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The Case Project: sharing legal resources in Yorkshire and the Humber
a pilot project into the funding of law libraries, aimed to establish models of co-operation and to analyse the costs of collaboration between law libraries. In this article from the Autumn 2001 issue of Directions Project Manager Elizabeth Kensler outlines the activities of the…
FLAG: researching foreign law on the Internet
comparative law in the national and university libraries of the United Kingdom. How did FLAG develop? For many years the librarians of the five most extensive collections of foreign and international law in the United Kingdom (the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) a…
Lawlinks upgrade
substantial number of law schools and law libraries. Originally designed for Kent Law School, it has has now been adopted by many other law schools as their primary source for links. The focus of the portal is quality material for use primarily in legal education. Although…
JustCite: exploiting legal metadata
In this article from the Spring 2004 issue of Directions Justin Needle, Brand Manager at Context, describes JustCite, a legal reference search engine which can be used as a research tool in the academic environment. The benefits offered by Internet technologies are allowing l…
Introducing Intute: Law
Intute was launched in July 2006 as the new face of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). For SOSIG Law, the UK’s dedicated Internet gateway for law, this meant a relaunch as Intute: Law with a new look and additional functionality. Here Heather Memess, Intute Law Project Of…
Lawpaths: helping law librarians to deliver skills
Lawpaths (2002-05), a project funded by JISC under the X4L (Exchange for Learning) programme, aimed to create a resource bank of customisable materials to support the teaching of legal research skills. UKCLE provided consultancy on project management and evaluation. For furthe…
Look it up before you leap: guiding students across the academic-vocational legal resources divide
Marcus Soanes (City University) explored the skills and emotional vocabulary students need to progress from the undergraduate study of the law to issue focused engagement with legal resources in practice. Marcus’ slides are embedded below. This presentation grew out…
Producing sound recording with Audacity
such as Windows Media Player. (Proprietary libraries often prohibit file conversion, storing the sound as an MP3 file which cannot then be edited.) The resulting file can then be converted to MP3 format via cheap additional software accessed through the Audacity site. (An MP3 fi…
Ask a librarian...
undertakes an annual survey of academic law libraries, which gives invaluable information on general activities such as database usage. The latest survey, published in May and downloadable from the summer 2002 issue of Legal Information Management, went further in looking for th…
Are your students bore-ing?
mooting, doing legal research, using law libraries, writing coursework and much more. The emphasis on creating resources for this section is very much on making them entertaining. There are a number of talking slide shows (made using Articulate) which have been really well recei…
Ethnic Minorities Law Net
levels of user access. Some 100 documents/libraries were made available across a range of subject areas, together with case studies, learning materials and a links page listing relevant courses running in UK law schools. It was initially intended to have online conference faci…
Teaching feminist perspectives on law
materials held in library catalogues, including libraries with specialist collections on feminist materials (the Fawcett Library at London Metropolitan University) and general collections (London School of Economics, the universities of Kent, Lancaster, Liverpool, British Colomb…
Opening up the law
restriction of certain materials to reference libraries and their cost, has meant that ensuring the availability of key materials has always been a challenge for law schools. The project’s commitment to open access principles means that in addition all those in involved in leg…
SENDA: Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001
courses, arrangements for work placements and libraries and learning resources. What will the new Act mean in practice? It will be unlawful for responsible bodies to treat a disabled person ‘less favourably’ than a non-disabled person for a reason that relates to…
Overview of subject review
colleges, careers services and main public libraries, as well as all higher education institutions and the press across the UK. Success factors There are a few factors that are significant in contributing towards success in subject review: a positive attitude to th…
Reassessing band funding for law: a discussion paper
2001-02 SLS/BIALL survey of academic law libraries (downloadable from Legal Information Management vol 3 no 2) revealed a large gap between expenditure per law student on law materials between typical ‘old’ and ‘new’ universities. The median for old unive…
Developing students’ critical thinking skills through peer assessment and information literacy
approach’ College & Undergraduate Libraries 15(1/2):21-38 Donham J & Steele M (2007) ‘Instructional interventions across the inquiry process’ College & Undergraduate Libraries 14(4):3-18 Ellis E & Whatley K (2008) ‘The evolution of cri…
Evaluation of the course
which has been used in Cardiff University Libraries for several years. It is best if the questionnaire is administered at the end of the period of instruction, whether it is the end of a ‘one-off’ session or the last session in a series, and collected before studen…
Integrating information literacy into an undergraduate law course
exercise References Association of College and Research Libraries (2000) Information literacy competency standards for higher education Callister P (2003) ‘Beyond training: law librarianship’s quest for the pedagogy of legal research instruction’ La…
Digital games and learning: theoria, cultura, praxis
laboratories, seminar rooms, examination halls and libraries. In this context they can become disruptive learning technologies. If potentially disruptive technologies are to become transformative, then we need to consider not just their theory and practice, but their effects on …
Legal research: defining the concept
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) of the ALA listed five competency standards for an information literate student, detailing for each standard performance indicators and, most usefully, learning outcomes (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2002…
Counting the cost of the law degree
new universities. The recent survey of law libraries revealed a large gap between spending per law student on law materials between ‘old’ and ‘new’ universities. The median for old universities was £148; for new universities it was £101, and the differe…
The personalisation of the curriculum: the Programme Overview Browser on the City Law School Bar Professional Training Course
the SIMILE Project, which is based at MIT Libraries and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory http://simile.mit.edu and supported by the World Wide Web Consortium and Hewlett-Packard Labs. ENSEMBLE’s goal is to explore the potential of the Semantic Web Wo…
Lesson materials and teaching aids
Cardiff by my colleagues in the University Libraries employs a two column format, with notes of what the tutor is to say in the left hand column and notes on what the tutor is to do in the right hand column. This format is very useful if the tutor is using a computer presentatio…
Teaching through proxy as a response to the internationalisation of legal education
languages are offered in computer labs and libraries, catalogues and search engines. These provisions call for additional funding, as well as for the recruitment of staff with diversified legal backgrounds and language abilities. Teaching through proxy Teaching through p…
Using the virtual learning environment
advantageous. expanding student numbers – many law libraries employ either one librarian or a small team to run the information service. Due to rising student numbers staff skills are in high demand. Online delivery of legal research training will alleviate pressure on s…
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Vision, Mission and Values Vision Our vision is to support UK law schools in providing all students with the opportunity to experience a world class legal education. Mission The UK Centre for Legal Education promotes a scholarly and discipline specific approach to the i…
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