This year, the theme of Oxford Open Doors is extraordinary people. At The Law Library, we have decided to take this opportunity to share some stories with you about the trailblazing women who fought for women’s status in the law profession. It is a small – but we believe important – supplement to the Women’s… Read More »
The Bodleian Law Library is participating in Oxford “Open Doors” on Friday and Saturday, 7 – 8 September 2018. (Open Doors is organized by Oxford Preservation Trust, and events continue on Sunday though the Law Library will not be open on that day.) The purpose of the weekend is to enable a wider public to… Read More »
The Law Bod is delighted to be able to announce that the Bodleian Libraries have negotiated the purchase of all the e-books included in the package Hart Publishing Law Collections 2014 – 2017 in perpetuity from Bloomsbury Professional This purchase means that 380 Hart books which previously the Law Bod held in print are now also available online.… Read More »
Connect 4, a game not of luck but mainly skill, there have even been studies done to work out the 9 main strategies to win the game. For us at the Law Bod it is mainly about putting coloured plastic discs in a grid to try to make a line of 4 before your opponent. … Read More »
As an addition to the Christmas blog series, we would just like to remind those leaving Oxford in the vacation to make sure you know how to access materials from outside the Oxford network. We know that you are most likely going to be busy with festivities but if you do decide to take a… Read More »
The Bodleian Law Library is participating in this year’s Oxford “Open Doors” weekend on Friday and Saturday, 8-9 September 2017. (Open Doors is organized by Oxford Preservation Trust, and events continue on Sunday, though the Law Library will not be open on that day.) The purpose of the weekend is to enable a wider public… Read More »
Reclassification Update This summer library staff are completing Phase Three of the Moys Reclassification Project. Staff will be reorganising books currently held in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. This is part of the long-term Moys re-classification project that has been underway since 2006. All the books will be fully accessible to our… Read More »
Many of you will have received an email direct from Thomson Reuters outlining the improvements that went live on the database ‘Practical Law (PLC)’ over the weekend. The aim of this blog post is to draw your attention to what we think the main improvements will be for you, the user. (If you are unfamiliar… Read More »
This 1970 Christmas no.1 is particularly apt for the past year for the Law Library. ‘I hear you knocking’ indeed: what with all the drilling, hammering, mess and disruption, it’s amazing that anyone got anything done. We (readers and staff) cannot wait to get back to our understanding of “quiet enjoyment” of a library. Our… Read More »
Who can forget the 1967 classic ‘Hello, Goodbye’ by the Beatles? Perhaps not the most diverse set of lyrics of any Christmas number 1, indeed here is a short sample; “You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello Hello hello I don’t know… Read More »
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