On Tuesday February 25, to mark Fair Dealing Week, SFU, UBC, Langara, KPU, VCC, and BCIT invite you to an afternoon of presentations and discussion exploring the impact of copyright on artists working in a variety of disciplines. Light refreshments will be served. The event starts with the keynote Copyrights to the Rescue! (Or Not) by Brianne […]
Comments Off on Creativity in the Arts: the Role of Copyright session (BCIT downtown) Continue Reading...Welcome to the latest monthly posting, Member Spotlight. The VALL member that was interviewed is Fiona Chiu. Introduction Fiona is the VALL Membership Secretary. She is a Librarian at Courthouse Libraries BC, whose mission it is to make legal information more accessible, and empower people to effectively research and manage their own or their clients’ […]
Comments Off on Member Spotlight Continue Reading...Introducing CanLII’s Latest Research Tools: Decision Highlights and a Powerful New Noteup ✨ We are very excited – and this is a word we don’t use lightly here at CanLII – to present two improvements to the search experience on CanLII.org. Legal research generally involves (1) understanding what a case is about, and (2) analysing […]
Comments Off on Introducing CanLII’s Latest Research Tools Continue Reading...Welcome to the new monthly posting, Member Spotlight. Each month we will be interviewing one of our VALL members. To kick this off, I am beginning with myself, the VALL Webmaster, Joni Sherman. For the last 10 years I have been employed at the Department of Justice as a Legal Research Library Technician. This is […]
Comments Off on Member Spotlight: Joni Sherman Continue Reading...Many thanks to the members who attended the presentation “How Hansard is Made: Insight from the Experts at the Legislative Assembly of BC” with Dan Kerr and Julie McClung on November 15, 2019. The slides from their presentation can be found here: Hansard-VALL-2019
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