12.30 pm Wednesday 18th January 2012 at Pinsent Masons
In attendance
Tricia Wyspianska, Barry Vickery, Nicola Dennis, John Reynolds, Caroline Mosley, Amanda Hulme, Helen Marshall, Jon Beaumont, Alison Rae, Rita Flakoll, Diane Harris, Rachel Relves, Stephen Wheeler, Paul Dovey, Phil Uttley, Caroline Covington and Suzanne Homer
1. Apologies
Adele Champken, Helen Dunn, David Houston, Christine Newlove, Sally Hassel, Sue Kendall, Erica Foster, Jackie Hanes, Aine Astbury, Caroline Janukowicz, Pat Pritchard and Liz Gwillim
2. Treasurer’s Report
This is attached to the same email as these minutes
3. Nomination of Officers
Both Chair and Treasurer announced that they were standing down. Members thanked them for the work they had done in their posts over many years. A small presentation was made to both officers.
Alison Rae was voted in as the new Chair but no nominations were received for the Treasurer’s post so it was left to the committee to decide upon a way forward. Members were asked to re-consider volunteering for this post. The two main tasks involved were membership invoicing (around September each year) and general financial work, such as dealing with general expenses and preparing an annual report. It might be possible to split these responsibilities between two people in order to lessen the workload. If any member thinks that they may be able to take on either or both of these tasks, they should contact Phil Uttley.
Volunteers were also still required for the committee. This involves attending up to 6 meetings a year to arrange member meetings, events, etc.
4. Future meetings
Members agreed that meetings should continue to be held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays over the next 12 months. Suggestions for topics for future meetings included e-books, successes in promotional activities (following on from the Marketing event last year) and current challenges being faced. It was also suggested that PLC be invited to present on their new developments.
5. Future training events
Members agreed that the financial model used for the recent marketing event could be used again for future events, if appropriate, but that event content was key and future events should focus on building members’ skills. Suggested topics included Business Development Research, Project Management, Training and IT skills.
6. Future social events
The ‘Old Contemptibles’ evening had proved successful as it had been informal and people had been able to come and go as they pleased. Similar events would be welcome but lunch-time social events should also be considered.
7. Next meeting
A host was required for this meeting which will take place after 16th April. Please let Phil Uttley know if you are able to help.
8. A.O.B.
There was no other business so the Chair thanked members for their contributions
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Thursday, 19 January 2012
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Minutes of meeting on 19th January 2011
In attendance
Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Diane Harris, Hazel Hewison, Rachel Relves, Stephen Wheeler, Jackie Sellars, Barry Vickery, Adele Champkin, Sue Kendall, Tricia Wyspianska, Emma Harvey-Woodason, Mandy Hulme, Caroline Janukowicz & Phil Uttley
1. Apologies
Helen Dunn, Alison Parker, Christine Newlove, Paula Biddlestone, Pat Pritchard, Denise Watkins, Chris Lambert, Mike Troon, Jon Beaumont, Liz Gwillim, Jackie Hanes, Erica Foster, Susanne Homer, Sally Hassell and David Houston
2. Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer presented the report. There were no questions. The Chair thanked the Treasurer for her work over the last year.
3. Nomination of Officers
There were no nominations. Members thanked the current incumbents for their efforts over the last year and asked them to continue in office. They agreed to do this but stressed that all members should consider getting involved in the running of the association as new views and ideas would be needed to take the group forward.
4. Future meetings
The Chair explained that, as a result of the original December meeting being cancelled due to low numbers, the committee felt it appropriate to give the members the opportunity to give their views on the time of the day, day of the week, month of the year, format and content of future meetings.
The general feeling was that lunchtime was best but that it might be worth trialling Tuesdays or Thursdays. It was also decided that the next meeting should be in early April and a volunteer was sought to host this.
Members felt that meetings where suppliers, etc. presented and those devoted to round table discussions were both of value and that there should be a mix, or a combination, of both in the future.
A session run by Barry Vickery was planned for 12:30 on Wednesday, 23rd February at Cobbetts covering international company information. This had been run for CLIG in November and had been well received. Can members please let the Secretary know if they intend to attend.
Barry also offered to run another Companies House update session, similar to the one run at Cobbetts in February 2010, covering CH developments, past and planned. The committee will look at the timing of this and advise members. He also told members that 7Side were organising another tour of Companies House in the near future and that ALLICE members would be offered free places on this.
Other ideas for future meetings were:
• Research Monitor/OneLog – either suppliers’ presentations or round table discussions based on members’ experiences. (Pinsents agreed to cover RM).
• Justis/JusCite.
• Copyright/Digital Rights Management.
• Lexis Learning update (following on from useful session at Pinsents in November).
The Secretary was asked to seek views on this subject from those not in attendance.
5. Future training events
There was a general view that future training events should be planned and ideas were offered for topics. These were:
• Social media and associated tools.
• Presentation skills and marketing library services (Terry Kendrick, who ran the successful Company Information event in November 2009, has offered to run a ‘Marketing’ event for us. The committee will cost this out and advise members).
• ‘All about Google’. This is being run by Karen Blakeman in Newcastle in March for UKeIG and Karen has offered to run it elsewhere.
The committee were asked to consider opening up attendance to these events to other groups, including the Bristol Law Librarians Group (BRILL).
6. Future social events
The members felt that an evening social event in the summer should be organised.
7. A.O.B.
There was no other business.
Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Diane Harris, Hazel Hewison, Rachel Relves, Stephen Wheeler, Jackie Sellars, Barry Vickery, Adele Champkin, Sue Kendall, Tricia Wyspianska, Emma Harvey-Woodason, Mandy Hulme, Caroline Janukowicz & Phil Uttley
1. Apologies
Helen Dunn, Alison Parker, Christine Newlove, Paula Biddlestone, Pat Pritchard, Denise Watkins, Chris Lambert, Mike Troon, Jon Beaumont, Liz Gwillim, Jackie Hanes, Erica Foster, Susanne Homer, Sally Hassell and David Houston
2. Treasurer’s Report
The Treasurer presented the report. There were no questions. The Chair thanked the Treasurer for her work over the last year.
3. Nomination of Officers
There were no nominations. Members thanked the current incumbents for their efforts over the last year and asked them to continue in office. They agreed to do this but stressed that all members should consider getting involved in the running of the association as new views and ideas would be needed to take the group forward.
4. Future meetings
The Chair explained that, as a result of the original December meeting being cancelled due to low numbers, the committee felt it appropriate to give the members the opportunity to give their views on the time of the day, day of the week, month of the year, format and content of future meetings.
The general feeling was that lunchtime was best but that it might be worth trialling Tuesdays or Thursdays. It was also decided that the next meeting should be in early April and a volunteer was sought to host this.
Members felt that meetings where suppliers, etc. presented and those devoted to round table discussions were both of value and that there should be a mix, or a combination, of both in the future.
A session run by Barry Vickery was planned for 12:30 on Wednesday, 23rd February at Cobbetts covering international company information. This had been run for CLIG in November and had been well received. Can members please let the Secretary know if they intend to attend.
Barry also offered to run another Companies House update session, similar to the one run at Cobbetts in February 2010, covering CH developments, past and planned. The committee will look at the timing of this and advise members. He also told members that 7Side were organising another tour of Companies House in the near future and that ALLICE members would be offered free places on this.
Other ideas for future meetings were:
• Research Monitor/OneLog – either suppliers’ presentations or round table discussions based on members’ experiences. (Pinsents agreed to cover RM).
• Justis/JusCite.
• Copyright/Digital Rights Management.
• Lexis Learning update (following on from useful session at Pinsents in November).
The Secretary was asked to seek views on this subject from those not in attendance.
5. Future training events
There was a general view that future training events should be planned and ideas were offered for topics. These were:
• Social media and associated tools.
• Presentation skills and marketing library services (Terry Kendrick, who ran the successful Company Information event in November 2009, has offered to run a ‘Marketing’ event for us. The committee will cost this out and advise members).
• ‘All about Google’. This is being run by Karen Blakeman in Newcastle in March for UKeIG and Karen has offered to run it elsewhere.
The committee were asked to consider opening up attendance to these events to other groups, including the Bristol Law Librarians Group (BRILL).
6. Future social events
The members felt that an evening social event in the summer should be organised.
7. A.O.B.
There was no other business.
Thursday, 24 June 2010
June meeting - Minutes
12.30 pm Wednesday 23rd June 2010
In attendance
Caroline Mosley (CM), Caroline Covington (CC), Diane Harris (DH), Helen Dunn (HD), Alison Parker (AP), Hazel Hewison (HH), Rachel Relves (RR), Matthew Cadden (MC), Stephen Wheeler (SW), Jackie Sellars (JS), Barry Vickery (BV), Adele Champkin (AC), Jasmin Hollingum (JH), Sue Kendall (SK), Christine Lambert (CL), Tricia Wyspianska (TW), Pat Pritchard (PP), Susanne Homer (SHo), Sally Hassell (SHa) & Phil Uttley (PU)
1. Apologies
Margaret Brittin, Jon Beaumont, Christine Newlove, Aine Astbury, Caroline Janukowicz, David Houston, Erica Foster, Mandy Hulme, Denise Watkins, Mike Troon & Louise Young
2. A.O.B.
· Report back from Conference
Jasmin Holingum presented her report (which is attached to the same email as these minutes) and thanked ALLICE for funding her bursary. She encouraged others to apply in future years, should the bursary be available, as the experience of attending conference was very worthwhile
· BLS library at Aston University
Adele Champkin advised members that a complete refurbishment of the Aston University library will be completed over this summer and promotional material would be available soon afterwards. Online access to Lexis Library and WestLaw was also being considered. Details of the new developments would be sent to BLS members and she encouraged them to feedback on this and anything else pertaining to the library
· ALLICE Union list
Phil Uttley asked those members who wanted to make a contribution to the ALLICE Union list to send details of their law report and journal holdings to him in the form of a MS Word document by 9th July
· Old law books
Please let Diane Harris know if you are interested in pooling any old law books that you might be holding, with a view to donating them to a charity, so that she can look at the possibility of asking some organisation to collect them in bulk
3. Round table discussion
· Enquiry trends and measurement
Legal enquiries are now generally only those involving complex issues or ‘difficult to source’ cases. (PP/CM). Legal research work has reduced in some firms so that only minimal resource is required. (SHo/CM)
More business development work is being done (HH/PP/CM) in fact, following active promotion, it now requires the allocation of significant resource. (CM)
Work on company research is increasing (AP) and regularly involves non-UK companies as these are the ultimate holding companies of many new clients. (PU/RR) Additionally, more knowledge is now required on foreign legislation and systems. (RR) International company research might be a good topic for a future ALLICE training course. (PU)
Whilst it is known that some firms are restricting their legal research enquiry hours (SHo), the trend is for library staff to be required outside their normal times. (PU/RR)
Enquiry forms were used by some firms (SHo) but others had met resistance from lawyers. However, adopting some form of enquiry management system is useful for monitoring and measuring enquiry work and may help justify library resources going forward. (AP)
Visibility of library input can be diluted where research work is presented back to lawyers by third parties, eg, professional support lawyers (PSLs) and this makes justification of library resource more difficult. Some libraries ‘brand’ their work to prevent this happening. (PP/CM)
Research Monitor is used by some to monitor usage of electronic resources (RR) and this can be useful in justifying and/or terminating subscriptions to online resources. It also helps identify training needs and could be used to allocate costs. Details of this system will be sent to members later via the secretary. (BV)
Current measurement of enquiry work is restricted to manual systems, mainly Excel spreadsheets. The problem with these is that they are dependent on people remembering to fill in all their enquiries, which can be difficult at busy times
· Allocating costs
Generally, no firms allocated library resource costs other than those costs incurred when purchasing documents from Companies House, Land Registry, etc. Some firms had tried in the past but even though PSL and trainee time spent on research was sometimes charged back to clients (PP), doing the same for library time had met with resistance. (CM)
· Lexis v WestLaw
At one firm, users had wanted both systems (CC) but, once usage statistics and costs became more visible, most opted out of Lexis subscriptions. Taking both systems, however, had allowed some firms to cancel hard copy versions and, therefore, reduce costs but this meant that they were now more committed to retaining both on-line subscriptions. (CL/RR) Where firms had both systems, there seemed to be a general trend towards WestLaw by users. Both suppliers offered bespoke training but the quality of this varied by system and firm. (HH/PP/SHa)
Lexis ‘commentary’ was far superior to that on WestLaw (HH) but WestLaw case analyses, especially the case precedent information, was preferable. (DH)
Lexis ‘commentary’ package costing was restrictive, though, with reduced packages sometimes incurring increased costs. More recent contact with Lexis, however, was revealing a more flexible approach. (HD/AP)
Historic legislation, especially the ‘point in time’ facility was a unique feature of WestLaw (DH) and while Lexis offered the same information through their helpdesk, they could only offer 24 hour response. (SHo)
Lawtel was also discussed and it was felt its key features were its alerts and unreported cases.
4. Next meeting
This will take place in September and it is hoped that Sweet & Maxwell will be in attendance. A location is required for this. Please let Phil Uttley know if you are able to host
In attendance
Caroline Mosley (CM), Caroline Covington (CC), Diane Harris (DH), Helen Dunn (HD), Alison Parker (AP), Hazel Hewison (HH), Rachel Relves (RR), Matthew Cadden (MC), Stephen Wheeler (SW), Jackie Sellars (JS), Barry Vickery (BV), Adele Champkin (AC), Jasmin Hollingum (JH), Sue Kendall (SK), Christine Lambert (CL), Tricia Wyspianska (TW), Pat Pritchard (PP), Susanne Homer (SHo), Sally Hassell (SHa) & Phil Uttley (PU)
1. Apologies
Margaret Brittin, Jon Beaumont, Christine Newlove, Aine Astbury, Caroline Janukowicz, David Houston, Erica Foster, Mandy Hulme, Denise Watkins, Mike Troon & Louise Young
2. A.O.B.
· Report back from Conference
Jasmin Holingum presented her report (which is attached to the same email as these minutes) and thanked ALLICE for funding her bursary. She encouraged others to apply in future years, should the bursary be available, as the experience of attending conference was very worthwhile
· BLS library at Aston University
Adele Champkin advised members that a complete refurbishment of the Aston University library will be completed over this summer and promotional material would be available soon afterwards. Online access to Lexis Library and WestLaw was also being considered. Details of the new developments would be sent to BLS members and she encouraged them to feedback on this and anything else pertaining to the library
· ALLICE Union list
Phil Uttley asked those members who wanted to make a contribution to the ALLICE Union list to send details of their law report and journal holdings to him in the form of a MS Word document by 9th July
· Old law books
Please let Diane Harris know if you are interested in pooling any old law books that you might be holding, with a view to donating them to a charity, so that she can look at the possibility of asking some organisation to collect them in bulk
3. Round table discussion
· Enquiry trends and measurement
Legal enquiries are now generally only those involving complex issues or ‘difficult to source’ cases. (PP/CM). Legal research work has reduced in some firms so that only minimal resource is required. (SHo/CM)
More business development work is being done (HH/PP/CM) in fact, following active promotion, it now requires the allocation of significant resource. (CM)
Work on company research is increasing (AP) and regularly involves non-UK companies as these are the ultimate holding companies of many new clients. (PU/RR) Additionally, more knowledge is now required on foreign legislation and systems. (RR) International company research might be a good topic for a future ALLICE training course. (PU)
Whilst it is known that some firms are restricting their legal research enquiry hours (SHo), the trend is for library staff to be required outside their normal times. (PU/RR)
Enquiry forms were used by some firms (SHo) but others had met resistance from lawyers. However, adopting some form of enquiry management system is useful for monitoring and measuring enquiry work and may help justify library resources going forward. (AP)
Visibility of library input can be diluted where research work is presented back to lawyers by third parties, eg, professional support lawyers (PSLs) and this makes justification of library resource more difficult. Some libraries ‘brand’ their work to prevent this happening. (PP/CM)
Research Monitor is used by some to monitor usage of electronic resources (RR) and this can be useful in justifying and/or terminating subscriptions to online resources. It also helps identify training needs and could be used to allocate costs. Details of this system will be sent to members later via the secretary. (BV)
Current measurement of enquiry work is restricted to manual systems, mainly Excel spreadsheets. The problem with these is that they are dependent on people remembering to fill in all their enquiries, which can be difficult at busy times
· Allocating costs
Generally, no firms allocated library resource costs other than those costs incurred when purchasing documents from Companies House, Land Registry, etc. Some firms had tried in the past but even though PSL and trainee time spent on research was sometimes charged back to clients (PP), doing the same for library time had met with resistance. (CM)
· Lexis v WestLaw
At one firm, users had wanted both systems (CC) but, once usage statistics and costs became more visible, most opted out of Lexis subscriptions. Taking both systems, however, had allowed some firms to cancel hard copy versions and, therefore, reduce costs but this meant that they were now more committed to retaining both on-line subscriptions. (CL/RR) Where firms had both systems, there seemed to be a general trend towards WestLaw by users. Both suppliers offered bespoke training but the quality of this varied by system and firm. (HH/PP/SHa)
Lexis ‘commentary’ was far superior to that on WestLaw (HH) but WestLaw case analyses, especially the case precedent information, was preferable. (DH)
Lexis ‘commentary’ package costing was restrictive, though, with reduced packages sometimes incurring increased costs. More recent contact with Lexis, however, was revealing a more flexible approach. (HD/AP)
Historic legislation, especially the ‘point in time’ facility was a unique feature of WestLaw (DH) and while Lexis offered the same information through their helpdesk, they could only offer 24 hour response. (SHo)
Lawtel was also discussed and it was felt its key features were its alerts and unreported cases.
4. Next meeting
This will take place in September and it is hoped that Sweet & Maxwell will be in attendance. A location is required for this. Please let Phil Uttley know if you are able to host
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Minutes of March 2010 meeting
Association of Law Librarians in Central England
Wednesday 17th March 2010 at No 5 Chambers
Attendees:
Adele Champken, Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Alison Parker, Helen Dunn, Jasmin Hollingum, Matthew Cadden, Phil Uttley, Stephen Wheeler, Tricia Wyspianska, David Houston and Aine Astbury
Simon Watson and Jo Davies from Justis Publishing
Apologies
Sally Hassall, Hazel Hewison, Chris Newlove, Barry Vickery, Carol Wilson, Jackie Sellars, Chris Lambert, Erica Foster, Mike Troon, Jon Beaumont, Pat Pritchard, Aileen Johnston, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall and Diane Harris
Treasurer’s report
A copy of the report had been sent out prior to the meeting with notes. There were no matters arising
ALLICE Bursary for the BIALL conference
A bursary, to cover conference fees only, will be available to ALLICE members for this year’s conference in June in Brighton.
ALLICE Union List
The membership agreed to produce a new Union list for 2010. A volunteer is required to collect contributions and publish the list. Please let Phil Uttley know if you can help with this
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at Hammonds on Wednesday 23rd June. It will be a networking meeting, discussing a range of issues including:
cost recovery, training, Lexis v Westlaw, free v fee resources, outsourcing in the library world, measuring library usage, hardcopy v on-line, library staff:attorney ratios and Web 2.0
If you would particularly like the meeting to focus on any of these topics, or have additional topics you would like to add, please let Phil Uttley know by the end of May
A.O.B.
Aine Astbury informed the meeting that Hilary Boucher was retiring and leaving No 5 Chambers at the end of March. Diane Harris, from Martineau, will replace her.
Simon Watson and Jo Davies from Justis Publishing gave a presentation and demonstration of JustCite & Justis. A discussion followed which included the offer by Justis to discuss, with a possible "ALLICE consortium", group subscription to Justcite. If any ALLICE member is interested in exploring this opportunity further, please contact Caroline Mosley.
Attendees:
Adele Champken, Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Alison Parker, Helen Dunn, Jasmin Hollingum, Matthew Cadden, Phil Uttley, Stephen Wheeler, Tricia Wyspianska, David Houston and Aine Astbury
Simon Watson and Jo Davies from Justis Publishing
Apologies
Sally Hassall, Hazel Hewison, Chris Newlove, Barry Vickery, Carol Wilson, Jackie Sellars, Chris Lambert, Erica Foster, Mike Troon, Jon Beaumont, Pat Pritchard, Aileen Johnston, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall and Diane Harris
Treasurer’s report
A copy of the report had been sent out prior to the meeting with notes. There were no matters arising
ALLICE Bursary for the BIALL conference
A bursary, to cover conference fees only, will be available to ALLICE members for this year’s conference in June in Brighton.
ALLICE Union List
The membership agreed to produce a new Union list for 2010. A volunteer is required to collect contributions and publish the list. Please let Phil Uttley know if you can help with this
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at Hammonds on Wednesday 23rd June. It will be a networking meeting, discussing a range of issues including:
cost recovery, training, Lexis v Westlaw, free v fee resources, outsourcing in the library world, measuring library usage, hardcopy v on-line, library staff:attorney ratios and Web 2.0
If you would particularly like the meeting to focus on any of these topics, or have additional topics you would like to add, please let Phil Uttley know by the end of May
A.O.B.
Aine Astbury informed the meeting that Hilary Boucher was retiring and leaving No 5 Chambers at the end of March. Diane Harris, from Martineau, will replace her.
Simon Watson and Jo Davies from Justis Publishing gave a presentation and demonstration of JustCite & Justis. A discussion followed which included the offer by Justis to discuss, with a possible "ALLICE consortium", group subscription to Justcite. If any ALLICE member is interested in exploring this opportunity further, please contact Caroline Mosley.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Minutes of December meeting
Wednesday 9th December 2009
Attendees:
Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Caroline Janukowicz, Diane Harris, Hilary Boucher, Keri Husband, Pat Pritchard, Jasmin Hollingum, Jon Beaumont, Matthew Cadden, Sally Hassall, Stephen Wheeler, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall, Helen Dunn, Adele Champken, Natasha Skeen, Paula Biddlestone and Tricia Wyspianska
Steve Wood, Head of Service – Information Services, Central Library
Apologies
Jackie Sellars, Phil Uttley, Christine Newlove, Erica Foster, Hazel Hewison, Alison Parker, Bev Preece, Denise Watkins, Carol Wilson, Rachel Relves and Susanne Homer.
Please note that Phil Uttley is off work following surgery on his knee. If you have any matters to raise from these minutes please contact the remaining committee members, Caroline Mosley, Diane Harris or Caroline Covington.
New Members
Caroline Mosley welcomed Paula Biddlestone who is working at Citadel Chambers and Adele Champken who is now working at Aston University after a 6 month career break.
Seminars
The Company Information seminar on 4th November was fully subscribed and was very successful with all the delegates finding it useful.
7side in Cardiff have held some one hour seminars for various groups on the effect of the Companies Act 2006 on Companies House and are willing to present it to ALLICE members. Those members present agreed that this would be useful to them so the ALLICE Committee will try to arrange for this to take place in January/February 2010.
Is there any interest in ALLICE trying to arrange the next training session on the topic of Web 2.0? If this is something of interest to you, please email Caroline Covington on ccovington@st-philips.com before Christmas.
Subscriptions and Members List
Caroline Covington as Treasurer thanked everyone for their prompt payment of their ALLICE subscriptions. A new members list accompanies these minutes. Please make sure you amend any saved contacts as there have been several changes to the list.
LIM Book Reviews
Caroline Mosley has been approached by the Editorial Board of Legal Information Management as they are looking for book reviewers. In particular, they are looking for someone to review Legal Skills 2nd edition by Finch and Fafinski for the March issue of LIM. Please contact Caroline on caroline.mosley@cobbetts.com by Wednesday 16th December if this interests you.
Social
The committee are planning to organise a social event for late January/February. If you are interested in attending or have a suggestion for a venue, please let one of the committee know. Further details will be sent out in the new year.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at No5 Chambers in March (date to be confirmed). Justis will be in attendance to demonstrate their online services, in particular recent developments to JustCite.
A.O.B.
Natasha Skeen is due to finish her maternity cover at the College of Law at the end of January 2010 when Jackie Hanes returns. She is looking for a few months work after her contract ends. If anyone knows of any vacancies or needs a temporary librarian please contact Natasha on natasha.skeen@lawcol.co.uk and she will be happy to provide you with her CV or discuss this further.
Steve Wood, Service Manager, Information Services at Birmingham Central Library gave a very interesting talk about the range of legal and official publications that are available to the general public and businesses. He also gave a progress report on the plans for the new Library of Birmingham which is due to open in June 2013.
Steve has offered to give ALLICE members a tour of the legal and official materials collections at the Central Library. If you would be interested, please contact one of the committee.
Steve also provided the following contact details:
General email: information.services@birmingham.gov.uk
Tel: 0121 303 4545
Steve.wood@birmingham.gov.uk
The committee would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Attendees:
Caroline Mosley, Caroline Covington, Caroline Janukowicz, Diane Harris, Hilary Boucher, Keri Husband, Pat Pritchard, Jasmin Hollingum, Jon Beaumont, Matthew Cadden, Sally Hassall, Stephen Wheeler, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall, Helen Dunn, Adele Champken, Natasha Skeen, Paula Biddlestone and Tricia Wyspianska
Steve Wood, Head of Service – Information Services, Central Library
Apologies
Jackie Sellars, Phil Uttley, Christine Newlove, Erica Foster, Hazel Hewison, Alison Parker, Bev Preece, Denise Watkins, Carol Wilson, Rachel Relves and Susanne Homer.
Please note that Phil Uttley is off work following surgery on his knee. If you have any matters to raise from these minutes please contact the remaining committee members, Caroline Mosley, Diane Harris or Caroline Covington.
New Members
Caroline Mosley welcomed Paula Biddlestone who is working at Citadel Chambers and Adele Champken who is now working at Aston University after a 6 month career break.
Seminars
The Company Information seminar on 4th November was fully subscribed and was very successful with all the delegates finding it useful.
7side in Cardiff have held some one hour seminars for various groups on the effect of the Companies Act 2006 on Companies House and are willing to present it to ALLICE members. Those members present agreed that this would be useful to them so the ALLICE Committee will try to arrange for this to take place in January/February 2010.
Is there any interest in ALLICE trying to arrange the next training session on the topic of Web 2.0? If this is something of interest to you, please email Caroline Covington on ccovington@st-philips.com before Christmas.
Subscriptions and Members List
Caroline Covington as Treasurer thanked everyone for their prompt payment of their ALLICE subscriptions. A new members list accompanies these minutes. Please make sure you amend any saved contacts as there have been several changes to the list.
LIM Book Reviews
Caroline Mosley has been approached by the Editorial Board of Legal Information Management as they are looking for book reviewers. In particular, they are looking for someone to review Legal Skills 2nd edition by Finch and Fafinski for the March issue of LIM. Please contact Caroline on caroline.mosley@cobbetts.com by Wednesday 16th December if this interests you.
Social
The committee are planning to organise a social event for late January/February. If you are interested in attending or have a suggestion for a venue, please let one of the committee know. Further details will be sent out in the new year.
Next meeting
The next meeting will be held at No5 Chambers in March (date to be confirmed). Justis will be in attendance to demonstrate their online services, in particular recent developments to JustCite.
A.O.B.
Natasha Skeen is due to finish her maternity cover at the College of Law at the end of January 2010 when Jackie Hanes returns. She is looking for a few months work after her contract ends. If anyone knows of any vacancies or needs a temporary librarian please contact Natasha on natasha.skeen@lawcol.co.uk and she will be happy to provide you with her CV or discuss this further.
Steve Wood, Service Manager, Information Services at Birmingham Central Library gave a very interesting talk about the range of legal and official publications that are available to the general public and businesses. He also gave a progress report on the plans for the new Library of Birmingham which is due to open in June 2013.
Steve has offered to give ALLICE members a tour of the legal and official materials collections at the Central Library. If you would be interested, please contact one of the committee.
Steve also provided the following contact details:
General email: information.services@birmingham.gov.uk
Tel: 0121 303 4545
Steve.wood@birmingham.gov.uk
The committee would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Wednesday, 10 December 2008
Minutes of meeting held on 10th December 2008
Meeting held at : DLA Piper UK LLP, Victoria Square House, Birmingham
Attendees:
Jon Beaumont, Hilary Boucher, Louise Bowler, Matthew Cadden (Pinsent Masons), Adele Champken, Andrew Clarke, Caroline Covington, Hazel Hewison, Susanne Homer, Mandy Hulme, Caroline Janukowicz, Caroline Mosley, Alison Parker, Rachel Relves, Natasha Skeen (College of Law), Phil Uttley, Carol Wilson and Tricia Wyspianska
The Chair welcomed Nigel Fry, Rob Cornish and Tina Hartley from Wildy & Sons
Normal business
1. Apologies
Sally Hassell, Christine Lambert, Patricia Pritchard, Aileen Johnston, Beverley Preece, Joanne Dunn, Lisa Anderson, Christine Newlove, Erica Foster, Aine Astbury, Jasmin Hollingum, Sue Kendall, David Houston, Lee Houghton, Helen Dunn, Denise Watkins, Diane Harris, Jackie Sellars, James Furnival and Stephen Wheeler.
2. Charities
The Chair explained that our annual donation had been reviewed at the request of members and set at £50 this year. Three nominations had been received and voting forms were distributed at the meeting. A copy is available on the blog for those who have still to nominate their chosen charity
3. Treasurer’s Report
The treasurer presented her report for the year. She also asked those members who have yet to renew their ALLICE subscriptions to do so before Christmas (Cobbetts, No 5 Chambers, James Furnival, Lisa Anderson and Denise Watkins). It is expected that membership will fall to 40/42 for 2008/09. This will generate around £630. The EIA event, run in October, had cost a total of £1175. Attendance fees recouped £300, leaving net costs of £875.
4. AOB
Update on Birmingham Law Society (BLS) library – The Chair informed members that a BLS committee meeting recently established that the BLS library was now formally closed. The move of the stock to Aston University was complete and arrangements for BLS members to access it were now in place. BLS members will be invited to bid for the stock left at the Law Society. Confirmation of this has been received since the meeting and is available on the blog.
Anthony Collins job vacancy – Adele Champken informed members that she was leaving Anthony Collins in February. This would create a vacancy for a part-time librarian.
Happy events – Members were informed that both Aine Astbury and Jackie Hanes had given birth to baby girls recently – all are well
5. Wildy & Sons
Many thanks to Nigel Fry who gave a very interesting talk on the history of Wildys and its current structure and location
Attendees:
Jon Beaumont, Hilary Boucher, Louise Bowler, Matthew Cadden (Pinsent Masons), Adele Champken, Andrew Clarke, Caroline Covington, Hazel Hewison, Susanne Homer, Mandy Hulme, Caroline Janukowicz, Caroline Mosley, Alison Parker, Rachel Relves, Natasha Skeen (College of Law), Phil Uttley, Carol Wilson and Tricia Wyspianska
The Chair welcomed Nigel Fry, Rob Cornish and Tina Hartley from Wildy & Sons
Normal business
1. Apologies
Sally Hassell, Christine Lambert, Patricia Pritchard, Aileen Johnston, Beverley Preece, Joanne Dunn, Lisa Anderson, Christine Newlove, Erica Foster, Aine Astbury, Jasmin Hollingum, Sue Kendall, David Houston, Lee Houghton, Helen Dunn, Denise Watkins, Diane Harris, Jackie Sellars, James Furnival and Stephen Wheeler.
2. Charities
The Chair explained that our annual donation had been reviewed at the request of members and set at £50 this year. Three nominations had been received and voting forms were distributed at the meeting. A copy is available on the blog for those who have still to nominate their chosen charity
3. Treasurer’s Report
The treasurer presented her report for the year. She also asked those members who have yet to renew their ALLICE subscriptions to do so before Christmas (Cobbetts, No 5 Chambers, James Furnival, Lisa Anderson and Denise Watkins). It is expected that membership will fall to 40/42 for 2008/09. This will generate around £630. The EIA event, run in October, had cost a total of £1175. Attendance fees recouped £300, leaving net costs of £875.
4. AOB
Update on Birmingham Law Society (BLS) library – The Chair informed members that a BLS committee meeting recently established that the BLS library was now formally closed. The move of the stock to Aston University was complete and arrangements for BLS members to access it were now in place. BLS members will be invited to bid for the stock left at the Law Society. Confirmation of this has been received since the meeting and is available on the blog.
Anthony Collins job vacancy – Adele Champken informed members that she was leaving Anthony Collins in February. This would create a vacancy for a part-time librarian.
Happy events – Members were informed that both Aine Astbury and Jackie Hanes had given birth to baby girls recently – all are well
5. Wildy & Sons
Many thanks to Nigel Fry who gave a very interesting talk on the history of Wildys and its current structure and location
Friday, 12 September 2008
Minutes of ALLICE meeting 10th September 2008
Meeting held at :
St Philips Chambers, 55 Temple Row, Birmingham, B2 5LS
Normal business
1. Apologies
Lisa Anderson, Jon Beaumont, Margaret Brittin, Adele Champken, Andrew Clarke, Helen Dunn, Joanne Dunn, Zoe Durrant, Erica Foster, Sally Hassall, David Houston, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall, Caroline Mosley, Christine Newlove, Toyin Olanrewaju, Bev Preece, Pat Pritchard, Jackie Sellars, Karen Skiffington, Mike Troon, Barry Vickery, Denise Watkins, Louise Young
2. Officers & Committee
Little feedback had been received on election of officers but the committee thought that this should take place formally at a future meeting to give members the opportunity to submit nominations.
[Action: Committee]
Martineau have offered to join the committee to assist in things like event organisation. DH will lead for them.
3. Charities
Two nominations received and a general view was that the donation should continue but the amount should be reviewed.
In response to a suggestion that funds would be better spent on events, CC pointed out that the subscription was originally intended to cover meeting costs only but, as most hosts have not charged ALLICE, funds in the bank had grown and the committee had felt that it could continue to donate to charity without compromising the financial health of the Association. Current subscription levels would, in fact, be insufficient to cover costs of regular events like the upcoming EIA event as this had cost over £1000.
4. EIA event
Currently 25 applications to attend had been received.
5. Subscriptions
CC informed members that subscriptions were due and that these would again be held at £15. Members were asked to send their payments to CC as quickly as possible and, if possible, pay electronically to avoid bank charges. [Action: All]
6. Future meetings & events
DLA Piper are hosting December meeting on 10th December. Members were asked for ideas on topics for discussion, speakers, etc. Host also required for March meeting
7. AOB
Update on Birmingham Law Society library – not much was known – PU was asked to send members a report on the current situation [Action: PU]
College of Law job vacancy – F/T Information Officer post is about to be advertised at the College (to provide 12 month maternity cover from November) AA reminded members that a similar vacancy will exist at No 5 Chambers
BIALL website re-design – HH asked members for thoughts on the BIALL website and the current communication facilities so that she could feed this into the web re-design project. [Action: All]
Business Information courses – AP asked if members knew of any upcoming courses. DH was attending a CILIP course in London in October. Members discussed the possibility of running this sort of event in conjunction with CILIP/BIALL/ASLIB, etc. PU was asked to make contact with these organisations and other local law librarians groups to access the possibilities. AJ suggested that members should be asked to show what level of interest existed for such an event before this was carried out [Action: PU]
Round table discussion – Print v Electronic resources
Christine Lambert (Academic library)
Her book fund had reduced while costs of electronic resources had increased by 66% and hardcopy costs by 30% over three years (excluding textbooks). Significant duplication existed between print and ‘e’ resources and she estimates that she could achieve 75% savings by moving to ‘e’ journals where this was possible and 85% savings by moving to ‘e’ law reports and legislation. Other schools within the University were already going down this route and she felt that she would have little option but to follow.
Although the majority of students preferred using ‘e’ resources, she wondered whether employers would still want them to be trained in the use of hardcopy versions.
A project entitled UK Research Reserve was encouraging HE institutions to dispose of their hardcopy runs of journals in favour of stock held at the British Library. Wolverhampton were joining this initiative soon
The Society of Legal Scholars have recently issued a report entitled ‘A Library for the Modern Law School’ in which they set out a Statement of Standards. This is also having an impact of her future planning
Caroline Covington (Bar library)
St Philips had to balance the needs of barristers who worked predominantly in Chambers with those would worked remotely. They also had to take into account the differing levels of computer literacy that existed. For this reason they held significant runs of hardcopy law reports and Halsbury’s Statutes and Laws.
Barristers still liked to have pdf version of law reports and, although these were now available on WestLaw for ICLR series and this had allowed them to cancel their Justis subscription, she felt that they never dispense with their hard copy versions.
Moving to ‘e’ resources brought with it significant training requirements and setting up successful training sessions for barristers was proving difficult.
General discussion highlighted another risk associated with moving to ‘e’ resources. Once a subscription to the hardcopy version was cancelled, it would be very difficult and expensive to re-establish this if the need arose.
Alison Parker (Larger firm library)
Eversheds priorities when considering ‘e’ versus hardcopy resources had been fully supporting fee-earners at minimum cost and maximum efficiency.
Additionally, the firm offered a 24 hour service to clients and the IS team were unable to offer staffing to support this.
Consequently, all hardcopy resources were centralised in Birmingham and access to a significant range of ‘e’ resources were provided firm-wide. This resulted in a significant reduction in hardcopy stock. The centralised stock is rarely used.
Training was also a problem for Eversheds given the large turnover of staff and constant recruitment and each IS team had dedicated trainers who trained at least one day every week.
Whilst access to legal ‘e’ resources was firm-wide, access to ‘e’ company resources was restricted to the IS team.
RR informed members that the budget for hardcopy resources at Pinsents had recently reduced by 20% and the increased cost of these resources had compounded the impact of this on her ability to purchase stock of this type
Tricia Wyspianska (Smaller 'out of town' library)
Needham and James also faced a difficult balance to meet the needs of fee-earners with differing needs and levels of computer literacy.
Some fee-earners preferred hardcopy resources and expected their trainees to be able to conduct research using these resources. She felt, therefore, that colleges and universities should continue to retain the means to carry out training to develop these skills.
It was difficult, however, to justify the cost of duplication between ‘e’ and hardcopy resources within the firm and this was being addressed gradually.
General discussion followed and points were made about space savings that could be achieved through adopting ‘e’ resources over hardcopy and the impact on printing of using ‘e’ resources. JH informed members that printing had risen fourfold following the College’s migration to ‘e’ resources
St Philips Chambers, 55 Temple Row, Birmingham, B2 5LS
Normal business
1. Apologies
Lisa Anderson, Jon Beaumont, Margaret Brittin, Adele Champken, Andrew Clarke, Helen Dunn, Joanne Dunn, Zoe Durrant, Erica Foster, Sally Hassall, David Houston, Mandy Hulme, Sue Kendall, Caroline Mosley, Christine Newlove, Toyin Olanrewaju, Bev Preece, Pat Pritchard, Jackie Sellars, Karen Skiffington, Mike Troon, Barry Vickery, Denise Watkins, Louise Young
2. Officers & Committee
Little feedback had been received on election of officers but the committee thought that this should take place formally at a future meeting to give members the opportunity to submit nominations.
[Action: Committee]
Martineau have offered to join the committee to assist in things like event organisation. DH will lead for them.
3. Charities
Two nominations received and a general view was that the donation should continue but the amount should be reviewed.
In response to a suggestion that funds would be better spent on events, CC pointed out that the subscription was originally intended to cover meeting costs only but, as most hosts have not charged ALLICE, funds in the bank had grown and the committee had felt that it could continue to donate to charity without compromising the financial health of the Association. Current subscription levels would, in fact, be insufficient to cover costs of regular events like the upcoming EIA event as this had cost over £1000.
4. EIA event
Currently 25 applications to attend had been received.
5. Subscriptions
CC informed members that subscriptions were due and that these would again be held at £15. Members were asked to send their payments to CC as quickly as possible and, if possible, pay electronically to avoid bank charges. [Action: All]
6. Future meetings & events
DLA Piper are hosting December meeting on 10th December. Members were asked for ideas on topics for discussion, speakers, etc. Host also required for March meeting
7. AOB
Update on Birmingham Law Society library – not much was known – PU was asked to send members a report on the current situation [Action: PU]
College of Law job vacancy – F/T Information Officer post is about to be advertised at the College (to provide 12 month maternity cover from November) AA reminded members that a similar vacancy will exist at No 5 Chambers
BIALL website re-design – HH asked members for thoughts on the BIALL website and the current communication facilities so that she could feed this into the web re-design project. [Action: All]
Business Information courses – AP asked if members knew of any upcoming courses. DH was attending a CILIP course in London in October. Members discussed the possibility of running this sort of event in conjunction with CILIP/BIALL/ASLIB, etc. PU was asked to make contact with these organisations and other local law librarians groups to access the possibilities. AJ suggested that members should be asked to show what level of interest existed for such an event before this was carried out [Action: PU]
Round table discussion – Print v Electronic resources
Christine Lambert (Academic library)
Her book fund had reduced while costs of electronic resources had increased by 66% and hardcopy costs by 30% over three years (excluding textbooks). Significant duplication existed between print and ‘e’ resources and she estimates that she could achieve 75% savings by moving to ‘e’ journals where this was possible and 85% savings by moving to ‘e’ law reports and legislation. Other schools within the University were already going down this route and she felt that she would have little option but to follow.
Although the majority of students preferred using ‘e’ resources, she wondered whether employers would still want them to be trained in the use of hardcopy versions.
A project entitled UK Research Reserve was encouraging HE institutions to dispose of their hardcopy runs of journals in favour of stock held at the British Library. Wolverhampton were joining this initiative soon
The Society of Legal Scholars have recently issued a report entitled ‘A Library for the Modern Law School’ in which they set out a Statement of Standards. This is also having an impact of her future planning
Caroline Covington (Bar library)
St Philips had to balance the needs of barristers who worked predominantly in Chambers with those would worked remotely. They also had to take into account the differing levels of computer literacy that existed. For this reason they held significant runs of hardcopy law reports and Halsbury’s Statutes and Laws.
Barristers still liked to have pdf version of law reports and, although these were now available on WestLaw for ICLR series and this had allowed them to cancel their Justis subscription, she felt that they never dispense with their hard copy versions.
Moving to ‘e’ resources brought with it significant training requirements and setting up successful training sessions for barristers was proving difficult.
General discussion highlighted another risk associated with moving to ‘e’ resources. Once a subscription to the hardcopy version was cancelled, it would be very difficult and expensive to re-establish this if the need arose.
Alison Parker (Larger firm library)
Eversheds priorities when considering ‘e’ versus hardcopy resources had been fully supporting fee-earners at minimum cost and maximum efficiency.
Additionally, the firm offered a 24 hour service to clients and the IS team were unable to offer staffing to support this.
Consequently, all hardcopy resources were centralised in Birmingham and access to a significant range of ‘e’ resources were provided firm-wide. This resulted in a significant reduction in hardcopy stock. The centralised stock is rarely used.
Training was also a problem for Eversheds given the large turnover of staff and constant recruitment and each IS team had dedicated trainers who trained at least one day every week.
Whilst access to legal ‘e’ resources was firm-wide, access to ‘e’ company resources was restricted to the IS team.
RR informed members that the budget for hardcopy resources at Pinsents had recently reduced by 20% and the increased cost of these resources had compounded the impact of this on her ability to purchase stock of this type
Tricia Wyspianska (Smaller 'out of town' library)
Needham and James also faced a difficult balance to meet the needs of fee-earners with differing needs and levels of computer literacy.
Some fee-earners preferred hardcopy resources and expected their trainees to be able to conduct research using these resources. She felt, therefore, that colleges and universities should continue to retain the means to carry out training to develop these skills.
It was difficult, however, to justify the cost of duplication between ‘e’ and hardcopy resources within the firm and this was being addressed gradually.
General discussion followed and points were made about space savings that could be achieved through adopting ‘e’ resources over hardcopy and the impact on printing of using ‘e’ resources. JH informed members that printing had risen fourfold following the College’s migration to ‘e’ resources
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Minutes of ALLICE meeting 18th June 2008
Meeting held at :
Anthony Collins LLP 134 Edmund Street Birmingham B3 2ES
1. Planning a law firm library
Wragge and Co are moving offices in 2011 and Susanne Homer wanted to gather experience and opinion on how to plan a law library in an office move. She currently has 22 departmental libraries within practice areas and wondered to what extent firms have centralised their library services in the age of online information.
Martineau Johnson and Cobbetts (Birmingham & Leeds) have single centralised library services. Eversheds (Leeds & London) have a general reference collection in a central library and departmental subject libraries.
Eversheds (Birmingham) has a main central library in a separate building.
Anthony Collins has 3 practice libraries (related departments share a practice library).
Cobbetts (Manchester) has a central library with departmental subject libraries.
All firms have recently moved offices. Generally, fee earners prefer the decentralised approach where resources are on their desks, or at least close by. However, libraries are finding this might not be the most effective use of resources, particularly in the online information age. Choice depends upon priorities for your service. What do you want to achieve. How do you want to raise your profile? What space do you have within your office?
Members then discussed the pros and cons of print v electronic format for resources and how much duplication we have in formats. Some libraries have cancelled all print subscriptions where electronic versions exist and others have reduced print copy numbers to a minimum to encourage users to use the electronic version.
It was suggested that this would be an interesting theme for the next ALLICE meeting.
There was also discussion on the role of Professional Support Lawyers (PSL’s) in libraries and information provision. Some concern was expressed that librarians manage departmental libraries but PSL’s take the credit and that PSL’s do not have the information skills to run departmental libraries.
It was suggested this would be an interesting theme for another ALLICE meeting although it might exclude some members from non-firm backgrounds.
Members offered tips on planning an office move:
Be involved on the planning committee or be in touch with architects and designers.
Specify shelving requirements, e.g. height, depth, length, position in library, growth space.
Specify electronic and network sockets for PCs.
Employ specialist library removal firm.
2. AOB
Tricia asked for an update on Birmingham Law Society Library. Hazel has left the library, and it is now staffed on Monday and Friday only and is for reference only. Birmingham Law Society are discussing the move of their library to Aston University this autumn but it is unlikely that Aston will offer the same level and conditions of service. Caroline and Pat asked members to email them with comments, e.g. which resources are used, what services to keep, e.g. a postal lending service.
Adele Chapken has a friend (Carol) who is looking for administrative work in a library. She is returning to work after a career break. Please contact Adele if you know of any suitable roles.
The EIA training event is likely to take place in October. This will be a lecture style event, rather than hands-on, because of venues and costs. Details are being finalised, and will be advertised shortly.
No one applied for the ALLICE bursary this year. Committee decided to keep open for BIALL conference in Manchester in 2009.
Committee is looking for ideas for future ALLICE meetings, and is planning a summer social event.
Members requested an up-to-date members list, to reflect recent job movements.
Aine Astbury (No 5 Chambers) has returned from maternity leave and is working 2.5 days per week as a job share with Hilary Boucher.
Anthony Collins LLP 134 Edmund Street Birmingham B3 2ES
1. Planning a law firm library
Wragge and Co are moving offices in 2011 and Susanne Homer wanted to gather experience and opinion on how to plan a law library in an office move. She currently has 22 departmental libraries within practice areas and wondered to what extent firms have centralised their library services in the age of online information.
Martineau Johnson and Cobbetts (Birmingham & Leeds) have single centralised library services. Eversheds (Leeds & London) have a general reference collection in a central library and departmental subject libraries.
Eversheds (Birmingham) has a main central library in a separate building.
Anthony Collins has 3 practice libraries (related departments share a practice library).
Cobbetts (Manchester) has a central library with departmental subject libraries.
All firms have recently moved offices. Generally, fee earners prefer the decentralised approach where resources are on their desks, or at least close by. However, libraries are finding this might not be the most effective use of resources, particularly in the online information age. Choice depends upon priorities for your service. What do you want to achieve. How do you want to raise your profile? What space do you have within your office?
Members then discussed the pros and cons of print v electronic format for resources and how much duplication we have in formats. Some libraries have cancelled all print subscriptions where electronic versions exist and others have reduced print copy numbers to a minimum to encourage users to use the electronic version.
It was suggested that this would be an interesting theme for the next ALLICE meeting.
There was also discussion on the role of Professional Support Lawyers (PSL’s) in libraries and information provision. Some concern was expressed that librarians manage departmental libraries but PSL’s take the credit and that PSL’s do not have the information skills to run departmental libraries.
It was suggested this would be an interesting theme for another ALLICE meeting although it might exclude some members from non-firm backgrounds.
Members offered tips on planning an office move:
Be involved on the planning committee or be in touch with architects and designers.
Specify shelving requirements, e.g. height, depth, length, position in library, growth space.
Specify electronic and network sockets for PCs.
Employ specialist library removal firm.
2. AOB
Tricia asked for an update on Birmingham Law Society Library. Hazel has left the library, and it is now staffed on Monday and Friday only and is for reference only. Birmingham Law Society are discussing the move of their library to Aston University this autumn but it is unlikely that Aston will offer the same level and conditions of service. Caroline and Pat asked members to email them with comments, e.g. which resources are used, what services to keep, e.g. a postal lending service.
Adele Chapken has a friend (Carol) who is looking for administrative work in a library. She is returning to work after a career break. Please contact Adele if you know of any suitable roles.
The EIA training event is likely to take place in October. This will be a lecture style event, rather than hands-on, because of venues and costs. Details are being finalised, and will be advertised shortly.
No one applied for the ALLICE bursary this year. Committee decided to keep open for BIALL conference in Manchester in 2009.
Committee is looking for ideas for future ALLICE meetings, and is planning a summer social event.
Members requested an up-to-date members list, to reflect recent job movements.
Aine Astbury (No 5 Chambers) has returned from maternity leave and is working 2.5 days per week as a job share with Hilary Boucher.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
ALLICE Meeting Minutes - Wednesday 12 March 2008
Wednesday 12th March 2008
Meeting held at :
HBJ Gateley Wareing, One Eleven Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2HJ
1. New Secretary
Phil Uttley (Hammonds) was welcomed as the Association’s new secretary and Jackie Hanes was thanked for all the work she had done in the past
2. ALLICE Bursary
ALLICE are offering a bursary to facilitate attendance at the BIALL Conference in 2008. Details of eligibility criteria and an application form are associated with these minutes. Applications should be submitted to Sue Kendall, sue.kendall@mills-reeve.com, by 4th April
3. EIA event
A European Information training event is planned for later this year. Opinions are sought on suitable content and event format. A response form is associated with these minutes for those not able to complete one at the meeting. Responses should be sent to Phil Uttley, phil.uttley@hammonds.com, by 11th April
4. Union Serials list
A volunteer is required to co-ordinate the publication of a new Union Serials list. Please let Phil Uttley know, phil.uttley@hammonds.com, if you are prepared to take this on. It is hoped that this might be completed by the end of May
5. Future meetings
The next meeting will take place at 1230 on Wednesday 18th June at Anthony Collins
Sue Kendall is trying to set up a ‘mini’ BIALL Legal Research Materials course in Birmingham/West Midlands later this year and would be interested in hearing from anyone prepared to host it. For further details on requirements, please contact Sue at sue.kendall@mills-reeve
Would anyone interested in hosting either the September or December ALLICE meeting, please let Phil Uttley knowmailto:knowphil.uttley@hammonds.com.
6. Digital Copyright?
Laurence Bebbington of the University of Nottingham explored the issues relating to copyright generally and digital copyright specifically. This interesting talk explained the issues that law librarians face in working within the copyright framework. Laurence highlighted the fact that the issues relating to digital copyright are no different than those relating to any other form of copyright and that the core issues are whether the material is copyrighted and what you want to do with it.
A copy of Laurence’s presentation (duly copyright cleared!) is associated with these minutes
Meeting held at :
HBJ Gateley Wareing, One Eleven Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2HJ
1. New Secretary
Phil Uttley (Hammonds) was welcomed as the Association’s new secretary and Jackie Hanes was thanked for all the work she had done in the past
2. ALLICE Bursary
ALLICE are offering a bursary to facilitate attendance at the BIALL Conference in 2008. Details of eligibility criteria and an application form are associated with these minutes. Applications should be submitted to Sue Kendall, sue.kendall@mills-reeve.com, by 4th April
3. EIA event
A European Information training event is planned for later this year. Opinions are sought on suitable content and event format. A response form is associated with these minutes for those not able to complete one at the meeting. Responses should be sent to Phil Uttley, phil.uttley@hammonds.com, by 11th April
4. Union Serials list
A volunteer is required to co-ordinate the publication of a new Union Serials list. Please let Phil Uttley know, phil.uttley@hammonds.com, if you are prepared to take this on. It is hoped that this might be completed by the end of May
5. Future meetings
The next meeting will take place at 1230 on Wednesday 18th June at Anthony Collins
Sue Kendall is trying to set up a ‘mini’ BIALL Legal Research Materials course in Birmingham/West Midlands later this year and would be interested in hearing from anyone prepared to host it. For further details on requirements, please contact Sue at sue.kendall@mills-reeve
Would anyone interested in hosting either the September or December ALLICE meeting, please let Phil Uttley knowmailto:knowphil.uttley@hammonds.com.
6. Digital Copyright?
Laurence Bebbington of the University of Nottingham explored the issues relating to copyright generally and digital copyright specifically. This interesting talk explained the issues that law librarians face in working within the copyright framework. Laurence highlighted the fact that the issues relating to digital copyright are no different than those relating to any other form of copyright and that the core issues are whether the material is copyrighted and what you want to do with it.
A copy of Laurence’s presentation (duly copyright cleared!) is associated with these minutes
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