Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources

Gary Hill, Dennis S Sears, Lovisa Lyman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781138983717
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317948056
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources is an essential guidebook to teaching lawyers and legal researchers how to find the information they need. Law librarians and reference librarians will welcome its timely, effective, and innovative techniques for facilitating their patrons'legal research. According to the MacCrate Report, legal research is one of the ten essential skills for practicing law, and educating users in research skills is a crucial part of the law librarian's job. Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources provides you with techniques for training your patrons in effective search strategies. This comprehensive volume will help you offer much more than a list of information on where the data is located. This helpful volume covers the full range of both users and resources, from helping first-year law students find cases in print to helping attorneys learn to use new Web sites and search engines. Its range includes academic, company, and public law libraries. Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources discusses formal ways to teach the skills of research, such as scheduled workshops, one-on-one tutorials, for-credit courses in law schools, and CLE-credit courses in law firms. In addition, it offers hints for seizing the teaching moment when a patron needs help doing research. Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources presents practical advice for all aspects of patron education, including: the rival merits of process-oriented versus results-oriented learning strategies; coordinating library education programs with courses in legal writing; teaching foreign and international legal research; using learning style theory for more effective classes; helping patrons overcome computer anxiety; lower-cost alternatives to Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw; using technology to deliver reference services.

Index

Abstract conceptualization, 83, 87, 98

Access services, 203–217

challenge of, 205–206

circulation underpinnings of, 210–212

commercial shaping of, 210

cultural shaping of, 209–210

definition of, 206–207

future of, 212–213

as inherent in library use, 208–209

notes and sources, 215–217

service and rights management, 213

Accommodative learning, 83, 98–99

Acquisitions, copyright issues in, 176–178

Active experimentation/active learning, 83, 88

Adult learning theory, 73–77

Advanced legal research class, 31–32

Age, computer anxiety and, 98

American Law Sources On-Line, 139

American University Washington College of Law Library, 105–118

Andragogy: principles of adult learning, 73–77

Archiving

copyright issues in, 179–181

of electronic resources, 179–181

Assignment guidelines, 64

Assimilative learners, 83, 84–85, 87, 98

Attorney attitudes, 51–52

Beasley School of Law (Temple University, 71–93, 119–141

Bibliographic approach, criticisms of, 10–15

“Big tent” philosophy of instruction, 29–35

Bill Summary and Status database, 135

Boston University Law School, 55–67

Brigham Young University (Howard W, Hunter Law Library), 5–16, 203–217

Brooklyn Law School, 55–69

Budget of the United States Government, 132

Case law, internet sources for, 106–111

CD-ROMs, 96–97

possible obsolescence of, 33–34

teaching use of, 44

Circuit court decisions sources, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• Introduction: Reference Services-Teaching Legal Research and Providing Access to Electronic Resources
• The Teaching of First-Year Legal Research Revisited: A Review and Synthesis of Methodologies
• Teaching Legal Research: A Proactive Approach
• Teaching Legal Research in a Government Library
• Teaching Legal Research in the Law Firm Library
• Perspectives on Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research
• Making the Connection: Learning Style Theory and the Legal Research Curriculum
• Success at the Reference Desk: Helping Patrons Overcome Computer Anxiety
• Electronic Research Beyond LEXIS-NEXIS and Westlaw: Lower Cost Alternatives
• The Internet Alternative
• Developing an Electronic Collection: The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Building the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
• Copyright and Electronic Library Resources: An Overview of How the Law Is Affecting Traditional Library Services
• The New Reference Librarian: Using Technology to Deliver Reference Services
• Access Services: Linking Patrons to Electronic Legal Research
• Index