NEWSLETTER JULY 2019 Editorial Contents: Welcome to the July edition of the BIALL newsletter. We are continuing our President’s Column 2 celebration of BIALL’s 50th year with updates from this year’s annual Officers & Members 4 conference in Bournemouth. Honorary Treasurer’s Report 5 The conference is a time for learning, reflection and as much fun as we can fit Standing Committees 6 in with colleagues old and new. It is also News 7 a time of change, not least for our committee membership. It seems appropriate at this time of year to extend a big thank you to outgoing and incoming committee members who Notices 7 put so much of their time into making the association a success. Library Routes 8 We begin our newsletter with the inaugural column from our new BIALL President Renate Ní Uigín who provides an update on the new committee structures and an insight into her Featured Library 11 year as BIALL’s President Elect. We have reports from the Legal Information Management Globe Law & Business 13 (LIM) Editorial Board, the BIALL Honorary Treasurer and the PR and Promotions Committee, and an update from the Scottish Law Librarian’s Group (SLLG) following their Conference Bursary Reports 15 recent AGM. BIALL Quiz 2019 19 In Library Routes, we are privileged to bring you a fascinating insight into Helen Garner’s BIALL Conference in Pictures 20 journey from a thirteen-year-old wannabe librarian to the role of Bodleian Law Librarian, via a range of roles encompassing both corporate and academic libraries. BIALL through the ages 22 Our Featured Library, The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), is currently New Members 24 undergoing a major refurbishment; a transformation project to make the best possible use of space to meet the changing expectations of their users and to support the future vision Editors & Acknowledgements 24 of IALS. Thanks go to David Gee for keeping us posted on progress with this project. Editors Mark Leonard has kindly authored an article to bring us up to date with goings on at the 2019 BIALL Quiz. Many congratulations to team Knowledge Mismanagement for claiming Katy Davies = the top prize and to Inner Temple for coming in a close second! Jenny McBride = Kate Manning = This edition of the newsletter is kindly sponsored by Globe Law and Business and features Margaret Watson = a fascinating article from Sian O’Neill, Globe’s Managing Director, who gives us an insight Jude Wilson = into the origins of the business, how it developed and where the areas of focus now lie. Plus look out for your invitation to the launch event of Globe’s diversity and inclusion report and a 20% discount for BIALL members. Last but certainly not least we hear from our BIALL Conference Bursary winners on their experience of the 2019 conference. We do hope you enjoy this edition of the BIALL newsletter. Jude & Margaret

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1 www.biall.org.uk President’s Column

Having finally got the hang of the role of President Elect after 12 months I find myself moving on…. Like many before me it seems like no time at all since I attended my first BIALL event – in my case it would have been a meeting of the Irish Special Interest Group (ISIG) - and now I find myself writing the BIALL President’s Column. I’m just home from the 50th anniversary conference in Bournemouth and celebrating this landmark in style in the company of many former Presidents and Chairs. I’m honoured to be following in such august footsteps, as well as slightly apprehensive, and looking forward to a busy year ahead. This starts off with our first Council meeting of the year on 4th July, followed in July by a Supplier Liaison Group meeting, a trip to Washington to represent BIALL at the annual American Association of Law Libraries conference, and a meeting of the Conference Committee. Thankfully, developments in technology have meant that I can attend at least one of these meetings remotely. I have learnt an enormous amount over the past couple of years acting as Council liaison to various committees, in particular the Professional Development Committee (PDC), where I came away from my first meeting amazed at the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes by volunteers to bring events and training to our members. The beginning of the BIALL year occurs seven days after our Annual General Meeting Renate Ní Uigín (AGM), and I’d like to sincerely thank the Council members and Committee Chairs who are stepping down and welcome our new recruits. In particular, I would like to thank Anneli Sarkenen, who has come to the end of her term as Immediate Past President, and Chair of the Nominations and Volunteers Committee, where she did Trojan work. She is an invaluable source of practicality and wisdom, and I hope she continues to send me her helpful suggestions over the coming year. She’s not really retiring; I’d be fairly sure we’ll be seeing her in a different guise again soon. Thanks go to Jon Beaumont, not only for his work on Council, but also for his work with the Document Management System (DMS), to Lisa Davies, and Chairs Loyita Worley, Neil Edwards, Robert Turner, Katrina Gambold, and a welcome to new Chairs Sinéad Curtin, Kim McLachlan, Nicky Vignoli, and Claire Mazer. Past Presidents And a very big thank you goes to Dunstan Speight; from whom I have learnt, among many other things, the merits of thinking before you talk, and that giving a measured thought-out response often works better than an instant reaction. I fully intend to continue to rely on his experience and expertise over the coming months. I have never felt that I am stepping into this role on my own, not only knowing that I will be working with Dunstan as Immediate Past President and Karen Brown as President Elect, but being able to rely on Jackie Hanes our Honorary Treasurer and David Percik our Honorary Secretary, as well as the Council and Committee Chairs past and present (yes I am casting the net far and wide!) I thoroughly enjoyed reaping the rewards of all the inspiration and preparation of the Conference Committee and Sovereign at the 50th Annual Study Conference & Exhibition at Bournemouth ‘50 not out, past, present, future’. Whoever would have realised that it was the first Conference for Julie Christmas in the role of Chair of the Conference Committee? A real example of how knowledge sharing works in practice. 2 President’s Column - continued

The highlight of my Conference had to be the delivery of the Willi Steiner Memorial Lecture by Lady Hale. Her personal recollections of Willi Steiner were an additional bonus in our anniversary year. She took us through ‘The changing legal landscape’ and identified five areas that have shaped it. It’s a number of years since I completed my law degree but I found myself recognising many of the elements she was discussing, not having realised during my time as an undergraduate how significant they were. David Allen Green in our opening plenary session managed to succinctly present the current position of the Brexit process in a very comprehensible manner and there was many a proud Irish delegate when he mentioned the Irish journalists as a source of reliable information. I now have new podcasts to listen to thanks to Kevin Poulter; remain sceptical of the language around legal tech and artificial intelligence as well as more confident taking part in the conversation after Robin Chesterman’s talk. I discovered my day has a lot in common with that of Paul Sandles of the Supreme Court Library, and am in awe of the work undertaken by Matthew Bell and his team at the National Archives in preparation for integrating EU legislation onto www.legislation.gov.uk . I’m also really interested in seeing how the pilot phase of BIALL’s mentoring scheme will progress. Lady Hale The session that gave me my primary takeaway from the conference was the one I chaired, and despite the fact it was on Saturday morning after our Annual Dinner, I could have continued listening to Ron Wheeler and Helen Ouseley about ‘Creating an inclusive culture’. Ron’s personal take on this subject included educating us on micro-aggressions and Helen’s practical focus on what we, not only as employers, but as individuals, can do - micro-actions. Helen’s comments that diversity without inclusion won’t work and the fact we all need to do something resonated, and there will be more on this theme over the coming year. Remember the Legal Information Management (LIM) winter edition will contain articles from papers delivered at the conference and I anticipate a very interesting read. Attending the Conference as President Elect was a different experience. I not only enjoyed the sessions, and the birthday celebrations, but attended meetings – Standing Committee on Strategy and Finance (SCOSAF), the Annual General Meeting (AGM), Have Your Say, and the Supplier Forum where I learnt a lot, and anticipate learning more over the coming year. I met our overseas delegates, and realise that I am now part of international network! I had never appreciated just how many bursary winners attend conference – but benefited from their ‘roving mic’ duty. I went to a meeting of the still relatively new Knowledge Management Special Interest Group (KMSIG), to discover that perhaps more of us are doing KM than we think? Very few members are KM specific but many have it as a facet of their job. Watch this space and keep an eye on the mailing list for their upcoming events. I also attended a meeting of the BIALL Irish Group, and wish to pay tribute to all the Irish members, without whom I wouldn’t be taking up this role. From my first few meetings (where I remained firmly silent) to the first time I spoke and was taken seriously, prompting the realisation that I might have something useful to contribute, they have always made me feel part of the legal information community; thanks. I look forward to seeing a large gathering of them in Harrogate next year. So the only thing missing from Bournemouth was the sunshine! Do you know I thought I wouldn’t have enough to say in this column? I’ve started making notes for the next newsletter but would also like to hear from you throughout the year, with ideas and comments or perhaps even to volunteer to get involved. Renate Ní Uigín BIALL President 3 Council Officers & Members

President Council Member Renate Ní Uigín Fiona Fogden Librarian Reed Smith King’s Inns Library Dublin 20 Primrose Street [email protected] [email protected]

President Elect Council Member Karen Brown Jas Breslin Dentons Charles Russell Speechlys LLP One Fleet Place 5 Fleet Place London London EC4M 7WS EC4M 7RD [email protected] [email protected]

Immediate Past President Council Member Dunstan Speight Claire Fox The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn Kingsley Napley LLP Lincoln’s Inn Knights Quarter London 14 St John's Ln WC2A 3TN Farringdon [email protected] [email protected]

Honorary Treasurer Council Member Jackie Hanes Catherine Bowl University Library, Travers Smith LLP University of Leicester, 10 Snow Hill Leicester, London LE1 7RH EC1A 2AL [email protected] [email protected]

Honorary Secretary Council Member David Percik Sheena Nathwani The St Botolph Building Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, 138 US Citi Building, London 41st Floor 25 Canada Square, EC3A 7AR London [email protected] E14 5LQ [email protected]

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In the past few months, I have been busy preparing end of year financial accounts. The annual accounts for the year ending 31 March 2019 were presented at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Bournemouth, and showed that the Association made a loss of £10,985. Although this is another loss, we are within our planned budget and moving in the right direction. It will be another year before the recent increases in membership rates will impact the accounts, and I hope to report better news at next year’s AGM in Harrogate. At the AGM in Bournemouth, we also agreed to continue our support for the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII). By the time you read this newsletter, BAILII will have received our donation of £10,000 for the 2019/20 year. Finally, a plea from me to you about data protection. This year, BIALL has been the victim of many attempts at financial fraud – fraudsters are setting up direct debits for all manner of utilities, car and pet insurance, and even golf memberships. While I am able to reclaim the money, it is annoying and time-consuming, and I have spent many hours of my life on-hold to the bank. So I beg of you - please, please, please dispose of Jackie Hanes all invoices and other documents containing financial or personal information securely (in a shredder if possible). You will make your Treasurer very happy. You might even stop yourselves becoming the victims of financial fraud. Jackie Hanes Honorary Treasurer

5 News from Standing Committees

LIM Editorial Board

Our last meeting was held in April at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. We had a busy agenda which included receiving the annual report on Legal Information Management (LIM) from Cambridge University Press (CUP). Usage is positive and still trending upwards. The Spring issue has been published and contained some interesting articles on Artificial Intelligence challenges for lawyers and researchers and also an article in our Occasional Series on ‘Perspectives of International Law’ from Judge James Crawford, who commenced his interest in international law while studying at Oxford under Ian Brownlie. This then developed into a lifetime’s work and this article is taken from conversations held with Lesley Dingle at the Peace Palace in 2018. Lexis featured in the ‘Focus on legal publishers and suppliers’ series. The Summer issue of LIM has been proofed and is due out in a few weeks. It is dedicated to the celebration of BIALL’s 50th anniversary and examines the past, future and present of legal information provision and BIALL. I am about to stand down as the Chair of the Editorial Board and will be handing over to Sinéad Curtin. As well as a new chair we also have some new members joining us. I would like to take this opportunity publicly to thank all the committee members and especially David Wills the Editor of LIM and Hannah Patrick our CUP contact, for their hard work. It has been fun. I am not going entirely and will be remaining on the Committee for another year as a member. We always welcome suggestions and feedback and would love to hear from any of you with your ideas. Loyita Worley Chair, LIM Editorial Board

PR and Promotions Committee

Sarah Kennedy and Allie Lustigman have completed their terms of office with the PR and Promotions Committee (PR&P). I would like to express my thanks to them both for their help and support whilst I have been Chair. We are pleased to have completed our terms of reference review and committee members and Council are happy for the terms of reference to remain unchanged. Alongside this review, we have also examined and updated roles and responsibilities within the Committee, and have formalised the allocation of the redefined roles to committee members. Going forward we hope that this will bring clarity and focus to what we do as individual committee members and also what we do collectively. I would like to say thank you to Helen Dods for representing PR&P at Conference this year – a job well done! I would also like to thank Angela Wright who did a superb job on the pre-Conference publicity tweets, bringing a bit of sparkle and imagination to them! Continuing the conference theme just a reminder that as BIALL members we can get a 25% discount by using the code BIALL25 on a booking for the ILI Conference held at Olympia in October. Registration is open from the end of June. See http://www.internet-librarian.com for details. Diane Miller Chair, PR&P Committee

6 News from Special Interest Groups

Scottish Law Librarians Group (SLLG)

The SLLG celebrated its 30th AGM on 2 May at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow. Following the meeting, journalist and campaigner Lesley Riddoch gave a riveting talk on the constitutional and democratic opportunities, as well as challenges, facing Scotland today. You can read more on the SLLG blog: https://sllgblog.wordpress.com . The Group holds regular events throughout the year for full and associate members with an interest in Scots law information: www.sllg.org.uk .

Notices

Save the Date

ILI Conference, 15 and 16 October, Olympia, London: Once again BIALL will be a proud sponsor of the ILI Conference this year. Although by the time of reading this newsletter the ‘Call for Speakers’ deadline will have passed, you will still be able to attend as a delegate, and, as a BIALL member, eligible for a discount on the cost of the conference package. If you are interested in attending and want details about the BIALL member discount, please watch out for information on our Twitter feed, blog or get in touch with me. Diane Miller Chair, PR&P Committee

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Helen Garner, Bodleian Law Librarian I always wanted to be a librarian so I don’t have a story to tell of how I found myself in the library world by accident! For me, one of the best parts of being at school was the library; I loved looking at how books were arranged and how the answers to everything could be found there. I was a library monitor, an avid member of the Puffin Club, and drove my parents crazy with my constant requests for books, books, books. When I was thirteen my English teacher set us the task of writing our autobiographies. My classmates hated the task but I threw myself into it, scoring 90% and winning ten credit points. I kept my autobiography and it still delights me that librarianship is one of, admittedly a number of careers, I was thinking about at thirteen, even though I couldn’t spell ‘librarian’ correctly. When I was fourteen my school held a Careers Fair to help us with our O-level choices; I was the only person that went to talk to the two librarians that were there and I still remember how excited I was to be given a green leaflet from the Library Association explaining all about librarianship. At sixteen my parents encouraged me to get a Saturday job. My first job was on a fruit & veg stall at the local market. I lasted three weeks, it turned out that I wasn’t suited to a career in greengrocery. After that I decided to see whether the local library needed help, which is Helen Garner how I found myself working as Saturday Assistant at Runcorn Shopping City Library. I spent several hours on a Saturday shelving books and helping people to find the books they wanted and I thought it was the best job ever. I spent three happy years at Staffordshire Polytechnic studying Modern Studies. On my first day I met Stella Cox and we’ve been friends, with overlapping careers in law libraries, ever since. In my final year I wrote a dissertation on the gothic elements in Carson McCullers’ writing. The librarians at Stafford showed me how to use various printed indexes and abstracts to find relevant articles and then how to complete accurate inter-library loan request forms. I was completely captivated by how it all worked and spent far more time on the literature search than was necessary. At this point I announced to my then boyfriend that I wanted to be a librarian. He was aghast. He told me that he wasn’t going out with someone who’s only career ambition was to stamp books. His advice was to study computers as that was the future. It occasionally crosses my mind that he was right about computers being the future but little did he realise how inextricably linked librarianship and computers would become. I ignored his advice and shortly after that he dumped me by letter on the first day of my final exams. I carried on regardless and landed a place on the Manchester Poly graduate trainee scheme. This coincided with the height of ‘Madchester’. I had a great graduate trainee year, I worked at the Elizabeth Gaskell Library primarily on the circulation desk and spent far too much time in the clubs of Manchester. The next year wasn’t so great. After much deliberation I decided to take my postgraduate diploma in librarianship at Liverpool Polytechnic. I’d actually accepted a place at UCL but a very unhelpful Housing Officer put me off making the move to London. I didn’t particularly enjoy studying for my postgraduate diploma. The teaching staff were fine and my fellow students were friendly but the only parts of the course that really ignited my interest were computers, classification and reference resources. I decided not to continue with a Masters; instead I moved to London.

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My first professional job was at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) Library. I was employed via TFPL on a temporary cataloguing contract. I stayed at the FCO for a year. I enjoyed working there, it developed my cataloguing skills and gave me practical experience of working in a project team. It’s also where I met my partner, although love only blossomed after we’d both left the FCO. I eventually moved to a permanent post as an Assistant Librarian at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Library where I split my time between answering enquiries and cataloguing. After six months at the RICS Stella, who was now working at Freshfields, told me that the firm was looking for a law librarian with cataloguing skills. I said I couldn’t apply as I wanted to stay at the RICS and I wasn’t a law librarian. The very next day we were told that there were going to be some redundancies at the RICS. The library wasn’t under threat but I seized the opportunity to apply for the Freshfields post. I was interviewed by the librarian, Liz Hagan, and a personnel officer. Much to my incredulity, I was offered the post. Liz told me afterwards that she had decided to train me up to be a law librarian, and that is exactly what happened. I adored working at Freshfields; loose-leaf works were a source of delight, I was fascinated by the legal research process, and computers were starting to change our everyday work. I even gained enough confidence to enjoy delivering legal research training to the new trainee solicitors. After ten years of a very happy working life at Freshfields, the winds of change blew through the firm and I found myself redundant from my post of Library Manager. Luckily I picked up a temporary cataloguing post at White & Case which gave me time to decide what I wanted to do whilst still being able to pay the mortgage. I enjoyed my year at White & Case, it was a very different firm to Freshfields but it reminded me how much I loved cataloguing and classification work. I really wanted to turn the redundancy into a positive experience but I wasn’t sure how to do that until one sunny afternoon, sitting in my flat in Ilford, I spotted an ad for a post at the Bodleian Law Library: they were looking for an Information Resources Librarian. I knew that Ruth Bird had recently been appointed as the Bodleian Law Librarian and that she was very well respected in the law library world. I decided to apply for the post, I didn’t think I’d have any chance due to my corporate background but at least I’d have a chance to see round the Bodleian Law Library. Absolutely everything conspired against me on my way to Oxford for the interview: I spilt coffee down my white shirt; I was suited & booted as it was raining in London but Oxford seemed to be in the midst of a mini heatwave; the train was late as a car had hit a bridge; I got horrendously lost trying to find the library. By the time I reached the library, a few hours late, I was a frazzled mess. In spite of all that I was offered the post.

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Starting work at Oxford was like stepping through the looking glass, I was in a state of bewilderment for at least a year. But it turned out to be a fabulous opportunity, working with Ruth and many other colleagues gave me the chance to develop new skills and work on large projects including the reclassification of the monograph collection to Moys and an eighteen-month barcoding project to allow us to move material off-site. In February 2017 Ruth retired as Bodleian Law Librarian. In June I agreed to act up as Bodleian Law Librarian. I wasn’t keen on the idea as I loved my job but, once I was in charge, I discovered how much I liked being the Bodleian Law Librarian. After a challenging interview in December 2017, at which I was interviewed by the Dean of the Law Faculty, the Deputy to Bodley’s Librarian and the Head of the Social Science Libraries, I was formally appointed as the Bodleian Law Librarian in January 2018. I’m pleased to say that eighteen months later I am very happy in my new post. Libraries have always been very important to me. I didn’t plan to specialise in law librarianship but I am very glad that I took the chance to apply for the post at Freshfields as that really was the starting point for a very satisfying career in law libraries. I’ve also had the good fortune to work with two inspirational law librarians, Liz Hagan and Ruth Bird, both of whom took a chance on me – Liz in deciding to train me up and Ruth in deciding that someone from a corporate law background had plenty to offer an academic law library. I’m very proud to be the Bodleian Law Librarian, following not only in Ruth’s footsteps but also those of Barbara Tearle who is still a regular reader at the Bodleian Law Library. BIALL has also played a role in my career, the conferences and training have been invaluable and I had the opportunity to work with Diana Morris on the last edition of the Moys Classification scheme. I often feel that I’ve travelled a long way from Runcorn to Oxford but somehow I don’t think my thirteen-year-old self would be that surprised to hear that I am a librarian! Helen Garner 10 Bodleian Law Librarian Featured Library – IALS Library Transformation Project – Progress Report

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) opened in 1947 as the national centre for the advanced study of law. From the start IALS was based within the University of London, but it has always been nationally-funded by the UK government to provide a free national legal research library for all postgraduates, researchers and academics based at the law faculties across the UK and overseas. Currently IALS Library offers academics and research students from the UK and abroad free access to over 300,000 primary and secondary legal texts, numerous foreign and international legal research databases, e-journals and eBooks, legal research skills training programmes, and a number of focused legal research facilitation projects. It is one of the largest legal research libraries in Europe, and is particularly rich in the law of the UK, Commonwealth and European countries, the USA and EU, as well as foreign, international and comparative law. It also manages several legal archive collections. Further details about the national collections and services offered by IALS Library to UK legal researchers are available at: ials.sas.ac.uk.

David Gee In early 2018 the University of London approved £11.5 million funding towards a major Transformation Project for the complete re-design and refurbishment of the IALS building at 17 Russell Square, London and successfully undertook planning approval, procurement and the appointment of Overbury PLC as the main building contractor. Aims of the IALS Transformation Project Excerpt from the Design and Access Statement: “Charles Clore House at 17 Russell Square was purpose designed to accommodate the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The building remains relatively unaltered from its original arrangement. The interior of this well-used building was consciously designed for flexibility and reuse. Currently however, parts of the building and its infrastructure are nearing the end of their serviceable life. This, combined with developments in working, studying and learning patterns, and long- standing issues regarding energy use, occupant comfort and the confusing internal layout, require a significant refurbishment of the building. l Remedy legacy FM / environmental issues which impact on services and quality of space. l Improve accessibility for all throughout the building. l Re-plan existing layouts to improve utilisation of existing space with the objective of supporting the growth of the student population and creating improved learning space and office space. l Reduce the building running costs and improve upon efficiency and sustainability aspects of the building. l Reflect the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies academic vision, and provide research, learning and working facilities that are of the highest quality and reflect current practices. The completion of the proposed programme of works will ensure that the building remains ‘fit for purpose’ for its intended use as a base for the IALS.”

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Major improvements to the IALS Library The IALS Transformation Project seeks to meet the changing needs of our users and it will replace the services infrastructure of the whole building with new heating, cooling, ventilation, cabling and wi-fi. IALS Library will be completely refurbished and re-designed. There will be a new library entrance on the 2nd floor into an area looking out over Russell Square, fifty additional study desks to increase capacity particularly for the postgraduate law programmes of the University, two bookable group study rooms, a new group training room with increased capacity, a reference advice room for one-to-one training, a fully- equipped special needs room, private library research carrels redesigned and increased by eight, new desk and chair furniture, more control over reading room heating and cooling, secondary glazing to reduce the impact of outside traffic noise, more self-issue laptops, and improved IT services. Good progress so far The IALS Transformation Project started as planned in June 2018 and is currently on time and on budget. By January 2019 Overbury had successfully completed the refurbishment of the library 4th floor reading room. It is now planned for the library 3rd floor reading room to be refurbished by June 2019, for the new library 2nd floor entrance to be completed by October 2019, and for the academic, research and administrative offices on the 5th floor to be completed by March 2020. Necessary improvements to the building’s ageing plant equipment and services infrastructure are being undertaken in parallel. Additional funding of £2 million for the project is currently being sought through a fundraising campaign led by the University of London’s Development Office. This funding will be used primarily to refurbish the library L2 floor, the archives room and the library L3 floor (closed basement). It is hoped that this work will be undertaken by Overbury from March 2020. Continuity of Services Throughout the IALS Transformation Project the building, seminar rooms, lecture theatre and main reading rooms of the Library will continue to remain open. All the library collections will remain on-site and e-resources will continue to be available onsite and offsite for researchers. Research skills training sessions will continue to be offered and law library staff will continue to be available on-site for research assistance and consultation. There are in place temporary arrangements for the entrance to the Library and for the Issue & Enquiry Desk to be located in the 4th floor reading room. Arrangements have also been agreed with the contractors to minimise the amount of noise after 10.00am each day. Regular information updates are being sent to all current users and stakeholders to keep them as up-to-date as possible with the progress of the project: ials.sas.ac.uk/about/ials-transformation-project. IALS Library and its staff wish to thank our users for being so understanding during the current major Transformation Project. We now look forward to the completion of the project in early 2020 and to being able to offer them a vastly improved building with new facilities and new services which will indeed make us “fit for purpose” for the future. David Gee 12 IALS Librarian Globe Law & Business

Sian O’Neill, Managing Director of Globe Law and Business, discusses the joys and challenges of life as an independent law publisher, and how yoga helps keep her sane. My career in legal publishing started at Sweet & Maxwell when they were located in Docklands, a good few moons ago now! I began as an editorial assistant and moved on to become an editor, a role I’d recommend for anyone thinking about a career in publishing, as it gives you an eye for detail which never really leaves you. After a while I moved into commissioning and enjoyed a happy four and a half years in the commercial department. From there, I left to run the London office of Kluwer Law International. This involved frequent trips to the Netherlands, and I became quite familiar with Amsterdam airport and announcements about gate changes! One aspect I have very much enjoyed throughout my career is the international nature of the lists I have worked on. When I was invited to set up Globe Law and Business as an imprint of the company which owns Lexology, it proved to be a perfect opportunity. I saw a gap in the market Sian O’Neill for materials which were sufficiently high level to be of practical use to the experienced practitioner and yet accessible, easy to read and well produced, and this has informed our strategy from the start. Going independent A decade in, an unexpected turn of events led to the opportunity to buy the business I’d built from scratch. I joined forces with Jim Smith, an experienced publisher who had been through the buy-out process before, and Jim introduced me to Chris Burton- Brown, a finance professional with lots of publishing experience in the legal sector. We then had a rollercoaster of a summer while the three of us put our bid together. Our regular meeting place was Carluccio’s in Waterloo station, where we’d sit for hours over endless coffees, hatching plans not just for the acquisition but, more importantly, for what we’d do if our bid was successful. Chris nearly got us kicked out of Carluccio’s once, as he’d plugged his laptop in to present yet another spreadsheet, and the lead was trailing dangerously by the swing door into the kitchen. Fortunately the staff had got used to us by then, so after a few words, they just carefully moved us, our papers, cups and laptops to a table where we could cause less trouble! We eventually heard that our bid had been successful, and I can still remember the feelings of excitement and fear I experienced, in more or less equal measures. In September 2015, we opened our doors as an independent publisher, and have now grown to a team of nine, supported by an army of loyal freelancers. What we publish At Globe Law and Business, we focus on certain niche areas of law including energy, law firm management, private client and trusts, banking, finance and company/commercial, among others. Most of our books are authored by senior practising lawyers who write from their experience. Getting manuscripts delivered on time is not always easy (and understandable, of course, given the authors’ very busy schedules) so we appreciate your patience when books occasionally slip! While we started out publishing hardback books, we have now developed a journals programme with one on the business of law, Modern Legal Practice, and another in the family offices field, The International Family Offices Journal. We have also developed two new formats, Special Reports and Good Practice Guides, which aim to be even more accessible, with an increased use of visuals, checklists, trends and research. Our titles are also available digitally, with books published as ebooks, and journals available on the Ingenta platform.

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Topic of the moment: law firm management One area where we have seen particular growth and a lot of good feedback from readers, is law firm management. While lawyers are, of course, very capable in the technical aspects of law (no doubt ably supported by their knowledge and information management professionals!) there is a real need for materials that help them understand how to run their firms as a business. This includes topics such as strategy, leadership, business development, legal tech and talent management, among others. Law firms are currently facing a unique set of challenges: the ‘more for less’ challenge where clients are demanding more services for less and questioning the fee-based model; an unprecedented amount of new regulation globally; and the arrival of new players such as alternative service providers and the Big Four entering the legal services space. At a recent law firm management conference, the lead speaker shocked the audience of lawyers by saying that in a recent series of pitches for work, he hadn’t employed a single traditional law firm. This is something lawyers are taking seriously, with many firms now contemplating strategies for keeping the client happy, developing their talent and innovating for the future. An invitation Our new series of Special Reports, which are A4, softback and contain around 20,000- 30,000 words, have a particular focus on law firm management. We have published on hot topics such as Social Media in Business Development and Relationship Management, Legal Tech and Digital Transformation and The Gender Pay Gap in Law Firms. These have a market with practising lawyers at partner and associate level but also with colleagues in business services. Due to publish are reports on Pitching for Law Firms and Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession. We will be hosting an event in central London with co-publisher, The Centre for Legal Leadership, to launch the diversity and inclusion special report, so please follow us on social media or get in touch with me at [email protected] if you would like to attend. Life beyond publishing Outside of publishing, I am a British Wheel of Yoga qualified yoga teacher. I currently teach regular workshops in north London as well as various yoga classes. I find yoga is particularly helpful for those in a stressful job or environment, and practising is hugely beneficial for me. It is great to see classes emerging in law firms – some with nice outdoor spaces for classes, such as at Fieldfisher! Another strand of yoga for me has involved publishing a book, Yoga Teaching Handbook, with Jessica Kingsley Publishers. It has been most instructive being on the other side of the fence, as it were, and I think I have a better understanding now of just what it feels like to be an author! Post-conference 20% discount and a huge ‘Thank You’ to BIALL! We continue to develop our programme and would welcome your feedback as well as any new title ideas. Please do feel free to contact me on the email above, even if it’s just to say ‘hello’, as I am always up for a coffee! I enjoyed meeting many members at the BIALL conference this year, and as a thank you, I am delighted to extend our 20% conference discount until the end of August. If there are any titles you would like to examine under our standard ‘right to return’ policy, please enter the code BIALL19 on the checkout page of our website, or email me and I’ll be happy to help. Full details of all Globe Law and Business titles can be found at www.globelawandbusiness.com . Contact details: Sian O’Neill, Managing Director - [email protected] Nicola Hornsby, Marketing Manager - [email protected]

14 BIALL Conference Bursary Reports

BIALL Conference Bursary Ian Hunter Bournemouth was not my first BIALL conference but still involved two firsts: my first ever conference with no BIALL committee duties (the photo below shows my sense of relief!) and my first bursary-funded conference. The highlight of the plenary sessions for me was seeing Baroness Hale of Richmond; Lady Hales is an inspiring speaker and it is gratifying to see that the BIALL Conference can attract speakers of her stature. David Allen Green was fascinating for his insight into the Brexit process, and as usual there were some useful snippets from the Lightning Talks, often from my peers in other law firms. Dewey Cole and Paul Magrath gave a great evolutionary history of law reporting in the US and the UK, which I will definitely Hunter Ian be able to use in future training sessions. I enjoyed chairing Katy Davies' talk on resilience - having expressed my relief at having no official duties in practice it's always nice to feel involved with the conference in some way, and a seaside location always goes down well!

Student Bursary Joanna-Louise (Jo) McKenna-Aspell As a fortunate student bursary winner, I’ve been asked to reflect on the three Ps of BIALL’s 50th Annual Study Conference and Exhibition… plenaries, parallel sessions and, naturally, parties. I’ve also been tasked with brevity (not my forté!) so I’ve elected to present my standout for each P. Parallel session 3C The presentation exploring the application of contingent valuation methodology at Middle Temple Library was fascinating and has resulted in a fundamental rethinking of my PhD proposal. My gratitude to Renae Satterley and Adam Woellhaf for the additional reading! Plenary 3 Dani McCormick and Karen Waldron described an inspiring and refreshing business model at LexisNexis. The notion of stepping away from profit/object driven practices and towards customer-centric outcomes involves an institutional mind-set change. What made this so different to other presentations I’ve heard on similar themes were the tangible examples of what it means to embrace failure and nurture risk. ise (Jo) anna-Lou Parties Jo spell cKenna-A M Outwardly, I seem confident and socially adept-ish but I suffer with Imposter Syndrome. In the build up to BIALL 2019, I was most anxious about the social elements of my first ever conference. It transpires that this was absolutely unnecessary! I want to thank my buddy, Julie Hamley (UWE), and the benevolent registration desk duo who made sure that I was very well looked after.

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BIALL Conference Bursary Anouska Atherton I was delighted to hear that I had won a bursary to the 50th Annual BIALL Conference in Bournemouth. It was timely as I have very recently returned to my career in legal research after a seventeen year absence to raise my family. The week started with Nick Davies at the Pre-Conference Workshop and I was blown away. The afternoon flew by with lots of practical tips on making messages stick which I am definitely going to put into practice when delivering inductions going forward. As Nick amusingly pointed out, expectations on an induction from the law librarian are likely to be low so it should be easy to be better than expected! Thursday morning saw me entering the conference centre to be met by a sea of friendly faces, which eliminated any anxiety I may have been feeling at going alone. David Allen Green got the ball rolling with a brilliant Plenary session on Brexit and where we are now in an engaging and humorous way, followed by Sophie Thompson’s n Atherto excellent and informative parallel session where we all got creative. Anouska Friday’s highlight for me had to be the inspirational Lady Hale who reflected upon some of the major changes in the law during the Willi Steiner Memorial Lecture. Add to this the fabulous social events and exhibition stands, and I have certainly come away with lots to think about as I re-start my career.

BIALL Conference Bursary Susan Boyle My first time at BIALL felt like a coastal whirlwind, a breath of fresh legal ideas, everything from machine learning to six hats and beautiful statistics, all served with a dollop of humour, bright company and a Hawaiian beach birthday night and delicious conference dinner on the side... complete with dance worthy playlists. The Bournemouth welcome was sunny, even if the weather was not. I did laps of the exhibitor stands for sea-themed enneagram clues and visited Shelley. I even played publisher roulette! I mixed standout sessions on the future with stunning sea views, wonderful speakers with drole chairs and found myself learning by osmosis in table chats and by listening to keynotes that were illuminating and eloquent. My highlights over the three days are hard to choose but if pressed, I would say Lady Hale who shattered glass ceilings, and my conference buddy introducing me to Kevin Poulter whose social media talk was fascinating. Parallel sessions diverged at the conference and I took away salient tweets, lightning trends, branded sweets and some high calibre oyle Susan B work wisdom. I gained a legal insider track on library thinking. The whole experience left this Irish newbie delegate wanting more, definitely a sign of a brilliant birthday bash: happy 50th BIALL and thank you!

Thompson Reuters Bursary Charlotte (Charlie) Brampton I enjoyed my time at the BIALL conference enormously. This was due in large part to the friendliness of everyone I met. As an academic librarian, I really value the opportunities I got to talk to delegates from other sectors. Bournemouth is a lovely city, with a beautiful beach. It’s such a shame we didn’t have beach weather although I noted that some delegates did still go for an early morning dip! Hearing Lady Hale deliver the keynote address was a real highlight. That was the session in the programme that I was most looking forward to and she did not disappoint. Her reflections on the changes in the law over the last fifty years shows just how much progress there has been and, indeed, how much is still to be done. I had a go at the whack-a-mole inspired game on the Thomson Reuters stand, although I on was terrible at it. That aside, the exhibition did give me a chance to catch up with some ) Brampt (Charlie Charlotte of our vendors. I wanted to win a Barrister Bear but was unlucky. Maybe next time! 16 BIALL Conference Bursary Reports - continued

Legalinx/7side day delegate Kathy Young I attended four plenary sessions (over two days) which were informative, challenging and entertaining in differing amounts. ‘Social media revolution?’ was highly entertaining and enjoyable. You can understand why Kevin Poulter was chosen as the legal expert on the Alan Titchmarsh Show! ‘Revolutionising information pathways’ gave an interesting insight in to the evolution and development of LexisNexis. It was good to hear the way in which thinking has changed from product led to customer needs. ‘Let’s (not) talk about Artificial Intelligence’ was possibly the most challenging session as Robin Chesterman gave quite a technical talk. It was fascinating to listen to his explanation of software tools and his reassurance that lawyers will not, as yet, be replaced by robots. The standout plenary session for me was the keynote speech given by Baroness Hale. I Young Kathy was transfixed for the whole of her lecture. Her reflections on the developments in law since the early 1960s was compelling listening and she gave a modest, and often amusing, delivery of all the ground breaking work she has achieved over the last fifty years. She is an amazing woman; I could have listened to her all day. President's bursary Jennefer Aston Wow what a whirlwind that was! Bigger and busier than I remembered, the conference was just as friendly and collaborative. As my first full conference for many years I was determined to get as much from it as possible. Regrets? My hotel was very nice but I should have spent more time sleeping! Packed with hard choices - which parallel session; what vendor or supplier to talk to first; discuss the latest developments with colleagues or go to the sessions; how would I get that bear home if I did win it AND could I really go to Bournemouth without visiting Mary Shelley? I managed to speak to most of the vendors and in the process catch up on the latest product and service developments. The lightning talks were all interesting but time was a challenge for many of the presenters. ry t’s bursa Alas I did not manage to win any of the prizes but I really enjoyed meeting colleagues Presiden Aston Jennefer and friends, and talking to contacts new and old. In discussion we managed to cover a lot of the current trends and many issues of concern. So to BIALL and all who made the conference such a success my heartfelt thanks. Student bursary winner Marton Ribary The BIALL conference was exceptionally well organised. The sessions were informative and well-paced. Even though I am not a fan of brutalist architecture, the Bournemouth International Centre proved to be an excellent choice for the conference. There was ample room for the exhibition, lunch and vendor presentations. The Centre always felt pleasantly buzzing, but never overcrowded. If I felt occasionally overwhelmed, the quiet Purbeck Lounge offered a beautiful view of the Bournemouth waterfront. Baroness Hale’s keynote address on the key changes in the UK’s legal landscape since the 1960s, Robin Chesterman’s provocative and refreshingly cool evaluation of the opportunities and limitations of ‘legal AI’, and Matthew Bell’s presentation about the impressive legislation publishing of The National Archives were the highlights of the conference for me. They reinforced the idea that law keeps evolving at a steady pace without reacting to political and inner technological havoc. This reassuring common sense attitude was echoed by a bursary w Student presentation on law reporting on both sides of the Atlantic by Charles Dewey Cole and n Ribary Marto Paul Magrath. Staying calm, critical and reflective has brought BIALL to 50, and this is 17 the attitude which will eventually bring the Association to a well-deserved century. BIALL Conference Bursary Reports - continued

David Hart This conference was an opportunity for me to reconnect with law librarianship after eleven years away and, in a sense, to round off a forty year career (three quarters of which was spent in a law library). However, I now find myself envying those of you who will be dealing with the challenges and opportunities presented by the changing legal information landscape and, most importantly, benefitting from everything that our Association can provide to those who truly engage with it. The plenary sessions were of a very high standard. David Allen Green miraculously made the subject of Brexit both informative and entertaining. His origins as a historian showed through with the first mention of The Eastern Question that I’ve heard in a long time. Hard act to follow? Kevin Poulter managed it with a great session on lawyers, law firms and social media. A lot of cautionary tales to share with the lawyers of the future. Lady Hale’s keynote address actually made me want to watch a Supreme Court hearing on YouTube - but maybe my judgment was impaired by the previous night’s birthday party for BIALL. rt The parallel session on Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol gave me lots of David Ha ideas and links to share with colleagues preparing for the influx of new students in September. It will certainly shape our thinking about teaching academic skills at Dundee. No doubt many of the sessions will appear as articles published in LIM but, believe me, it’s no substitute for actually being there - come to BIALL in Harrogate in 2020!

CLIG bursary Jess Leedham I was this year’s lucky recipient of the CLIG bursary so was able to attend my first of (I hope) many BIALL conferences. Between the captivating sessions, I visited the numerous exhibition stands which proved an excellent opportunity to put faces to email addresses. Although I entered every competition going, my luck did not hold out for the prize draws. However, I went home far from empty handed and acquired a good few freebies to distribute to the team back in the office. Water bottles seemed to be the flavour of the month with most vendors, although my personal favourite were the Stroopwaffles from Wolters Kluwer. Despite the weather, we were still able to enjoy the beach as Justis conveniently brought it inside for the BIALL 50th Birthday Party on the Thursday night. Sipping cocktails amongst the (blow up) palm trees you could almost forget about the downpour outside. The following night might have been a more formal affair with the Leedham President’s Reception and Annual Dinner, but the dance floor was just as full and the sary Jess CLIG bur superb band even donned some fetching BIALL 2019 t-shirts for their set. Thank you to CLIG and BIALL for the amazing opportunity.

18 BIALL Quiz 2019 by Mark Leonard

Librarians are officially excellent quizzers. Emma Boettcher, a librarian at the University of Chicago, recently defeated the thirty-two-game winning ‘Jeopardy!’ champion James Holzhauer to shock the quiz world which had awaited his expected record-breaking winnings. To complete her master’s degree in information science, Emma had written a paper analysing the predictability of questions on ‘Jeopardy!’, and in putting her skills to such public use she has given the profession and the course at the University of North Carolina quite a publicity boost. However, anyone who had any doubt about the quiz-challenging excellence of librarians has clearly never attended a BIALL Quiz, and the class of 2019 were up to their usual standard. Hosted by the ever-welcoming Penderel’s Oak in Holborn on Wednesday 13th March, the quiz was kindly sponsored by Wildy’s with prizes sponsored by LegaLinx, to all of whom everyone who attended is very grateful. The quiz master for the evening was the inimitable John Evan, ably assisted by his wife Mark Leonard Barbara. Those who have attended his excellent quizzes in the past will need no reassurance that he was in top form as always, keeping the rowdy librarians in check and entertaining all with several rounds of questions and robustly rebuffing all attempts to challenge his official answers. There were fourteen teams of (normally) six people taking part, giving equal numbers of attendees to the previous year. Statistics such as these hide true wonders of name- play, such as Lethal Quizzle, Spooky Flapjacks, and E = MC Hammer. All of the aforementioned lost the actual quiz, but they gain kudos for devising excellent names. And before announcing the winning team, which, as is appropriate for an article about a quiz, will be revealed at the end, the ultimate winners were the charities for whom the quiz raised money. £1,156 was raised and divided equally between the Wallace Breem Fund and Cogwheel Trust International. Knowledge Mismanagement Lynne Cameron set the ball rolling with her challenging Marathon Round, which led to - winners audible squeals of delight as teams started to come up with their answers. John then set a series of rounds such as sports and pastimes, Disney films, general knowledge, and a picture round where you had to answer questions on a brand or product. There was also an anagram round which went down less well, and John has received petitions asking for all anagrams to be banned from future quizzes! A varied music round was successfully undertaken, always a technical worry, and this was possibly the first time in history that Buzzcocks, Thomas Tallis and Miles Davis have been combined in one aural space. What wonderful music they would have made together had they ever collaborated… Rob Turner also assumed the mantle of Jim Bowen to declare ‘Everyone loves a bit of Bully!’ and ask a series of questions from an old ‘Bullseye’ book; a popular round which led to a heated debate over what constitutes a cottage pie or a shepherd’s pie. This debate, one as old as time, Inner Temple - runners up continues to rage. Having sustained themselves through these rounds on tasty food, plenty of drinks (including, I understand, the alcoholic variety) and good chat with old and new friends, the evening was drawing to a genial close. Alas, competition abhors equality, so a winner needed to be found, but even in this Darwinian world the collegiate nature of librarians shone through as two teams shared first place, Inner Temple and Knowledge Mismanagement both finishing on a mighty 99 points. As is the way, of course, such collegiality could not last for long and a play-off round was held, with Knowledge Mismanagement being declared BIALL Quiz 2019 Champions. Congratulations! The quiz was wonderfully organised, coordinated and run on the night by the BIALL Professional Development Committee, and the evening ran smoothly and was thoroughly enjoyed by all who attended. See you all again next year, and if you haven’t been before – do join us! Raffle Prizes Mark Leonard 19 BIALL Conference Bournemouth 2019

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23 Editors New Members

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KATY DAVIES The following new The following new Chair Howard Kennedy LLP members were approved members were approved No.1 by BIALL Council in April: by BIALL Council in May: London SE1 9BG Personal Personal Tel: 020 3755 5680 Email: [email protected] Heleanna Lenti Kayleigh McGarry BPP University Scottish Government JENNY McBRIDE Legal Directorate Clifford Chance LLP Claire Fox 10 Upper Bank Street, Kingsley Napley Anastasia Stepanovic London, Maddocks E14 5JJ Julia Bhojoo T: 02070061435 Email: [email protected] BDP Pitmans Deborah Reypert Clarke Willmott Lyndia Thomas Travers Smith Georgia Adams KATE MANNING Veale Wasborough Vizards Clifford Chance LLP Robi Ramburrun 10 Upper Bank Street Sullivan & Cromwell Jo McKenna-Aspell London E14 5JJ Sheffield T: 020 7006 4094 Catherine O'Connell Email: [email protected] Institutional Barry Vickery BV Training & Consultancy Pamela O'Connor DPP Ireland MARGARET WATSON Tina Reynolds Bodleian Law Library St Cross Building Kennedys Manor Road Oxford Zena Bagshaw OX1 3UR Fried Frank T: 01865 271464 Email: Institutional [email protected] Melanie Mancino JUDE WILSON BPP University Eversheds Sutherland 142-144 Uxbridge Road, London Sue Jarvis W12 8AW Michelmores T: 07500704805 Email: [email protected] Timonie Green Withers

Acknowledgements In addition to the contributors acknowledged in the text, we would like to thank Martin West [email protected] for his help in Globe Law and Business producing this issue. [email protected] The BIALL Newsletters published quarterly in January, April, July and October. © British and Irish Association of Law Librarians and contributors. While every effort has been made to ensure that the information given in this Newsletter is accurate, no responsibility, (legal or otherwise), is accepted by the Editors, their employers or the Association for any errors or omissions. Editorial views do not necessarily represent the official position of the Association. 24