BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) jobs and careers

About BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians)

BIALL is the leading professional body in the UK and Ireland for information and knowledge professionals working with legal information. Set up in 1969 BIALL is a self-supporting association which draws its income primarily from membership subscriptions. It is a voluntary organisation, with no salaried staff, run by the members for the members. The Association is run through its Committees and the BIALL Council and is governed by a constitution, regulations and standing orders. Our purpose: BIALL’s purpose is to support and represent legal information and knowledge professionals and to help demonstrate the important and vital contribution they make to supporting the work of the legal sector. What we do: We provide opportunities for members to exchange information and share best practice, enhance their knowledge of legal information management, and promote the value of law libraries and legal information and knowledge professionals; We act as a forum for legal information and knowledge professionals and suppliers of legal information and knowledge products and have a dedicated Supplier Liaison Group; We actively engage with other organisations serving librarianship and legal information and support giving some members the opportunity to attend the meetings and conferences of those organisations via our bursaries programme; We encourage bibliographic study and research into law librarianship through publication in the Association’s journal, Legal Information Management; We support various legal initiatives both within Britain and Ireland and internationally, such as BAILII and Flare and have also contributed our professional skills to the development of law library facilities in several institutions in Sierra Leone; We celebrate the excellence of our members via a prestigious annual awards programme.