Seven Things Your Uncle Floyd Never Told You About Teaching Information Literacy and the Law
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 212
Abstract
To the uninitiated, having a few Westlaw or Lexis passwords in our back pocket might seem sufficient – after all, what more could one wish for? But providing access to those resources is only the start. Information literacy among legal professionals demands so much more. Join our presenters on this highly interactive, hands-on trek through the referential land of online legal resources, as we learn how to find them, how to rate them, and even how to use them.
Presentation Description
How a law professor and librarian taught students to incorporate non legal research to support legal claims and defenses, including framing issues, finding appropriate databases, evaluating the quality of the sources found, and the accuracy of the conclusions drawn from the information found as result of the research.
Keywords
Information literacy, embedded librarian, law, legal studies
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Larsen, Jeanne MS and Camenker, Jordan JD, "Seven Things Your Uncle Floyd Never Told You About Teaching Information Literacy and the Law" (2016). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 36.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2016/2016/36
Seven Things Your Uncle Floyd Never Told You About Teaching Information Literacy and the Law
Room 212
To the uninitiated, having a few Westlaw or Lexis passwords in our back pocket might seem sufficient – after all, what more could one wish for? But providing access to those resources is only the start. Information literacy among legal professionals demands so much more. Join our presenters on this highly interactive, hands-on trek through the referential land of online legal resources, as we learn how to find them, how to rate them, and even how to use them.
