Hours of Operation:
Monday – Friday, 8:30 am – 4:30 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 EVENING, WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS
After hour access is available to paid up members of the Waterloo Region Law Association. WRLA courthouse photo ID is required for after hour entry.
Location: 85 Frederick St., Kitchener, ON N2H 0A4
Staff:
Pia Williams – Executive Director & Library Manager
Najla Nureddin – Library Technician
Merve Turhan – Library Assistant
Contact:
Phone: 519-742-0872
Toll-Free: 1-866-201-0168
Fax: 519-742-4102
Website: https://www.waterloolaw.org/Library
Who can access:
All Licensed Lawyers, Judges, Justice of the Peace, Board, Commission or Tribunal Members, Articling Students, Law Students, and Licensed Paralegals
Circulation Policy:
Most print material can be signed out by WRLA members for two-week (14-day) loans. Borrowing privileges are restricted to paid up members of the WRLA and their students. Old case reporters and statues of Canada and Ontario are non-circulating.
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.
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)
- Irwin Law E-book Collection (Over 300 Irwin Law ebooks. Available to WRLA members from the Members’ Only page on the WRLA web site)
- Lexis Advance Quicklaw (Canadian case law, legislation, and commentary)
- Lexis Practice Advisor (Forms, precedents, and practice notes. Includes Wills, Trusts & Estates, Family, Commercial, Employment, Corporate, Litigation, Insolvency, and Personal injury)
- Lexis Context
- Lexis Pleadings, Factums and Memos
- O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms (Legal forms and precedents)
- Rangefindr.ca (Available to WRLA members from the Members’ Only page on the WRLA web site)Thomson Reuters ProView (Texts, looseleafs, and annotations. Includes Estates&TrustsSource, Insolvency, Law and Family Source packages)
- WestlawNext Canada (Canadian case law, legislation, and commentary)
- Wrongful Dismissal Database
Continuing Legal Education (CLE):
AccessCLE
Number of Computers for Lawyer use to search E-LIRN resources, etc: 6
Services Available
Research Services
Photocopying and Printing
Faxing, Scanning and Emailing
Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan
Wi-fi
Staff services, electronic resources and the collection are for the exclusive use of members of the Waterloo Law Association, law students, paralegals and licensees in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario. The library is not accessible to members of the public.
Library Type: Area
Unique Details: Their front desk is composed of something unusual but familiar in a library
