The International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and Other Law Library-Related Associations and International Conferences on Legal Information and Law Librarianship

Table of Contents

• Information About the International Association of Law Libraries
• Other Law Library Associations and Related Organizations
• International Calendar (Conferences, Courses, and Other Events)

Great News!

The International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) has an official home page! Check it out.

Other Law Library Associations and Related Organizations

Some of the information below is from Editorial, "National or Regional Law Library Organizations and Their Publications", 21 International Journal of Legal Information 120-122 (1993).

• International
  

• International Federal of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA; the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) usually has one law-related program at the IFLA Annual Meeting)
  

  IFLA-L@infoserv.inst.fr (International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions list)
  

  Subscribe via the web at http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/subrequest/ifla-l. See IFLA e-mail lists generally at http://www.ifla.org/II/iflalist.htm.

• IFLA Law Libraries Section (established December 2005). Was the Law Libraries Discussion Group; part of IFLA Division II: Special Libraries; includes representatives of court libraries, corporate law libraries, law school libraries, etc.; the Law Libraries Discussion Group is an initiative of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and the British and Irish Association of Law Libraries (BIALL) per 28 February 2005 IALLMembers e-mail)
• LAW-L (IFLA Law Libraries Section e-mail list):
  

  An electronic forum intended to foster communication between members of the 
  IFLA Law Libraries Discussion Group, the international legal information 
  community and IFLA. The goal in establishing this list is to facilitate 
  information exchange as well as professionnal communication and development 
  within the IFLA community.
  

• IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments (parliamentary libraries of the world)
• IFLA Section of Government Libraries
• International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation (ICSSD; established in the 1950s by UNESCO)
• International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST)
• Association des responsables des bibliothèques et centres de documentation universitaires et de recherche d'expression française (ABCDEF)
• Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists (AILIS)
• INT-LAW: International Law Librarians List. INT-LAW is an e-mail list for discussing foreign, comparative, and international legal research questions. INT-LAW is an open, public list with over 900 subscribers. Subscribe/join INT-LAW via http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=int-law.

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• Regional
  

• Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)(of interest to librarians specializing in East Asian legal publications and government documents; see also the North American Coordinating Council On Japanese Library Materials (NCC))
• Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) (includes an informal law librarians subgroup)
• Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL; related list is CARALL-TALK; was at www.carall.org until July 2004)
• Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM; useful for collection development librarians wishing to obtain documents of Latin American countries)(also at http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/salalmhome.html)
• Consortium of Legal Resource Centers and Legal Information Specialists of Central and Eastern Europe (CLRCLIS; current Chair is the Law Librarian at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia)
• European Information Association (EIA; "The European Information Association (EIA) is an international body of information specialists whose aim is to develop, co-ordinate and improve access to EU information...A worldwide membership includes public, academic and government libraries, information units of professional and voluntary groups, European Documentation Centres, Euro Info Centres, local authorities, publishers, companies and law firms")
• European Law Libraries and Information Specialists Association (EULLISA is headquartered electronically at the Peace Palace Library at the Hague, the Netherlands)
• EURO-LEX: the All EUROpean Legal Information EXchange electronic discussion group; subscribe/join EURO-LEX via http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/euro-lex.html.
• European Association for Library and Information Education and Research (EUCLID)
• Nordiske juridiske bibliotekmoete (the Nordic Law Librarians' Group meets every 3 years; 2006 was the most recent meeting; the next meeting will be in Finland in 2009)

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• National
  

• ARGENTINA
• Red de Bibliotecas de Derecho y Ciencias Jurídicas (Bibliotecas Jurired; Argentine Association of Law Libraries)
• AUSTRALIA
• Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA; was ALLG; related list is ALLG-ANZ at vicnet.net.au). Subscribe via http://lists.vicnet.net.au/mailman/listinfo/allg-anz
• Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA); see also the page listing ALIA Conferences and Non-ALIA Conferences;in the past, ALIA has jointly hosted with the ALLG the Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference)
• BAHAMAS
• Bahamas Association of Law Libraries (BALL)(incorporated on November 2003; Raynold Cartwright, President).
• BELGIUM
• Association belge des bibliothécaires et des documentalistes juridiques (Belgium); same as Association Belge de Documentation - Belgische Vereniging voor Documentatie (ABD-BVD; Belgian Association for Documentation)?
• CANADA
• Canadian Association of Law Libraries=Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD; related list is CALL-L on listserv@listserv.unb.ca). Subscribe/join to CALL-L via https://listserv.unb.ca/archives/call-l.html.
• Calgary Law Library Group (CLLG)
• Edmonton Law Libraries Association (ELLA)
• ABDM-MALL (list of the Montreal Association of Law Libraries = Association des bibliothèques de droit de Montréal; Quebec, Canada; messages in French; subscribe via https://lists.lexum.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/abdm-mall)
• National Capital Association of Law Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de droit de la capitale nationale (has members-only electronic discussion group)
• Ontario Courthouse Librarians Association (OCLA, Canada)
• Toronto Association of Law Libraries (TALL, Canada)
• Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (VALL, Canada)
• FRANCE
• L'Association pour le Développement de l'Informatique Juridique (ADIJ, Paris, France; Association of Development of Legal Data Processing/Legal Informatics; see also Juriconnexion, an association of all persons (judges, documentalists/librarians, lawyers, etc.) using legal databases in their daily professional practice)
• GERMANY
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Juristisches Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen (AjBD - Association for Law Librarianship and Documentation in German-Speaking Countries - Austria, Germany, Switzerland; web page was at http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~BGH/ajbd.htm; related list is BIB-JUR (electronic discussion forum on Rechtsbibliotheken / German Law Libraries). Subscribe/join the BIB-JUR list or search its archives via http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/bib-jur.html; see also Deutschsprachige juristische Informationen auf dem Internet (page linking to "German-Language Legal Information on the Internet")
• Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare e.V. = Association of German Librarians (VdB)
• IRELAND
• British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL; BIALL has a members-only e-mail forum, but the LIS-LAW list for UK law librarian discussions is open to everyone - subscribe/join via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/lis-law.html; includes Irish Group for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)
• ISRAEL
• Law Librarian's Group (Special Interest Group of the SEMEL ASMI/Israeli Association of Libraries and Information Centers; ASMI=ISLA (Irgun Sifriot Meyuhadot be-Israel = Israel Special Libraries Association); related list is IIRS-ASMI, the Israeli Information Retrieval Specialists List)
• MALAYSIA
• Law Librarians Group of Malaysia
• THE NETHERLANDS
• Groep Juridische Bibliothecarissen, Documentalisten en Literatuuronderzoekers (GJB ((Dutch) law librarians group), now the NVB (Nederlandse Vereniging van Bibliothecarissen, Documentalisten en Literatuuronderzoekers = The Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals (NVB)) Afdeling Juridische Informatie (JI) - Legal Information Division/Section; current name is the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Beroepsbeoefenaren in de bibliotheek-, informatie- en kennissector (NVB))
• NEW ZEALAND
• New Zealand Law Librarians' Association (NZLLA; was the NZLLG; related lists are LAW-LIB - subscribe via http://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/law-lib and ALLG-ANZ - subscribe via http://lists.vicnet.net.au/mailman/listinfo/allg-anz)
• NIGERIA
• Nigerian Association of Law Libraries (NALL)(postal address?; "came into existence on March 7. 1975 as a section of the Nigerian Library Association; [NALL] is an organisation of law librarians and libraries concerned with the acquisition, bibliographic processing in manual and automated form and administration of legal materials")
• THE PHILIPPINES
• Philippine Group of Law Librarians, Inc. (PGLL)(composed of librarians from law schools, courts and private law firms; regularly holds seminars and conferences to discuss issues affecting the profession and to learn the latest developments in law librarianship; info re activities)
• PUERTO RICO
• Asociación de Bibliotecarios de Derecho de Puerto Rico (ABDPR; Puerto Rican Association of Law Librarians; see also the general association of Puerto Rican librarians, Sociedad de Bibliotecarios de Puerto Rico (SPBR); more info at the Biblioteca Jurídica Puertorriqueña webpage:
  

  ABDPR
  Asociacion de Bibliotecarios de Derecho
  P O Box 22430,
  San Juan, PR
  00931-2434
  

• RUSSIA
• Assotsiatsiia Iuridicheskikh Bibliotek (Russian Association of Law Libraries)(was at http://www.lla.ru/)
• SCOTLAND
• Scottish Law Librarians Group (SLLG)
• SINGAPORE
• There are no formal associations of law librarians in Singapore (per e-mail correspondence on 9 January 2004)
• SOUTH AFRICA
• Organisation of South African Law Libraries = Organisasie van Suid-Afrikaanse Regsbiblioteke (OSALL/OSAR; Organization of South African Law Libraries; website was at http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/osall/; related list is OSALL, a Google Group - Organization of South African Librarians)
• SWITZERLAND
• Groupe d'Intérêt des Bibliothèques et Bibliothécaires Juridique (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Association des bibliothèques juridiques suisses - Vereinigung der juristischen Bibliotheken der Schweiz (Association of Swiss Law Libraries; Geneva, Switzerland)
• TURKEY
• Turkish Platform of Law Librarians (group established in 2007 to facilitate cooperation and sharing of information between the libraries in Turkey which serve on the area of the law)
• UNITED KINGDOM
• British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL; BIALL Groups include ALLICE, BIALL Irish group, BLINE, BRILL, CiG, CLIG, Freelancers, LLIG, MLIG, OMB/Small Teams, SLLG, US Law Firms; related list is LIS-LAW; subscribe/join LIS-LAW via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-law.html)
• UNITED STATES
• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL; includes links to "AALL Related Organizations" page of other law and library associations; includes information on Education for a Career in Law Librarianship; related list is LAW-LIB - subscribe or join via LAW-LIB list FAQ)
• Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL SIS, AALL; includes Interest Groups/Working Groups on African Law, Asian Law, CIS and Eastern European Law, Electronic Issues, Latin American Law, Collection Development (Foreign Selectors), and Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research; a related list is FCIL-SIS electronic discussion forum; see also the INT-LAW e-mail discussion group). INT-LAW is the International Law Librarians List for discussing foreign, comparative, and international legal research questions. INT-LAW is an open, public list with over 900 subscribers. Subscribe/join INT-LAW via http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=int-law.
• FCIL SIS Clearinghouse for Internships and International Personnel Exchanges (webpage contains a list of law libraries that are willing to participate in exchanges and testimonials from law librarians who have gone on exchanges)
• Asian American Law Librarians Caucus (AALLC, AALL)
• Latino Law Librarians Caucus (LLLC, AALL)
• Foreign and International Law Special Interest Section (FIL/SIS, Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC); news of activities published in the Law Library Lights newsletter - available as PDF files at the LLSDC web site)
• Special Libraries Association - Legal Division (SLA-Legal)
• OTHER
• American Society of International Law (ASIL; library-related session and informal lunch of librarian attendees at each annual meeting; including International Law Calendar)
• American Society for Comparative Law (ASCL)
• International Documents Task Force ((IDTF, part of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
• Washington International Librarians Group (WILG; "an informal group, which exists virtually through the Internet; it is open to all those interested in sharing information on topics related to libraries and international affairs; international documents/organizations librarians, mainly in the Washington, D.C. area)
• American Branch of the International Law Association (co-sponsors with the American Society of International Law of the "International Law Weekend" held annually in October/November in New York City at the Association of the State Bar of the City of New York)
• Special Libraries Association (SLA)
• The American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)
• Association of Information and Dissemination Centers (ASIDIC)
• European Association of Information Services (EUSIDIC)
• EU Databases Users Group (EUDUG)
• UK eInformation Group (UKeIG; was the UK Online Users Group (UKOLUG))
• The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
• BILETA (British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association)
• UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE; supports learning and teaching in higher education)
• Information Today (WebSearch University, Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, Internet Librarian International, etc. conferences)

International Calendar (Conferences, Courses, and Other Events)

• International Calendar (column in the International Journal of Legal Information (IJLI))
• International Law Calendar (American Society of International Law (ASIL))
• Conference Planning for Law Librarians (AALL, BIALL, CBA, CLA, ALA, SLA, IFLA, etc.)
• Events, Conferences, Seminars (links via LEXIS-NEXIS Publishing's InfoPro for Legal Information Professionals page; was at http://infopro.lexis.com/events/)
• ThomsonWest's Law Librarian Resource Center and Librarian Conferences and Events pages.
• Events in International Law (American Society of International Law (ASIL) "Calendar of Events")
• Conferences (Australian & New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL))
• ABA Calendar (American Bar Association (ABA); includes foreign, comparative, and international law-related programs)
• Continuing Legal Education (CLEs, American Bar Association (ABA))
• Workshops and Conferences (Association of American Law Schools (AALS), includes foreign, comparative, and international law-related programs)
• Events (British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL))
• BILETA (British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association)
• ALIA Conferences
• Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS conferences)
• West LegalEdcenter Continuing Legal Education (FindLaw)
• HG Master Meeting Calendar (Hieros Gamos)
• Calendar (American University, Washington College of Law)
• The Training Programs (International Law Institute (ILI) Seminars)
• Conferences and Seminars: Open Activities (European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)/Institut Européen d'Administration Publique (IEAP); includes links to seminars on European Legal Information)
• Summer Courses on European Union Law and Human Rights (Academy of European Law)
• Conferences, Seminars, and Other Events (T.M.C. Asser Institute, the Netherlands)
• Events Diary (UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE))
• CILS Law Seminars and Retreats (Center for International Legal Studies)
• Foreign and International Law Associations (FindLaw)
• Legal Associations (American Bar Association (ABA))
• Conferences and Events for Social Sciences (Intute; was SOSIG's "Grapevine" Conferences and Courses page)
• CIAO Schedule of Events in Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (searchable database of Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO); includes information on conferences on International Law, Human Rights, Minorities/Ethnicity, etc., in all regions of the world)
• Society for Computers and Law (SCL; includes events on free availability of legal information on the Internet, legal research on the Web, and Web site design)

  Page created by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on 23 April 1998. Updated on 14 December 2007. Please send related correspondence to Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, D'Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago Law School, 1121 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60637. Fax: 1-773-702-2889. E-mail: llou@midway.uchicago.edu.

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