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International Law Library Associations

International Law Library Associations and Related Organizations

  • 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.nlc-bnc.ca (International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions list; was on listserv@silverplatter.com with related page, IFLANET, at http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/)

    To subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca with only the following text in the body of the message:

         subscribe IFLA-L Your Name
    The main IFLA page, IFLANET, as of June 1998, is at http://www.ifla.org/ and archives for the IFLA-L list are at http://infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca/cgi-bin/ifla-lwgate.pl/IFLA-L/archives/.
  • Newsletter (IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments; parliamentary libraries of the world)
  • Newsletter (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)
  • European Association for Library and Information Education and Research (EUCLID)
  • Regional

  • Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL, Faculty of Law, University of West Indies, PO Box 64, Bridgetown, Barbados; or Supreme Court Library, Port of Spain, Trinidad?)
  • Association or Caribbean Universities, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)
  • Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)
  • 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")
  • National

  • AUSTRALIA
  • Australian Law Librarians' Group (ALLG; related list is ALLG-ANZ on listmaster@lists.orlitech.com)
  • Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians Conference (the next one, "Rivers of Knowledge", is on 26-29 August 2001 in Melbourne, Australia; part of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA); see also the page listing Non-ALIA conferences)
  • 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)
  • Edmonton Law Libraries Association (ELLA, Canada)
  • ABDM-MALL (list of the Montreal Association of Law Libraries = Association des bibliothèques de droit de Montréal; Quebec, Canada; messages in French; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@crdp.umontreal.ca with only the following text in the body of the message:
    subscribe abdm-mall
  • 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)
  • 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 on listserv@listserv.gmd.de; see also Deutschsprachige juristische Informationen auf dem Internet (compiled by Gudrun Schwarz; page linking to "German-Language Legal Information on the Internet" published as part of a June 2000 AjBD educational program on the Internet for Law Librarians, ""Internet für juristische Bibliothekare" - also links to Internet sources on the law of European institutions, such as the European Union, the Council of Europe, OECD, EFTA, NATO, etc.); see also related links from a September 1997 AjBD program on the "Internet for Law Librarians" - compiled by Renate Weidinger)
  • Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare e.V. = Association of German Librarians (VdB)
  • ISRAEL
  • Law Librarian's Group (Special Interest Group of the Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centers (ISLIC); ASMI=ISLA (Irgun Sifriot Meyuhadot be-Israel = Israel Special Libraries Association); related list is IIRS-ASMI on listserv@vm.tau.ac.il)
  • 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 (AJI) - Legal Information Division/Section)
  • NEW ZEALAND
  • New Zealand Law Librarians Group (NZLLG; related lists are LAW-LIB on listar@vuw.ac.nz and ALLG-ANZ on listmaster@lists.orlitech.com)
  • NIGERIA
  • Nigerian Association of Law Libraries (NALL)(postal address?)
  • PUERTO RICO
  • Puerto Rico Association of Law Librarians = Sociedad de Bibliotecarios de Derecho de Puerto Rico (postal address?)
  • SCOTLAND
  • Scottish Law Librarians Group (SLLG, University Library Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland - current address?)
  • SOUTH AFRICA
  • Organisation of South African Law Libraries = Organisasie van Suid-Afrikaanse Regsbiblioteke (OSALL/OSAR; Organization of South African Law Libraries; related list is OSALL on majordomo@sunsite.wits.ac.za)
  • 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)
  • UNITED KINGDOM
  • British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL; includes link page to "Law Libraries and Law Library Organisations"and article on "What Is a Law Librarian?"; related list is LIS-LAW on mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk)
  • UNITED STATES
  • American Association of Law Libraries (AALL; includes a "Contact Information" page for related organizations that includes postal addresses and sometimes phone and fax numbers; includes information on Education for a Career in Law Librarianship; related list is LAW-LIB on listproc@ucdavis.edu)
  • Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL SIS, AALL; includes Working Groups on African Law, Asian Law, CIS and Eastern European Law, Electronic Issues, Latin American Law, and Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research; a related list is FCIL-SIS on listproc@aall.wuacc.edu; see also INT-LAW on majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org and guide to Researching Careers in International Law)
  • Asian American Law Librarians Caucus (AALLC, AALL; related list is AALLC on mailman at aallnet.org; the AALLC newsletter is called Asian Law Link)
  • 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)
  • American Society of International Law (ASIL; library-related session and informal lunch of librarian attendees at each annual meeting)
  • 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 November in New York City at the Association of the State Bar of the City of New York)
  • Special Libraries Association: Legal Division (SLA Legal)
  • European Association of Information Services (EUSIDIC)
  • EU Databases Users Group (EUDUG)
  • Online User Groups (UKOLUG; includes links to user groups in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, South Africa, etc.)
  • The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
  • UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE; supports learning and teaching in higher education)
  • Information Today (Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian, Internet Librarian International, etc. conferences)


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