ALL-SIS has a committee whose goal is to encourage librarians to author CALI lessons on legal research topics: the ALL-SIS CALI Authoring Group. The committee works with CALI to solicit and review proposals for and drafts of CALI legal research lessons. I am the committee chair; other members are Pat Fox, Nancy Johnson, Kit Kreilick, and Kris Niedringhaus.
CALI recently redesigned its web site to include daily and weekly “Top 25” lesson lists on a page called “CALI Zeitgeist,” www2.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=lessons.zeitgeist. According to this new feature, 7 of the top 25 lessons run by 2Ls and 3Ls on 1/17/2006 were legal research lessons.
There are currently 35 legal research lessons available at www2.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=lessons.subjectlist&cat=LR. Eight of those lessons were completed over the last year. There are also 17 new lessons in progress. We encourage you to write a CALI lesson and to use existing lessons in your teaching and reference work. The committee and the authors welcome feedback on CALI’s legal research lessons. See www2.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=lessons.gridlist&categoryid=24&categoryname=Legal%20Writing%20&%20Research for a list of completed and suggested lesson topics, and www2.cali.org/index.php?fuseaction=static.lrcap#progress for a list of proposal deadlines and lessons that are currently in progress. The next deadline for submitting a lesson proposal is March 6, 2006, but additional rounds close about every two months.
Please contact Deb Quentel (dquentel@cali.org) or any committee member for additional information.