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Library NewsIALS

October 2012

In this Issue IALS Autumn 2012 Newsletter

Hello again from everyone at IALS Library! At the start of another busy academic year we would like to remind you that IALS Library is freely available for visitors from all law schools. We are always very pleased to welcome law researchers from any university in the UK or from around the world: university teachers, MPhil and PhD students and law librarians. We look forward to being of service to you in 2012-2013. You can keep in touch with us during the year for help with your legal research by phone or email or social networks or in person. Try our online resources from your own University or home or on the move, and call in next time you are in London. In this issue, we highlight our regular extended opening hours, our new Café Lex, and new electronic resources as well as recalling how the world visited London (and IALS in Russell Square!) for the Olympic Games and the ways in which IALS reached a few corners of the world itself through visiting fellowships and participation in international conferences. Contact us at any time if we can help you with IALS Library collections and services! Best wishes from us all. You can Find us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter for regular updates of IALS activities and services. David Gee, Deputy Librarian and Academic Services Manager

Longer IALS Opening Hours Following on the success of our extended hours from January to June 2012, we are pleased to be able to announce that the Library will now be open longer regularly during the term and vacation from October 2012 to mid-June 2013.

Monday to Friday: 9.00am to 11.00pm (Current IALS Library card holders only after 7.45pm) Saturday: 10.00am to 5.30pm Sunday: 12.30pm to 6.30pm (Current IALS Library card holders only)

http://ials.sas.ac.uk/about/hours.htm

New Café Lex now open on the ground floor at IALS Come and enjoy a coffee, have a snack, meet your friends, use the Internet and relax admiring the autumn colour in

Russell Square. http://ials.sas.ac.uk/about/cafe.htm

News compiled and

distributed by: David Gee

Deputy Librarian

David.Gee@sas.ac.uk

Website: www.ials.sas.ac.uk

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Longer IALS Opening Hours

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New Café Lex

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How to Get a PhD in Law—National Training Days

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Electronic Training Sessions and Legal Research

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i-Law Maritime and Commercial Law

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Narayana Harave Games Maker 2012

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Visiting Fellowship at Max Planck Institute, Hamburg

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Toronto 2012—IALL Conference

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People News

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New Café Lex

Introduction to Lexis and Westlaw legal

databases Introduction to IALS electronic resources Details are on our website at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/llm/llmtraining.htm It’s easy to book a training session. Just sign up on one of the available time slots at the Issue and En-quiry Desk. You can also phone us on 020 7862 5790 or send us an email to ials@sas.ac.uk

Legal Research in the United Kingdom in the 20th Century A digital version of the Institute’s Index to Legal Research in the United Kingdom 1905 – 1984 is now freely available on the web at: http://193.62.18.232/dbtw-wpd/textbase/LRUKsearch.htm

The index charts the development of legal research interests in the UK in the 20th Century. It details early work by many influential legal scholars. It reveals topics of recurring currency and provides themes and ideas for further research and fresh approaches. Links to available print and online theses are being added to the digital version. For Current Legal Research Topics please see: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/clrt/clrt.htm You can also see further information on the IALS website about Law Theses online services http://ials.sas.ac.uk/eaglei/project/ei_lawtheses.htm Steve Whittle, Information Systems Manager

How to get a PhD in Law – Three National Training Days Sometimes the research process can involve absorb-ing but isolating work and you can feel a bit uncertain about the best next step. Again this year the IALS is offering its popular “How to get a PhD in Law” programme of three National Training Days to assist MPhil and PhD students in law (and other interested researchers) registered at universities across the UK. This programme provides the chance for informative discussion, legal research guidance and opportunities for networking. Day One on Friday 30th November 2012 looks at meeting the challenges of the early years and includes sessions on handling the supervisor relation-ship and the particular challenges of being an over-seas PhD student. See web link for more details: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/12062 Day Two on Saturday 16th March 2013 covers legal research skills, literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research methods and comparative legal research. See web link for more details: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/12063 Day Three on Wednesday 22nd May 2013 concen-trates on preparing for the mini-Viva and the Viva, presenting skills, publishing your research, and pre-paring for the Ethics Committee. See web link for more details: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/12333 Each day will also include the chance for tailored re-search skills training by IALS law librarians, optional library tours and networking opportunities for partici-pants. You are welcome to book for one or more sessions as fits best for you. Registration and online payments: Details of the booking fees and access to registration and online payments is available via the individual web page. Information about these and other IALS events is available on the IALS Calendar of Events at: www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ials_events

Electronic Information Training sessions If you are starting your LLM or research degree in law we can help you get up to speed with the key legal databases:

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Narayana Harave at the Copper Box, Stratford

We have many readers researching maritime law and the database is already becoming a popular resource. Let us know if you have any questions about using it. Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian

Narayana Harave – Games Maker at London 2012 Olympics “This must be a little different to your day job in the quiet of a library!” – a fellow Games Maker remarked when the deafening cheer faded briefly at the Copper Box. Team GB had just scored another goal in the preliminary round of a Handball match against the defending champions France at the London 2012 Olympics. When London won the bid all those years ago, I was very excited and wanted to be a part (however small) of the Olympic Games. So when two years ago, people were invited to register their interest to work as volunteers at the Games, I did not waste any time. Then in December 2011, I received an email asking me to attend an interview. I was successful and in April 2012 I learnt that I would be part of the Events Services Team based at the Copper Box arena for Handball and Modern Pentathlon in the Olympic Park. I then had to attend two (role-specific and venue-specific) training days. The Copper Box is so called because its external walls are clad in recycled copper and the venue is modelled on a jewellery box. Inside, the 6000 multi-coloured spectator seats represent the colours of gem stones. The venue has some very innovative features including the 88 light pipes on its roof which allow natural daylight into the venue therefore reducing the use of electricity. Being part of the Events Services team meant that I would work mainly on the front-line. Depending on what my ‘deployment card’ for the day said, I could be

New laptop service at IALS Library IALS Library is pleased to be able to offer a new ser-vice for our academic members (current teaching staff and students). Starting this term, to complement the Library computers in the reading rooms, we will have a new collection of laptop computers freely available for loan inside the Library premises from the Issue and Enquiry desk. The laptops will have Wi-Fi Internet access and have Microsoft Office 2007 installed. Two laptops will be available for internal loan initially and we will be adding more machines in the coming weeks.

The i-Law database: maritime and commercial law online The i-Law database is now available from IALS, via the Electronic Law Library page of the website. Our subscription covers the maritime and commercial law module. The main attraction on i-Law is Lloyd’s Law Reports, the leading series of maritime law reports, which has been published since 1919. The whole series is on i-Law. It can be searched by party name, citation or key word, or browsed by year (via the Publications page of i-Law). Lloyd’s Law Reports is accompanied by the online series Lloyd’s Law Reports Plus, which publishes more decisions, and more quickly, than the principal series. There is also a news service called Lloyd’s Law Reporter, summarising recent cases. Twenty-five e-books are included in the maritime and commercial module of i-Law. They range from Meeson and Kimball’s Admiralty Jurisdiction and Practice to Voyage Charters by Cooke et al. All but a few of these books are also available at IALS in printed format; when you search the Library Cata-logue by title, the print edition will come up together with a link to i-Law for the electronic version. Other content includes Lloyd’s Maritime and Commer-cial Law Quarterly, from 2000 onwards, legislation relating to maritime law, the shipping magazine Mari-time Risk International and an online version of The Ratification of Maritime Conventions. To see the full list of titles available in the Maritime and Commercial module, click on Publications. On-site and remote access to i-Law is available to all academic readers (that is, students, teachers and fellows with “green-striped” or “white-striped” IALS cards). When you access from an IALS PC or log in with a library card from home, you then just have to enter an email address, for example, ials@sas.ac.uk.

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Hamburg Rathaus

Inside the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

David Gee outside the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg

I also researched the topic of legal information literacy standards, thought more about how these might inform our IALS training programmes, developed ideas for our research training infrastructure and wrote a project paper on expanding our online training programmes for postgraduate law students. Professor Dr Holger Knudsen, the Library Director, kindly organised several professional visits to other law libraries. For instance we visited the library of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the parliamentary and local government libraries housed in the imposing Rathaus in the centre of Hamburg.

outside welcoming spectators to the venue, managing queues, checking tickets or inside showing spectators to their seats, taking their photos, guarding doorways to restricted areas and the field of play allowing only accredited personnel through. One day I was down in the ‘mixed zone’ where athletes are interviewed by the media. My job was to make sure that the journal-ists stayed on the right side of the barrier, which was… an interesting challenge! Several matches were played each day from 9.30am through to 10.45pm so my shifts would either start at 7am and finish at 4.30pm or start at 3.30pm and finish at 11.15pm. Other than seeing GB get thrashed 44-15, the hardest part of the job was having to be on my feet for 9.5 hours with only a half hour break. Handball is a little known sport in the UK but it is very big (second only to football) in many European na-tions with some fixtures drawing crowds of up to 40,000 people! After watching most of the matches played at the Games, I can see why it is so popular in Europe. LOCOG have done us all proud by making London 2012 such a huge success. The sheer scale of the project and the logistics of putting it all together in-cluding organising 70,000 volunteers and thousands of other staff is unimaginable! The atmosphere in the Olympic Park was nothing but friendly. Everyone seemed to be having such a good time. Using up two weeks of my leave was completely justified and worthwhile and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experi-ence. I am glad I was able to do it as I doubt very much that the Games will come back to London again in my lifetime. If the Bolt and the Mo poses that my 7 and 4 year old grand children pull are anything to go by, the themes of the games “To Inspire a Generation” have done just that!

Visiting fellowship at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany For the month of September 2012 I was lucky enough to be appointed as a visiting fellow in law librarianship at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Inter-national Private Law in Hamburg (http://www.mpipriv.de/ww/en/pub/news.cfm). I was allocated a study carrel in this world-renowned law institute and library, and had the time and library resources to fully concentrate on a number of planned library projects. For example I spent some time analysing the response data for my survey of major law libraries around the world, and was able to write a progress report for the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) Board Meeting in early October.

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Lisa Davies and Adam Woellhaf

People news We are pleased to say that Adam Woellhaf has been appointed as our new Document Supply Service Su-pervisor. Adam will help ensure that our subscribers enjoy an efficient high-quality document delivery service and help to promote the service to new and returning users. http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/iservice/document.htm

We are also delighted that Lisa Davies will be joining us in October 2012 as our new Access Librarian. Previously Lisa worked at Norton Rose for many years and comes to us with extensive training exper-tise and legal reference work experience.

I am very grateful for the immense hospitality and kindness of Holger and his colleagues and for their generosity in sharing knowledge and expertise. David Gee

Postcard from the International Association of Law Libraries conference – Toronto, Canada, 2012 In early October Jules Winterton (IALS Associate Director and Librarian) and David Gee were pleased to attend the International Association of Law Librar-ies (IALL) 31st annual study course on international law librarianship in Toronto. The theme of the course was “Canada: the cultural mosaic and international law”. Among many very useful training events, it included an excellent lecture on Canadian constitutional law by Professor Peter Hogg and a special programme on international trade law by Professor Robert Wai. The inspirational key-note address was given by Professor Lorne Sossin, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, and we were treated to a video-message from the Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin who helped us put the Canadian legal system into an inter-national context. We also had the opportunity to attend a stimulating guided tour of the newly renovated Osgoode Hall Law School Library which provided many new ideas for developing the IALS building and library as part of the current refurbishment programme.

IALS Library books page October 2012 View a list of new books at IALS Library on our acqui-sitions list online at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/acquisitions.htm

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News produced in PDF format by Lindsey Caffin, Senior Library Assistant—Computing Services (Information Systems)