New Titles – October 2010

With October mailings came many a delivery of Law Society of Upper Canada “Continuing Professional Development” materials, the new name for what was formerly “Continuing Legal Education” or CLE.  The binders are always full of really interesting papers, so to be getting some new titles at the library is pretty exciting.  I’m personally pretty thrilled about the new binder from their “Annotated Document Series” entitled Annotated Business Agreements 2010.  We are often asked for just such precedents, so it’s nice to have a new resource to offer our clients.  As always, materials from every Law Society CPD session are sent to the CCLA library, usually within a month of the event.  Some of these materials are still being processed, so if the binder you’re looking for is not on the shelf yet, it will be soon!

New editions of annually updated titles are also continuing to arrive.  Certainly of excitement to a great number of our clients will be the new 2011 edition of the Ontario Annual Family Practice.  Our two copies of this title aren’t on the shelf for long each morning – I think they might be tied with the Martin’s Criminal Code for most frequently borrowed items!

Texts


Continuing Professional Development

  • Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Law 2010 (LSUC) – Text > KF 1257 .A5 L393 2010b
  • 9th annual Real Estate Law for Law Clerks (LSUC) – Texts > KF 670 .A2 L393 2010
  • Opening Your Law Practice 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 318 .A2 L393 2010
  • Annotated Business Agreements 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 889 .A2 L393 2010b
  • Practice Gems: Drafting and Administering Power of Attorney for Personal Care and Property (LSUC) – Text > KF 1347 .A75 L393 2010
  • Practice Gems: Probate Essentials 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 765 .A75 L393 2010
  • The 12-Minute Civil Litigator 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 8840 .ZB3 L393 2010
  • Employment Issues Arising on the Purchase and Sale of a Business 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 3320 .ZB3 L393 2010
  • Criminal Law and the Charter 2010 (LSUC) Texts > KF 9620 .ZA2 L393 2010b
  • The 6-Minute Debtor-Creditor and Insolvency Lawyer 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 1536 .ZB3 S592 2010
  • Corporate Law for Law Clerks 2010 (LSUC) – Texts > KF 1415 .ZB3 L393 2010b


CCLA Library Access

The CCLA recently began offering memberships to law students and paralegals, and this has created some confusion about what individuals may access the CCLA Library and its resources. We’ve outlined the details of library access below, and encourage members of the legal community to read it in order to clarify some of this confusion.

The CCLA Library is paid for via the membership dues of lawyers accredited by the Law Society of Upper Canada. As part of their Law Society membership, lawyers pay a library levy which is then allocated to libraries in regions across Ontario. The CCLA Library is also partially funded by the County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA) via its members. For these reasons, the library is meant only for the aforementioned individuals. The CCLA has recently opened memberships to law students and paralegals so that they can also access the library and its resources; however, they must purchase a CCLA membership in order to do so. The CCLA Library also allows those that are working directly under a lawyer, at the lawyer’s firm, to access the library on the lawyer’s behalf, which is why articling students have historically been permitted to access the library.

To reiterate, only lawyers accredited by the Law Society, CCLA Members, and individuals working under the above groups at their firm may access the CCLA Library’s services.

We hope this helps to clarify some confusion. Please note that CCLA Members also receive a number of other benefits offered by the CCLA, such as 24/7 library access, free Wi-Fi, discounts for CCLA Events, and exclusive services via businesses in the Ottawa community. If you are interested in becoming a CCLA Member, we encourage you to check out the Membership section of CCLA’s Website.

Want a Starbucks gift card? Take our survey!

By Jennifer Walker

The CCLA Library would like your feedback, and we’re not above giving away Starbucks gift cards to get it!

We’ve put together a very short survey for you to answer – just five questions about our library services. If you’d like a chance at winning one of two gift cards for Starbucks, just leave your name and contact information at the bottom of the survey. If you’d rather remain anonymous, we’d still love your feedback – you can just leave the contact information area empty. Unfortunately, you can’t win a gift card, but we might just have a chocolate treat for you as thanks if you stop by the library. The survey will be open until November 19, 2010. We’ll be letting the two lucky respondents know they’ve won on the following Monday!

With this survey, we’d like to hear more from Ottawa-area legal professionals about what they like about the library, which of our products and services they use, and any improvements we can make. With the results, we hope to better tailor our library service and collection for today’s legal community, and make the CCLA Library your first stop for legal research.

We thank you very much for taking the time to fill out this survey, and good luck!

To take the survey, please click here.

Conference and Website Updates

By Jennifer Walker

While the rest of the CCLA staff members are busy with preparations for both our Criminal Law and Civil Litigation Conferences at the Montebello, we librarians are gearing up for a conference of our own. Katie and I will be in Toronto this coming Thursday and Friday for an annual conference for Ontario courthouse librarians. This session is a chance for us to meet with the other librarians in our system (the same librarians that so graciously lend us books when you need them!), as well as a wonderful dinner at Osgoode Hall. This year, Katie and I will be delivering a presentation on the new CCLA website, which includes this blog, our Twitter account, and our Conference Papers Database. Amanda will be here while we’re out of the library (she has an amazing professional development workshop next month, don’t worry!), so you can check with her for reference assistance.

Speaking of the CCLA website, we couldn’t be more thrilled about two new developments. The first is the aforementioned Conference Papers Database. After some considerable behind the scenes work, we’ve now made it possible to search the database without logging into the website. If you’d like access to the PDF files contained, you’ll still need to be a CCLA member and log-in, but for a quick browse to see just how many great papers we have filed away, you can do that easily and quickly. Find it under the “Library” tab of the website, or click here.

The second project we’re excited about is this very blog. We gave hosting the blog on the CCLA website the ol’ college try, but in the end, Katie and I were just not thrilled with the results. And so, hopefully within the next week or two, we’ll be moving everything over to our brand new blog! We’ve seen the design prototype from our website designers, and it looks fantastic. The new blog will be built on a WordPress platform (which is much, much easier to use for blogging than this website, and will make doing all manner of “blog things” easier). Stayed tuned for this change – we think you’ll love it.