PREREQUISITES:
MAS students: Completion of the MAS Core courses, plus permission of the instructor.
MLIS and Dual students: Some electives can be taken in conjunction with the MLIS Core courses; consult with the MLIS Program Chair for recommendations.
OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss the roles and responsibilities which legal information professionals assume in various Canadian organizations
- Describe the current trends in legal information services in Canada and elsewhere
- Recognize the skills required to establish, operate, and manage responsibly a legal information service
- Apply the principles for identifying, evaluating, selecting, and maintaining Canadian legal research tools, both print and electronic
- Discuss the basic elements of the Canadian legal system
- Describe and apply legal research and reference methods, and compare those methods to those used in general reference services
CONTENT:
- Basic skills with legislation and cases
- Canadian, English and American legal resources
- Online and other legal sources
- Legal research methods
- Legal reference services in the legal, academic and public library
- Practical law librarianship; running the law library
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