NEWSLETTER Vol. 25 No. 3 August 2014

This newsletter is published The wind of change is upon us (did you know this phrase is attributable to the British four times a year Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in an address he made to the SA Parliament in 1960? – me neither); not only has the committee some fresh faces but there’s been a bit of OSALL movement in our field, particularly down here in the Cape. Brownie points to the P.O. Box 783779 person who can identify which game this reminds them of? Sandton, 2146

http://www.osall.org.za It started with Annalise de Wet moving from Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (ENS) to ; I moved from Werksmans Attorneys to Norton Rose Fulbright; Erna Pienaar moved from ENS to Werksmans Attorneys and finally, Silvia January has left OSALL Committee members the WC High Court to work at ENS and all this in the space of a few months! Must be

Lydia Craemer something in the air down here. I have also heard Meryl Federl has joined the Jhb Bar (Chair) Library as their archivist.. Congratulations to everyone on their new appointments. Email: [email protected]

Charmaine Bertram However enough of the head-spinning movements of South African law librarians; let (Vice-chair) me rather tell you what’s featuring in the newsletter. Tel: (011) 685 8728 [email protected] For those of you who weren’t able to attend the AGM (‘twas my first one ever – a Marina Rubidge veritable AGM newb) all the committee reports have been included for your perusal. (Secretary) Tel : (087) 311 2745 [email protected] Ruth Ward regales us with her time spent at the BIALL conference; it makes for

Karabo Moleya fascinating reading (you almost feel like you were there) plus some very useful tips (PR & Liaison) included for future attendees. Tel: (011) 669 9174 Email: [email protected] Shirley Gilmore has very kindly given us permission to publish extracts from her latest Hesma van Tonder edition of Finding Legal Information in and I thought it might be fitting to (Treasurer) start with her section on finding legislation in Africa (we all know how hot a topic Africa Tel: (051) 401 3468 Email: [email protected] is these days) even if it does include a shameless plug for OSALL’s website ☺

Mary Bruce (Listserv administrator) Nico Ferreira once again keeps us informed of new journal articles; special issues and Tel: (033) 345-1304 books noted. This one particularly caught my eye (despite our horrible exchange rate it Email: [email protected] just might be worth it).

Danielle Botha (Website administrator) Bonetti, B. How to stress less: simple ways to stop worrying and take control of your future. 2014. Wiley. Tel: (011) 535-8000 ISBN 9780857084682 USD17.99 Email: [email protected] See what I mean? Amanda Franken (co-opted) Tel: (011) 797 4225 Till next time ☺ Email: [email protected] Tanya For all newsletter contributions:

Tanya Hubbard (Newsletter Editor) Tel: (021) 405 1222 Email: [email protected]

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The OSALL salary survey was published early this year

FROM THE CHAIR only a sample of about 60 people responded. We would to extend our thanks to Stefan for his input and hard work Dear OSALL members MEMBERSHIP/FINANCES It is once again a fresh start with the advent of a new Committee term. Firstly, I’d like to thank Meryl Federl for OSALL is financially stable due to our membership being at the helm of the Committee during the 2012-2014 renewals and advertising on the Listserv and Newsletter. term. Your hard work and dedication is greatly Mari Brightmore will have a full financial report to this appreciated by all. I’d like to thank Mari Brightmore for effect. Our paid up membership numbers for 1 July 2013 her valuable contribution. Not only did she bring the until 30 June 2014 are as follows: st management of OSALL’s finances into the 21 Century, OSALL has a total of 166 members consisting of: but she also improved upon our membership database management Thanks go to Varsha Sookdhaw for her work as Newsletter editor – many interesting articles Corporate : 32 were published during her tenure. I’d like to thank Thulisa Honorary : 3 Nkondlo for her hard work in the PR and Liaison Individual : 29 Portfolio. Institutional : 16 International : 2 My thanks go to the stalwarts of the Committee for Personal : 18 keeping us vibrant and relevant: to Danielle Botha for Retired : 1 managing the website and making it more “funky” and Student : 1 attractive, and to Mary Bruce for keeping a watchful eye Newsletter : 1 on our busy listserv. I’d also like to thank our “ghost secretaries” for their multi-tasking during Committee MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES meetings. The 2013 AGM was held together with the Combined I’m pleased to welcome new members to the OSALL Library Products fair on 7 August at the Midrand Protea Committee: Hesma van Tonder who will be keeping a Hotel and it was sponsored by LexisNexis. Shirley watchful eye on finances and membership; Karabo Gilmore spoke about the sustainability of the free online Moleya who will be responsible for the PR and Liaison consolidated legislation project which is a partnership portfolio; Marina Rubidge who is the OSALL Secretary, between the Law Library at the University of Pretoria and and Tanya Hubbard who is our Newsletter Editor. I’d also SAFLII. like to welcome Charmaine Bertram as Vice-Chair, and Amanda Franken, who have volunteered their time and YEAR-END FUNCTION 2013 expertise to lighten the load where needed. OSALL had a wonderful year-end function at the Lastly, I’d like to thank the Library Managers who are Benmore Shopping Centre which was sponsored by Juta. allowing their staff to be part of the Committee and for their on-going support during this next Committee term. BIALL

Lydia Craemer This year’s BIALL’s 45th Annual Study Conference & OSALL Chair Exhibition was held at Harrogate in the 2nd week of June. Ruth Ward was chosen to represent OSALL and presented a paper on “Open access to legislation in Africa - a case study and review”. Her trip , including her airfare and accommodation, was kindly sponsored by Academic Marketing Services . Next year’s conference AGM CHAIRMAN REPORT: 2013-2014 will be held in Brighton.

By Meryl Federl INFORMATION SESSIONS COMMITTEE Two OSALL Information Sessions were held this year - Chair : Meryl Federl one in Cape Town and one in Sandton. The Cape Town Secretary : Vacant session was kindly hosted and sponsored by Bowman Treasurer : Mari Brightmore Gilfillan in their new offices at the foreshore and Shirley Newsletter editor : Varsha Sookdhaw Gilmore presented on the same topic she had presented PR & Liaison : Thulisa Kondlo at the AGM. The Johannesburg information session was Website administrator : Danielle Botha hosted by Norton Rose Fulbright and sponsored by Listserv Administrator : Mary Bruce

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Sabinet with Lydia Craemer and Danielle Botha as the All conference and workshop presentations received to speakers. date are now available on the 12th SAOIM conference website. As a result of Shirley and Meryl attending the summit on the LLB crisis in 2013, thereby making contact with the WEBSITE AND LISTSERV communications manager at the Law Society of SA, the De Rebus editor asked OSALL to compile the monthly OSALL’s Website and Listserv are going strong. Danielle column “Recent articles”. OSALL has replaced the Botha and Mary Bruce will give a full report. MACC has previous compiler, Prof Henk Delport, who retired from continued to host the webpage during 2013/2014. doing the column after many years. De Rebus has asked readers of the column to suggest other journals that they OSALL wants to thank all the sponsors Juta, Lexis and want included in the bibliography. Meryl Federl is Sabinet for all the sponsorships and we hope you will currently compiling the monthly column. At Stefan continue to be “friends” of ours in the years to come. Mari Kruger’s suggestion, the chairperson also wrote a piece Brightmore, Varsha Sookdhaw and Thuli Kondlo vacate on OSALL for the new Juta newsletter for law academics their seats this month and we thank you for your in SA. dedication and hard work this past year.

TWELFTH SOUTH AFRICAN ONLINE INFORMATION MEETING NEWSLETTER EDITOR'S REPORT: 2013/2014

[Editor Hijack: Just wanted to show you how much fun By Varsha Sookdhaw was had] This was my second and final year as Editor of the Newsletter. My journey has proved to be educational and richly rewarding at the same time. My gratitude goes out to everyone who has dedicated the time to contribute to the Newsletter and hope that you will be just as helpful to the new Editor. Special thanks to Nico Ferreira, our regular columnist who always ensures that his "Publications Noted" column is submitted timeously and to Mary Bruce for kindly keeping us apprised of the technological developments affecting our field.

Newsletter highlights for the last year :

August 2013: In this issue, we keep you posted on the internal workings of OSALL with reports from Committee members for 2012-2013. Louis Podbielski and the Juta

Law Reports editors have submitted an informative article The Twelfth South African Online Information Meeting, on Case Law Research. This will be of great use to those which is organised by the Southern African Online User involved in training within their organisations and those Group together with OSALL every two years, was held in who are new to the field. mid-2014 at the Council for Scientific and Industrial

Research. OSALL invited a Wits Law School lecturer, November 2013: Our Chair, Meryl Federl reports on the Verine Etsebeth, to speak about the new Protection of BIALL Conference which she attended this year in Personal Information Act. Only a few OSALL members Scotland while Karla Hugo has submitted an informative attended the conference and more members are encouraged to attend in 2016. SAOUG has asked for article guiding one on searching within Prelex (repealed legislation). Ever wondered how a judgment is written? more input from OSALL members as to what topics they Gail Dendy writes on IFLARO, which is the formula used would like included/covered in the next conference in by judges and Raylene Basson provides us with an 2016. In addition, SAOUG has also asked OSALL if they enlightening article on finding unreported judgments. could nominate a permanent member to the SAOUG committee rather than only have the OSALL chairperson February 2014: Meryl Federl reports on the OSALL event on SAOUG committee for the 6 months prior to their held in Cape Town during February where Shirley biannual conference. They meet in either Johannesburg Gilmore presented on the free online consolidated and Pretoria every alternative month. legislation project: Laws of South Africa. LexisNexis and Juta have jointly agreed on High Court abbreviations due

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to legislative amendments - Cindy Naidoo's article keeps OSALL Books were audited by Vincent Laubscher and us abreast of these changes. Associates.

May 2014: Diana Riley shares her knowledge and OSALL HAS A BALANCE OF R99 238.00 experience with us when she was tasked with designing Notice account : R58 011.30 a new library while Lydia Craemer submitted her Cheque account : R41 226.26 presentation on "Surfing the net for legal information". There is a R1000.00 advertising fees outstanding and we Carol Clark kindly submitted an entertaining article on hope to receive this money by end of July. Teresa Weinfas's career and retirement while LexisNexis paid tribute to the late Firoza Onia. The Income of R82 736.00 was received from: Advertising Fees of R6600.00 I would also like to thank all entities who have placed Listserv : R 2 350.00 advertisements in the Newsletter. Your support is greatly Newsletter : R 2 050.00 appreciated and we hope that you will continue using us OSALL Web : R 1 200.00 to promote your products. Thanks once again to everyone who has contributed to the Newsletter in any Membership Fees of R30136.00 way. Corporate : R16 700.00 Individual : R 3 850.00 Institutional : R 7 200.00 THE OSALL LISTSERV REPORT: 2013/2014 International : R 286.00 Student : R 50.00 By Mary Bruce Personal : R 1 950.00 Retired : R 50.00 Newsletter : R 50.00 We currently have 375 members registered on the listserv. Sponsorship of R 40 000.00 Academic Marketing Service : R20 000.00 The most active month was May with a total of 160 items LexisNexis : R20 000.00 wending their way across the listserv; unsurprisingly the lowest was December with 76 items. Exhibition Fees : R 6 000.00

We have built up a significant repository of questions How did OSALL spend their money? and, to a lesser degree, answers over the years. This is a Accounting Fees : R 2 148.00 good time to remind members that it is possible to search Bank Charges : R 1 198.00 the topics that have cropped up in the past by looking at Cash deposit fees : R 65.31 the listserv’s archives. Cheque deposit fees : R 60.00 STD Bank’s Monthly Management fee : R 492.00 Login at https://groups.google.com , sign into OSALL and STD Bank’s Service Fee : R 575.27 make use of the search window at the top of the page. Payment Confirmation fee : R 5.50 This resource will become more useful if individuals take BIALL Conference : R 15 000.00 a minute once their queries are resolved to post a brief Functions and Meeting : R 28 878.00 answer pointing the way for anyone with a similar Attending function by M. Federl : R 200.00 question in future. Please remember to categorise your Catering for AGM 2013 Function : R 10 013.80 email requests (brief list on our website at Venue Hire for AGM 2013 : R 15 000.00 http://www.osall.org.za/?page_id=13 ) as this also makes Catering for end of year function : R 3 664.50 searching the archives a whole lot easier. Gifts (stress balls for SAOUG Conference : R 3 739.00 I would particularly like to thank Meryl and Danielle for Post Box Renewal : R 339.00 assisting with listserv queries during my unforeseen Local travel expenses : R 13 940.00 absence during June. As with years past, I end with Air tickets & shuttles (M. Federl, thanks to each member for making this an efficient and S. Gilmore & T. Hubbard) : R 8 598.62 productive service. M. Federl for attending meetings : R 851.76 OSALL speaker & presenter (E. Verine) : R 4 489.60

TREASURES’ REPORT: OSALL FINANCIAL YEAR : We must still pay the Auditors’ fee of R2500.00 for 2014 1 JULY 2013 – 30 JUNE 2014 After spending all the above –OSALL is left with a profit of R21 561.00 By Mari Brightmore

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WEBSITE ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT: 2013/2014 well and truly relieved to be sitting on the plane, and tucking that little flat pillow behind your head, and settling By Danielle Botha into your seat for the night. From the dusty brown Highveld winter, to the vibrant green fields and verges The website has been functioning well over the last 12 between towns and cities - well, you could say it feels like months, and continues to generate income for OSALL via being on the opposite site of the planet... So having advertisements. survived the queues and masses at Heathrow at 7.00am, it was off to Kings Cross to get the train up to Harrogate, In 2014 a CAPTCHA code was built into the website to in the North of London. Once I had made it onto the train reduce the spam sent by web robots. These web robots I could relax, before changing trains at Leeds. All nice pick up the email address of the site when registering for and orderly. The English countryside is quite a the blog newsletter and then start to spam it. A magnificent sight in June. CAPTCHA code assists in preventing this as it determines whether or not the user is human. There is And so it was that I arrived in Harrogate, and found it a still some spam slipping through but it has greatly great relief to be able to stretch my legs and walk from improved. the station to the hotel, near the conference centre. Navigation is not my strong point, so I did take a couple I would also like to thank Michael Botha for his continued of 'scenic' diversions, and found Harrogate to be a assistance with any IT plug-ins etc. needed for the charming little English town, with a neat and tidy city website. centre, beautiful baskets of flowers blooming outside shops, and hanging from the street lamps. It seems Any feedback on the website is welcomed. Harrogate is quite a popular conference destination - a get-away from the hype of big city business.

As always, if anyone has any suggestions for the Once checked in, I found my way, somewhat 'variously' website, feel free to contact me about it. to the pre-conference workshop by Karen Blakeman, on Search. She is a noted search expert, and always has some gems to impart, about new tips, and sites. But this Doesn’t our website banner look awesome? time, the dire warnings of Google's appetite for personal data, featured much more strongly. The Google 'right to be forgotten' decision in the EU had recently been handed, down, and Karen was the first of the presenters to unpack what exactly had to be done by Google, and just how little is actually required to be removed - just the links to the data, not necessarily the data itself. This was to be a recurring theme of the entire conference.

That evening, before the opening of the conference, I was privileged to attend an exquisite dinner at the aptly named Majestic Hotel, with all the official delegates (from other Law Library associations), and the BIALL BIALL - Harrogate - June 2014 committee. This is a really helpful way to be introduced By Ruth Ward to colleagues from the UK and elsewhere - in this case from France, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Hats First of all, I have to thank OSALL and in particular off to Jaz Breslin and her committee for the outstanding Academic Marketing's Mari and Mike Brightmore for conference organisation. making attendance at the BIALL conference possible. Their active financial support for South African Law The small town feeling - just walking everywhere, is librarians, is greatly appreciated. Juta too continue to great. But the conference had plenty of big city content. support this opportunity, which is really valued. I'm There were a lot of exhibitors, and it was really not indeed fortunate to have been the recipient of their possible to talk to all of them. Booksellers, large sponsorship, to attend the conference. This opportunity publishers, vendors and aggregators. It is always helpful enhances our international visibility and connections, and to speak to suppliers face-to-face, and skim through their provides input which we hope is ploughed back into the offerings. Unfortunately there never seems to be enough members of our organisation. time for real detail with enough of the suppliers, while grabbing a cuppa tea. Tempting to take advantage of Well, let it be said - travelling takes a great deal of promotional book pricing at the conference, but lugging planning these days, and don't underestimate the time it that paper… sorry, not this time. Memory sticks are much takes to get visas to travel abroad. But all the admin and more portable! booking of flights, and train fares ensures that you are

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This year's Theme - Data Data everywhere, was certainly applicable to me: Digital Dementia… I'll leave that one appropriate. Data-protection and privacy issues - and the to you, to decide what it's all about… recent European Google decision, were touched upon by almost ever speaker. 'Big data' - number crunching for "Mobile adds magic" - well, that seems to be the song spotting trends is certainly big business. And we are the everyone is singing. Perhaps I'm showing my age, but often unsuspecting participants. Data-protection and here is an example I'd personally never considered: Take privacy of personal information is certainly at the top of a photograph of where you parked the car, and then use the agenda globally. With POPI (the Protection of your phone's GPS resources to find your way back Personal Information Act) having been signed into law, there…! Must remember that next time I park at the airport! but not yet in operation in South Africa we are in step with the rest of the world, worrying about what large The next paper was about the Incorporated Council for corporates want all our personal information for. Law Reporting, and discussing the current value of

Phil Bradley, the keynote speaker, asked the question: formal law reporting, which is indeed alive and well. The What is new? What is news? Is it what happened in the need to identify judgments which are significant, in the last hour, or the last minute? And who and what can we sea of information is certainly still needed. The speaker trust? Personalising results leads to over customising. talked about the 'Rule of law', in our common-law This leaves us with the well-recognised lack of systems, which depends not only on access to decisions, repeatability in search results. Constant tracking of but which includes some degree of organisation and results, content curation, and updates on what people are 'methods of content encapsulation' to make them useful. looking at are no longer novelties. We (librarians) need The role of the law reporter as 'expert' legal journalist, is to redefine what being an 'expert' is all about. Moving a handy way to think of their role. For these specialist from static websites, to much more dynamic platforms of lawyers the value of attending court adds an extra social media makes the information environment much, dimension to extracting the essence of a case. These much bigger and consequently provides more scope for are the nuances he suggested, that are lost through advertising, which in turn, has a clear 'agenda'. It is 'routine' electronic reporting of all cases. I guess the stating the obvious, but necessary to remind ourselves, point is affirmed, by simply seeing that the law reporting that mobile access whenever wherever, pervasive industry is still with us, and is a complement to the free information access and interaction is the norm for most of and open access services, with distinct value in both services. us, and our particular user groups.

The provocative comment by Phil Bradley bears thinking The mobile Taxi service Uber had in fact possibly about: in essence - Google can't afford to get too good at contributed to my extremely slow progress through delivering the precise search results that you want, or Heathrow on arrival in England, since the London Taxi there would be no need for advertising, which is its life- drivers were apparently on strike about the use of the blood. Rather a troubling thought. He summed it up Uber taxi service in London when I arrived. But this saying that privacy and Google are mutually exclusive. typifies the current trend of 'disruptive' applications, which Opting in and out of services, and various tracking are challenging existing ways of living and doing features, are not really working for individuals - and who business.This was the way Adrian Weckler - Technology really checks? Editor for Independent Newspapers introduced his session. He spoke about temporary fads versus trends The artificial promotion of particular paid for sites, in technology and their impact on business, and the combined with your personal profile of information (that importance of adaptability in the commercial we often freely put in the public domain, whether environment. Certainly food for thought. He spoke about knowingly or not) greatly influences the search results. the problems facing cloud computing (such as data What does this mean for us, when training users? And breaches) and how inadequate most of our passwords what exactly is the role of the information professional are… Should we be the ones teaching our users how to these days? make and use better passwords? We need to adopt new technologies which have a practical and long term benefit It seems the rather 'dusty' term 'curatorship' may be part in our working environments. of the package of our functions. (Doesn't that conjure up images of dry rather old fashioned museums?) But yes, The GPS seems to be leading the way in relation to it does describe the role of guiding people through the tracking and sending data on people - eg what do people maze towards appropriate information. How can we who rent cars do, where they go etc, and how to calibrate expertly curate content for optimum function in our own their risk profiles accordingly. organisations? He used that good analogy: we should function as the fulcrum between the information and the One of the parallel sessions I chose to attend, was on user (who then 'leverages' that data - you see, all nicely Jersey Law - a Legal Information institute. The topic was related). Oh and he had one more phrase - horribly interesting, if fairly esoteric, and related to the anonymising (or redacting) of information in judgments,

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particularly necessary in very small jurisdictions, such as educator and guide. In my view, these roles may not be the Jersey Islands. Here judges are more aware of the new, but the way we perform them, and deliver our need to redact and anonymise civil matters, particularly content are. the need to balance open justice and privacy. Forty percent of all business in Jersey is based on financial Keeping our own technical skills up to speed clearly services, which needs to be appropriately regulated. requires constant learning and listening. Both within our With the total population of Jersey around 100 000, the own organisations, and in our social contexts, and we are need to balance open justice and privacy is clear The instructed not to be afraid to fail! When it comes to consequences of damage to reputation can be innovation, and competitive edge, it is more important to significant. The speaker reminded us of the Jeremy try, even if we sometimes fail (provided we learn useful Bentham quote 'Publicity is the very soul of justice.' Then lessons in the process), than to be 'stuck' in a safe zone, where we run the risk of redundancy. they talked about certain very dodgy websites, which link to 'negative' personal content, and then extract money More to come on 'Big data' - that was the message from from individuals by promising to arrange to have the Dr Andy Williams - an expert on digital democracy. Big content 'de-linked’ from search engines. The balance of data - What is it? Processing power and cheap storage public and private interest, can be delicate. of massive amounts of data, has led to the ability to

Simon Lord, business-to-business marketer for the process and analyse new data set, in order to extract Financial Time, talked about the changing demands of new meaning. It is the analysing and extracting of new clients and advisors, and changing the role of the insights and trends from processing extremely large information professional. How the move towards client quantities of data; things which only work on a large centric focus is raising the need to manage information scale. Tools for manipulating data allow for new value, more effectively, for competitive advantage. Certainly purpose and context to be drawn out or revealed. something corporate librarians need to tune into if they Context is key to understanding 'the big picture' from big data. haven't already.

We need to use metrics, appropriately linked to strategy He cited a couple of interesting statistics - only about 7% of the organisation. How can information professionals of data is tagged. This makes it more difficult to work be more effective in supporting self-service, and show with. Another 'random' statistic, about 34% of data, is their value-add to the business. An ongoing challenge actually useful. But what is the 'universe' of data and for all of us. Helping people in our organisations to how do we measure it, I wonder? Properly tagged data manage information overload is one of the key areas we is more valuable, has flexibility, better levels of should be addressing. Providing decision ready searchability, it can be sorted more meaningfully, and information is essential for business executives. also appropriately packaged. The example he chose to Understanding the business drivers and contributing to illustrate this, was to extract text from Proceedings of the effective and strategic communication is vital. Australian Parliament, and picked out the highly 'Communicate and communicate effectively.' Writing a significant apology by the Australian Prime Minister, to good email is a skill: he suggests, put the conclusion at the Aboriginal people of Australia. He highlighted that it the top of the email - then following with the supporting is in the interests of democracy that big data is open data information. Make effective use of visuals for clear - particularly parliamentary and government information. Open access is required for accountability. communication. Focus on decision ready information. We need to ask ourselves, are we adding to the information The value of IT, KM and Librarians partnering together overload (providing information that is not decision ready) for the development of successful Intranets, was the or are we providing solutions to the problem? message from the next parallel session I attended. The

Being present in the teams and forums where decisions message was: 'train users to understand the ways in are being taken, highlighting areas where we can which the Intranet can help them' - not just how it works. contribute is increasingly important. Competitive market It is essential to get them to understand how it helps and client intelligence is growing significantly, and I think them get their own jobs done more efficiently. They here, we may have been slower getting involved than our talked about being all inclusive - ensuring that the international counterparts, and dare I say it, some of us switchboard staff, have access to the internal expertise may have missed it all together. Think about having a register for example. The usual issues of governance, 'hot-desk' in teams, and how technology can be used to and ensuring appropriate content owners are identified make us accessible in the collaborative space. Think and equipped to manage their own areas of content are about how we can use technology to manage processes important. Again, metrics were emphasised - measure better - so we can do more with less, while also showing and show the value of the library content, whether it is centralised or scattered among practice pages. the value we add. Working with content and with database tools are core skills. These are clear messages FLARE, has updated the earlier 'Flag' project - identifying to us all. For Simon, our new roles are that of analyst, and documenting collections of foreign law in UK

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libraries. This is a key resource for researchers in the UK input, the project was started using the open source particularly. The speakers also discussed the ongoing development platform, Joomla (to keep operational costs value of topical library guides, particularly in international as low as possible.) law, where terminology and legal systems can be very unfamiliar. Good old library function, still delivering great In less than a year since starting up, they had more than value - just the medium of delivery has changed to being 160 Consolidated Acts (and their regulations) freely and more interactive. publically accessible. The format is clear and simple. There is minimal metadata or mark-up, but the first stage My presentation was also for a parallel session, and was of compiling the law has been achieved. Clear plain entitled Free access to law in Africa - a case study and language notes regarding each amendment are inserted review. Part of my paper was aimed at raising in the text. The PDF versions of each consolidated Act awareness of the University of Pretoria's Laws of South and its consolidated Regulations are published. Africa project. To do this, I had to provide some context, which was based around the current economic interest in It is interesting to compare this approach, with that taken Africa. The continent's poor human rights record, and the by the Seychelles Legal Information Institute - SEYLII, culture of growing civilian activism, and young with the assistance of AfricanLII (managed by Mariya democracies. A quote from the January 2014 Legal Badeva-Bright). The first step of consolidating the Week, provided just that context: " General Counsel at legislation was similarly 'manually' created in Word General Electric Africa, is quoted as having said the documents. The second step was to then convert these following in relation to doing business in Africa: documents to plain text, which could be parsed in order to apply XML markup..LexUm using LexUM (Legal "The number one obstacle is the lack of visibility faculty, University of Montreal's) software, Zuopio. The over regulatory developments. There is no intention here is understood to be to improve the future transparency or no real database to track flexibility and amendment of laws. Zuopio has enabled legislation change and developments. That's a flexible output options, one of which has been the huge barrier." compilation of the 'Grey book', a collection of the key laws, which are now available in portable electronic While we are very fortunate to have a well developed format (offline access) to the judiciary of the Seychelles. legal publishing industry in South Africa, public access to My understanding is that this access is resulting in current and reliable consolidated legislation has been greatly reducing the time taken to deliver judgments. lacking. The Free Access to Law Movement has established clear guiding principles for open access to Supporting multi-lingual versions is also important for the legal resources ( fatlm.org ). This is a formal movement Seychelles project, which again contributes to the need with around 54 members, 16 of which are focused on for the investment in licensing of commercial software. Africa. Finally, a totally XML based project has been started in the Western Cape, where a software developer (inspired Open Definition ( opendefinition.org ) has clear statements by the UK Legislation.gov website) decided to produce and guidelines on what constitutes Open Access. The consolidated versions of the Western Cape By-laws for Open Knowledge Foundation ( okfn.org ) states that Open public access. As a good techie would, he came across data becomes Open knowledge when it is useful, usable the Akoma Ntoso XML developments (Legislation and used. This implies that it must be organised and markup, which has been developed largely under the presented in ways that are clear and easy to use. guidance of 2 individuals from the University of Bologna Under Shirley Gilmore's guidance, (Law Librarian at the in Italy), and decided to apply these to local legislation University of Pretoria) a small team (between 3 and 5 that affected his personal needs as a Capetonian. The people) embarked on the project to provide free, open solution is elegant and clear, has great flexibility and and reliable consolidated legislation to the public. After enables deep linking, flexible printing options and greater reviewing approaches taken by other similar projects, value-added potential (such as comparing specific historical versions of a given section.) and exploring available technologies, she decided to stick with a clear and simple consolidated PDF version for Akoma Ntoso is an interesting project with remarkable each Act, and its regulations. Each Act is laboriously potential. It’s an evolving set of guidelines and XML built up from the original principle Act, then each standards for eParliament services. It has great scope in successive amendment applied. This in itself allows for the Pan African context, where harmonisation of laws in the creation and retention of historical versions of each regions and even continent wide, is a growing trend. The Act - also known as 'point in time' legislation, since it open format of the markup, facilitates extended reflects the law as it was between particular dates in the functionality. The EU and some South American past. With seed funding from the Constitutional Court countries have recently adopted these standards, to help Trust, and support in kind from the University of Pretoria manage their legal drafting processes, as well as the final (permitting the use of its facilities, equipment, and certain output. Being an open format, IT personnel), and of course Shirley's expertise, time and

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The final part of the puzzle, is the sustainability of the open access to law projects. Partnerships with people and organisations are key. While the maintenance costs are remarkably low, it is important for business and government to support these valuable public service initiatives.

Financial support of bodies undertaking this work, at Universities and Legal Information Institutes, is vital, and has a direct impact on the attractiveness of countries for investors, through being able to freely and reliably access the laws of the country. We need to familiarise the public Scrolling down on the SAFLII website you will find a number of at large with the idea that open access to legislation, is organisations affiliated to the LII project. For the purposes of 'normal' at all levels of society. Appropriate format, and finding African material they include: JuriBurkina, JuriNiger, options for delivery (online, and offline) are essential for a eKLR (Kenya) and ULII (Uganda). successful project. Finding the right mix of technology and wide accessibility is the challenge. Working with local partners is essential, and government support for all these projects should be encouraged, since open access is a crucial cornerstone of democracy, and the Rule of Law.

Nobody who attends the BIALL conference, can fail to mention the fabulous conference dinners, sponsored by the major publishers, and this year was no exception. If I tell you that it was like stepping into a giant ice-cream cake, dripping with ornate golden decorations, you may have some idea! The location was spectacular, the dinner superb, and the entertainment terrific! The awards are greatly treasured by their recipients, and the librarians certainly know how to show their appreciation. The OSALL website also contains African Legislation - To sum up, if you get the opportunity to attend a BIALL http://www.osall.org.za conference - grasp the opportunity, and plan ahead – you will not be disappointed.

PULP GUIDE: FINDING LEGAL INFORMATION IN SOUTH AFRICA (3rd edition) Shirley Ann Gilmore 2014 7.5 African countries The Legal Information Institute movement aims to make legal information freely available. Note that the LII websites are interconnected. For free material for African countries in general therefore one may use WorldLII at Francophone African countries: For free material for the http://www.worldlii.org/ and also CommonLII at http:// francophone countries try the website http://www.droit- www.commonlii.org. afrique.com

SADC countries: SAFLII website gives access to a considerable amount of legal material from the SADC countries. See http://www.saflii.org.za/

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Some African countries do have their legislation free online. See: Griffiths, A. Embodied histories: exploring law’s • Kenya http://www.kenyalaw.org/kenyalaw/klr_home/ temporality in relation to land in Botswana, in JOURNAL • Sierra Leone http://www.sierra-leone.org/laws.html OF LEGAL PLURALISM AND UNOFFICIAL LAW, vol. 46, no. 1, 2014, p. 37-59. Lusophone (Portuguese‐speaking) African countries ‐ see free material http://www.ecosphere‐consult.com/en/legis‐palop : Gutman, J. ADR in : evaluating a teaching and learning innovation, in AUSTRALASIAN DISPUTE RESOLUTION JOURNAL, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014, p. 100- 108.

Kakonge, J.O. Raising IP awareness in Africa: a call to action, in WIPO MAGAZINE, April 2014, p. 30-32.

Ladan, M.T. Recent trends in legal response and judicial attitude towards electronically generated evidence in Nigeria, in LAW/TECHNOLOGY, vol. 47, no. 1, 2014, p. 1-55.

Marr, K. The right to “skype”; the due process concerns

of videoconferencing at parole, in UNIVERSITY OF

CINCINNATI LAW REVIEW, vol. 81, no. 4, 2013, p. 1515-1537.

Nsibirwa, Z. Building the South African nation through legal deposit: the impact of legislation on preservation of digital materials, in AFRICAN JOURNAL OF LIBRARY, Compiled by : ARCHIVES & INFORMATION SCIENCE, vol. 24, no. 1, Nico M Ferreira 2014, p. 53-65. UNISA Law Library Olatokun, W. Probing university students’ adoption and Journal articles noted utilization of social networking websites in Nigeria, in ANNALS OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION STUDIES, vol. Adams, E.S. Rethinking the organizational form 61, no. 1, 2014, p. 15-23. and capitalization structure, in MISSOURI LAW REVIEW, vol. 78, no. 3, 2013, p. 777-818. Raju, J. Knowledge and skills for the digital era academic library, in JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP, Andrews, P. A champion for African freedom: Paul vol. 40, no. 2, 2014, p. 163-170. Robeson and the struggle against apartheid, in ALBANY LAW REVIEW, vol. 77, no. 2, 2013/2014, p. 473-497. Rycroft, Alan. What can be done about strike-related violence? in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF Anthon, D. A technological trifecta: using videos, COMPARATIVE LABOUR LAW AND INDUSTRIAL playlists, and Facebook in law school classes to reach RELATIONS, vol. 30, no. 2, 2014, p. 199-216. today’s students, in RUTGERS COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL, vol. 40, no. 1, 2014, p. Sienczylo-Chlabicz, J. The issue and nature of self- 1-16. plagiarism in academic work, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY QUARTERLY, issue 2, 2014, p. 113-124. Campbell, J. The role of law faculties and law academics: academic education or qualification for practice, in Stratton, Sara E. Passwords please: rethinking the STELLENBOSCH LAW REVIEW, vol. 25, no. 1, 2014, p. constitutional right to informational privacy in the context 15-33. of social media, in HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Crowe, Byron. Financial services ADR: what the United QUARTERLY, vol. 41, no. 3, 2014, p. 649-679. States could learn from South Africa, in CORNELL Van Wyk, J. Fracking in the Karoo: approvals required? INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, vol. 47, no. 1, 2014, in STELLENBOSCH LAW REVIEW, vol. 25, no. 1, 2014, p. 145-179. p. 34-54. Emslie, T. VAT, electronic services and electronic Weber, L. The Cape Town Convention and its services regulations, in THE TAXPAYER, May 2014, p. implementation in Russia and the Commonwealth of 87-90. Independent States, in AIR AND SPACE LAW, vol. 39, Ferretti, F. Data protection and the legitimate interest of no. 1, 2014, p. 1-45. data controllers, in COMMON MARKET LAW REVIEW, vol. 51, no. 3, 2014, p. 843-868.

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Yarbrough, S. Amnesty or accountability: the fate of high- Steps toward evidence-based IP, in TEXAS LAW ranking child soldiers in Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance REVIEW, vol. 92, no. 7, 2014. Army, in VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF Books noted TRANSNATIONAL LAW, vol. 47, no. 2, 2014, p. 531- 568. Atuahene, Bernadette. We want what’s ours: learning

Special issues from South Africa’s land restitution program. 2014. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198714637 Access to justice, in FORDHAM URBAN LAW GBP24.77 JOURNAL, vol. 41, no. 4, 2014. Bonetti, B. How to stress less: simple ways to stop Changing face of litigation and law firm finance, in worrying and take control of your future. 2014. Wiley. DEPAUL LAW REVIEW, vol. 63, no. 2, 2014. ISBN 9780857084682 USD17.99

Child rights in Latin America, in INTERNATIONAL Boulle, Laurence. International economic law and African JOURNAL OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS, vol. 22, no. 2, development. 2014. 2014. Siber Ink. ISBN 9781920025908 ZAR 350.00

Digital media, video games, and the law, in UBC LAW Broekman, J.M. Lawyers making meaning: the semiotics REVIEW, vol. 46, no. 3, 2013. of law in legal education. 2013. Springer. ISBN 9789400754577 EUR69.95 European financial crisis, in COMPARATIVE LABOR LAW & POLICY JOURNAL, vol. 35, no. 3, 2014. Brun, Brigitte. The practical guide to the amended B- Human mobility and human rights, in AUSTRALIAN BBEE Codes of Good Practice. 2014. LexisNexis. ISBN JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS, vol. 19, no. 3, 2013. 9780409119466 ZAR 680.00 Rule of law in Ancient Athens, in BUFFALO LAW REVIEW, vol. 62, no. 1, 2014. Cornell, D. Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from revolutionary activist to Constitutional Court Sexual orientation, in HARVARD LAW REVIEW, vol. judge. 2014. Routledge. ISBN 9780415735162 127, no. 6, 2014. USD125.00

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Asbestos litigation, in TULANE LAW REVIEW, vol. 88, De Waal, M. South African law of succession and trusts: no. 6, 2014. the past meeting the present and thoughts for the future. 2014. Juta. ISBN 9781485106487 ZAR 450.00 Changing politics of Central Banks, in CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, vol. 47, no. 1, 2014. Du Toit, D. Unfair discrimination in the workplace. 2014. Juta. ISBN 9780702198618 ZAR 350.00 Commercial arbitration: advancing and redefining the ADR process, in DEPAUL BUSINESS & COMMERCIAL Healey, Paul D. Legal reference for librarians: how and LAW JOURNAL, vol. 11, no. 4, 2013. where to find the answers. 2014. Chicago: ALA Editions. ISBN 9780838911174 GBP35.00 Family justice redefined? in FAMILY LAW, vol. 44, May 2014. Hyams, R. Practical legal skills. 2014. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195529999 GBP36.99 Fractured communities: hydraulic fracturing and the law in New York State, in ALBANY LAW REVIEW, vol.77, no. Jesse, J.E.C. Freedom of speech for members of 2, 2013/14. parliament in Tanzania. 2014. Kenya: LawAfrica Publishing. ISBN 9789966723734 GBP18.95 Freedom of the Press, in HARVARD LAW REVIEW, vol. 127, no. 8, 2014. Johnson, B.K. The articulate attorney: public speaking for nd Future of the ICC, in EMORY INTERNATIONAL LAW lawyers. 2 ed. 2013. Crown King Books. ISBN 9780979689598 USD24.99 REVIEW, vol. 27, no. 2, 2013.

Globalisation and legal scholarship, in TRANSNATIONAL Johnson, C. Is a law degree still worth the price? 2013. LEGAL THEORY, vol. 4, no. 4, 2013. Carolina Academic Press. ISBN 9781611633719 USD50.00 Mass incarceration and the death penalty, in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW, vol. 41, no. 1, 2013. Khan, F. Refugee law in South Africa. 2014. Juta. ISBN 9781485101239 ZAR 450.00

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Wengi, R.O. Founding the constitution of Uganda. 2012. Laher, R. (ed.) Indigenous people in Africa: Kenya: LawAfrica Publishing. ISBN 9789966031105 contestations, empowerment and group rights. 2014. GBP28.95 Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. ISBN 9780798304641 GBP22.95 Williams, G. A short book of bad judges. 2013. London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill. ISBN 9780854901418 GBP9.99 Laker, J.A. The African participation at the World Trade Organization: legal and institutional aspects: 1995-2010. Winer, A. International law legal research. 2013. Carolina 2013. Martinus Nijhoff International. Academic Press. ISBN 9789004256705 USD149.00 ISBN 9781611630688 USD15.00

Lutz, David. Shareholder value and the common good.

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McAuslan, P. Land law reform in East Africa, traditional or transformative? a critical review of 50 years of land law reform in Eastern Africa. 2013. Routledge. ISBN 9780415831437 USD125.00

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Mushanga, T. Criminal homicide in Uganda: a sociological study of violent deaths. 2013. Kenya: LawAfrica Publishing. ISBN 9789966031044 GBP24.95

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Onyango, P. African customary law: an introduction. 2013. Kenya: LawAfrica Publishing. ISBN 9789966031341 GBP24.00

Osha, S. The social contract in Africa. 2014. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. ISBN 9780798304443 GBP18.95

Owoses-/Goagoses, F. Planning law in Namibia. 2014. Juta. ISBN 9780485100812 ZAR 495.00

Pienaar, J.M. Land reform. 2014. Juta. ISBN 9781485101420 ZAR 758.00

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