[{"source":"Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit CALL/ACBD Blog","url":"https://www.callacbd.ca/CALL-Blog/13521958","description":"A revised first edition of the Canadian Open Access Legal (COAL) Citation Guide/Guide canadien de la référence juridique en accès libre (RJAL) is now available.  The guide’s editors have incorporated reader feedback and corrections into a revised edition. Some of the changes include moving the general rules to their own section and revising rules on citing regularly updated books, regulations, administrative decisions, and generative AI for greater clarity and increased consistency across the guide. Additions to the guide include guidance on creating a bibliography/table of authorities and on citing reports, dissertations, municipal by-laws, court materials, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit - Crown Treaties, amongst other sources. A more detailed list is in the guide’s introduction. Since the publication of the guide in June 2024, the editors have led multiple online training sessions and conference workshops. We are now working on training materials that reflect the revised edition. The francophone editors continue to work on the French version of the guide, with the aim to publish it in 2026. Once the French version is published, we will be able to better focus our efforts to have the courts, tribunals, and the government adopt the guide and to add the guide to citation management tools. Reaction to the guide has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, the guide was a recipient of a Clawbie for Best Legal Papers, Reports, or eBooks of 2024 and the CALL/ACBD Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing . The guide’s editors remain committed to feedback and encourage users to get in touch at coal.rjal@ubc.ca","titre":"Revised First Edition of the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide Now Available","pubDate":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:55:55 +0100","id":3241524},{"titre":"Update from the Knowledge Management Special Interest Group: Web Tracking Tools","pubDate":"Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:55:47 +0100","id":3241459,"description":"From time to time, this blog will highlight initiatives, ideas, or activities coming from members, committees or special interest groups (SIGs). Today: An Update About Web Tracking Tools , by Katie Thomas, Resource and Reference Librarian, Stikeman Elliott LLP (Toronto). The CALL Knowledge Management SIG had a session on November 30 th that looked at Web Tracking Tools. There are a lot of website tracking tools out there so it helps to have a guide to get you started. I based my presentation on the AALL Cool Tools (access only for attendees of American Association of Law Libraries 2021 conference) session where eight trackers were evaluated. In our session I asked the participants to write down sites they would like to track and they were all different. So, there is a need! First, what criteria should be used for evaluating? It depends. Every workplace is different and different things needs to be monitored. However, there are three that stand out. 1.   Ease of Use You don’t want to spend time setting things up and you want to understand WHAT you are setting up 2.   Price A lot of the tools are free and you can continue to have them free forever or, you can pay. Prices vary depending on functionality. 3.   Collaboration This allows you to work with colleagues tracking the same website. Say, if someone is on vacation. What to Track? Any number of things to track. Depends what you want to track! Here’s some that are popular: Prices (book, software, flights, stocks) Are they increasing / decreasing Text tracking Articles, preprints, legislation, case law, newspapers Competitors When does a competitor post commentary on a specific case Archiving Like Wayback, but you can customize for the websites you want Features? What do you want your tracker to do? Here are the popular features: Bulk adding of urls into the tracker Captcha bypass (or I am fed up counting fire hydrants) Password protected pages Proxy support, don’t want tracker to get blocked Tracking multiple elements on one page (there might be pricing data and text you want to capture changes to on the same page) Notification. Or would you prefer Slack, Discord, mobile N.B.: Be careful of “quick” and “instant” – understand what these mean (does quick mean within an hour or 5 minutes) Data export and reports Summary of web tracking tools","source":"Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit CALL/ACBD Blog","url":"https://www.callacbd.ca/CALL-Blog/12197599"}]