Need a head start on that legal research presentation? Want to inject some new life into your legal research course syllabus? Whether you are a librarian new to legal research instruction or a seasoned veteran looking for new ideas, the ALL-SIS Sourcebook for Teaching Legal Research has resources to help you!
The ALL-SIS Sourcebook for Teaching Legal Research contains nearly 300 documents such as short lectures, elaborate tutorials, in-class exercises, and take-home research problems created and contributed by your colleagues in AALL. Currently the Sourcebook contains materials by Penny Hazelton, James Duggan, Lisa Smith-Butler, Lee Peoples, and many others. The wide range of instructional material available also includes syllabi, handouts, exams, and PowerPoint lectures.
You will not find the Sourcebook on a bookshelf, but for AALL members with an AALLNet password, these materials are just a few keystrokes away. The Legal Research and Sourcebook Committee collects and presents these materials in a user-friendly database for the benefit of AALL members accessible at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/secure/Research/sourcebook.asp. Members do need to log onto AALLNet in order to access the materials, ensuring that the Sourcebook is password protected and that your students will not find your materials on the open web. Once you are logged in, the Sourcebook database is keyword searchable and browsable by subject, title, and author.
Because the continued success of the Sourcebook depends on contributions from AALL’s membership, the Legal Research and Sourcebook Committee has been focused on promoting the Sourcebook and seeking new contributions to the database. To this end, the committee will soon launch a direct email campaign seeking new contributions from identified individuals who teach legal research. However we welcome contributions year-round. If you teach a legal research course or give legal research instructional presentations, please consider contributing some of your teaching materials. Authors retain copyright in the materials they submit to the Sourcebook, but grant AALL members permission to use them for educational purposes.
Contributing is easy - just take a minute to submit your exercises, lectures, handouts, etc. to Sara Kelley at sek28@law.georgetown.edu. The Sourcebook Committee prefers electronic submission via email, but will accept materials submitted by other means if necessary. Materials can be submitted in whatever format the document was originally created, e.g., Powerpoint or Word.
Take a look at what the Sourcebook has to offer at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/.