Wednesday, 21 May 2008

7side event

Hi

Barry Vickery, at 7side, is offering 10 ALLICE members places on their next tour of Companies House

Contact Barry direct if you're interested on barry.vickery@7side.co.uk

First come, first served so get your emails in quickly

It's all free (apart from your transport to Cardiff, of course) and, having attended one of these in the past, I can thoroughly recommend the experience.

Regards

Phil

EIA event

Hi

You may recall from the last ALLICE meeting and/or it's minutes that we were working with the EIA to develop a customised event for ALLICE members in Birmingham

We now have a commitment from the EIA to deliver a half day (4 hour) event covering the following topic areas

The European Union - how it works
EUR-Lex - legislation, preparatory documents, case law
Websites
National implementing measures

The format of the event will be a series of presentations followed by hands-on exercises. We are hoping to run this event in September

We now need to find a suitable venue for the event but, before I start approaching local academic/training institutions, I was wondering if there might be an ALLICE member who might be able to 'volunteer' suitable accommodation, eg, an IT training facility or similar where both presentation equipment and PCs are available. We had 18 positive responses to the questionnaire but, once a date is fixed that will almost certainly reduce.

Please let me know if you feel you might be able to help with this

Regards

Phil

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

ALLICE meeting

The next ALLICE meeting is as follows:

Date: 12.30pm Wednesday 18 June
Venue: Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP 134 Edmund Street Birmingham B3 2ESMap & Directions: http://www.anthonycollins.com/contact_us/#

Please can you reply to confirm your attendance by Monday 9 June

This will be a general networking meeting but please let me know if there is anything you'd like on the agenda and please give your thoughts to possible topics for future meetings.

Please note:

The proposed Islamic Finance seminar will not now take place in the near future. This will be reviewed later this year.

We are still looking for a volunteer to co-ordinate the publication of a new Union Serials list

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

ASLIB Midlands

Aslib Midlands is looking to recruit new members to its committee.

We're a small, informal, friendly committee and we hold meetings about every 6 weeks in central Birmingham (usually Thursday afternoons but this isn't set in stone). Our members are drawn from organisations who are Aslib corporate members - we have people from workplace, academic and public libraries.

Our main activity is organising a successful programme of events (workshops, visits etc) and most of the committee work is involved with this.

This could be a good opportunity if you're looking to increase your professional networking or to develop skills such as organising events etc.

If you think you might be interested and/or want to discuss it further, please contact me

Margaret Brittin (Acting Chair)

margaret@brittin.fslife.co.uk

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

European Information Training Event

A proposal to arrange a session for the Association incorporating some form of training on European information has been posted to the blog and we need your views on what level of interest this might attract and what form it should take.

We have an agreement in principle from the EIA to support the event but we need to outline our requirements to them before they can give a firm commitment

Training on offer from EIA currently includes the following topics and it would be useful if you could say which would be of interest to you

§ The European Union - what it is, what it does, how it works
§ Tracing policy and legislative documents
§ Tracing background and explanatory materials
§ Using EU information networks
§ How the EU legal process works and how to track EU law effectively
§ The planning cycle, SEC documents and COM documents
§ The consultation process (EP, ESC and CoR)
§ Adoption (including ‘How do I know it’s been adopted?’) and transposition into national legislation
§ Case law (including ‘what’s the difference between C-1/05, T1-05

and F-1/05?’)
§ Documentation associated with mergers

It would also be useful if you could express your preference for the form of session – either full day, half day or lunchtime (12-2)

It is envisaged that the session would be run in Birmingham in September

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

Thursday, 6 March 2008

Next meeting - 12th March 2008

12.30 pm Wednesday 12th March 2008

Meeting to be held at

HBJ Gateley Wareing
One Eleven Edmund Street
Birmingham
B3 2HJ

Map & Directions:
http://www.hbjgateleywareing.com/Images/pdf/HBJ_Gateley_Wareing_LLP_Bham.PDF

Agenda

Normal business

1. New Secretary
2. BIALL Bursary
3. EIA event
4. Union Lists
5. Future meetings

Guest speaker (Digital copyright)

Laurence Bebbington of the University of Nottingham