Discussion Forums

• ALLA Email Lists - National and Divisional
• Other Law Librarians' Discussion Forums - email lists, blogs & wikis
  
• ALLA Twitter
• ALLA Blog - only ALLA members can access this page

Email Lists / Listservs

ALLA Email Lists

National Lists

Members communicate via the email list Alla-anz which is primarily for Australian and New Zealand law librarians.

• Non-ALLA members are welcome to join the list.
• The list is administered by the National Web Co-ordinator, Robin Gardner, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and is governed by a Code of Conduct
• To subscribe, unsubscribe or elect to have messages digested, visit http://lists.vicnet.net.au/mailman/listinfo/alla-anz
• Postings are archived by thread, subject, author and date at http://lists.vicnet.net.au/cgi-bin/mailman/private/alla-anz/ The archive is only available to list members.
• To post a message to all the list, send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

State / Divisional Lists

To access or join the State / Territory email lists, visit the relevant state division pages. The divisional lists are for discussion and information sharing at a local level.
Non-ALLA members are welcome to join most of these lists.

Other Law Librarians' Discussion Forums

Email Lists

ANZACLL - Australian Academic Law Librarians list. The purpose of this list is to have an “academic” space to facilitate private discussion which is likely to be of interest, or relevance,  to academic law librarians only.  Membership is limited to academic law librarians, but the discussion is unmoderated.

LAW-LIS - A UK list for news and discussion on legal information and law libraries. This list is for anyone to join.

BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) - this email forum is for BIALL members only.

Law-Lib Listserv  - a US based list. The law-lib list is unmoderated, but you do have to be a subscriber in order to post messages to the list. Most of the subscribers to law-lib are law librarians. All types of law librarians are welcome on this list: academic, law firm, court, government, etc. Other individuals with an interest in law librarianship are also welcome to subscribe.
To subscribe: send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . In the body of the email please type "subscribe law-lib first name last name."  
Also see the FAQ page.

AALL (American Association of Law Librarians) - this association has many email forums. Most are open to AALL members only, but some are open to anyone to join.

CALL (Canadian Association of Law Libraries) - this list is open for anyone to join.

INT-LAW - this list is open to anyone to join and primarily serves as a forum for discussion and sharing of information concerning foreign, comparative, and international legal resources.

Blogs

On Firmer Ground - This blog is a joint project of global law library associations. ALLA members are invited to submit contributions to the On Firmer Ground blog via the National President at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . See the schedule, listing the dates in 2012 for ALLA contributions to On Firmer Ground.

The Law Librarian Blog - from the U.S.

The Librarian in Black - from the U.S. - not just for law librarians  - but for all librarians, who are "amazingly informed and therefore properly opinionated"!

Wikis

ALIA have established a new Special Libraries Group wiki. It is open for anyone to view, but to post comments or other resources you will need to register. http://www.alia.org.au/governance/committees/special.libraries/wiki/pmwiki.php 

If you know of other discussion forums that law librarians may find useful to join, please send the details to the ALLA website coordinator, Robin Gardner at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it