To tweet, or not to tweet...
Twitter etiquette: what you can and cannot say By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor12:03PM BST 31 Jul 2012This article looks at good Twitter etiquette in light of recent Olympic related tweets.
View ArticleCall for Papers
The 44th Annual Conference and Exhibition will take place at theHilton Hotel, Glasgow from 13 to 15 June 2013.The BIALL Conference Committee Call for Papers is out now.Our 2013 Programme focus 'Law as...
View ArticleGuest Blog ... From The IPKat
As a law librarian you might have come across the brilliant IPKat weblog which has "intellectual property news and fun for everyone". The Kat tells us about the blog below... Launched in June 2003 as...
View ArticleReminder for Call for Papers
Deadline Friday 5th October - BIALL Conference Call for Papers ReminderJust a quick reminder that the deadline the Call for Papers is fastapproaching. Please submit your proposals by Friday 5th October.
View ArticleMotivation!
I was reminded today of a Dan Pink video that I came across a while ago after reading his book, Drive. I thought it was timely for this autumn season, when every other person seems to have the...
View ArticleBIALL Official Publications Seminar
One of the areas identified in our recent survey of training needs suggested that BIALL members would like us to arrange a course on Official Publications. I am therefore pleased to announce this...
View ArticleIPad Mini: What's all the fuss about?
"It's beginning to look a lot like C..." I almost said the C word! Too soon? For those of you, like me, who start thinking about where the tree will go this year, what colour wrapping paper I might...
View ArticleBIALL Salary Survey
I'm pleased to announce that the 2012 BIALL Salary Survey is now available for download from the members area of the BIALL website.You can access the report directly from the Salary Survey page, or via...
View ArticleLoughborough Loses Department of Information Science
The Department of Information Science at Loughborough University is going to close! The Times Higher Education Supplement reports;"The department's closure was confirmed to its 25 staff last week,...
View ArticleThe New Moys Edition is Nearly Here!
Important news has reached the BIALL Blog. Bridging a ten year gap since the fourth edition, the fifth edition of the Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Material is finished and is being...
View ArticleLeadership
A colleague recommended this video recently and I thought I would share it with you, as it incorporates thoughts from some of the best business brains in the world:The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can...
View ArticleInformation Overload or Wrong Platform?
How we read, not what we read, may be contributing to our information overload - A new study finds that the use of computers and Facebook are more associated with information overload than the use of...
View ArticleBIALL Forum and Discussion List
The new BIALL forum lauched yesterday and members will have received an email from the President Elect Jas Breslin telling them all about it. Now hosted on JISCMail the forum allows BIALL members to...
View ArticleWhat's the most interesting thing you've ever found in a book?
'The secret contents of secondhand books'. One bookshop has collected some of the odd, intriguing personal treasures left within the pages of 'pre-loved' volumes - Wayne Gooderham. Visiting Skoob...
View ArticleWant to help someone?...
Shut up and listen! Is the title of the Ted talk I'm about to recommend to you. Ernesto Sirolli, great name, talks you through how to stop talking at people and listen to them, using his years of...
View ArticleThe Dissertation Award
Slightly belatedly (it was awarded in December) - the BIALL Blog would like to congratulate Erin Gow on winning the BIALL 2012 Dissertation Award. The official statement from BIALL HQ states; The PR...
View ArticleExhibition and Sponsorship information for the Biall Conference 2013
It's that time of year again - New Year, fresh start, new event plans... and the Biall Conference and Exhibition! We would love to be included once again in your Exhibition and Sponsorship plans for...
View ArticleThe Curious Case of the Judgment Enhancers
For nearly 150 years, The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales has been reporting judicial decisions of the senior and appellate courts in the English jurisdiction. Despite its...
View ArticleCall for nominations - IFLA LAW LIBRARIES Section Standing Committee
The IFLA Law Libraries Section encourages nominations to its Standing Committee (SC) for the term August 2013 - August 2017.If you are interested in law libraries and legal information worldwide,...
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