Following the positive feedback of our spring-summer legislative research refreshers, we decided to add two more dates in the fall before wrapping up until spring 2024.
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Virtual Legislative Group Refreshers!
Researching legislation can be time-consuming and laborious but hardly ever boring (at least, according to many a Great law librarian). Join us for a 1-hour group tutorial where one of our law librarians will go through the fundamentals of legislative research including an overview of the legislative process (focusing on Ontario and Federal), effective time-saving tools, and a live demonstration of common legislative research tasks like:
Continue reading “Virtual Legislative Group Refreshers!”Annual Statutes: What Gives?
In a previous post on Myths of Legislative Research, we mention that before the existence of e-Laws, Justice Laws, and online consolidations, legislation was not consolidated each year but rather every decade or so with revisions produced by the respective government (Revised Statutes of Canada, Revised Statutes of Ontario, etc.). So, if statutes were not being consolidated annually, what do we mean when we refer to “annual statutes”, and what comprises these annual volumes? Here’s a refresher.
Know How, the blog of the Great Library 