17 May 2007
Legislative Tables in ComLaw
An email was sent to the OLPD regarding the following query from one of our members:
"I have noticed that in ComLaw there is no easy access to a list of repealed legislation organised by date. There is a comprehensive list covering repealed Acts from 1979-2006 but this list does not include the year/date that the legislation was repealed. This information has in the past been included in the hard copy Acts Tables.
Would it be possible to request that the tables of Repealed Acts and Replaced Acts include a date or year that it was repealed? This information is often requested for research and is invaluable for maintaining current reprints."
Reply from Andrew McLeod
14 May 2007
Bound Volumes of Commonwealth Statutory Rules to cease
We wrote to Mr Noel Bugeia, Assistant Secretary Legislative Services and Publication Unit Office of Legislative Drafting and Publishing to enquire whether the set of bound volumes of Commonwealth Statutory Rules was going to cease.
Reply from Noel Bugeia
14 February 2007
Hansard Indexes
Roxanne Missingham, Parliamentary Librarian, Canberra, has stated that "the publishing of Hansard indexes will be resumed including for the 2005 volumes in due course. We will be investigating options for producing a quality index."
2006
31 Aug 2006
LexisNexis Workplace Relations Australia publications
Various members of the list queried the fact that the Amendment Regulations (No2) 118/2006, which came into operation on June 05 (2006), had not been included in the LexisNexis Workplace Relations Australia publications, both hard copy and online. There had also been no bulletins issued with this service indicating that changes had occurred.
Petal Kinder
8 August 2006
Online Currents media release
Thomsons have announced they will be publishing Online Currents
Media release
26 September 2006
Lexis Nexis Survey 2006
As part of our ongoing commitment to customer satisfaction and product development, we are conducting a survey to gather feedback on our new legal research platform, LexisNexis AU.
We would like to gather your honest feedback on the platform and our overall service, so that we can understand how to improve our offering for your organisation.
The survey should take only 5 minutes to complete, and can be found at the following URL address:
http://respond.survaze.com/?s=a7ad2b41797d9950
We would like to receive all responses by Friday October 21st 2006
Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey, we appreciate your comments.
Yours sincerely
Yvonne Dobson
Associate Director - Marketing
LexisNexis Australia
26 September 2006
23 May 2006
Statement of Preferred Practice for Legal Publishers
The "Statement of Preferred Practice for Legal Publishers" is a voluntary code of practice for legal publishers doing business with librarians and other consumers of legal information.
The statement is intended to:
- describe standards of good practice and service;
- promote open communication and disclosure;
- encourage publishers to develop effective dispute resolution processes; and
- foster constructive relationships between publishers and their customers.
The ALLG urges legal publishers to comply with the ALLG statement and to implement internal procedures and infrastructure to support compliance.
Petal Kinder
23 May 2006
22 May 2006
Authorised Commonwealth legislation - Proposal
Background: The Attorney-General's Department is proposing legislative amendments to provide for authorised electronic versions of Commonwealth Acts and compilations of Acts. The Department's objective is to "improve the accessibility of freely available authoritative information about Australia's laws" and has asked for public comment on this proposal by Monday, 6th February, 2006.
Roy Jordan, the ALLG's ACT Publishers' Liaison Coordinator prepared an initial written response to the proposal which was reviewed by the ALLG and a final response submitted to the Attorney-General's Department.
Petal Kinder
[updated 22/5/6]
31 March 2006
2 March 2006
LexisNexisAU - Moving Forward
Lexis Nexis has written a summary of the discussion between representatives of a number of law firms, the Australian Law Librarians Group and LexisNexis Australia, which took place in Dayton, Ohio, USA earlier this year.
Summary of discussion
March 2006
Handbook of Legal Information Management
BIALL has recently published the Handbook of Legal Information Management Ashgate Publishing Ltd have a special offer that will be available for ALLG members to purchase it for the price of $154.00, including GST, time limited until end of March 2006. This is a a special discount of 20%.
Orders should go through the Australian office:
Ashgate-Gower AsiaPacific
3/303 Barrenjoey Road
Newport, NSW 2106
Further information about this publication and its availability can be found here
