The ALL-SIS Legal Research Committee’s “Legal Research Instruction Roundtable” will be held in St. Louis on Sunday, July 9, from 12 noon - 1:15 p.m. (Please make a note of the date and time of this event, as it was mistakenly omitted from the printed conference program you initially received.)
Inspired by the excellent turnout at last year’s Roundtable in San Antonio (around 80 people), the Committee has exciting plans for the Roundtable this year. The basic informal discussion structure will remain the same, but this year we plan to feature a choice for attendees among tables focused on special topics (such as Introductory Legal Research courses; Advanced/Subject Specialized Legal Research Instruction; Instructional Technology in Legal Research Courses; and Teaching Foreign/LLM Law Students) as well as several “Serendipity” tables that will not have a focused theme but will be devoted to whatever varied topics the participants wish to discuss. We also have plans in the works to follow up the Roundtable with a blog or list serv for legal research instructors, to keep the valuable dialog going even after we’ve all returned to our busy home institutions.
If you weren’t able to attend last year’s Roundtable (or even if you were!), you can get an idea of the wealth of information that was shared by looking at the Legal Research Committee’s Web page at www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/legalresearchcommittee/index.asp under “2005 Advanced Legal Research Instruction Roundtable Results.” We plan to include a summary of the 2006 Roundtable on the Web site as soon as possible after this year’s meeting.
The Committee looks forward to another productive and enjoyable exchange of ideas with our colleagues engaged in research instruction, and we invite you to join us. We hope to see you in St. Louis!