Legal Research

Print based legislation research

By Shaunna Mireau

It is Day 1 of the Edmonton Law Libraries Association Head Start Program and I am writing this post as I assist with timekeeping and travel for the students hands on legislative research sessions in the Alberta Law Society Library in Edmonton.

Every year we bring the attendee articling students into the library and work through hands on research sessions with them using print resources. This year, like those in the past, we “old” librarian types tell war stories about how crappy it was to update regulations before the Internet existed, and especially before the new electronic official copies that are becoming the norm.

Even though we show the students the electronic access in lectures, the print mystery is still interesting and relevant to our students… Or is it? I hope this sparks some debate and comments from our attendees.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).