Thanks to the joys of modern technology our new books list has been broken since the end of August. Thankfully this functionality, which automagically provides a weekly list of recent acquisitions added to and available in the library collection, has been fixed. That's a bit of a gap though, almost three months! So if you'd […]
It's that time of year when the nights get longer, the air gets colder, snow falls, and the holiday spirit descends upon Toronto... and law students can't enjoy any of it due to the end-of-term frenzy of caffeine, summaries, studying, and writing papers and, finally, exams. Last year I wrote a post trying to mitigate the […]
The library has been busy lately augmenting its International Law collection. The London Review of International Law is a brand new journal from Oxford (Volume 1 Issue 1 was published September 2013) to which we now have access. It is not available through the catalogue or eResources yet, but it will be. We have also […]
The Law Library Graduate Seminar will take place on Monday November 18, 2013. Time: 10:00am - 11:30am Location: Room 1003 IKB Osgoode Hall Law School Topics to be covered include how to work with legal and multidisciplinary research resources, legislation and case law research, foreign, comparative and international resources, legal citation, using citation manage etc. […]
As a child of the Napster generation, the idea of "free" music is something that has a long and fraught history. Until Napster's debut in 1999, it was simply assumed that you would fork out $20 for a CD because what other option did you have? Online music was largely relegated to downloading (in retrospect, […]
The RomaRisingCA photography exhibit, a collection of photographs of members of the Canadian Roma (Gypsy) community, was officially opened this afternoon in the Osgoode Hall Law School Library. Roma Rising / Opre Roma – Portraits of a Community (romarisingCA), was created to challenge stereotypical views of the Roma community. Opre Roma derives from the Romani language, […]
It is no secret that the eating habits of Osgoode students have recently fallen somewhat under the microscope. However, this focus has been largely limited to what students are snacking on in the classroom, and not in the library. The obvious reason for this is that food is strictly forbidden in the library - crunchy, […]
It's that time of year! The 1Ls are being initiated into the ways of the law student today, and soon the rest of the Osgoode community will return from what was hopefully an extremely relaxing and invigorating summer next week. While I'm sure that many students are not even thinking about the library while it's […]
Following on our subscription to the Foreign Law Guide this spring, we have subscribed to the Making of Modern Law's latest database: Foreign Primary Sources 1600 - 1970. This is the first of a proposed two "volumes," and contains statutes, regulations, codes and commentaries of Great Britain, Ireland and countries in northern, central and eastern […]
The Canada Gazette is dead. Long live the Canada Gazette! Although long-expected as part of the 2012 Federal budget, the May 8th publication of a regulation made it official - the Canada Gazette will cease to be published in hard copy starting on April 1st, 2014, saving the government about $300,000 annually. This is not, however, […]