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 Mr Bruce Bott
Senior Lecturer
BA (W.Aust), DipEd (W.Aust), Grad Dip Lib Stud (WAIT), Grad Dip Publ Sect Mgnt (Curtin), MEdAdmin (NE)
Mr. Bott joined the School of Law in July 2008. He holds an Arts degree from the University of Western Australia with majors in Classics and Ancient History as well as professional postgraduate qualifications in education, librarianship and management. For a number of years, he has been a member of the Clear Writing Committee of the Law Society of Western Australia.
In 2007, Mr. Bott was presented with a special award to acknowledge his contribution to the Notre Dame Law School on the occasion of its tenth anniversary
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| After a short period as a secondary school teacher, he discovered his vocation as a librarian: one that would occupy much of his subsequent working career. Until June 2008, he held the joint positions of foundation Law Librarian and Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He also held the position of University Librarian, concurrently with these other positions, from April 2000 to January 2004.
Previous appointments include that of Parliamentary Librarian, Parliament of Western Australia, foundation Law Librarian at Bond University on Queensland's Gold Coast, a position he held for nearly six years and Court Librarian, Supreme Court of Western Australia, a position he held for nearly ten years.
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- BA, University of Western Australia
- DipEd, University of Western Australia
- Grad Dip Lib Stud, WAIT
- Grad Dip Publ Sect Mgnt, Curtin University of Technology
- MEdAdmin, NE
At Notre Dame he was responsible for most aspects of the establishment, organisation, development and management of the Law Library. Building on foundations he had established at Bond University, he developed and was unit coordinator of a compulsory subject for beginning law students called Legal Research and Writing. He was also responsible for initiating and assisting in the establishment of the University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review and developing the Law School’s prize and sponsorship programme.
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His research interests lie in the development and delivery of programmes that promote information literacy and research competencies in law, in the management of libraries in a tertiary education context and in the discipline of history. He is currently a doctoral student in history at the University of Western Australia where his thesis topic is a comparative study of the representation of indentured labour in 19th century Western Australia and Natal.
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Bott, Bruce, Cowley, Jill and Falconer, Lynnette, Nemes and Coss’ Effective Legal Research (3 rd ed, Sydney : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2007). (3 Chapters)
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Grey, Laura and Bott, Bruce, Register of Heritage Places, Heritage Assessment, ‘Curdnatta’, Northam WA . ( Perth : Heritage Council of Western Australia , 2004).
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Bott, Bruce ‘Some of John Bateman’s Houses in and Around Fremantle’ [2002] 2 Fremantle Studies, 17-35.
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Bott, Bruce Fremantle’s Third Courthouse (Fremantle: University of Notre Dame Australia, 1999).
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Phillips, Harry and others, Representing the People: Parliamentary Government in Western Australia (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998). (1 chapter).
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Bott, Bruce ‘Law Library Research Skills Instruction for Undergraduates at Bond University : The Development of a Programme’ (1994) 5 Legal Education Review, 117-128.
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Bott, Bruce ‘ Bond University , the Law Library and the General Library: a Recent Case Study’ (1993) 1 Australian Law Librarian, 103-113.
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Bott, Bruce ‘The Relationship of the Barrister’ Board of Western Australia with the Law Library, Supreme Court of Western Australia’ (Perth: Barristers’ Board of Western Australia, [1988] unpub.).
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