International Association of Law Libraries

International

• International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) holds a conference in a different country each, their Annual Course in International law Librarianship. IALL arranged a law session at the IFLA Conference for many years and recently, together with the American Association of Law Libraries, helped to create the Section of Law Libraries within IFLA.
• International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has a Section of Law Libraries which is Section 48 of IFLA and part of IFLA Division II: Special Libraries. The Section was established in 2005 at the initiative of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) after several years as the IFLA Law Libraries Discussion Group.
• Other IFLA Sections include: IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments and the IFLA Section of Government Libraries.
• INT-LAW: International Law Librarians List. INT-LAW is an e-mail list for the discussion and sharing of information concerning foreign, comparative, and international legal resources. INT-LAW is an open, public list with over 900 subscribers. Subscribe/join INT-LAW via http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=int-law.

Regional

• Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) includes an informal law librarians subgroup.
• Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL); related list is CARALL-TALK; was at www.carall.org until July 2004
• Consortium of Legal Resource Centers and Legal Information Specialists of Central and Eastern Europe (CLRCLIS); current Chair is Ligita Gjortlere, Law Librarian at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Latvia and IALL Board Member.
• European Information Association (EIA); "The European Information Association is an international body of information specialists whose aim is to develop, co-ordinate and improve access to EU information...A worldwide membership includes public, academic and government libraries, information units of professional and voluntary groups, European Documentation Centres, Euro Info Centres, local authorities, publishers, companies and law firms".
• EURO-LEX: the All EUROpean Legal Information EXchange electronic discussion group; subscribe/join EURO-LEX via http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/euro-lex.html.
• Nordiske juridiske bibliotekmoete; the Nordic Law Librarians' Group meets every 3 years; the 2009 meeting is in Finland in 2009

National

ARGENTINA

• Red de Bibliotecas de Derecho y Ciencias Jurídicas (Bibliotecas Jurired; Argentine Association of Law Libraries)

AUSTRALIA

• Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA); was Austraklian Law Librarians Group (ALLG); related list is ALLG-ANZ at vicnet.net.au). Subscribe via http://lists.vicnet.net.au/mailman/listinfo/allg-anz
• Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA); see also the page listing ALIA Conferences and Non-ALIA Conferences;in the past, ALIA has jointly hosted with the ALLG the Asia-Pacific Specials, Health and Law Librarians' Conference)

BAHAMAS

• Bahamas Association of Law Libraries (BALL) (incorporated on November 2003; Raynold Cartwright, President).

BELGIUM

• Association belge des bibliothécaires et des documentalistes juridiques (Belgium); same as Association Belge de Documentation - Belgische Vereniging voor Documentatie (ABD-BVD; Belgian Association for Documentation)?

CANADA

• Canadian Association of Law Libraries=Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD; related list is CALL-L on listserv@listserv.unb.ca). Subscribe/join to CALL-L via https://listserv.unb.ca/archives/call-l.html.
• Calgary Law Library Group (CLLG)
• Edmonton Law Libraries Association (ELLA)
• ABDM-MALL (list of the Montreal Association of Law Libraries = Association des bibliothèques de droit de Montréal; Quebec, Canada; messages in French; subscribe via https://lists.lexum.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/abdm-mall)
• National Capital Association of Law Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de droit de la capitale nationale (has members-only electronic discussion group)
• Ontario Courthouse Librarians Association (OCLA, Canada)
• Toronto Association of Law Libraries (TALL, Canada)
• Vancouver Association of Law Libraries (VALL, Canada)

FRANCE

• L'Association pour le Développement de l'Informatique Juridique (ADIJ, Paris, France; Association of Development of Legal Data Processing/Legal Informatics; see also Juriconnexion, an association of all persons (judges, documentalists/librarians, lawyers, etc.) using legal databases in their daily professional practice)

GERMANY

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Juristisches Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen (AjBD - Association for Law Librarianship and Documentation in German-Speaking Countries - Austria, Germany, Switzerland; web page was at http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~BGH/ajbd.htm; related list is BIB-JUR (electronic discussion forum on Rechtsbibliotheken / German Law Libraries). Subscribe/join the BIB-JUR list or search its archives via http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/bib-jur.html; see also Deutschsprachige juristische Informationen auf dem Internet (page linking to "German-Language Legal Information on the Internet")
• Verein Deutscher Bibliothekare e.V. = Association of German Librarians (VdB)

IRELAND

• British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL; BIALL has a members-only e-mail forum, but the LIS-LAW list for UK law librarian discussions is open to everyone - subscribe/join via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/lis-law.html; includes Irish Group for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

ISRAEL

• Law Librarian's Group (Special Interest Group of the SEMEL ASMI/Israeli Association of Libraries and Information Centers; ASMI=ISLA (Irgun Sifriot Meyuhadot be-Israel = Israel Special Libraries Association); related list is IIRS-ASMI, the Israeli Information Retrieval Specialists List)

MALAYSIA

• Law Librarians Group of Malaysia

THE NETHERLANDS

• Groep Juridische Bibliothecarissen, Documentalisten en Literatuuronderzoekers (GJB (Dutch) law librarians group), now the NVB (Nederlandse Vereniging van Bibliothecarissen, Documentalisten en Literatuuronderzoekers = The Netherlands Association for Library, Information and Knowledge Professionals (NVB)) Afdeling Juridische Informatie (JI) - Legal Information Division/Section; current name is the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Beroepsbeoefenaren in de bibliotheek- informatie- en kennissector (NVB))

NEW ZEALAND

• New Zealand Law Librarians' Association (NZLLA; was the NZLLG; related lists are LAW-LIB - subscribe via http://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/law-lib and ALLG-ANZ - subscribe via http://lists.vicnet.net.au/mailman/listinfo/allg-anz)

NIGERIA

• Nigerian Association of Law Libraries (NALL); "came into existence on March 7. 1975 as a section of the Nigerian Library Association; [NALL] is an organisation of law librarians and libraries concerned with the acquisition, bibliographic processing in manual and automated form and administration of legal materials".

THE PHILIPPINES

• Philippine Group of Law Librarians, Inc. (PGLL) composed of librarians from law schools, courts and private law firms; regularly holds seminars and conferences to discuss issues affecting the profession and to learn the latest developments in law librarianship; info re activities

PUERTO RICO

• Asociación de Bibliotecarios de Derecho de Puerto Rico (ABDPR) Puerto Rican Association of Law Librarians; P O Box 22430, San Juan, PR 00931-2434; see also the general association of Puerto Rican librarians, Sociedad de Bibliotecarios de Puerto Rico (SPBR); more info at the Biblioteca Jurídica Puertorriqueña webpage.

RUSSIA

• Assotsiatsiia Iuridicheskikh Bibliotek (Russian Association of Law Libraries)(was at http://www.lla.ru/)

SCOTLAND

• Scottish Law Librarians Group (SLLG)

SINGAPORE

• There are no formal associations of law librarians in Singapore (per e-mail correspondence on 9 January 2004)

SOUTH AFRICA

• Organisation of South African Law Libraries = Organisasie van Suid-Afrikaanse Regsbiblioteke (OSALL/OSAR); Organization of South African Law Libraries; website was at http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/osall/; related list is OSALL, a Google Group - Organization of South African Librarians

SWITZERLAND

• Groupe d'Intérêt des Bibliothèques et Bibliothécaires Juridique (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Association des bibliothèques juridiques suisses - Vereinigung der juristischen Bibliotheken der Schweiz (Association of Swiss Law Libraries; Geneva, Switzerland)

TURKEY

• Turkish Platform of Law Librarians; group established in 2007 to facilitate cooperation and sharing of information between the libraries in Turkey which serve on the area of the law. IALL 2009 conference in Istanbul organised in association with the group.

UNITED KINGDOM

• British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL); BIALL Groups include ALLICE, BIALL Irish group, BLINE, BRILL, CiG, CLIG, Freelancers, LLIG, MLIG, OMB/Small Teams, SLLG, US Law Firms; related list is LIS-LAW; subscribe/join LIS-LAW via http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-law.html
• Other Related UK Organisations
  • BILETA (British & Irish Law, Education and Technology Association)
  • UK eInformation Group (UKeIG); was the UK Online Users Group (UKOLUG)
  • UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE; supports learning and teaching in higher education)

UNITED STATES

• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL); includes links to "AALL Related Organizations" page of other law and library associations; includes information on Education for a Career in Law Librarianship; related list is LAW-LIB - subscribe or join via LAW-LIB list FAQ
• Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL SIS, AALL; includes Interest Groups/Working Groups on African Law, Asian Law, CIS and Eastern European Law, Electronic Issues, Latin American Law, Collection Development (Foreign Selectors), and Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research; a related list is FCIL-SIS electronic discussion forum; see also the INT-LAW e-mail discussion group). INT-LAW is the International Law Librarians List for discussing foreign, comparative, and international legal research questions. INT-LAW is an open, public list with over 900 subscribers. Subscribe/join INT-LAW via http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=int-law.
• FCIL SIS Clearinghouse for Internships and International Personnel Exchanges (webpage contains a list of law libraries that are willing to participate in exchanges and testimonials from law librarians who have gone on exchanges)
• Asian American Law Librarians Caucus (AALLC, AALL)
• Latino Law Librarians Caucus (LLLC, AALL)
• Foreign and International Law Special Interest Section (FIL/SIS, Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. (LLSDC); news of activities published in the Law Library Lights newsletter - available as PDF files at the LLSDC web site)
• Special Libraries Association - Legal Division (SLA-Legal)
• Other Related US Organisations
  • American Society of International Law (ASIL); library-related session and informal lunch of librarian attendees at each annual meeting; including International Law Calendar
  • American Society for Comparative Law (ASCL)
  • International Documents Task Force ((IDTF, part of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association (ALA)
  • Washington International Librarians Group (WILG; "an informal group, which exists virtually through the Internet; it is open to all those interested in sharing information on topics related to libraries and international affairs; international documents/organizations librarians, mainly in the Washington, D.C. area)
  • American Branch of the International Law Association co-sponsors with the American Society of International Law of the "International Law Weekend" held annually in October/November in New York City at the Association of the State Bar of the City of New York