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HeinOnline Tip: Article Email Alerts

HeinOnline has implemented a new feature to help you keep track of articles on a given subject or written by a particular author. The new Similar Article Email Alerts feature notifies subscribers:

  1. When new material for this author is added to HeinOnline
  2. When new articles in HeinOnline cite this author’s articles
  3. When articles are accessed on HeinOnline each month
  4. When similar articles are published on this author’s works

Whether you want to keep track of an author’s publications or discover new articles that are similar to those written by your favourite author, HeinOnline has you covered.

To set up Similar Article Email Alerts, go to the author’s profile page. You can do this by plugging the author’s name into the search bar. On the results page, find an entry written by your author and click their hyperlinked name. This will bring you to their author profile page. Here is an example of Alice Woolley’s author page:

Alice Wooley’s author page on HeinOnline with email alert “bell” icon at top right

You will notice a bell icon at the top right of the page. Click this icon to set your preferences and subscribe with your email.

For more information on this feature, see HeinOnline’s Tip of the Week.

HeinOnline author alert dialog box, showing what you want to get alerts for

Now you’re all set! Don’t forget that Law Society of Ontario licensees have remote access to HeinOnline through the Great Library. Email refstaff@lso.ca to get yours set up today!

House of Bills: A Weekly Update on Ontario Bills

December 2 – December 6

42nd Parliament, 1st Session

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Bill 116, Foundations for Promoting and Protecting Mental Health and Addictions Services Act, 2019

Second Reading, carried (Dec 3)
Ordered referred to Standing Committee on Social Policy (Dec 3)
Considered by Standing Committee on Social Policy (Dec 6)

Bill 123, Reserved Parking for Electric Vehicle Charging Act, 2019

Considered by Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills (Dec 4)

Bill 132, Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2019

Considered by Standing Committee on General Government, reported as amended (Dec 3 & 4)
Third Reading (Dec 5)

Bill 136, Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act, 2019

Considered by Standing Committee on Justice Policy, reported as amended (Dec 3)
Third Reading, carried (Dec 4 & 5)
Royal Assent (Dec 5)

Bill 138, Plan to Build Ontario Together Act, 2019

Considered by Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs (Dec 2, 4 & 5)

Bill 144, Northern Health Travel Grant Advisory Committee Act, 2019

Second Reading, carried on division (Dec 5)
Ordered referred to Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills (Dec 5)

Bill 154, Stop Cyberbullying in Ontario Day Act, 2019

Second Reading, carried (Dec 5)
Ordered referred to Standing Committee on Social Policy (Dec 5)

Bill 155, Rent Control Act, 2019

First Reading (Dec 2)

Bill 156, Security from Trespass and Protecting Food Safety Act, 2019

First Reading (Dec 2)

Bill 157, COPD Awareness Day Act, 2019

First Reading (Dec 3)
Second Reading, carried (Dec 5)
Ordered referred to Standing Committee on Social Policy (Dec 5)

Bill 158, Defibrillator Training and Access Act, 2019

First Reading (Dec 5)

Bill 159, Rebuilding Consumer Confidence Act, 2019

First Reading (Dec 5)

The Great Library’s Oddest Law Book Titles

Law books are not generally known for having interesting titles. Most carry functional but yawn-inducing titles such as Business Law in Ontario. Typically, after a respectable number of editions, a legal author’s name is fused to the topic, as in Chitty on Contracts or Orkin on Costs. And sometimes successive authors of a legal treatise share space in the title – Coke on Littleton, Sullivan and Driedger on the Construction of Statutes, etc.

No such staid conventions exist in the world of non-legal book titles. There’s even an annual prize for the oddest non-fiction book title.

The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year was first awarded in 1978. The prize was the invention of Trevor Bounford and Bruce Robertson, co-founders of the publishing firm, The Diagram Group. The two dreamed up the prize as a way to relieve boredom while working at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair.  The winner of this year’s prize, marking the 41st anniversary, was just announced last week.

The Oddest Book Title contest rules are simple: author and publisher of the winning title receive no tangible prize, only publicity. The nominator of the winning title however receives “a passable bottle of claret”.

To get an idea of what it takes to be a Diagram winner, here are a few recipients from past years:

1992 – How to Avoid Huge Ships (advice to pleasure boat sailors on the dangers of shipping lanes)

1993 – American Bottom Archaeology (an archaeological history of the Mississippi River Valley)

2004 – Bombproof Your Horse (techniques for training horses to be less easily spooked by the unexpected)

2010 – Managing a Dental Practice: The Genghis Khan Way (practice management tips on “how to build an empire in the dentistry field”)

Surprisingly, at least one legal book has won the dubious honour of oddest book title. In 2001, the prize was awarded to Butterworths Corporate Manslaughter Service, a serious guide for lawyers dealing with corporate liability for manslaughter and fatal accidents.

This discovery inspired Great Library staff members to seek out odd legal titles on our shelves.

Here are our staff’s top picks for oddest legal book titles in the Great Library’s print collection, arranged by category:

Best Alliteration or Rhyme

Best Horror

Best Self-Help

and Best Miscellaneous