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Ms. Jolie Rajah

Ms. Jolie Rajah

LLB MSc

 Since 2011, Ms. Jolie Rajah has been the Law Librarian, a Faculty of Law staff member, posted at The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus (STA). Her primary responsibilities include collection development, reference and research services, and information literacy instruction. She is a past President and Vice President of the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL). Ms. Rajah has also previously served as the Public Relations Officer of The Library Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT). She has presented at the conferences of regional professional associations, the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA), Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), CARALL, and Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM).

Jolie.Rajah@uwi.edu
 (868)-662-2002 ext. 82276/83360
– UWI Scholar Account
Office Hours – Monday – Friday (except public holidays), 9:30 am–11:00; 1:00 pm–3:30 pm

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Degrees:

  • Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (Hons.) – University of London (UOL), London, United Kingdom
  • Master of Science in Library and Information Science – Simmons University (then Simmons College), Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
  • Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations – The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with a Minor in Communication Studies (Hons.) – The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Research Interests:

    • Bibliographic instruction (law)
    • Information literacy (law)
    • Information-seeking behaviour (law)
    • Social media tools and information literacy

    Book Chapter:

    1. Peltier-Davis, Cheryl, Jolie Rajah, and Marsha Sherry-Ann Winter. “Technologies in Two Academic Libraries During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Alma Jordan Library and the Open Campus Libraries and Information Services, The University of the West Indies.” In Academic Libraries: Reflecting on Crisis, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Way Forward, edited by Anette Janse van Vuren, 95–114. Auckland Park, South Africa: UJ Press. https://doi.org/10.36615/9781776402304-06.

     

    Book Editor:

    1. Renwick, Shamin, and Jolie Rajah, eds. 2017. A Vision for Agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago: Selected Articles by Professor John Spence. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago: The University of the West Indies.

    Encyclopedia:

    1. Rajah, Jolie and Marisol Florén-Romero. “Legal Sources of Information.” In Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science, edited by David Baker and Lucy Ellis. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

    Blogs:

    1. https://libguides.uwi.edu/blogs/law/notices

    Legal Resources

     Law at The Alma Jordan Library (The AJL)

    The AJL provides access to growing collections of print and electronic law and law-related titles. These collections include reference works, textbooks, treatises, other books, journals, dissertations and theses, cases (law reports and judgments), legislation, and more. The sources span domestic, regional, and international jurisdictions, Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth.One highlight of legal information resources at The AJL is the provision of access to several renowned subscribed online databases that conveniently make thousands of sources of legal information available to faculty and students, on and/or off campus.

     The physical law collection is located on the 4th Floor of The AJL, within the Social Sciences Division. The law collection is supported by a dedicated Liaison Librarian (Law Librarian) who offers reference and research guidance, customised information literacy instruction, database training, technical assistance, and more to faculty and students.  For members of the teaching faculty, the Liaison Librarian also assists with requests for materials, course and syllabus changes, current awareness, and more.

    Please refer to The AJL’s website for further information on those and additional services.

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