Julie Lavigne | MacOdrum Library

Position:

Legal Studies Librarian

Department:

Research Support Services

Research Specialist:

Law & Legal Studies
Criminology
Human Rights
Migration & Diaspora Studies

Email:

About

LLM in Information Technology and Intellectual Property (Sussex, UK); MLIS (Dalhousie); LLB (Dalhousie); BA Hons (York)

Research Interests:

Intellectual property, especially copyright; privacy rights; human rights; legal research and instruction; law and ethics; law and literature.

Scholarly communications and open access publishing.

Professionalism and librarianship.

Presentations and Publications:

LLM dissertation title, 2019 (Sussex, UK):
Why Forget What We Can Remember? The Right to Erasure and Its Impact on Libraries, Access to Information, and Memory Keeping

Conference and presentations work:

April 2021 (forthcoming), poster session, "Why Forget What We Can Remember? The Right to be Forgotten and Its Impact on Libraries and Access to Information", Concordia University Library Research Forum (online)
February 2021, presenter, "Why Forget What We Can Remember? The Right to be Forgotten and Its Impact on Libraries", OLA Superconference 2021 (online)
November 2019, co-panellist on discussion about pursuing advanced legal studies as a law librarian, NCALL monthly meeting, Ottawa (ON)
May 2017, co-presenter, "Uncharted Ethical Lands: Law Libraries as Creators, Publishers, and Hosts of New Information"; convenor, Lightning Talks; convenor, "What Are Data? What Are Statistics? Why Do They Matter To Me?", CALL/ACBD 2017, Ottawa (ON)
January 2016, co-presenter, "'With great power comes great responsibility': Ethical and Legal Frameworks for Libraries as Creators, Publishers, and Hosts of New Information”, OLA Superconference 2016, Toronto (ON)
May 2015, convenor, Lightning Talks; convenor, Keynote: George Elliott Clarke, CALL/ACBD 2015, Moncton (NB)
March 2012, presenter, "Everything You Wanted to Know About Copyright But Were Afraid to Ask!", National Capital Association of Law Librarians (NCALL) monthly meeting, Ottawa (ON)
May 2010, presenter, "Achieving Legal Research Literacy Using Blended Learning and Learning Community Strategies", Workshop in Library Use (WILU) 2010, Hamilton (ON)
May 2010, presenter, "Achieving Legal Research Literacy Using Blended Learning and Learning Community Strategies", CALL/ACBD and Michigan Association of Law Libraries 2010, Windsor (ON)
March 2010, co-presenter, "Teaching, Learning and Working with the Net Generation: Current Practices, Challenges, and Possible Solutions", NCALL monthly meeting, Ottawa (ON)
February 2010, poster session, "Achieving Legal Research Literacy Using Blended Learning and Learning Community Strategies", OLA Superconference 2010, Toronto (ON)

Projects and Partnerships:

Member of the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2004.

Member of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de droit (CALL/ACBD) since 2001, with work on the Professional Development Committee (2013-17), the Core Competencies Sub-Committee (2013-14), and Professional Development Committee liaison to CALL/ACBD Conference Planning Committee (Programming) in both 2015 and 2017.

Member of the National Capital Association of Law Librarians (NCALL) since 2008.

Member of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries' (CARL) working group on open access author funds, 2015.

Librarian representative to Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) Steering Committee 2020- and Council 2013-16, member of Grievances Administration & Policy Development Committee 2015-17, and member of Collective Bargaining Committee 2016-17, 2019-.