FREE ACCESS TO LEGAL INFORMATION IN NEW ZEALAND

The New Zealand Legal Information Institute announced that New Zealand acts are now available as searchable PDF documents with hyperlinks from cases to legislation. Another 20 databases on NZLII cover nearly all NZ courts, treaties, law reform reports, and four law journals. Nice to have this all in one place.

URL: http://www.nzlii.org/

PUBLIC LIBRARY BLOGS: 252 EXAMPLES, BY WALT CRAWFORD

Walt Crawford has self-published a new book, Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples. From the description: “The 299-page paperback features descriptions and sample posts for a wide range of blogs from 196 public libraries of all sizes, in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. If your library is considering a blog, this book should help you find blogs from comparable libraries to consider as examples. If your library has a blog and is considering more (or revising the ones you have), this book should help you find interesting examples--the public library blogging community is remarkably diverse!"

To order the book:
Cites & Insights Books store at Lulu.com: printed on 60lb. cream book stock, http://www.lulu.com/content/1117701
After 14 September, from Amazon.com, ISBN 978-1434805591

SEARCH ENGINE FOR LAW FIRM NEWSLETTERS

Linex Legal is a new search engine that allows you to search the newsletters put out by "over 1,000 leading law firms and government organisations" in in ten countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. Specialty areas include: product liability, international arbitration and mediation, employment, health and safety, pensions, property, planning and construction, and European Competition law.

This looks to be a very useful and unique tool--and it is free.

URL: http://www.linexlegal.com

GOOD 2.0 STUFF FROM DOWN UNDER

Judy O’Connell [Catholic Education Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia] created a wonderful presentation called Capture the 20:20 Vision for Libraries for the Annual Weekend School of the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa and the School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa in Nelson in April. Her slide show is available at http://www.slideshare.net/heyjudeonline/
capture-the-2020-vision-for-libraries.

She also has made available slides of the beautiful Broadgreen Intermediate School Learning Centre, also in Nelson, at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/slideshow.php?id=28088. For more from O’Connell, see her blog, Hey Jude, at http://heyjude.wordpress.com

LAW LIBRARIAN NEWS FOR NEW ZEALAND

Law Librarian NewzDigest provides news from around the world on library issues, knowledge management, and records management. Its sources are GoogleNews, Yahoo! News, vendors, and a couple of blogs, Law Librarian Blog and BeSpacific. It's from PinHawk and there is a two-week free trial available. PinHawk also has other services: Law Firm NewzDigest, Securities NewzDigest, Corporate Legal NewzDigest, Court Opinions NewzDigest, Law Firm Press NewzDigest, and Banking NewzDigest. It's worth a try...

URL: http://www.pinhawk.com

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY FOR INTRANET MANAGERS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

The Intranet Leadership Forum has been established to help all staff, provide a model for implementing blogs and RSS feeds, to help understand how wikis can be used, and “find better ways to manage the balance between day to day operational tasks and the bigger picture strategic thinking for your intranet.”

This sounds like a wonderful idea. Why isn’t there something like this in the USA? (Or is there?)

URL: http://www.intranetleadership.com.au/