F. Tim Knight was appointed Associate Librarian at the Osgoode Hall Law School Library on May 29th, 2006. Prior to that he was the Cataloguing Team Leader at the Law Society of Upper Canada.

• developing and communicating departmental goals and policies with the aim of improving workflow procedures;
• tracking and accounting the expenditures of the Osgoode Law Library acquisitions budget;
• overseeing the selection and ordering of Law Library resources including the ongoing management and troubleshooting associated with providing access to electronic information resources;
• contributing original cataloguing for information resources that have not elsewhere been described and the intellectual content analyzed;
• acquiring, editing and managing sets of bibliographic records for electronic resources to be loaded to the library catalogue;
• planning and preparing database management and enhancement projects;
• coaching and mentoring the law cataloguers, acquisitions and processing staff including the supervision and hiring of Technical Services staff.

Tim also acts as liaison with Osgoode Hall Law School, Information Technology Services and Library Computing Services at York University Libraries (YUL) communicating the technical needs of the Osgoode Law Library, interpreting the technical environment of the YUL library system and contributing to solution building between these two groups. He has endeavoured to contribute to the development of the York library system as a whole focusing on a variety of issues related to Technical Services, database management and the YUL integrated library system.

Tim has been actively involved with the Canadian Association of Law Libraries and the American Association of Law Libraries for many years and is the current editor of the KF Classification Modified for Use in Canadian Law Libraries (aka KF Modified) the classification scheme used at the Osgoode Law Library and in other law libraries across Canada.

He teaches, Cataloguing Electronic and Internet Resources, a distance education course available through Mohawk College Library Technician Program in Hamilton. Tim is developing a new course for Mohawk entitled An Introduction to Metadata and Meatadata Applications.

Research interests: metadata; classification; subject analysis; cataloguing; linked data; music composition

"Break On Through to the Other Side: The Library and Linked Data",
TALL (Toronto Association of Law Libraries) Quarterly, v. 30, no. 1 (Spring 2011)
<http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/6760>

"Resource Description and Access: From AACR to RDA",
Canadian Law Library Review, v. 36, no. 1 (2011)
<http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/6717>

"KF Modified and the Classification of Canadian Common Law",
Canadian Law Library Review, v. 34, no. 5 (Winter 2009)
<http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/3657>

Review. "Describing Electronic, Digital, and Other Media Using AACR2 and RDA: A How-to-Do-It Manual and CD-ROM for Librarians",
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, v. 49, no. 6 (2011) forthcoming

Review. "'Culture' and Culture : Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Rights",
Canadian Law Library Review, v. 36, no. 3 (2011)

Review. "The Politics of the Common Law: Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions",
Canadian Law Library Review, v. 34, no. 5 (Winter 2009)

"Working With KF Modified: Changes and Enhancements",
program coordinator and primary speaker (with Humayun Rashid, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto; Darren Furey, Gerard V. La Forest Law Library, University of New Brunswick),
CALL Annual Conference, Calgary, Alberta, 2011
<http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/7994>

"The Joys of LibX: The LibX Edition Builder",
Ontario Library Association Superconference, January 31, 2009
<http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/handle/10315/2512>