The following training sessions are being offered by the Law Library: Quicklaw – Monday September 26, 2011. Case law from 12:15 – 1:15 Legislation from 1:15 – 2:15 Westlaw – Wednesday October 12, 2011. Canadian material from 12:15 – 1:15 U.S. material from 1:15 – 2:15 CCH Online – Monday October 17, 2011. 12:15 -1:15 Location: Room […]
Bookmark the library on your mobile phone – http://m.library.yorku.ca – to check your account, renew your loans and search the catalogue on the go!
York University visual arts Professor Nancy Nicol has been awarded a SSHRCC grant of $1 million over 5 years to lead a major international project on the impact of criminalizing sexual orientation and gender identity. Members of the research team include leading LGBT rights activists from Toronto and developing countries. The Osgoode library is providing […]
Watching recent events in Egypt, one can’t help but think of that country’s long and fascinating history. Not the lease significant part of that history is the Library of Alexandra, in it’s day the largest library in the world. Not everyone is aware that there is a new Library of Alexandra, which opened in 2002 […]
Tim Knight is of Head of Technical Services in the Osgoode library and a leading figure in developing standards for the cataloguing and classification of legal materials in Canada. His article about the new cataloguing rules, “Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA“, was recently published in the Canadian Law Library Review. The article […]
The German Law Journal is now available on the HeinOnline Law Journals Library. After ten volumes the German Law Journal has secured a place among the world’s leading academic fora concerned with transnational law. In 2009 the German Law Journal was ranked as the world’s leading “online, peer-reviewed” law journal of any subject matter (for […]
Library Services (HNES 018) April 26 – August 27, 2010. Circulation 416-736-5206 Monday – Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm Saturday & Sunday Closed Reference 416-736-5207 Monday – Friday 10:00am – 5:00pm Saturday & Sunday Closed Library closes at 4:00pm on Fridays in June, July & August
Effective Saturday morning (February, 13th), the Osgoode Hall Law School building will be closed for one week for renovation-related work. The whole building will be closed and inaccessible. This includes the Library Annex where some of the library collection is temporarily stored. Unfortunately, library staff will be unable to retrieve any law texts located in […]
On January 4, York University Libraries (YUL) rolled out its new library catalogue search interface. It might not look too different at first glance, but the change to how and what it searches is profound. The new “discovery layer” interface merges all of YUL’s different catalogues and holdings into one seamless interface using an open-source software application called […]
If you’ve been interested in Google’s recent activities in providing access to legal cases and legal research then you might also be interested in these two recent posts from the HeinOnline blog that compares their service to what Google Scholar has been offering. HeinOnline or Google Scholar? Why You Should Start Your Research in HeinOnline […]