Hours of Operation:
Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 3:30 pm
The library is unstaffed for statutory holidays including Family Day, Good Friday and Easter Monday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, August Civic Holiday, Labour Day, Truth and Reconciliation Day, Thanksgiving, Remembrance Day and December 25-January 1 (inclusive).
24 Hour Access: including weekends & holidays with a member access pass
Staff after hours alternative email for Urgent matters: [email protected]
Location: Lt. Col. Samuel Sharpe D.S.O., M.P. Courthouse, 150 Bond St. East, Oshawa, ON L1G 0A2
Staff:
Jennie Clarke – Library Manager
Lee Holstead – Library and Research Technician
Liam Lane-Clarke – Library Assistant
Contact:
Phone: (905) 579-9554
Toll-Free: 1-866-742-4316
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.drla.ca/
Who can access:
All Licensed Lawyers, Judges, Justice of the Peace, Board, Commission or Tribunal Members, Articling Students, and Law Students
Circulation Policy:
Members of the Durham Region Law Association are entitled to sign out print materials from the print collection for a one-week loan period. Circulation barcodes are provided on the back of the member’s access. We offer a self-circulation kiosk for members. Loose-leaf materials are restricted to library usage only.
Collection:
E-LiRN suite of resources including QL, LN Practical Guidance, WL Criminal Source, WL Estates & Trusts Source, WL Family Source, vlex including Irwin Law’s Essentials in Canadian Law titles and Vincent AI – a reputable source of AI for lawyers.
- Lexis Advance Quicklaw (Canadian case law, legislation, and commentary)
- WestlawNext Canada (Canadian case law, legislation, and commentary)
- Lexis Practical Guidance (Forms, precedents, and practice notes. Includes Wills, Trusts & Estates, Family, Commercial, Employment, Corporate, Litigation, Insolvency, and Personal injury)
- O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms (Legal forms and precedents, loose-leaf only)
- Thomson Reuters ProView (Texts, looseleafs)
- Wrongful Dismissal Database
- rangefindr.ca (Available in the the Members’ Only page on the DRLA web site)
- Irwin Law E-book Collection (Over 300 Irwin Law ebooks. Available to DRLA members from the Members’ Only page on the web site)
- HeinOnline (Full text articles from English language legal periodicals, dictionaries, and legislative material. LSO members please contact the Great Library at [email protected] to obtain your log-in information)
- AccessCLE
Number of Computers for Lawyer use to search E-LIRN resources, etc: 8
Services Available:
- Legal Research Assistance Request Form
- All things DRLA Library booklet: https://www.drla.ca/resource.pdf
- 10 workstations
- Wi-Fi throughout the library and lounge area
- Print Collection of over 3000 titles
- Digital Collection of legal databases: e-LiRN Suite
- Library Legal Databases: DivorceMate (including forms), rangefinder, Wrongful Dismissal
- Circulation Privileges – Self-Check-in/out kiosk
- Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan
- Digital Collection of e-resource books including all areas of practice
- Microsoft Office – Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Self-Serve Photocopier – available printing, scanning and USB saving – printing/photocopying by assigned PIN, invoiced monthly
- Headphones for CD-ROM and DVD purposes
- Assistance with research and citation searching
- Ready Reference Services
- Self-Serve – Cerlax Binding
- Fax Machine (Local and Long Distance)
- Email notification of current events in the profession and legal community
- Twitter and Facebook Presentations
Unique Details: Non fiction lending library
Library Type: Area