:30am-9:00am

Where: Harris & Company at 550 Burrard St, Suite 1400

Cost: FREE for VALL members, non-members, and students.

*please note elevators to the 14th floor are operational as of 7:30

VALL members are invited to meet and mingle at Harris & Company’s newly renovated office and library space. A great way to kickstart your Wednesday, catch up with friends, and get to know fellow VALL members.

The morning social will include coffee, tea, and pastries, generously provided by Harris & Company. Mingling will be in a boardroom, with tours to the library space at 8:00am and 8:30am.

We hope to see you there!

January Session: Kirstin Nelson – “Heirs Property”

Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 12:00pm-1:00pm

Please join VALL for our January Session “Heirs Property” with Kirstin Nelson. This session will examine the history and legal issues around heirs’ property, a significant contributor of Black urban and agricultural land loss over the past 100 years. Heirs’ property issues arise when real property is passed down through generations without a will, resulting in a ‘cloudy’ title and a complex ownership structure. Law librarians can help raise awareness, become familiar with legal resources that can assist those impacted by heirs’ property issues, and support the passage of the Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act.

Cost: FREE for VALL members, non-members, and students!

This session was hosted via Zoom and was recorded.

About the Speaker:

Kirstin Nelson is the Senior Law Librarian and Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library (NAL). She joined NAL in 2014 to coordinate a newly formed agricultural law partnership with the National Agricultural Law Center in Arkansas and the Center for Agricultural and Food Systems at the Vermont Law School. The partnership creates a range of tools and guides on agricultural and food systems legal research. Key audiences include attorneys, policymakers, agricultural professionals, and the general public involved in agricultural industries in the United States. Over the past two years, the Ag Law Partnership has focused primarily on equity issues related to food and agriculture. Prior to her work at NAL, Kirstin worked in several law firm libraries, did a brief stint in academia, and spend seven years as a librarian relations specialist for a vendor. She also teaches Advanced legal Research at University of Maryland Carey School of Law.

December Social: 2022 VALL Holiday Networking Lunch – REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 | 12:00pm-1:30pm

Please join VALL for our first Holiday Luncheon since 2019! Come enjoy a comforting buffet lunch with coffee and tea while catching up with other VALL members. Door prizes provided by our sponsor, Lexis Nexis Canada, will be drawn as well! During lunch, special guest speaker Tom Isaac will speak on current topics in Aboriginal Law.

Location: Sutton Place Hotel, 845 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6, Chateau Mouton Rothschild Room (signage will be placed to help direct you to the room)

Ticket Price:

Members, Students: $50 per ticket

Non-members: $60

Honored Members: FREE

*Please note that a $2 fee will be applied if paying by PayPal.

Cheques are payable to the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries:

Courthouse Libraries BC
Attn: VALL Membership Secretary
800 Smithe Street, 3rd Floor
Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2E1

About our Speaker:

Tom Isaac is a partner in the Business Law Group at Cassels and serves as Chair of the firm’s Aboriginal Law Group. A nationally recognized authority in Aboriginal law, Tom advises business and government clients across Canada on Aboriginal legal matters and related environmental assessments, negotiations, and regulatory and constitutional issues. Tom has extensive national experience advising energy, oil, gas, pipeline, mining and forestry companies, lenders and investors, and federal, provincial, territorial and municipal governments and agencies on Aboriginal and project-related regulatory and environmental matters. He regularly negotiates on behalf of industry and governments concerning impact, benefit, economic development, replacement tenures, and access agreements with Aboriginal groups, and advises on Aboriginal consultation and accommodation processes and agreements. In recognition of his important and significant work in this area, Tom was honoured as one of Canada’s “Top 25 Most Influential” lawyers by Canadian Lawyer magazine in 2018.

October Virtual Lunchtime Social: Halloween Trivia

Monday, October 31st | 12:00pm-1:00pm

Please join VALL for our Lunchtime Social with Halloween themed trivia. Make sure to have a pen and paper to write down your answers during the non-competitive trivia portion of our social, after which we will be sorting everyone into breakout rooms to chat with familiar and new faces. Halloween costume attire or backgrounds are welcome!

This social was hosted via Zoom.

September Session: Lightning Talks – “Current Library Projects”

Thursday, September 29, 2022 | 12:00pm-1:00pm

Cost: FREE for VALL members, non-members, and students!

Please join VALL for our September Session, “Lightning Talks”, with multiple guest speakers taking us through the highs and lows of various library projects they have completed in the last year.

This session will be hosted via Zoom. It will be partially recorded.

About the Speakers:

Marnie Bailey has been with Fasken since 2010, first as the Reference Librarian and now as Manager, Knowledge Services. Over the last twelve years she has seen a number of changes to the library, the most recent change being a transition from DB/Textworks catalogue to Genie+ alongside the other Fasken offices. The biggest wrench – Toronto and Montreal were moving from Genie to Genie+, so two platforms, three offices, and two time zones all had to be taken into account! Her lightening talk will focus on the lead up to the transition as well as the things that were never thought about until after the launch of Genie+.

Ronit Landon is the Manager of InfoAction, the fee-for-service research department at the Vancouver Public Library. As part of her role, she also manages the Skilled Immigrant InfoCentre (SIIC), which is a government-funded resource centre that provides newcomers to Canada with information on getting a job, exploring careers, or starting a business. SIIC recently had some budget surplus that was approved towards physical upgrades for the Centre. Ronit will share some of the organizational challenges, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and supply chain issues that arose throughout the project – which is still in progress, but whose funding deadline is September 30th!

Sean Sallis-Lyon is a graduate of McGill University’s information studies program, and works at Lawson Lundell as a reference librarian. He has a background in communication studies and information technology. His topic of discussion will be about his experience working on a project to create a searchable repository for the BC Gazette.

Alex McNeur is a librarian at Courthouse Libraries BC. With over 20 years of legal research and information systems experience, Alex will be discussing a project he has been working on which focuses on developing a legislation training program for the librarians at CLBC.

Tracy McLean started with the Courthouse Library in 2007 as a Librarian. She’s now the Manager of Information Services, responsible for coordinating staff and library services in Vancouver, New Westminster and Abbotsford that help lawyers and the public find and use legal information. She will be filling in for Alex McNeur to talk about the project Alex worked on to create a legislation training program for the librarians at CLBC.

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