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Margaret Greville

Margaret Greville is the Law Librarian at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She has a MA (Hons) and LLB from the University of Auckland (NZ). She has been a law librarian for over 30 years, in law firms (large and small), in two academic law libraries, and in a courts library - all in New Zealand and Australia. Most of that time has been spent in academe.  She has championed the teaching of legal research skills to law students, and has also taught legal practitioners and non-law librarians.  She was instrumental in promoting the creation of a law librarianship module in a New Zealand Library School, and has participated in teaching it. 

She is the principal author of Legal Research and Writing in New Zealand, 2d ed, by Margaret Greville, Scott Davidson and Richard Scragg, Wellington NZ, LexisNexis (NZ) 2004. 

She has been an active member of the NZLLA for the last 30 years.  She has written and spoken at conferences & seminars, most recently at the Joint Study Institute (JSI, Sydney, 2004) and at the New Zealand Law Librarians' Symposium, Auckland, 2004.

Greville, An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Sources of Legal Information, August 2005 . http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/New_Zealand.htm

Greville, An Introduction to New Zealand Law & Legal Information 2002 http://www.llrx.com/features/newzealand.htm