Old Law Books

Something I've wanted to blog about but have been putting aside since I've been back from vacation is some of the neat and interesting material I've found while working at the Law Library.

Law was never something I had much knowledge about, just that it was important and that there needed to be libraries dedicated to the subject. I still don't know nearly enough about the subject (but I am learning!) and I always find neat little things while working in the library.

I was browsing the shelves a few weeks ago and stumbled upon a few books that needed to be re-labeled into our KF modified numbering system. KF modified is part of the Library of Congress Classification System but modified, as the title suggests. What the library used to use was something called "moys" which I don't have enough knowledge about to explain, but basically the wrong classification numbers for law books.

All of these books had really interesting looks to them, not only being in quite good condition for their age but also with the quality of pages and lettering inside. One of the books even had an interesting illustration on the inside cover!

I have since found all four of these books in the British Library Catalogue and have copy catalogued them into our own system.

I also borrowed a legal research book so that I can get a little more insight into how to answer references questions for our public. It's called Legal Research and Writing by Ted Tjaden and is part of the Essentials of Canadian  Law series. 

It's written quite the same as a lot of reference textbooks I've previously seen but instead of being generally on reference it's entirely focused on law. I've only just started looking at it and taking notes but it seems like a good textbook to have around if you are planing of doing legal research.

Also shout out to one of my previous classmates who runs a blog about Zombies in books and everything Zombie related: here is a pretty awesome book I found about zombies while browsing chapters! Hope you continue blogging about zombies!

Coming up in my next post : some of my favourite series that I have read or am currently in the process of reading!