Instructional services provided by law librarians are designed to support the law curriculum. A law librarian is embedded in each upper-level law class with a research component. Guest lectures or training sessions on specialized topics and methodologies, research guides, and tutorials are only some of the services the Law Library can provide to support your course.
The Law Library is now able to integrate its resources into Blackboard courses using the LibApps LTI tool. All 1L courses and most upper level courses (in particular, those with a research component) should feature link that will pull up course-specific LibGuides within the Blackboard environment. If you do not see a link in your course, or if you would like to work with us to compile a course guide, please reach out to your Law Library liaison.
The Law Library facilitates in-class trainings with major vendors like Westlaw and Lexis, and provides specialized in-class training on other resources. Law librarians conduct a majority of first-year legal research instruction, familiarizing 1Ls with a wide variety of traditional and emerging research tools. Many upper-level and clinical courses feature in-class lectures as well, with a focus on practice resources like samples and forms, drafting assistants, and local law. The Law Library is also the best source for training on legal technologies such as artificial intelligence and alternative databases. As these tools become more relevant--even essential--to practitioners, they continue to play a greater role our instructional program.
Major Instructional Services