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CanLII Changes: News You Can Use

Hello, Know How subscribers and visitors from the World Wide Web. Chiming in today to re-broadcast some announcements from our friends over at the Canadian Legal Information Institute, more commonly known as CanLII, Canada’s most trusted free repository for jurisprudence and legal information. Some of you will have seen this news via CanLII’s own blog post this past Tuesday. We’re signal boosting here for those who might otherwise miss it – click through to read about some big announcements they made this past week.

Explore the Lexis+ Pleadings, Motions & Facta collection at the Great Library

Readers of this blog will already know that the Great Library houses a vast and diverse collection of print resources for use by Ontario licensees and their agents, licensing candidates, self-represented litigants, and members of the public conducting legal research. Did you know, however, that the Great Library also subscribes to a number of databases and other eResources that licensees and licensing candidates can access at any of the Great Library’s computer terminals? Or that one of these eResources contains within it a growing collection of court documents that can support your legal research and writing with judicially recognized precedential material? Read on to learn more about the Lexis+ Pleading, Motions and Facta database, now available at the Great Library.

For the Love of Indexes!

Like many seasoned researchers, we at the Great Library are strong advocates of the use of indexes. A good index is like a GPS: you can get where you’re going without it but it’s probable that you’ll take several unnecessary twists and turns along the way. In this blog post we share some reasons why indexes still matter, why we love them, and most importantly, why they are not just another table of contents.