topical legal research courses at the boston college law school
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Topical Legal Research Courses at The Boston College Law School. Joan Shear Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law Presented at AALL 2005 Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas. Topics Today. Topics Today. Advantages How To Get Approved Goals Teaching Expansion Plan. Advantages. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Topical Legal Research Courses at The Boston College Law School
Joan ShearLegal Information Librarian and Lecturer in LawPresented at AALL 2005 Annual MeetingSan Antonio, Texas
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Topics Today
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Topics Today
AdvantagesHow To Get ApprovedGoalsTeachingExpansion Plan
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Advantages
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Advantages
You can’t teach everythingNot enough time in the first yearNot everyone needs to know
everythingNot everyone wants to know
everything Target information to interests
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Getting Approved
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Getting Approved
Get Champions
– Faculty allies Start with known allies
– Guest research lectures Interview faculty
– Find more allies and more ideas
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Goals
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Goals
Use exclusively examples from this subject Reinforce basic concepts
Use more sophisticated searching techniques Introduce tools and sources not covered in
first year Legislative history Administrative law
Introduce specialty materials
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What to Include/Exclude
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What to Include/Exclude
Make what you do count Get ideas from others Activities teach better than lectures
Don’t feel bad about repetition Adult learners need to hear something six
times Let them know that that is more out there
They can discover it for themselves if they ever need it
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Expansion Plan
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Expansion Plan
Continuing courses Immigration Legal Research International Legal Research Environmental Legal Research
This spring we’re adding IP Legal Research Tax Law Research
Other courses faculty want us to add Health Law Research Federal Legislative History – Bankruptcy