Annual Conferences and Workshops

2018

Atelier pour l'open access à l'information juridique: 3 et 4 décembre 2018, Dakar, Sénégal.

World Library and Information Congress: 84th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 24-30 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Theme: The Role of Government and Law Libraries in Times of Crisis and Turmoil. Law Libraries with Government Libraries.

Monday, August 27, 2018: 11:45 – 12:45.Plenary Theater - Session 150

Chair: Heather Casey (Georgetown University)

Speakers: Jane Sanchez, Library of Congress, United States, Yolanda Patrice Jones, Florida A&M University, United States, The Special Access to Justice Mission of an HBCU, Edita Bačić, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia, Neutrality versus Proactivity in Libraries During Turbulent Times.

Theme: Law as a Life Skill. Law Libraries with Public Libraries

Wednesday, August 29, 2018: 10:45 – 11:45.Ballroom 2 - Session 232

Chair: Sonia Poulin (Justice Education Society)

Speakers: Dave Nolette, Justice Education Society, Vancouver, Canada, Marc Legacy, Justice Education Society, Vancouver, Canada, Bonnie Hough, Judicial Council of California, San Francisco, United States.

2017

World Library and Information Congress: 83^rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 19-25 August, Wroclaw, Poland.

Theme: Law in Transition - Challenges for Legal Research and Legal Methodology in Post-Communist Europe.Law Libraries with Government Libraries Section.

Monday, August 21, 2017: 11:45 – 12:45. IASE 1^st. Floor - Session 104 - Access Monday August 21^st sessions and papers here

Chair: Anne Burnett (University of Georgia)

Speakers: Przemysław Kaczmarek and Jakub Łakomy, Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, Overview of Polish Legal System and The Role of the Judge in Poland: Ethics, Law and Legal Education. Peter Roudik, Director of Global Legal Research Center, Law Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., United States, Comparing Laws for Better Governance:  Case Study of Researching Laws of Central and East European Countries in the Law Library of Congress. Josef Skala, Legal Advisor to the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Reflection of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law on Legal Transformation in Eastern Europe.

Theme: Optimizing Subject Access to Legal Resources: Solidarity in Divergence, Subject Analysis and Access Section with Law Libraries. Monday, August 21, 16:00 - 18:00 - Auditorium Hall (SI) - Session 120 - Access Monday August 21^st session and papers here

Chairs: George Prager (New York University Law School, United States); Maja Žumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia); Hélène Besnier (Bibliothèque Cujas, France).

Speakers: Barbara Szczepanska (Hogan Lovells (Warszawa) LLP, Poland), Law Cataloguing and Classification in Poland: A Journey through Time (and Practices). Filiberto Felipe Martínez-Arellano, Federico Hernández-Pacheco, and Efrén Chávez-Hernández, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, Classification and Subject Indexing System of the Institute of Research on Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[EN] [ES]. Rudolf W. Strohmeier, Willem van Gemert, Christine Laaboudi and Anne Waniart, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, Optimizing Subject Access to Legal Resources: EuroVoc and VocBench. Benefits of Using Multilingual Controlled Vocabularies and an Open Source Collaborative Tool for their Maintenance. Carla Davis-Castro, Law Library, Library of Congress, United States, Legal Pluralism: Library of Congress’ Indigenous Law Portal.

Theme: Demonstrating value and / or assessing the impact of different types of libraries and information services:  can you spot the difference?" Session 211 - Division I - Wednesday, August 23,  13:45 to 15:45 - (IASE 1st. Floor) - Access Wednesday Sessions here

Chair: Raissa Teodori, Chair- IFLA Division I.

Speaker: Edita Bacic will introduce the Law Libraries perspective, one of eight lighting talks delivered by different Sections within the Division.

Atelier pour l'open access à l'information juridique: 29 et 30 mai 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The Secretary General of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire opened the workshop and we made the news!

2016

Open Acess to Legal Knowledge Workshop: December 6 & 7, 2016, Kampala, Uganda.

World Library and Information Congress: 82^nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13-19 August, Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Theme: Bringing the Law to the Library: Connections, Collaboration, and Community in Support of Access to Justice and the Rule of Law
  Law Libraries with Public Libraries, and Government Information and Official Publications
  Wednesday, August 17, 2016: 11:45 - 13:45. C112-115

Chair: Yolanda Jones (Florida A&M University, USA)

• Theme: Privacy Law in the Digital Age:Governments Rethink the Meaning of Information Access Policies
  Law Libraries with Library Research Services for Parliaments
  Thursday, August 18, 2016: 10:45 - 12:45

Speakers: Anne Klinefelter [PDF] (Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States); Adam Eisgrau [PDF] (Office of Government Relations, American Library Association,United States); Dennis Hirsch (Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, United States)

Chair: Robert Newlen (Library of Congress, USA); Moderator: Roberta I. Shaffer (Law Librarian of Congress, USA)

2015

World Library and Information Congress: 81^st IFLA General Conference and Assembly
15-21 August, Cape Town, South Africa

• Theme: Access to Legal Information and Legislative Data in Africa: the Role of Libraries and Librarians
  Law Libraries, Library and Research Services for Parliaments, and Africa Section
  18 August 2015: 9:30 - 11:30
   
• Theme: The future of law libraries: tales of existence and transformation
  20 August 2015: 10:45 - 12:45

2014

World Library and Information Congress: 80^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
16-22 August, Lyon, France

• Theme: How Safe is the Law? Authentication of Official Gazettes: A worldwide report, with particular attention to the technical and practical aspects
  Law Libraries, Government Information and Official Publications, Library and Research Services for Parliaments, and Information Technology
  18 August: 13:45 - 15:45
   
• Theme: Access to law at the digital cross roads: Innovative solutions to complex challenges
  Law Libraries, Parliamentary Libraries, Information Technology and Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (FAIFE)
  19 August: 9:30 - 12:45

2013

World Library and Information Congress: 79^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
17-23 August, Singapore

Theme: Open Access to official and authenticated legal information in Asia
Law Libraries, Government Libraries and Library and Research Services for Parliaments

2012

World Library and Information Congress: 78t^h IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11-17 August, Helsinki, Finland

Theme: Promoting global access to law: developing an open access index for official authenticated legal information. Part 2: Europe

PowerPoints for the three presentations:

• The source of law – doctrine and reasoning in Finland [PPT] | [PDF]
  Juha Raitio
• E-law and free access to legislation in Finland and Europe [PPT] | [PDF]
  Ali Hietanen
• Worldwide access to foreign law: international & national developments toward digital authentication [PPT] | [PDF]
  Claire M. Germain

2011

World Library and Information Congress: 77^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13-18 August, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Theme: Political and constitutional status of Puerto Rico: a continuing challenge

2010

World Library and Information Congress: 76^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10-15 August, Gothenburg, Sweden
Themes:

• Creating an international legal information policy agenda: issues and challenges
• Librarians in action: Information policy and human rights

2009

World Library and Information Congress: 75^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Theme: The Italian legal system, basics and new trends

2008

World Library and Information Congress: 74^th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 2008, Québec, Canada
Themes:

• The seal of approval: official and authentic law in digital form
• Digital objects on physical carriers
• Québec law and digital libraries

Law Libraries, Law Libraries

Last update: 3 June 2019